u/fl_2017

Had the same thing happen last year which led me waiting all day at the Baffle Haus for AA to recover me.

This time I was more prepared, also I didn't accidentally pull the fuel tap out of the tank..

Took a few hours in the dark, a couple of good samaritans helped including one who put his hazards on so I could move to a safe spot, the effort was almost in vain by a few d**kheads behind who decided to both dangerously undertake and overtake me while I was trying to push to safety at a roundabout interchange.. despite as mentioned the guy helping with his hazards.

Once I was in safety managed to get the carb out, cleaned the seat and float needle reset the height put it back together. Did this with nothing more than a mobile phone for lighting.

A few of the cables were being a pain in the arse, also a bit of rain.

Saved waiting until the end of time for recovery.

So I just put an inner tube in my neighbours rear tyre on his folding China branded ebike.

He told me he took it to multiple shops both an independent LBS and a major bike company (even paying £15 there and back for taxi), both of them refused to fix his flat tyre citing the rear hub and something along the lines of they aren't insured to mess with them?

Anyway it took me two hours to get a new inner tube in there for him and align the wheel, not knowing much about the bike or the hub, probably could've done it in 45 mins easy.

Just wondering is it common for shops to refuse work on these ebikes with rear hubs, even something as simple as swapping an inner tube?