Originally Posted by cerewa
Of course, this doesn't apply to those of us who never have a bike shop service their bike.

TRUE THAT!!!
I asked a LBS owner to look at my RD once..(just once).. he started to loosen the adjusting nut... fricking thing was all messed up, all I wanted him to do was LOOK... I wanted to know if I needed a new one since the old one was OLD... ha ha ha
I tune my own... Lots of info here on the WWW