I bought my first real bike at the LBS as well, and since it was last year's model, got it almost at cost. It's worth making contact with a real person who knows what they're talking about, and not the worker at the bigbox store who just can assemble a bike and doesn't know anything about it.
And I agree with silly about test riding bikes, then buying them online. That is just a kick in the nuts for the store owner. Same for running shoes.
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