In Los Angeles, I've found the majority of bike shops tolerate my bikes and don't give me too much flack...to my face at least. Though there have been times, and there have been many unwelcome recommendations to better my riding. Almost always these come from the bike shop crew that just hangs out at bike shops. They don't work there, but they get some sort of feeling of power being able to offer advice and walk behind the counter of shops they don't work in. Is this unique to LA? I really hate this subsect.
I live on the eastside where there is a pretty large percentage of people who ride old steel road bikes. Some because they can be had cheap, some because of the more casual aesthetic. A lot of times shops just think my bikes are old because that's what they are used to, and a couple are. I have 2 shops that I'll go to for work, who seem to fully understand what they are working on, and not ridicule me for it. At the shop closest to where I live, the employees wear jerseys and Lycra while they are working. Yet I'm the weirdo for having a bike made of steel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
