LBS - love them or hate them?

[Irulan]

The Bacon thing is a joke. "Always vote for Bacon". It has no relevance to the rest of the poll, unless you love bacon.

[crazycanuck]

Hey Jaydee, you can always ask on the BNA forum about reputable bike shops in Canberra!

[SadieKate]

Bacon, bacon, bacon.

The shops here like everywhere are all over the spectrum and each have their specialty. Very, very happy with the new LBS we use for mtb stuff. Not so happy with the LBS we thought would be best for road bikes. It seems that if you aren't Chris Horner, you fall through the cracks.

Still try to do most of our own wrenching but we like to know if there is a good mechanic for when we're just overwhelmed with projects or just feeling too lazy to figure out how to bleed a 3rd brand of hydraulic brakes. I think my newest mtb is smarter than I am . . . but it shore works good.

[Miranda]

The Bacon thing is a joke. "Always vote for Bacon". It has no relevance to the rest of the poll, unless you love bacon.

Thx Irulan for the clarification.

Every forum I think has it's own term for this choice in polls. But, I REALLY thought on this it meant a couple things (considering my earlier post, and hate the lbs, if we use the title as a yes or no poll question)...

"Bacon" comes from the pig animal. Umm, couple ways to spin that in my lbs view...

Option #1
LBS = Pigs

Old saying... "If you can get the milk for free, why buy the cow?" (normally a man saying about a woman in terms of sex and marriage, or not). Or fair turn about of the sexes I've heard...
A woman may realize... "to get a little sauage, you don't need to buy a whole pig"... (care for the pigs filthy ways, feed it, listen to it groan, etc.... nope, just the meat benefit)

which "bacon" comes from a pig... so does sauage... and ummm, "sauage" refers to male genitalia... so THAT could define lbs too...

Option #2
LBS = ****s (I think you get the idea)

[Serendipity]

Love my LBS!

When I first walked in around 10 years ago, they were very patient with me - answered all my questions every time I went there, and fit me with a bike that I still love all these years later.
Learned SSSSOOO much about bikes and cycling from them - actually from one of the guys in particular.
Over the ensuing years, have purchased four bikes, had many tuneups done and bought innumerable accessories. Probably could find any of those at a lower price somewhere but I learn something every time I go there.

[7rider]

With thanks (or blame) to the folks at MORE:

BACON!

BTW...I voted "love my shop"

[Zen]

I love my LBS more than bacon.
But bacon is tasty...hmmm...

[Mr. Bloom]

SilverMom is coming next week...that means loads of Bacon every morning!

The only time we have Bacon is when she's around.

SilverSon and I bloat up like Augustus Gloop in Willy Wonka!


Oh yeah! Thumbs up to LBS!

[Tater]

I had a bit of trouble with the LBS where I got my Giant. They were always pushing upgrades or replacement parts without asking about my riding style, just assuming. (You know, replace the chain at 3000 miles. Not all of us have to do it right then!) It got tiresome. Then we had a bike shop move into our downtown area early last year. The owners are great! Krista makes it a point to stock women specific goodies and is about the only one in the area who does. Two excellent mechanics that love working on vintage as well as modern bikes, round out the team. I don't get all my cycling related things there, but I do as much as I can to support the local business community.