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The last rather large, well appointed bike shop that I no longer visit involved the owner helping me with a service issue. That went well. After we got to talking he asked what I did for a living..I told him I retired. He said..you're kinda young..what did you do. I told him. At that point he ramped up a hard-ish sales spiel on how I only live once and I needed the latest wonder bike with electronic shifting. I told him I've never found shifting all that difficult..downtube or STI.
I returned to the shop a few more times for various things, but he continued with a soft-hard sell on the wonder bikes. Don't do that..I no longer visit his shop.