During my years off, an LBS moved into the little burg where I live - blocks from me. I'm not far from a metropolitan area, so I have had multiple shops to choose from within a 30 minute drive, the nearest being about 15 minutes away. That one that was 15 minutes away has since closed and the next nearest one in the city is about 30 minutes away. But... now I have one that is within walking distance!!!

Perhaps it's because I didn't buy my bike from them, but I get really anxious when I go into this bike shop. I know part of it is my own self-perception: a middle-aged, overweight, out-of-shape woman who looks like a total Wilma on her bike... how can I know anything about bikes, right? Still, technology HAS passed me by. I do know about bikes, but my knowledge is definitely dated. I find myself very self-conscious when I'm in the shop and just want to get out of there. I admit that I'm buying most of my gear on-line, partly because of that and partly because it's all just so much cheaper on the web!

So, I had my bike tuned-up at this place a week - 10 days ago. My FD was rubbing some and needed adjusted as part of that tune-up. Part of me wonders what the heck they actually did to the bike, but I'm not confident enough to walk in and say, "hey, can you look at this again?" When I'm in the big ring up front, middle of the cassette in back, it's *still* rubbing. I don't spin in these gears, so I'm not in them a lot, but when I need them, they are noisy. In the small ring, I have gears that are making noise that previously were not. I want to take it back and talk to them, and not be confrontational about it (I want these guys to become my friends), but firm that something isn't right. I just don't have the confidence to do that. I have ridden about 200 miles on this "tuned-up" bike so I feel that I've spent enough time on it to know what's going on.

Any suggestions or help? Thanks!