Do I expect too much?

[indysteel]

I'm not sure I read what happened to be about your gender as much as flat-out bad customer service by someone who may not know much about bike fit. Have you gone there for other fittings and been satisfied with their service? If not, I'd suggest the guy just isn't a particularly good fitter. He's certainly not very good at customer service.

The fitters I've worked with are good at what they do, in part, because they listen. There's nothing dismissive about them. Even if they were of the mind that MTBs don't need to be fit like a road bike, they'd at least listen to the customer long enough to get a feel for what issues they're having or questions/concerns they have.

As for the fitter at the Trek store, does that shop specifically only fit their own bikes? If not, I'd see about getting in with him, or finding somebody new entirely.