What a horrible cycleway!!!!!
Yesterday afternoon I thought to myself lets go explore the cycleway to St Ives, nice day and a full battery what more could you want? Well, a Dutch victory in the football would have been nice but, I digress.
I started off on the actual concrete the buses will use when it gets operational as I saw one or two others doing that. Only trouble with that, is they are quite narrow and have a high lip where the guide wheels run against, which meant I kept catching my pedals unless you kept an arrow straight line. So after a mile or so and a few near moments I switched to the cycleway.
In the first instance it looks ok but , the further away from Cambridge you get the rougher it becomes. The material used are some form of Grey chippings which are not really cycle friendly in my humble opinion, they seem to be breaking down into a dust which got everywhere.
Then the problems started!! As the surface got rougher I lost power a few times
So I stopped, checked connections, all seemed fine. I had done about 12 or 13 km at this point but, not wanting to cycle unassisted (maybe?) I turned around and slowly headed home. I had another couple of power losses and 03 showing on the LCD/Computer which on later reading indicates motor cables connections need checking but, I was doing that each time.
Anyway, got back home for football, afterwards thought I would try bike again. No problems at all! This morning though, different story! All the way to work it was stop/start check ok stop/start! LCD/Computer showing 04 ( low battery) and 03 again! Battery was charged last night should be no problem there? Thinking that are more connectors in the little panel at the bottom of where the battery sits, this afternoon I checked all the connections behind the panel. Ah, I found a single purple wire had become unconnected, so I am now going to get on my bike and ride home after posting this.
Regards,
Mike.