Originally Posted by
Stadjer
If you want it dyno powered you've got to make it dyno powered. I've had too many bottle dynamo's not to love battery fed led's, I would put the original inside parts in a box for future generations, and keep the outside original with batteries and leds on the inside, and keep the light yellow if I could. But that's just me, preserving the original does not necessarily mean using it as it was originally, I only make changes that are reversible but changing as little as possible is a nice ambition.
Bottle dynamos arent really comparable with dynamo hubs.
My memory of riding with a bottle dynamo "on" is it was like riding with the brakes on and not fun.
I can't tell the difference between on and off with a dynamo hub which are for all intents and purposes "drag free".