Hi Guys,

Long time lurker, new-time poster. Just thought I'd post-up my recent bike purchase, a move up from my old singlespeed as my weekly commute is becoming longer and uphill! Plus as a second more secret reason, i'd love to do a sportive or long bike ride race. Looking through the local listings, found a lovely bike advertised as a 1970's Andre Bertin steel bike for sale, so I went to go take a look, rode it up and down the road and fell in love with it!

Of course once I got it home I started noticing the problems more and it's now become (much to my fiance's anger) a fixer-upper From what I can tell, it's nearly all NOS, and apart from a few stints outside has mostly been kept in a garage by the looks of it.

From what I've been able to tell so far:

Andre Bertin Bike 56cm frame - Blue decals (I have not found anything similar like these decals unfortunately as I'd love to get it repainted) - slight rust spots in places, paint around the forks needs fixing up
Milremo stem - if you can tell from the pictures the bolt seems to have split. No issues with steering, but might take it to LBS to see if they can replace it while keeping the stem
Pelissier 2000 Professional Hubs - in good nick, but again slight rust that needs to be cleaned up
Mavic module e2 wheels - michelin tyres, cracked rubber with fabric coming out so obv need to be replaced - but glue tyres are completely new to me and haven't seen any at LBS
Super Mighty crank
Lyotard pedals with milremo toe clips - sadly leather bits are long gone, but picked up some replacement already
Huret eco derailleur system - tbh I took this apart and can't remember how to put it back together properly (almost there though i think!)
Laprade seat post
Mafac 'Racer' brakes - good god do I hate these, 're-tuning' the things has taken me the better part of a day but I think i've got it figured out now.
Also some lovely huret down tube levers - unfortunately the cable end has wedged in the end so i'm soaking it atm to see if that will release it.

At the moment I think i've done as much as I can - taken it apart, cleaned it up, replaced cables, removed as much rust as I can etc. The next step i think is to take it over to the LBS to see what else they can do and also talk about either a) fixing up the paint or b) getting it completely repainted.

So as a novice, any ideas on what I should look at getting done/that I haven't thought of? I'm desperate to get it back out on the road again, but also understand the value of patience!