got hipster'dissed by the staff at the LBS. i don't care if you wear skinny jeans, japanese tattoos and have 2" stretched lobes. heck, in high school i wore the required white buttondown with hand drawn Suicidal Tendencies "vato loco" artwork on the back....but....

just needed some rim tape and got: "ppphtt. dude, come on. if you just -look around- we're in winter mode! besides, i think we were out of that stuff anyway before we switched over to snowboards for the season."

given that the shop's name is Bikes'n'Boards, i didn't feel i was being unreasonable in my expectations.