Anecdatum: Single datapoint "pro" for dynamo lighting.

[Patrick Moore]

I think there has been a recent thread or 2, or perhaps just thread tangents, about dynamo lighting versus battery lighting. Here's my $0.05.

I  rushed off to Presanctified liturgy (Orthodox Lent is a month behind Catholic Lent for reasons I don't understand) this evening at 5 pm after a pretty full work day, riding the 2020 Matthews IGH road bike. I am usually pretty good at getting all my riding kit together the night before, or at least the morning before, but as I passed the outbound 3 mile or so mark I realized that I'd forgotten all my reflective gear. I usually wear a bright reflective Sam Browne or big Rivendell triangle as well as bright and wide ankle reflectors on both legs.

But I was safe; the IGH Matthews has a SON 20R powering a 1st-gen Edeluxe as well as a Secula seatstay-mount tail light and that big B&M rack-mount one with a ring of LEDs around a central reflector. I had remembered to attach my B&M Ixion IQ Premium AA battery light to augment the feeble Edeluxe standlight.

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Patrick Moore

Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum

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When thou didst not, savage, know thine own meaning,

But wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish,

I endowed thy purposes with words that made them known.

[Joe Bernard]

This is the point Leah (Bicycle Belle Ding Ding) mentions: She rides a lot and always has her lights. I ride not as much but run my rechargeables day and night and tell myself they're fine. Have I forgotten to charge them the night before? Yes. Have I charged them but still had one crap out on me before the ride was over? Also yes! 

I haven't been convinced to invest in a dynohub yet (current bikes, I've had them before) but she's right about them. 

Joe "puts fingers in ears, refuses to listen" Bernard

Lake County CA