I used a very wide variety of battery lights and three types of generators, hub, bottle and bb. Here's my take:
If you ride just occasionally in the dark, battery lights -- if you choose well and IF you can remember to charge or replace the batteries as needed or bottles or bb dynamos are the best value. If you ride a lot in the dark, hub dynamos are the best in that you get the worry free advantage of a dynamo with the almost complete absence of additional wheel resistance. That said, the best bottles and bb dynamos aren't *that" bad. The LED headlights made by German companies seem to give more useful illumination than mega-candlepower non-shaped beams. The brightest lights don't always give better useful illumination: I went from an early HID system with "XXX lumens" that blinded my distance vision by its excess of close-up brightness to 2 early "50 lumen" EO Tecs that let me see as well as the HID system. The better Shimano hubs plus the IQ Cyo is the best combination of low drag, useful light, reliability, and cost. Even cheap LED headlights -- the sub $40 kind -- are far, far FAR better now than they were 10 years ago. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:42 AM, DON LYON <donl...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > I would appreciate a discussion of the various option of putting lights > (front and rear) on my Sam H. I don't plan on doing much after dark riding > but would like to have the illumination for dusk and dawn situation while > touring. I am thinking of such things as: battery versus generator, brands, > models, placement. Any insights would be appreciated. Benefitting from the > experience of others will be a big help. Thanks > Don > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- Vote early, vote often, vote Rhinoceros! *http://tinyurl.com/d7muj2t* ------------------------- Patrick Moore, Albuquerque, NM, USA For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW http://resumespecialties.com/index.html ------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
