Originally Posted by
pdlamb
I didn't see the point of dynamo lights for commuting for years, until my blinkies ran out of juice a couple times. Same kind of thing with computers. I'm pretty darn sure when it gets dark my dyno lights are going to come on. And I'm pretty darn sure my wired computer is going to work; not like the times I forgot to charge the GPS, or got busy for a couple evenings and didn't have time to futz with it.
Horses for courses, I suppose.
If I did longer commutes, and did them every day, I might get a dyno lighting setup...But they're not foolproof. Wires can come loose, for instance. I would probably still keep a small rechargeable headlight mounted to the handlebar.
As far as computers go, an old-fashioned wired computer is dinosaur stuff. My Garmin 1040 lasts about 57 hours on a charge if I'm not following a GPS route. Even at my usual mileage, that'll get me through several weeks before I need to even think about plugging it in. And the payoff is a huge amount of data on a huge screen that's super-easy to read.