Not too sure what bacon means - so I haven't voted. I definitely don't love the LBS's that are around. We are spoilt here because we do have a lot of bike shops, but none of them have me as a loyal customer.

I wish I could go into one and feel that I was being treated honestly rather than simply as 'money'. I realize that this is partly my fault because I do not know a huge amount about bikes and probably ask some silly questions. But I would like to be told an honest answer rather than being sold something that isn't quite right.

I took my lovely Giant back to the shop I bought it from for it's first service and really doubt that any work at all was done as the brakes nor gears were adjusted. But I have no proof of that. Similarly, I have bought gear from one shop after being told that this is the latest/best/most suitable etc etc to find that another shop tells me I should have something different.

So I am still looking, and hoping that one day I will find a shop that I can walk into and not be made to feel an idiot.