Originally Posted by Giant Doofus

Good point. I may be approaching this the wrong way. It may be that finding the bike I want and finding the shop I want to work with will be two separate projects. There aren't a lot of step-through steel options where I live. I like the shop that does tune-ups on my current bike, but they only sell road bikes. I'm guessing they wouldn't mind taking on the project of making modifications to a bike I bought elsewhere. I'll go in and talk to them about it soon.