Old 04-02-15 | 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr IGH
Couldn't care less about the price, it's about the best performance. In my opinion, your light suck, I wouldn't be caught dead with 'em. Charging batteries for a regular two hour ride is as bad advice as I've ever seen you give, and that's saying alot...that's why I have you on ignore!
Well, if you have me on ignore, why did you respond? And you apparently don't read what I write anyway. I don't charge batteries for a "regular two hour" ride. I get about 3 hours out of the smaller capacity batteries and about 6 out of the larger ones. Who's facts are made up?

And I wouldn't get caught dead with my lights either. That's the reason I use them. I get to see the road and I get seen rather than having to hope that someone sees the weak single light that you have.

I also have the ability to use my lights if I happen to stop and fix something. Kind of hard to change a tire if the tire is part of your light system.

And, finally, price isn't that much of an issue for me but I don't need to go spending all of my money on lights. For less than the cost of a dynamo system with a single light for a single bike, I have a light system that puts out more light...I'm not sure what "sucks" about that...and I can use it on any one of the 9 bikes I own. Using numbers thrown around here, to do that with a dynamo system, I'd need to spend $1900. I can buy an awful lot of other bicycle stuff for that amount of cash.

Now who's giving out a "blitzkrieg of bad" advice? And, yea, those 1980 generator lights were pretty horrible. I had some. It's why I went to batteries and haven't looked back.
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