Fitting recommendations in the Bay Area for newbie

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Are you anywhere near San Leandro?

There is a shop there, Robinson Wheel Works. Small, independent, and the guy who owns it (Chris) is VERY good to women cyclists whether they bought their bike from him or not.

Several TE'ers go to Chris. I live in Seattle, but I've visited his shop several times. (I also went to a couple shops in Berkeley, and had a very hard time being taken seriously. Hellooo!) I've watched Chris treat a department store bike and its rider with just as much respect as he treats a Seven and its rider.

If you are open to suggestions and not too far from Chris, maybe go in sometime when it's not busy (and it gets pretty busy in there, he's popular, so maybe call and ask when is a good time) and talk to him about Rivendell and Surly and Salsa bikes.

I don't know if he carries Cannondale.

Edit: here's his address and such http://www.robinsonww.com/ Off the top of my head I can think of 4 TE'ers who go there, Trek420, Roguedog, Spazzdog, BikerZ