Generator lighting
Bright, reliable lighting is key to safe, convenient night riding. Generator lighting has long been a defining characteristic of bikes meant for everyday mobility year-round. A factory-built component of nearly all the better bikes we stock, we can also retrofit generator lighting to other bikes: yours or ours. Also called dynamo, or dyno lighting for short, these lights require no batteries, ever, instead drawing their power from the motion of the wheels. New LED technology means no bulb changes, either, even when run during the day for extra conspicuity. Their built-in, bolted-on component nature makes them less subject to theft than accessory battery lights, too.
Until recently, it was a fair criticism of these systems that they were either somewhat unreliable, draggy, and noisy (if a tire-roller type), or very expensive if a better hub-based type that doesn’t have these problems. New technology and production economics are now making the hub types almost irresistible to people tired of buying, recharging, swapping, discarding batteries, and generally wondering where their lights are and whether they’ll last the night or the week. Most people who go dyno can’t imagine ever going back!
Ride on over and let us help you compose or upgrade to a system meeting your needs and budget.
January 13th, 2010 at 15:31
Oh man- you got me all excited about the $99 generator wheel, only to find it’s too big for my 26″ bike…
sigh