Originally Posted by
Retro Grouch
It sounds to me like you have an alternate agenda. You want to buy a bike at WalMart and somehow force an LBS, that doesn't want to service it, to tune and repair it.
I understanding your reasoning, but you can't force somebody to do something they don't want to do.
Shh, don't let SR "hear" you, or he'll end up calling you a "racist, or a bigot, or an elitist, or a classist." He thinks that no LBS should
EVER refuse to work on any bicycle regardless of where it came from, because hey after all it
IS a bicycle, and it's not like it came from another planet or something.