I am rebuilding my 70's era Raleigh Sport and I am pretty keen on putting a dynohub on it. I have been looking and so far the SA GH6 dynohubs that have come up on eBay have all been based in the UK (makes sense really) but the postage to get one from there to Washington State is almost as much as the cost of the hub. OTOH I have seen a number of SA 3 speed+dynohub combos come up (some of them in the U.S.) and they appear to be both more plentiful and a bit cheaper. My question is for those of you that have some experience here...I have a working (and in nice shape) SA AW 3 speed hub on the bike now, is it worth it to simply replace it with a 3 speed dynohub or better to wait? I briefly considered gong with a newer hub like the Sanyo from Peter White. I may do that for my MTB commuter, but after looking at the front forks of the Raleigh I'm really skeptical about my ability to bend them to fit the larger size needed to accommodate a modern hub without cocking them up.

Dopes anyone know if the rear dynohubs are any better or worse than the front ones? Alternately, am I just being silly about bending the front forks on the Raleigh? I have some friends that are telling me that it's a piece of cake and others telling he to avoid it all costs. Neither of them is enough of an expert to give me confidence either way. Oddly the need to file the forks doesn't faze me a bit...maybe because I have some experience with doing stuff like that.