My lbs (well it was local, I just moved to a new town, so it's not local anymore) was really pretty nice. All the folks in there were friendly enough, but all probably in their 20's or early 30's and seemed to be fixie riders (not that there's anything wrong with that). Mainly they seemed to do most of their business working on ss/fg bikes and getting old bikes running that people (mainly college kids or similar aged people) had gotten handed down to them. The odd thing was (given that they were fixing up older bikes), was that when I went in asking them about getting older parts (things like deraileur claws for decent quality bikes that didn't come with them - no I don't just want a modern tourney RD that comes with one), they really didn't know what I was talking about. Friendly enough, and they got to me right away when I came in early one saturday morning wanting a fork crown race and bb fixed cup pulled and they have just about any oddly sized tube imaginable, but for parts I was much better off online.