This is my '72 Tour de France commuter bike. I found it in the back of a metal shop. It had probably been there for 20 years. The bike is now all original except for the handlebars/stem and pedals (the picture shows a differnt crank I ran for a while), and I LOVE it. The seat looks horrible. I had to soak it many moons with some sort of boot leather restoration stuff, but it is actually quite comfortable.

I am currently commuting on tubular (sew-up) tires becasue a bunch of folks find out that I still use them and give me all their old ones for free. I have gone two years now without repairing any of them, though I have about 4 which need patching.

FWIW, I also have a Super Corsa. It is too small for me, so it is now my fixed gear knock around bike when I want to pretend to be hip. Though the bike is technically one notch higher on their offerings, the frames were identical except for the dropouts (Campy vs. Simplex). If you upgrade your drive train, this won;t really matter except the Simplex dropoiuts do not have a deraileur hanger.