Thanks to everyone for their thoughts on this. As FBinNY mentions, I suspect the LBS mechanic, in this day of aluminum and carbon forks, hasn't had a lot of practice with tweaking old French forks into alignment. They're nice guys at the shop, but I don't trust them to do any better with these forks. If I decide to really get these bikes into top shape, can anyone recommend a shop that could do a good job aligning the forks? Yellow Jersey in Madison WI seems to indicate on the their website that they can do this sort of work....any others? I wouldn't mind shipping the forks to a shop if I know they'll come back in good shape.