I will forever beat my dead horse that Shimano 6 thumbies work perfectly through 10 speed shimano mountain (dyna-sys) indexing the first seven cogs and then frictioning the last three. I have so many other dumb possibilities I think about – can my Campy 10 shifters work a Shimano 11 road cassette with my old 8 speed Campy derailleur? Could my Campy 8 shifters work my Shimano 7 speed cassette with a Shimano 11 speed road rear derailleur? The possibilities boggle the mind.
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I know the discussion has moved on but can we come back to the fact that Tarck consulting llc just killed the dynamo light in this thread?
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not the first time this discussion has happened. yet here i am with a dynamo hub that i need to talk to you about shipping
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Dynamo forever. >:(
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Yeah, until our AI assistants can plug in the batteries to charge for us, dynos will still generally win.
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I say I may not mess with a dyno setup again but that’s just a damn lie and I know it.
The Lorry only got a battery because it was easier than setting up a dyno light, of which there exists all of the parts in the bin.
i am gonna do it for the ti engin tho. it usually has a bag and a hacked together rack. eventually i’ll get @Orc to make me one but i haven’t gotten my act together to ship him the forc so he can do so. i was gonna do that last winter and here we are
Even the best batteries need to be charged sometime, somewhere, somehow.
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Someone pls shop a gadsden flag with a shutter precision hub.
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Batteries are just like people.
I spent more than enough time dithering with this dyno set up and now I refuse to move on. I will ride this stupid dyno wheel until it crumbles beneath me.
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I have a battery powered light, one of the best I could get, for reasons: I won’t ever need it for more than two hours. My need is relative the the seasons. I take off at 0630ish every morning and sometimes that’s completely dark and other times of the year, the sun is well up. Everything else I have is battery powered, computer, power meter, tail light/radar, Di2. I have one of those multiport USB chargers with a bundle of cables that I keep ready for all that stuff.
I don’t have a dyno because I don’t want the drag or the weight, most especially when the light is not needed. I also don’t need the reliability that comes with a dyno.
If I had a utility bike that I sometimes commuted on or sometimes rode in the dark, I’d want a dyno. If I were doing randos frequently, I’d probably want a dyno. Dynos are great, I’ve just made a series of compromises in the other direction.
Some of my most hardcore poopbarn buddies don’t dynamo. You can go a long way with an 18650 based system and a power bank, if you even took that. If you don’t take a smart phone your requirements are just lighting and gps. Gps batteries you can get at gas stations and just carry a spare small gps for redundancy.
This is what the laziest setup looks like
the USB-C PD cable comes with the female punchdown jack
I still have a bag of these pigtail adapters from when I was using the 12v batteries, I should probably shorten the stock headlight lead to integrate it fully as a stub, with some extra fiber insulation under heatshrink to bulk it up
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I’m having a hard time reconciling a reality where Fred is now trying to talk me OUT of dynamo lighting… with this.
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Shit, now I’m ordering stuff to replicate this setup coz I need to to the Pepsi Challenge 'tween the IQ-X E and the Outbound Detour I have.
Worst case, I end up with a bike with a dyno, a front rack, front bag, that planes, and has rim brakes, no?
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why rim brakes? what dyno person here suggested that to you?
looks like industry realized the same possibility
I suspect it works with the more traditional 5V 1.5A charging standard
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I may be daft but I don’t think I’m going to build a boost dynamo wheel for my FS MTB
instead I think I’m going to daftly design a new bikepacking drop bar hardtail around a Lefty Olaf fork (which could never take a dynamo hub)
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