It did the job. Nice!

So… we got a flat almost immediatly after receiving the cargo bike (Urban Arrow Family) back from the workshop (plus an additional issue with the gears that was new after servicing).

I therefore needed to return the bike because fixing the flat is problematic. I cannot securely and stably raise the back of this bike high enough to do a full back wheel change myself. I can raise it just a little with a pile of books under the frame, which gives me enough lift that I can access the inner tube and patch it but raising it higher removes the contact point of the the drop down stand, such that it becomes wildy unstable.

Previously my bike insurance would cover a pickup due to breakdown but I discovered much to my dissapointment that at some point this changed and is no longer the case. Initially I tried to do an in place patch. This held for a bit but then another part of the tube failed spectacularly with a 2cm+ hole. The problem here is likely either a bad inner tube or something sharp I cannot see between the tyre and rim.

@ruari so annoying when insurance companies quietly change the policy to give you less for what you pay for. As for the inner tube issue, how about getting some split end inner tubes so you have easier access to it & not risk your socks.

@ruari don't think they're widely available in the UK too & not cheap.

@2_Wheeled_Wolf Yeah I have yet to try one of these. Perhaps they are horrible for some reason and that is why people do not regularly run with them. However for my own use case I do not even need to use them all the time. I just want them as a back if I find myself in a fix again and I would have thought others would demand them for the same reason. So it is weird they are hard to come by 🤷