This is the point Leah (Bicycle Belle Ding Ding) mentions: She rides a lot and always has her lights. I ride not as much but run my rechargeables day and night and tell myself they're fine. Have I forgotten to charge them the night before? Yes. Have I charged them but still had one crap out on me before the ride was over? Also yes!
I haven't been convinced to invest in a dynohub yet (current bikes, I've had them before) but she's right about them. Joe "puts fingers in ears, refuses to listen" Bernard Lake County CA On Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at 8:07:58 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: > I think there has been a recent thread or 2, or perhaps just thread > tangents, about dynamo lighting versus battery lighting. Here's my $0.05. > > I rushed off to Presanctified liturgy (Orthodox Lent is a month behind > Catholic Lent for reasons I don't understand) this evening at 5 pm after a > pretty full work day, riding the 2020 Matthews IGH road bike. I am usually > pretty good at getting all my riding kit together the night before, or at > least the morning before, but as I passed the outbound 3 mile or so mark I > realized that I'd forgotten all my reflective gear. I usually wear a bright > reflective Sam Browne or big Rivendell triangle as well as bright and wide > ankle reflectors on both legs. > > But I was safe; the IGH Matthews has a SON 20R powering a 1st-gen Edeluxe > as well as a Secula seatstay-mount tail light and that big B&M rack-mount > one with a ring of LEDs around a central reflector. I had remembered to > attach my B&M Ixion IQ Premium AA battery light to augment the feeble > Edeluxe standlight. > > -- > > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing > services > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* > > *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* > > *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a849702d-9e97-45a8-b495-ca7122b01bd0n%40googlegroups.com.
