Originally Posted by
Jhonn
The Speed TR is the heaviest of all of these, but it also the most fully equipped for my needs; I appreciate and would use all the accessories added to the bike (my possessions may want to spill onto the racks). I also aim to engineer some type of fixture to harness the kinetic energy for powering my electronics, but that's a crazy idea left for another topic.
Is there a reason you're ruling out models like the Ciao, Glide and Mu XL that already have generators built in? That would cover your lighting needs, so then you'd just need some kind of solar panel arrangement for recharging batteries on the rest of your electronics.