On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 10:58:08 AM UTC-7, Catrike Rider wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 17:35:05 GMT, Roger Meriman <ro...@sarlet.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Catrike Rider <sol...@drafting.not> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:24:56 GMT, Roger Meriman <ro...@sarlet.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Frank Krygowski <frkr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >>>> On 8/22/2023 6:09 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
> >>>>> On Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at 2:03:41?PM UTC-7, Roger Meriman wrote:
> >>>>>> Lou Holtman <lou.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> The ones I see seem to be producing reasonable amount of light even at
> >>>>>> fairly modest speeds, do have that annoying flicker at low speeds.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Roger Merriman
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My experience is that they didn't produce enough light to see the road,
> >>>>> though enough for cars to see you.
> >>>>
> >>>> Which brands have you used?
> >>>>
> >>> I?d agree though I personally don?t think Dynamo systems bring much
> >>> advantages, but even the lowest powered blinkies you can see the road, yes
> >>> out of town lights that feel okay can feel a touch inadequate!
> >>>
> >>> But certainly even fairly modest dynamos lamps kick out enough to see the
> >>> road. I occasionally see them in the parks, london has large unlit parks so
> >>> you need lights to see by, or suffer the fate of my colleague who rode into
> >>> to. Red Deer! Which he described as riding into a wall that someone has
> >>> laid a wet smelly rug to!
> >>>
> >>> Roger Merriman
> >>
> >> When I went looking for bike lights for my first bicycling trip to Key
> >> west, the LBS salesperson actually began talking about a dynamo. He
> >> stopped when I rolled my eyes at him. That was, by the way, before the
> >> Catrike, for which a dynamo wouldn't work.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >Recumbent are probably the target market for dynamos, in terms of folks who
> >buy them. So I can see why they might have attempted to up sell as they
> >say!
> >
> >Roger Merriman
>
> I don't know why recumbents would be any more of a target for dynamos
> that other biikes, and it wasn't a recumbent I was looking to put
> lights on. On the other hand, most good salespersons will try to "up
> sell," and I generally don't take offense of it when it occurs.

I can't find it now. Perhaps I mistook a Disk Actuator for a derailleur. But I could easily design a derailleur that operated on the front half of the cassette. The arm is only to take up slack and that can be Inside of a cogset cage. I'm surprised they haven't done that. SRAM is the sort of company that would make major component changes.