Originally Posted by
ColonelJLloyd
How about "tread dynamo" as opposed to a "sidewall dynamo". Anyhow, it doesn't matter at the end of the day what it's called.
Right. The name communicates a reference to an object. If you know what that object is, you're good; if you don't, you may well think of something else. Bummer... but you'll get over it.
Originally Posted by
ColonelJLloyd
Did you have to modify the rear fender to use this type of dynamo? I imagine most cyclists who would use a dynamo would also want fenders; I do.
I did not. The rear fender had a J-shaped clip that hooked to that little frame bridge that connects the stays behind the kickstand mount; so the BB dynamo hit the tire just below the fender. I got lucky on that bike; my trek 720 had successfully resisted all my efforts to mount the same dynamo in the same place. But then again, as I said, my Sanyo BB dynamo failed almost immediately after I got it installed correctly (and I'd only had it 25 years at that point
), but I suspect the fender would have caused a problem had I ever used it in the rain-- collecting all that water and shooting it down right where the dynamo roller and the tire meet: right where you don't want it.
Originally Posted by
ColonelJLloyd
Yeah, sounds interesting. They're pretty stingy with details, eh?