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Old 11-09-10 | 08:54 PM
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From: Fort Worth, Texas Church of Hopeful Uncertainty

Bikes: 1966 Raleigh DL-1 Tourist, 1973 Schwinn Varsity, 1983 Raleigh Marathon, 1994 Nishiki Sport XRS

What, I'm supposed to post about my dynohub lights again???

Okay.

It started when I got a wheelset from a friend of mine this spring. The wheels came of an A Homer Hilsen bike... so pretty good stuff, including Schwalbe Marathon Supreme tires and a SON 28 dynohub on the front wheel. It didn't begin well, though. I put the wheels on my bike. I had to put the rear wheel on partially flat to get it around the fender. Then I pumped it rest of the way, checked clearance around the fender, adjusted the brakes and BANG! The tube blew. When I checked further, I found the rim was screwed up at the seam-



After some checking I found it was a Ritchey OCR rim which is not made anymore, but I found an online source and ordered one. I swapped out the bad rim for the good and it came out pretty well.

So I went ahead and ordered my lights from the LBS who got them from Peter White.



I went with a Lumotec IQ Fly LED with standlight (and senso, but only because they were out of stock of the non-senso ones) for the front, and a Toplight Line with standlight, both made by Busch & Müller.

The finished product- the lights mounted on the bike:



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