good e-bike workshops

[Emily Joy]

Good day everyone (although here it's rainy)

I was just wondering if there are any recommendations on how to find a workshop that will be able to service/repair an e-bike which they don't sell at a reasonable cost? I have been turned down by four cycle workshops in Birmingham on the grounds that "as we don't sell Gazelles, we can't replace inner tubes, because we are not covered by insurance in case we break something".

Any suggestions are very welcome.

 

[sjpt]

Maybe a community bike shop? A quick Google search for 'community bike workshop birmingham' came up with https://birminghambikefoundry.org/ I don't know that shop at all so am not recommending them, but they may be worth trying. Similarly, https://www.gearupbirmingham.co.uk/

 

[Peter Ball]

Any one of the Rutland cycle shops

 

[Nosweat]

Thanks for the tips, will check out myself. Honestly, what's up with decent bike shops in Birmingham? Live there myself and so far four shops I've asked at have refused to consider converting my pushbike which I am hoping to get Whooshed. Anything from "we only deal with bikes, ebikes aren't real bikes so we won't help" through to "our insurance doesn't cover us". Except for the first one however, they were all happy to sell me a £5000 off-the shelf ebike though they admitted they wouldn't know how to fix or service it.

With that level of customer service I expect not long from now will be a host of disgruntled customers in the city who have spent as much as a used car buying a bike that they can't use because noone's prepared to service them or fix things that need replacing.

On an aside, does anyone know a bikeshop near Birmingham that could fit a Whoosh or similar conversion kit? Must be street legal, nothing fancy.

 

[soundwave]

plenty of you tube vids to learn from but you will need some tools it is not very hard if you have the right stuff.

i gave up with bike shops years ago as i had a stuck xd driver and rang every one only to be told not interested, what is a xd driver or dont do mtbs.

i did find a race bike shop that said would have a go but never had a clue either and i had to help them remove it with there tools pmsl.

funny thing is they now sell ebikes id not let them service one tho