Thanks for sharing that Trek The article was fun to read, and looks like a great website. I used to get comments like all that time when I would wrench for these bike tours, and for the most part itwas always humorous. I once had a big muscular guy come up to me on the ferry(we were headed to Nova Scotia) and ask if I could put a road tire on for him. Of course, if you looked at him with all of his muscles, and ten at me... well let's just say that the bets would be on him. He seemed like a nice guy adn one that was embarressed to even be asking... but he couldn't get the tire on and neither could his buddies. The end result was that he wanted to be able to ride when we got off the ferry. He doubted that I could get the tire on, adn actually ended up betting me a 6 pack of beer. So, I took the bet, and in a matter of a few seconds had the tire on. The looks on his and his friends faces were something I'll never forget Realizing that he was embarressed, I said to him " it's not about strength when installing a tire... if it were you would have been able to do it over me. It's about technique, would you like me to show you how? So I showed all of the guys, told them to keep their beer but reminded them next time to be a bit nicer to the mechanic. Needless to say, they were very nice through the entire tour, would bring me snacks to munch on while I was working, and even rode with me at times.