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I did for a long time on my Day One and had convinced myself it was stronger because there wasn’t any rear power drain. Probably complete bollocks, but eventually chucked a cheap B&M secula on because I hadn’t bought any bike stuff in a while.
Don’t have to fit it to the guards as well - could stick it on the stays or seatpost
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Aye, I wouldn't fit the rear light to the guard, I'd make a bracket to mount it at the seat stay wishbone probably, it's more just the faff of removing the cabling (which I'm not too sure how I'd do anyway) and the lights when I want to switch the 'usage mode' of the bike.
I've got the front guard set up nice and quick to remove with just the 2x m5 bolts for the stays and the nut from a v brake pad at the crown, the rear guard is 4x m5 bolts and 1x m6 nut and bolt.
Both my wheelsets are 15mm nuts on the rear, qr up front so swap over should be sub 5 minutes with the current set up.
I'm not sure front light only from the dynamo really makes sense.
I forgot I'd taken my lights up to the flat to charge them and had to run back up from the garage to get them the other day. Having a rear light that still needs charged seems like a half arsed job.
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Anyone running just a front light from their dynamo? Is it a daft setup?
I was about to buy a jtek hub to build a front wheel for my do it all bike but then realised that the idea behind cutting back to one fixed bike is that I can quickly go from guards and 32 slicks to no guards and 38 knobblies to hit up rougher stuff.
Chucking a dynamo and cabling to the back of the bike in the mix is only going to complicate that transition so I can't decide on what to do.