yashicamat
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- Location
- Macclesfield, Cheshire
I've decided I'm going to go hub dynamo on my touring bike (the investment makes sense as the touring bike is a long term investment anyway). I've decided on a B&M Cyo IQ for the front light (60 lux . . . a meaningless figure compared to the 480 lumen hope vision 2 I normally use, although I obviously don't expect it to be anything even close to that output of that light), but the rear lights are a little harder to choose between.
To put you in the picture, my normal rear lights are a Smart 0.5W and a Mars 4.0. Given that the tailights consume 0.6W, would it be fair to assume that the likes of the B&M DToplight XS (and all the variations on the theme that seem very similar!) are comparable to the Smart? If anything, I consider the rear light brightness as important, if not more so, than the front light, but while it will undoubtedly be backed up by a battery light of some sort, I would still like to pick the best of the dynamo bunch.
Cheers for any advice.
To put you in the picture, my normal rear lights are a Smart 0.5W and a Mars 4.0. Given that the tailights consume 0.6W, would it be fair to assume that the likes of the B&M DToplight XS (and all the variations on the theme that seem very similar!) are comparable to the Smart? If anything, I consider the rear light brightness as important, if not more so, than the front light, but while it will undoubtedly be backed up by a battery light of some sort, I would still like to pick the best of the dynamo bunch.
Cheers for any advice.