This is some set up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwM7vDvvGhU.
any thoughts lads love to set up my dolan with new front dynamo wheel and a pair of the premium lights .
Eh? Those Ixons are battery lamps. And very impressive battery lamps too. I don't see why with seven and a half hours of use out of a battery lamp you'd want to fit a dyno wheel on a road bike. With that kind of battery life, a dynohub is just dead weight you have to haul around all year for the few fine evenings when you can ride after dark.
The dynamo equivalents of the Ixons are the Cyo lamps.
Nor do I see that you need two of either. The Cyo, which I have in both the original version and as an e-lamp with the third series reflector in the Fly body, puts out more light onto the road than a VW Beetle did in the 6V days, and the Premium does better still. Two together would just be an irritation to drivers. As it is I keep my Cyo, currently on my bike, aimed somewhat towards the hedge and just tilt the handlebars to give a driver a brush below window level if he is stupid, and if he remains stupid I tilt the bars again to sweep the light through his eyes; nobody is stupid three times...
About the comparison between the SON and the Shimano hub dynamos: if the thing puts out the right voltage and current, for the practical purposes of 99.999% of riders, including tourers, and certainly including all road bikers, you can buy Shimanos for the entire family for the price of one SON, and not notice the difference. I have SON and a couple of grades of Shimano going back to the previous century, and it is just as well I got my SON compulsorily included in the spec of my Shimano-free (code for "We buy only German components") Utopia for "free", because I've long since concluded that a SON for most cyclists is ostentatious consumption, one-upmanship, and I'd hate to stand revealed as a hypocrite.
You have to put your mind around two facts:
Today LEDs produce more light for less current.
Today batteries weigh less and produce more current.
These two facts together mean that for the vast majority of cyclists hub dynamos are no longer as attractive as once they were, and for many they're dead weight and unnecessary expense.
Frankly, if I were starting over specifying my bike, I'd buy a lamp like this one as my lighting system
-- for which I paid the grand sum of €10.65 landed at my door. And this to fix it to the bike
for another couple of quid, total 13 Euro and change for a complete lightweight, adaptable, instantly removable installation.
Don't be tempted to buy the stronger T6 lamp instead of the Q5: it will be too strong.
This particular lamp, primarily a hunting lamp I bought on its spec, also has a half-power mode, and an intermittent flash mode, which is what I want it for: I use it for a daylight running blinkie, and it serves as redundant backup if my other light system should break, but it would make a superb primary lamp system. Unfortunately it appears too strong to use as nighttime front blinkie though I plan to experiment with turning it to face the road and see how that works..
I'd like to find a lamp precisely like it with a red LED to use as a rear blinkie. As a red lamp it would be a bit stronger than the Dinotte 400 of fond memory, and like the Dinotte I would keep it turned down to the road to light up the entire bicycle and rider in a flickering glow of moving red light that no one can miss.
