More than I ever wanted to know about dynamo lighting outside of the Peter White site: Deep Dive<http://swhs.home.xs4all.nl/fiets/tests/verlichting/index_en.html#SP_PD-8>. A bit of a Nederlands perspective, but thorough.
For sake of completeness: Peter White<http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/schmidt.asp> . On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 12:51:22 PM UTC-7, Tom Virgil wrote: > > Hi Kelly, > > Based on your experience and what I read around the web, I am impressed. > There are SV and PV models on ebay in the $125-135 "buy it now" range. > That is very good compared to the competition. > > For Patrick Moore's benefit, > > S = Small Dynamo Hub > P = Powerful Dynamo Hub > X = Extreme Dynamo Hub > > D = Disc Brake > V = Cantilever, "V", or Sidepull (no accommodation on hub for disc) Brake > > There are voltage and power plots for S, P, and X models on pages 7, 8, > and 9 of the SP Catalog. The catalog is > here<http://issuu.com/borjoulin/docs/sp2013-03?e=8884331/4327534> > . > > Thanks for the information and report of your experience. > > Tom > V = > > > > On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 6:06:47 AM UTC-7, Kelly wrote: >> >> Tom >> The PV8 on my wife's Betty Foy, and the PV8 on the Holdsworth, including >> the other four I've built for friends bikes have all been holding up well. >> They have been ridden in raid / mud / light trails on tours etc. >> >> The drag is undetectable and honestly I can't tell the difference when >> getting on bikes with Schmidt. My only complaint is how narrow the flanges >> are and that only from an aesthetics view point. >> >> I've only built and used the PV and PD versions. Purchased all of them >> on eBay and received them usually within a week to ten days. Cost was in >> the 120 dollar price range. >> >> I highly recommend them. >> >> Kelly >> >> -- 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.
