Originally Posted by
pgjackson
Do it outside. You don't need a special room. All the tools you need for a basic tuneup would fit in small bag and would cost less than $40.
And everyone has time. That is the worst excuse in the book. If it's important, you will find time. If you watch TV at all, you have time. If you go to the gym or workout (including riding your bike), you have time.
Are you kidding me? Time is the LEAST available of all my resources. I'm not saying I can't even spare a second to pull a derailleur cable or even an hour to clean things off, but seriously, if you want to be able to adjust your bike as well as an LBS for anything more than trivial adjustment, you're going to need hours of practice, hours of either learning it yourself or watching someone else do it, and even more hours to buy and select the right tools for the job.
If you're already expert and can do the whole shebang in under an hour, ok, everyone can make time for that. But if you're a noob, or like me and are known to make things worse than when you started despite watching all the videos and reading the books beforehand, time is the single biggest limiter to doing this stuff.