Problems With My Ibike

[Jomoalli]

I went for a ride with my ibike and for the first 23 minutes the unit appeared to be working properly, then power stopped registering. I stopped did the first of several wind offsets and I started to to get unreliable power data. It started spiking and then falling to 0. What is the cure for this ? I've attached my ride file below. I have the Ibike Pro with the Garmin G firmware. Please help!

[coachboyd]

Looks like your tilt was pretty far off.
Did you do a tilt calibration a couple times during the ride? If not, that might be something to have taken a look at.

[Jomoalli]

Coachboyd, thank you for your response. I did an initial tilt calicration before setting out which for the first 23 minutes it appearsthe ibike was working normally. I didn't do a tilt calibration once on the road as I didn't think doing a tilt calibration on roads with a grade of 3-5% made any sense. The central question is why is the ibike losing power in the middle of the ride for no apparent reason? Is it vibration? Is it something else?

[coachboyd]

It's not vibration. It looks like your tilt is not staying set, and so the ibike at first thinks you are riding down a steep slope, so it won't report power. Then later, the slope turned upward and the ibike thinks you are riding up a big hill, and that's why you are getting reading of 1000+ watts. I am not sure what is causing this slope behavior, but it might be something to call the higher ups about.

[travispape]

Unless you have a defective unit, the tilt of your iBike must be changing a lot during the ride. The mount might be loose, or whatever it is mounted to is loose. Before I started using an iBike, I was in the habit of grabbing my bike computer and rotating it to see it better and I caught myself doing it with the iBike a couple of times. This wreaks havoc with the iBike calculations, so I broke the habit quick enough.

Travis