I'm thinking of getting a bike fitting done, and I'm not sure where to go. There are a variety of options and systems offered at my various LBS, which range from PB to independent general bike stores to Trek Superstores to specialty racing shops.

The point is, I don't have any real confidence that if I go to the $50 non-instrumented watch-you-ride-around-the-parking-lot setup, I'll get different results than the $120/hour multi-trip get-down-in-the-drops-and-give-me-twenty volumetric efficiency measuring setup. Worse, I don't know if I were to go to shop A offering the same type of fitting as shop B, that I'd get the same recommendation. Or even going to shop 'A' twice.

So, what's the collective experience? Is a fitting something objective, that should be reproducible if using the same setup approach; or is it more of a holistic "how does this feel?" experience that leaves you chasing settings ad infinitum?

KeS