After my training\commuting bike was pinched last week I decided to dust off
the mountain bike which has remained dormant in the shed for that last few
years.
Put slicks and some spare clipless pedals on it, removed a few layers of
dust and cobwebs and regreased and lubricated all the moving bits. Looks
pretty shmick now.
The last task was to replace the batteries in the wireless computer.
Simple, just unscrew the back, take out the old battery and put in a new one
.. . . . . . if only!
The old battery still had enough life in it to make the display work so I
knew that the computer still worked, but when I put in the new battery . . .
.. . nothing, the screen just stared blankly at me or gave a brief whimper of
life then faded out. I pulled it apart and cleaned all the contacts to
within an inch of their life, but still nothing! It sprang into life twice,
but of course that was while I had it pulled apart. When I put it back
together, just the same. Two hours later I had even less hair than normal
(which doesn't leave alot left!), and then I remembered those sage words
"google is your friend". On the Cateye site I found that to fix this
problem you need to put the battery in back to front (ie reverse the poles)
then take it out and put it in the correct way, something I never would have
thought of doing. Tried this and what do you know, it works!!! So it's
working now, but at what cost to my sanity?
Bruce(aaaaaaaarrrrrggghhhhh)A