As we roll into winter and daylight hours a fewer, our focus shifts from summer miles to cold weather adventures. Whether it’s crisp morning commutes or multi-day bikepacking trips, reliable lighting becomes essential and there’s no better way to keep those lights charged than with a dynamo wheelset.
A dynamo hub is a small electric generator built into the hub to power common devices such as lights and even phones and GPS. Surprisingly, the Dynamo has been around since the 1930s and has since become more and more sophisticated and efficient to enable riders to charge small devices like GPS' or even phones.
Converting mechanical energy generated by riding to electrical energy, bands of copper wire rotate between the poles of magnets - for us less tech types, this means, once you ride you will start to generate electrical power. The trade-off is a very slight induced drag, but this can be surprisingly low if you choose the right dynamo hub.
We have chosen to partner with the world's leading dynamo hub specialist, SON which hand manufacture in Germany and have a dynamo system with 20% lower drag ideal for fast drop bar bikes for your serious commute and bike-pack adventure. With incredibly low rolling resistance in the SON Delux Dynamo at just 4.6 watts (at 12mph when powering the USE REVO light at 800 lumen output) and very low weight the SON Delux is not exactly low cost but it is THE best... When the light is switched off there is just 0.4 watts resistance, that is comparable to the low resistance of many sealed bearing hubs!