I was looking at getting a secula. Trying to decide between fender and seat stay mount. Leaning towards seat stay so I could remove the fenders over the summer to ride more dirt without disturbing the lights.
Also decided to go with the Alfine over the XT, everything I’ve read says they’re the same on the dynamo side of things and the extra weight ain’t gonna kill me.
Now, I’m building up some new wheels for this bike anyways. Already have a regular front hub and rim, spokes are in the mail. This will be my only bike with 559 disc wheels so swapping to another bike ain’t gonna happen. I can’t think of a situation where removing the lights from this bike would be beneficial. Leaning towards just building this dyno hub to the new rim I already have. I could head to the LBS and cut the new spokes down to length and be all set.
I finally installed the Secula on my fredsled, but still can’t bring myself to mount it on the Elephant, since the Elephant lacks and kind of guide for it, and would hence be very ugly.
But as always, you guys are right, and it’s pretty great.
[quote=Wintage Townie]I finally installed the Secula on my fredsled, but still can’t bring myself to mount it on the Elephant, since the Elephant lacks and kind of guide for it, and would hence be very ugly.
But as always, you guys are right, and it’s pretty great.[/quote]
On my Elephant, I mounted a fender-stay Secula to my seatpost via a bracket. Ran the cable along the brake line and shrink-wrapped it. Looks pretty clean.
[quote=Blakey]Fender mount always, mounts better anywhere on the bike.
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The bolt and stud pattern on the fender mount light is the same as used on reflectors, so your LBS has a box full of random mounts that can go just about anywhere.
[quote=drwelby][quote=Blakey]Fender mount always, mounts better anywhere on the bike.
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The bolt and stud pattern on the fender mount light is the same as used on reflectors, so your LBS has a box full of random mounts that can go just about anywhere.[/quote]
Nice, maybe I’ll try to mount it to the seat post. Would be cool to get the light up as high as possible so it might draw a distracted drivers eyes away from their phone for half a second.
Though the text says it’s a 3W hub, I’m pretty sure that’s actually a 1.5W hub based on the model number and size. From reports here it should be able to drive the lights, but they’ll come up to full brightness sooner with a 3W hub, which could be a plus for commuteuring.
The headlight comes with wire. You can always salvage the wire from an orphaned wallwart power supply, it’s generally about the same size.
I’ll add that the daytime running-version of the Cyo Premium isn’t noticeably better than a standard Cyo premium during the daytime. At night, the main LED output is noticeably lower than a regular Cyo Premium. That said, my daytime led equipped Cyo premium is perfectly adequate. I just wouldn’t buy it a second time.
the R has more near-field scatter, the normal lens puts more light out at a distance, apparently. The DRL is utterly useless, since it’s NBD to keep your light on all the time, and these fuckers are bright, even if you’re higher than the beam cut-off. I have one of the older versions, and it’s pretty dang great still.
No, just the regular Cyo Premium with daytime LEDS. Noticed the output difference riding on a bike trail at night with wesbarf. Possible other factors: my ht was two years old at that time, his was nearly brand new. Also, does the LED quality very enough from light to light to be noticeable?
