Originally Posted by
cerewa
The question I might ask is, do you spend 50 seconds fiddling with your batteries for every hour you spend commuting?
Nope. Once a week I unplug my battery before I walk in the house, and plug it into the charger on my way by, then do the opposite the next morning. Total expenditure of time about 45 seconds per week, which is about 8 hours of commuting (about 4 hours of light usage).
The real question is, how much time would I spend in the hospital after dropping my front wheel in a pothole I didn't see in the middle of the countryside miles from any house in the pitch black while I was running a 6 watt lamp instead of a 13 watt HID?