Originally Posted by
PaulRivers
Lol, the worst thing I've heard in this scenario was someone who went through all the trouble and expense of buying a dynamo hub, light, etc - then found they couldn't pedal up the hill fast enough to keep the dynamo light on! (It was a *really* steep hill.) And since the hill was at the start of their commute, the light wouldn't even be charged enough to power the standlight.
That's gotta be one bigass hill. My dyno lights flicker at 2.5mph and come up constant (but dim) at 4mph. I've only encountered 1 hill that put me below that speed, and luckily it was during the day.
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