Originally Posted by
Squeezebox
About 40 years ago I had a bit of experience about dynohubs, from that I would never own one. Unless you can convince me about quality of hub and bearings, and the friction with the dyno part. YMMV.
I'll spend the same wt. and get a battery to change electronics, and use good hubs. IMHO.
You are using your experience with 40 year old stuff and using that as a rationalization to never try
the new extremely efficient Hub dynamos currently in production ..
For one thing 40 years ago the Bottle generators were DC & had only 1 hot+ lead and the return was the frame Ground.
Now they are AC/alternators with twin lead wires and the drag is maybe .5~1w
are you still riding a Schwinn Varsity with steel rims Too?