I put a velogical on my Sam Hillborne for reason of preserving the wheel set and the occasional need for night time lights. Glad I did that but my experience is some dimming of lights on inclines and some slippage in wet conditions. No noticeable drag. Overall the Velogical is an elegant example of German engineering. I opted to void the warranty on the above mentioned lights but no concerns. Tim
On Monday, June 22, 2015 at 10:34:41 AM UTC-5, Matthew J wrote: > > Finally have my new commuter up and running. Took it on some shake down > rides over the weekend and rode to work this a.m. > > Frame and front rack are custom. Some on the RBW group may be interested > in the Velogical dynamo I am using to power the head lights and tail lights. > > The new frame has a dynamo braze on but you can buy the Velogical with > bolt on mounts. As this builder picture > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/57976152@N07/17343953555/> shows, the > Velogical tucks neatly under the Honjo H-35 fenders. There is a simple > wire lever that either locks the dynamo on to the wheel or off. > > Lights are Lumotec EYC and Secula - you can see the latter in the linked > picture. Velogical instantly powered both. Even at low speed the lighting > is as bright as I could ever need in the city. Engaged it makes a little > noise - not enough to annoy me - coasting the TT White Industry freewheel > is louder I imagine there has to be drag, but nothing I notice. It has > been pretty wet here in Chicago the last few days (weeks really). I > deliberately rode through puddles. Velogical did not seem to slip any. I > hope to take the bike on some short tours away from city lights soon. > Frankly the lighting appears bright enough that I do not expect any > problems. > > I have a SON hub on my tour bike and had one on my previous commuter. > They are definitely great power generators. Velogical is somewhat less > expensive, lighter, and allows use of whatever front hub you want. Time > will tell whether these little dynamos are durable. At this point it > definitely appears to be a viable alternative to generator hubs for some > uses. > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/123ed518-d23b-469d-8c60-a5701b3e3a34%40googlegroups.com.
