Why is everyone always hard for local bike shops? They practice higher prices than any online shop, they are mostly owned by lazy people who open and close shop whenever they feel like and they frequently only know about one type of bike or equipment. It's ridiculous how none of my area's LBS sell tools. Not even a basic chain breaker tool can be bought through a local bike shop. "You can get one at Decathlon" is what they tell customers. It's even worse how many of them are simply not ready to deal with certain types of bikes due to lack of proper tools or just simply ignorance, even basic things. Oh your head tube is 1"? Sorry, we don't have the proper tools for that. You want to have a fixed gear serviced? We don't do fixed gear bikes, sorry. New tires? Sure, we have to order them and wait a week until they get here and then you pay double the market price for them.

Fuck bike shops. And then every single one has the nerve to have 1 post in every 5 on facebook complaining about online stores or people who aren't grateful for their LBS.

for fuck's sake
It makes me even angrier the fact that when you google these shops they have hundreds of 5* reviews from people who went there to have a flat patched. Fucking ridiculous.