Per Julie and Tim's suggestion...I visited the nice people over at The Bicycle Outfitter in Los Altos right off of Foothileel Expressway. Julie and Tim get their bikes serviced there but purchase gear at Palo Alto Bikes (also very nice people when I stopped by earlier in the week). After much trying to replace my pedals but to no avail, I woke up early today and trekked it on down to The Bicycle Outfitter for help. Julie told me to ask for Jose and to say that her and Tim sent me...but no Jose. Only John and Alan...but Alan went ahead and put my new fangle dangled clipless pedals onto my bike and proceeded to adjust a number of other things on the bike, like my brakes, check my gears and a bunch of other stuff that included taking my wheels off - futzing with stuff then putting them back on. During this time I learned that Alan is sponsored by Specialized so was very interested in knowing how I liked my Specialized Allez Elite because he rides with a guy who is one of the designers for the Allez line...muy interestante but I didn't understand about 75% of the cycling jargon used.
All in all, they were very nice and didn't charge me for the work they did on my bike. Nice way to enter into what has been an already gear intensive start into cycling. I will be making an appt later for a fitting.
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