I read this older thread with interest. None of the responses strike me as more "wrong" as this one, to each their own, but defining usage by how shiny a widget is seems very, very wrongheaded.
To me, it isn't how nice the bike is that determines what dynamo hub you put on it. It's what you're going to do with your bike. My SonDeluxe widebody is not on my "nicest" bike. It is on the bike that I use for Randonneuring rides. It must perform day and night under all weather conditions without fail and without worry. I've been in some pretty out of the way places with it where help would be many hours away. I do carry battery backups on any out of the way ride but when I'm struggling away up the umpteenth roller at way past o'dark thirty trying to stay hydrated and nourished, I do not want to think about my dynamo hub under any circumstances. When I finally get my gumption up to go back to PBP, it will only be with a SON dynamo hub. I also own Shimano and SP hubs but they are used for more pedestrian pursuits. I haven't had any issues with them. P.S: The SON spade connectors are not difficult to use, I'm not sure where that idea came from, either. I think they are superior to the Shimano/SP design because there are no parts to lose. It's easy to misplace the cap of the other design. YMMV. Jim Austin MSA, TX On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 2:47 PM masmojo <masm...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Eric, I've put SP Hubs on "Nice" bikes too; I just don't think I'd throw > down $240+ on a SON hub unless it was a bike that was worthy. SP's are (or > were) good for those builds where you want something a little nicer than a > Shimano, but a SON is out of the question. Ideal for a Clem., even a > Cheviot or a Sam, but any nicer than that I am likely to want the SON. My > exception to that would be some thru-axle applications and some of my > recent builds where I have a second set of wheels. One set of wheels might > be nicer than the other. SON on the primary set & SP on the second set. > > -- > 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/70382a8d-253f-470f-82f0-059e818eca3a%40googlegroups.com > . > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ signature goes here -- 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/CA%2BypmEYcVF9zGn6tX%3DnUq3qr3fEUAr%2BVs1ZgL9KxqXg1nMQDbg%40mail.gmail.com.
