Today I wanted to ride to my parents in Lüneburg, it’s not that far — just 40 km and there would be cake at my destination. However I had some problems with my bike for a while now: One of the batteries of my bike didn’t charge. Batteries? I don’t ride an eBike. The gears of my bike are changed electronically. It’s a feature you don’t want if you have never used it, but when you have used it once, you want it. Sequential shifting is such a great thing.
However the problem is that you just can’t ride without the batteries — well — technically you can — but then you have a very expensive fixie. So no cake today. And a few days ago it prevented me from taking the bike with me for a few days off.
The number of stuff to charge gets really out of hand anyway: Bike computer (for navigation, all my tours are preplanned), front light, radar back light, fall-back normal back light. The powermeter of my bike and the heart rate monitor need coin cells on a regular schedule as well. As I said, it seems there is a point of too much technology on a vehicle powered by a human body.
In the end I found out about the problem: One of the pogo pins of the charger had some problems. I don’t know why but after cleaning the pin with some isopropanol it charged without any problems. And I don’t have the foggiest idea why only one of the batteries had this problem.
