I try to be loyal to my LBS but if they don't carry the products I want, then I go elsewhere. Like when I got my Lemond, I *would* have bought from the LBS I rode in a club with. But the owner doesn't carry anything by Trek (some sort of grudge). And I'm not interested in the bikes he carries. So when I showed up on my new bike, he was a bit cranky about it. But that was his problem, not my and my shiney new bike's problem.