Am I asking too much?

[Triskeliongirl]

I agree with the learn how to do it yourself. Even if you take your bike to a good shop and it is working fine at pickup, new cables stretch and require adjustment. Or things go out of adjustment when you are out on the road far from anyone. In the end, you'll spend less time doing your own work than you spend now bringing it back and forth, you never have to be without your bike, and you'll save money (which can be applied to those good deals on frames and parts you'll be tempted to buy once you really how easy it is to build the bike of your dreams!).
(p.s. I am not saying the shop shouldn't have done a better job or that they shouldn't rectify it, its just very freeing to get indpendent of these problems. I also learned how to do my own work after getting sick of PAYING people to do a bad job and wasting my time..........)