Sport on the fritz

[heartstringscw]

I rode with my iBike Sport (converted to iPro) all of last summer without a hitch. Over the fall and winter, I took the unit off because I would be racing cyclocross and didn't feel the necessity (not to mention I didn't want to break it!).

I used the unit once or twice on my race bike in October but then put the unit away until mid January. After replacing the battery, I reinstalled the iBike on two bikes (basic wired unit on bike 1, wired cadence unit on bike 2). I took bike 1 out two weekends ago and was out in the rain for 3-hours. Somewhere around hour 1.5, the unit started recording 1200-3000w. When I got home, the unit had water under the faceplate and it took a couple days for all the water to remove itself (the unit cycled through its functions fine at this time).

So, yesterday I tried to use the unit on bike 1 and it wouldn't register a thing (same setup, nothing changed). I set up bike 2 and tried on that mount - nothing. I replaced the batteries and have tried a seemingly infinite number of magnet-sensor distance relationships (and three seperate iBike supplied magnets) and, still, the iBike will not register speed and, if dumb luck seems to persist and a certain setup works, it works for no more than 20 seconds and with some erratic speed numbers.

I've looked around the forums and tried the little "fixes" to no avail. Any suggestions?

-Ben

[mechgt]

If it's related to water getting in the unit, I've had good luck with cell phones (after washing machine... or any good dunking) by placing them on my stereo (or cable/satellite box) for several days or a week or so. It's constantly warm there, but not hot enough to damage anything. That should give you a good slow thorough drying. I'm newer here around iBike, so no experience with wet iBikes, but that's worked for me with wet cell phones and USB drives.

[lorduintah]

Does sound like it needs to be dried out. If you have a hair drier, a low temp setting with the battery door off can get it started. Then setting it somewhere it will be warm - on top of a dryer... even a heating pad will help.

You may need to do a hard reset - flip the battery in the case for a second and then return to the correct polarity - after a 24-48 hour drying out time.

Tom

[coachboyd]

Rice!

If your iBike gets water in the unit and needs to dry out, putting it in a bag of rice will absorb any of the moisture pretty quickly.

Just make sure you don't have a grain of rice lodged in the wind port on your next ride. I am sure that would affect the wind scaling.