Thanks, [MENTION=175208]gaucho777[/MENTION]. Yes, it's a rather well-worn Gitane TdF. A bit of an experimental parts bin special. I wanted to build a bike with a sixties look & feel with European parts I had on hand. I thought the steel cottered Stronglight cranks were a good starting point. But as I've got a week of touring in France and Belgium coming up, I thought I'd dial some hill-climbing ability into the specs as well. So I exchanged the 53/49 Simplex chain rings for a 50/38 Nervar set, mounted a 14-28 FW, and - after a lot of trial and error with Campagnolo and Huret - found out that only Simplex would both look the part and handle the 28T cog and the chainwrap I needed without too much hassle.
The Weimann brake hoods were indeed salvagable, but I'd decided to upgrade to MAFAC "RACER" brakes, and had already mounted the levers and taped the bar before finding out that "RACER" brakes don't fit. As a matter of fact no centerpull I had was short enough, neither were a pair of Universal 51's I had so it was back to Weinmann. But I couldn't mount the original levers on the MAFAC studs, so I opted for these Universal/Balilla lookalikes, with the remnants of the bar tape around them: