Dynamo Lights

Got the stash!!

One of them would actually be useful as the one I'm currently using is definitely sub optimal. How much do you want + postage etc?

@Saffronspokes Drop me a message and we can sort something

Anyone got a spare front light? Cheaper end, but my dad will be cruising around a small village with very little street lighting; tempted to just fit SON but not sure it requires that tbh

Belated thanks to here, @chiroshi and @C4r1s
Bike was sorted (a while back!), after a bit of overthinking it - much appreciate your responses

Anyone got a front 100x12 thru-axle, centrelock wheel with an SP or SON dynamo on it for sale? Black tubeless rim. Thanks

I'm thinking about an SP PD-7 and B&M IQ-X for my local Thursday night gravel loop. I'm currently using a battery powered light that's nowhere near bright enough, when I started looking at decent battery powered lights it didn't seem a lot more expensive (Hope R2 at ~€180 and dynamo set-up at €280) to go for a dynamo wheel and IQ-X for more light and less faff with charging.

However, my main worry is the IQ-X beam being to narrow to be suitable for twisty off-road riding as I really struggle with sharp corners with my current light. The off-road specific lights like kLite and Supernova M99 DY PRO are way out of my budget, but I'm wondering if I'd then be better off with a higher-end battery powered light instead of the IQ-X?

gravel loop

get E3 triple

Plus one for triple

If I'm not mistaken that's a €250 light? I'm afraid that's not on on the cards.

Ah no it's €140, seems I've found myself on quite a slippery slope.

https://www.radsport-erdmann.de/de/Supernova-E3-Triple-Scheinwerfer-in-schwarz.html

It seems the off-road gains of the E3 Triple come at quite a cost though? It's not road-legal here in Germany, which I could live with if it was suitable for road riding but from what I read its beam is so high that it blinds oncoming drivers? I wouldn't want to have a light I'd constantly have to rotate up and down.

Another option maybe would be to get a helmet mounted light for the off road night rides, eg Exposure Joystick. It makes a massive difference having something shining where you’re looking in addition to where you’re going.

Definitely turn it off for road sections though

Fwiw road-specific beans are pretty useless off road. I have tried with a strada SL as this allegedly had a sort of full and dipped beam function, but I don’t see the difference personally

The E2 is cheap if you can live with blue casing.
https://www.bike-discount.de/en/supernova-e3-pro-2-6v-dynamo-headlight-1

The upside down E3 looks good too and both are road legal.
But I think you would need to choose either road legal or off-road capability.

Combination of helmet light and dyno seems like the best option.

edit: the site you linked also have the E3 "Frontscheinwerfer" for €94 in color, actually tempting.

I've got a bike that came with bottle dynamo and bulb lamps, i tried to connect everything together but doesn't seem to work

pretty sure its the bulbs that're gone as I tested the bottle with another light and it works - although haven't tested the wiring tbf.

Anyone got a good link for these little bicycle / moped screw in 6v 2.6 / 0.4 (off the top of my head) lightbulbs? also LED versions are available online- would they work ok?

thanks

AC “dynamo”—technically a magneto—won’t play well with light emitting diodes aka LEDs unless there is a rectifier in circuit. With a DC dynamo you need to pay attention to the polarity of the LED.

blinds oncoming drivers

As if they're looking anyway.

Would pay extra if the light could guarantee they look up from their phone...

Last time I looked the LED retrofit bulbs were no cheaper than replacing the whole lamp.

Modern LED lights will work fine with a bottle dynamo. You may have to rig up a ground connection to the frame/bracket for some of them.

Went past a passenger AND driver both watching the football on their phones in their laps this evening. Fully heads down watching the fucking football. I was glancing in the window because they hadn't moved on a green light.

I wouldn’t normally be averse to replacing the whole set with new but the lights are nicely mounted / built in to the mudguards.

I can get 4x screw in bulbs of all the same W and V rating, would that be alright on front and rear? Current setup is lower rated on the back..

I bought various LED replacements for incandescent bulbs from here:

• https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/ruixin3000
  
• https://thetorchsite.co.uk/
  
  

Better to run them slightly under voltage than over; they will be much brighter than the incandescent originals anyway & over-voltage may shorten their lifespan significantly

The bottle does not have a ground, the dynamo wire that’s currently being used is single core. When I tested a modern LED dynamo with the bottle I sandwiched the spare cable from the light to the mount of the bottle dynamo- don’t know if I needed to do that or not but it did light up when actioned

Frame will be the ground then

Anyone got a budget front light?

Must be LED, standlight; no care for the sensor or reflector.

Ta!

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/382326/

Selling this if budget enough? Obo!

Does a mount exist that’ll tidy this up?

This would be great but I think it’s designed for a smaller diameter seat-clamp bolt

This is amazing but not silver

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