Originally Posted by
Henry III
What about running adhesive flat wire? Essentially a piece of copper ribbon backed with adhesive? My wife's Breezer Uptown infinity has the wiring run inside(not just inside but INSIDE like molded into the fender) of the plastic fender and then just buttons basically connect to the rear light and from the wiring on the frame. It's a really cool setup with no need to run wires inside of the fender. For how much we paid for that thing it better of came with snazzy parts like that.
I have a pair of late 1980's Giant Excursions that use the aluminum strips embedded in the fender as the conductor, they mounted snaps at the various attachement points. Only problem has been finding replacement snaps. Otherwise great system.
Originally Posted by
jjvw
This is the bulb i have. It is a screw base.
http://www.compasscycle.com/lighting_led_tail_bulb.html
The standlight is really surprising (to me at least, never had one before). I expected it to stay lit for a minute or two. But after riding and "charging" it for less than 5 minutes around the parking lot, it stayed pretty bright for at least 15 minutes and finally died out after about 40 minutes.
I'm very curious about how well my bb generator will work in the rain. I modified mine to make it lever actuated. See the bike build thread linked in the first post. As part of the modification, it removed the original engagement lever. It turns out this lever acted as a stop which kept the drum from hitting the tire as forcefully as it otherwise could. Now, i think the generator engages the tire harder than it used to. It will be a while before I can confirm this, since it doesn't rain or snow in Denver anymore.
Love my bulb conversion, enough that I bought a two more for other bikes. My BB generators are cable activated, came from the factory that way. There is a down tube style shift lever mounted on a boss on the back of the seat tube, I know the cable is completely slack when the generator is fully engaged, might be able to adjust the spring tension. But I don't think so. Other than the crappy conditions issue I like the BB mount system. However hub dyno's are the way to go if you can swing it. I have 5 bikes with those. With the new LED lights even the old Sturmey-Archer GH6 dyno is viable.
Aaron
