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haven't been to a bike shop since I was a kid, I can do most repairs and maintenance myself and prefer buying stuff online. I would love it if bike shops were how they used to be, small local independent businesses run by some proper friendly and knowledgeable bike fanatic filled with all kinds of weird and wonderful things from the past and present.
Sadly there are two types of bike shop around me now, chains stores, soulless warehouse staffed by know nothing failures and stuffed with chinese made shite, or the closet homosexual mid 30's balding bearded bespctacled hipster manchild in his boutique filled with overpriced hipster trash and decorated to resemble some poncey middle class fucking coffee shop with a Park Tool display area at the rear.
There are some great bike shops out there, there's one in the lake district i like to call on when I'm up there, another in Leeds and two crackers near Derby, but I don't live up there.
