I'm on the fence with this one. My boys ride Shimano dynos with EYC fronts and TopLine Light rears. It's an excellent setup. They run them all the time, obviously for night commuting, but also as day lights. I think running day lights is a vastly underappreciated value-add.
My wife and I run the new USB rechargeables with TopLine Light battery rears. The USB lights are easily as good as most of the dyno-lights I've seen. I run 2 on the bars, got plenty of light. There's also the versatility of having portables for other tasks: walking the dogs, mucking about in dark corners of the house, and so on. And then... there's the fact that the battery systems are essentially wireless. Other than Anton's pics, most of the wiring I've seen consists of zip ties and such. I've seen a lot of photos of $4000 bikes here with zips and wire wraps on frame tubes. If I could change one thing Riv doesn't do, but should. it's make the frames more suitable for wire. I do think the battery systems are cheaper. Mostly b/c you really ought to include the pitlock $$$ to secure that dyno and the pit $$$ to secure the headlamp. On Friday, January 29, 2016 at 7:48:05 PM UTC-6, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Doug asked: "So…why do we still ride dynohubs?" > > You know all the reasons, I suspect. You just don't find those reasons > compelling, which is fine. It's great that you have a good lighting > solution that makes you feel confident riding at night. I doubt your > intent is to tell those of us who do use dynohubs that we are wrong for > doing so. I doubt that even the staunchest dynohub zealot would tell you > that you are wrong for using a battery. We can all agree enthusiastically > that bicycle lighting has improved immensely across the board in the last > few years. > > Bill four-dynohubs-plus-three-rechargeable-battery-light-systems Lindsay > El Cerrito, Ca > > >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
