I've thought about it, but I don't know much about bikes and I have a really awesome local bike shop... but they are EXPENSIVE! I definitely plan to ask a lot of questions and do my own tweaking, but my bike just feels like an anchor lately. My gears make noise when I pedal. Feels like a small bump magically appeared in my back tire. My breaks constantly need readjustment. Every time I pedal really hard it just feels like I get nothing out of the thing. I bought new tires a month ago and they are slightly wider, but that couldn't be the cause of one of these things.

I hope I can figure out what's going on with my bike, but I've never had this many little sidetracks on my bike just hit me all at once. It's just one of those things I can't really describe, you just have to ride the bike and feel it for yourself. If that makes sense.