I don't see a post about Flanders so her goes
I go to the Hub usually and I like the more knowledgable vibe at flanders, especially concerning italian schtuff. Price for service is the same as hub but the turn-around is a bit quicker especially in winter when Hub gets more customers than them. There is no one working the counter there who doesn't know anything about bikes. Their used section has a great a better selection of nice used road bikes than other stores Answered all my questions but with a "I've got something better to do" vibe.

They've been nice the two times i've been there.

I've used them since '84 when Jimmie Brown and I had digs on Harriet and drafted cars around Lake of the Isles. They've been helpful, and had what I needed, in a fix.

I've had my nose pressed to their window many a time, all frames that I'd bust up in a heart beat: Serrato, Colnago, carbon fiber, may as well go to World Cycle on University and inhale the carbon there.

They support a riding group, I've come across a couple times on the Greenway, they don't look like they are having as much fun as the Saturday night beer, I mean group ride.

I live round the corner from them and have popped in for a couple of quick minor repairs. They've always been great to me, and the repairs are affordable. My bike is nowhere near the caliber of rides on the sales floor, but they take me seriously. If I ever have the budget for a high end ride, I'll get it from them.

They just put together a bike for me and did a beautiful job. Every time I deal with them they're friendly and professional.

They're the closest shop to me so i've stopped in there a couple of times for small stuff and had a lovely time. They used to have (maybe they stilll do) a pretty cool Langster-London Edition...

Are they good mechanics? How about for a mtb?

Adam and Adrian (who'll probably be the ones working on your bike) are awesome with all sorts of bikes. Both of them frequently have to work on mtn bikes, ranging all the way from giant boulders to scott carbon-craziness

Good, well, they might be the lucky recipients of the opportunity to fix my damn brakes!

I just bought a used bottom bracket on ebay and it showed up with a crack in the right cup. turns out I bought it from Adrian. We talked and he gladly fixed the cup for me when I brought it in for no charge. Nice guy and even listened to me babble about the st. olaf racing team.

Yeah, and he's a Nebraska football fan!

Go 'Skers!

Um Yah Yah!

I was on campus for my 15-year reunion a couple weekends ago, and was looking for bike jerseys at the campus store (I'd seen an older woman, clearly not a member of the St. Olaf bike team, wearing one on the recent Mpls Bike Tour) but they didn't have any.

Sorry for the threadjack. When someone mentions Olaf you have to say Um Yah Yah and then everything goes downhill from there.

And then the always hilarious Gustie reponds w/ "Um Yah Yah F*ck you Olaf!"