[Rant] VanMoof S3 Battery Drain / Dead Bike issue
It's British winter, it's wet and cold. Don't suppose anyone sane would be riding their bike out during this weather. Needless to say, I stored my bike on the wall and didn't touch it for a long while. I expected my VanMoof S3 electric assisted bicycle to be drained of battery when I take it back out. No biggie, I thought to myself, just plug it in, charge, and off we go again. Nope. No no no. Nope, it doesn't work like that with the pretty face S3. If you were unlucky like me and allowed your VanMoof battery to fully drain, your bike might never charge and becomes a super dumb single gear heavy two wheeled paper weight. This is the second time my bike died of this cause, last time I sent it back to VanMoof to be fixed. They applied some firmeware update which was supposed to have fixed this issue. Yet it reoccurred! So I did some digging to see what is actually going on. Based on my diagnosis, this is what happened: 1. VanMoof S3 has 2 internal...