That's me...my time is more valuable than the cost of taking the bike to the local LBS (there are a few around here, so no need to go to Evans or
Halfords generally).
I've no interest in learning and no need to save that amount of dosh. So paying an LBS £40-50 for an hour to do a job that would probably take me 3 and would piss me off as well even if I could do it, makes no fiscal or wellbeing-related sense to me!
That said, a friend and I do plan to try to do rim tape and transfer a cassette and tubes/tyres onto my new wheels...wish us luck
I would say theres 3 points why I do most of my own tooling, taking money out of the equation.
1. No waiting around or driving too and from service centre/ LBS.
2. You learn how it works, how to take it to bits and most valuable how to mend it "in the field". Could get you home some day?.
3. You know it's been done right, nobody's rushed to get it out of the door..
Same when I work on the house, spent an age cutting tiles for the Kitchen etc so it was bang on perfect, I couldn't expect someone paid to do the job to spend that long on it.
We are lucky at work, no job is rushed, we are not under pressure to out a service in a 2hr time slot we just make sure it has all been done properly to a high standard.
I can imagine constantly been under pressure to turn jobs out people would start cutting corners or making mistakes, which only annoys the customer.