When cycling in the dark, have you ever wondered how much of your pedaling power is lost through dynamo inefficiency? Vintage Bicycle Quarterly examines the efficiency of a number of popular cycle generators, giving details of the nighttime power requirement with the lighting switched on and daytime losses with the generator on open circuit. Generator hubs from a couple of manufacturers are compared against a popular side-wall powered model.
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