Electrical Bicycle Breakdown!

As the song goes:

Electrical Bicycle Breakdown! Oh Yeah!
Electrical Bicycle Breakdown! Oh Boy!
Electrical Bicycle Breakdown! Get away from me!
Electrical Bicycle Breakdown! Don't down me out with your industrial society ruining ways......

Who sung that song? Probably, The Electric Bunny Weasels.

That song came to mind as my electrical bike came to a sudden and unexplained stop this morning as I was on my way to work. The problem clearly was not a dead battery because the battery had been recharged. The problem came not after a fading away, but suddenly and most unexpectedly.

I was fortunate in where the bike did break down. I was only a three minutes push from the Carrefour repair shop at Baoli where I had purchased the bike.

After a fifteen minute wait at the repair place, the repairman quickly determined what the problem was. He stuck his electrical tester in a couple of locations. One of the two batteries did not register so he removed the battery and repaired one of its connections. And I was on my way to work after a twenty five minute delay.