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Alan Braggins
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In article <[email protected]>, Peter Clinch wrote:
>SMS wrote:
>
>> I'd literally spend more on
>> a hub dynamo wheel and lamp than the cost of the Brompton itself, since
>> I got the Bromptons in Taiwan when Brompton was licensing the design
>> ($225-$240 each, depending on the exchange rate at the time).
>
>If you choose the most expensive possible options, perhaps, but as
>millions of people prove daily you don't need the most expensive option
>for a perfectly adequate lighting setup. Even in the remarkably
>expensive UK and at the current 2:1 exchange rate it's easy to get a
>good dynohub (i.e., the Shimano 371)
But how many of those millions of people are fitting cheaper Shimano
dynohubs into Bromptons, rather than standard width forks?
http://www.fisheroutdoor.co.uk/public/index.php/product/DA6SP019.html
might do it (I think it's this: http://www.dahon.co.uk/l-dynamo.htm)
but the only dynohub option listed in the Brompton brochure is the SON.
(The "2.4V/3W" looks unlikely though. Typo for 2.4W and 3W options which
the page doesn't let you choose between, maybe?)
So in the specific case of the Brompton, there's some excuse for choosing
the most expensive option (at least if you have to deal with the sort of
slush where a bottle dynamo often slips).
>SMS wrote:
>
>> I'd literally spend more on
>> a hub dynamo wheel and lamp than the cost of the Brompton itself, since
>> I got the Bromptons in Taiwan when Brompton was licensing the design
>> ($225-$240 each, depending on the exchange rate at the time).
>
>If you choose the most expensive possible options, perhaps, but as
>millions of people prove daily you don't need the most expensive option
>for a perfectly adequate lighting setup. Even in the remarkably
>expensive UK and at the current 2:1 exchange rate it's easy to get a
>good dynohub (i.e., the Shimano 371)
But how many of those millions of people are fitting cheaper Shimano
dynohubs into Bromptons, rather than standard width forks?
http://www.fisheroutdoor.co.uk/public/index.php/product/DA6SP019.html
might do it (I think it's this: http://www.dahon.co.uk/l-dynamo.htm)
but the only dynohub option listed in the Brompton brochure is the SON.
(The "2.4V/3W" looks unlikely though. Typo for 2.4W and 3W options which
the page doesn't let you choose between, maybe?)
So in the specific case of the Brompton, there's some excuse for choosing
the most expensive option (at least if you have to deal with the sort of
slush where a bottle dynamo often slips).