Originally Posted by ItsJustMe

This is my situation as well. For the first 10 years, I only had one bike and I rode it every day. If I took it to a shop, it was at least 7 miles from home and I rode it there, if they couldn't be done in an hour while I waited, what was I supposed to do?

Besides, I have yet to find a repair on a bicycle that the shop can handle and anyone with the most basic of mechanical skills and a $50 tool set can't handle. There just isn't anything very complicated or hard to fix on a bicycle. For bonus points you should have the Park Blue Book, to make sure you're doing it "right" but anyone with any mechanical sense at all can fix most anything with an hour to poke and scratch their head.