Thread: The way it's going, I will NEVER buy a light!
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Old 10-16-13 | 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by acidfast7
you read the Dutch webpage?

I do find it hilarious that people still push for huge battery backs and such. If I live in a non-urban area, I would def go dynamo full-time, but there's street lights everywhere, so I just go with flashers to be seen on the SS.
Huge battery? A 2S2P 18650 lithium ion battery pack weighs in at a portly 120 g. The lamps weigh between 60g and 120 g. I carry 3 lamps and 3 batteries so I'm hucking around 720g. That's just so much weight to have to carry around...

Unless you consider that a Shimano DH-3N70 dynohub weighs in at 720g and the lamp probably weighs about the same as my lamp. So which one is "huge"?
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