Originally Posted by
gugie
If there's one thing that vintage sucks at compared to modern technology, it's lighting.
LED lights and engineered optics run circles around old incandescent lights. Generators that runoff of a tire are so much less efficient than even a lowly Sanyo hub generator.
I agree that LED lights are a great improvement over incandescent, but hub generators are hardly new. Sturmey-Archer has been making Dynohubs since the 1940s. The biggest improvement to them would be modern rare-earth magnets.