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"If you saw a male wearing this apron would you say the same thing?"[/QUOTE]

In all fairness, if I had been in the same situation and the guy employee was wearing an apron that reminded me of a kitchen worker or BBQ outfit, I might have said the same joke about cooking something too. It would have been based on the apron, not on his gender. Now, if you had not been wearing an apron at all- then that would have been bad!

And Yes, I have run into LBS employees (both male and female) who know very little about bikes- they are just there to help with inventory or fill in or something. I hate describing my bike situation and my question to someone only to find out they know way less than me about it. I sometimes ask first if they know about bike stuff.

But in general, yes there is too much assumption that men know more than women about bikes.