The main problem I've noticed on the Shimano dynohubs is the tendency for the connection to go bad. On my wife's bike usually means taking a small knife and removing the oxidation on the connector. Eventually it will be a problem. That's one advantage the SON has.
FWIW, I have two bikes with SON hubs. Both have worked for a number of years without a second thought. Eric Platt St. Paul, MN Eric Platt St. Paul, MN On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Jimmy Hutch <ji...@jimmyhutchinson.com>wrote: > I have three bikes with SON hubs, a Brompton with 11k+ miles, a Bike > Friday and a Rivendell AHH each with a couple thousand miles. I ride with > my "lights on" day and night so cannot tell if there is material drag or > not. My SON hubs have performed flawlessly. > > I also have a Shimano Alfine dynamo hub on my relatively low mileage Surly > Big Dummy, it works fine except the connector sucks. I see that others > praise the single connector but it is a cheap piece of plastic (shit) that > has problems. > > Trying to decide between SON and a Shimano is a lot like trying to decide > between a BMW and a Honda - the BMW is nicer but you pay a lot of $$$$ for > each incremental improvement. I'd take a Shimano dynamo over no dynamo any > day of the week. And if I was a rational consumer I would probably own > only Shimano dynamo hubs. > > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
