SON 29 S Creates Dynamo Hub So Tiny, It Disappears Behind Your Brake Rotor
The bulbous dynamo hub is about to be an element of the earlier, as a consequence of this contemporary SON 29 S hub dynamo. With all-new slender electronics inside, SON Nabendynamo tucked the dynamo generator into an enlarged flange behind the 6-bolt disc brake tabs that would probably be merely missed. With additional effectivity all-road, gravel & journey touring bikes with ever-expanding digital gadgets recently, SON is making a better case for limitless vitality on the go!
SON 29 S fashionable low-profile hub dynamo
Can I merely start out saying that I’m an enormous fan of dynamo hubs. Even once I don’t put in as many kms as I’d like, on the one gravel bike I’ve organize with a dynamo, in the intervening time. In a time the place daytime working lights will protect me safer on the freeway, GPS mapping can lead me to search out new areas to journey, my smartphone is an excellent mobile digital digicam to share these rides, and derailleur batteries are quickly recharged via USB… the idea of self-sufficient vitality as I pedal is always participating. I’ve had every kind of digital machine die on a visit sooner than. Nonetheless on no account on my dynamo-equipped bike.
So now SON Nabendynamo has their first new hub dynamo in quite a few years.
The SON 29 S is a lower-profile hub with a model new generator design tucked into an outsized disc-side hub flange, developed for the performance-oriented journey market. On the bike, it nearly disappears behind even a small disc brake rotor, offering you with a additional stylish aesthetic.
Tech particulars
The generator contained within the SON 29 S dynamo hub is also slender, nevertheless it’s nonetheless designed to position out the similar 6V/3W vitality as an on a regular basis dynamo. Similar to the 28, SON as soon as extra optimized the 29 S for vitality output at comparatively low speeds and 29″ wheel – outputting 6V from spherical 15km/hr (StVZO-compliant). Consistent with SON, “together with wise charging electronics, it permits significantly extreme vitality output” so you can not solely vitality your lights however moreover recharge your complete gadgets as quickly as you is perhaps utilizing at a unbroken velocity.
SON meant the 12mm thru-axle 6-bolt disc 29 S hub for freeway or gravel wheels, with straight-pull spokes. It choices radially lacing on the driveside, and 2x on the disc side. The 29 S provides symmetric 32-hole drilling or 2:1 drilling for 24-spoke wheel builds, and comes solely in black.
The model new dynamo comes customary with SON’s easy-plug coaxial connector (like confirmed above).
Nonetheless it might even be doable to get one to work with SON’s self-connecting SL interface that integrates a powered ring instantly into the dropout (like on this pink fork that comes on Urwahn bikes). Then you definitely definately don’t even should unplug the dynamo to remove the doorway wheel.
SON 29 S dynamo – Pricing, selections & availability
Given that straight-pull hub design requires a bit additional expertise to assemble up, at first SON is simply offering the model new SON 29 S dynamo hub in wheels constructed by them now in Germany. Full entrance wheel builds start at 550€ with an alloy DT Swiss rim for freeway or gravel.
With that acknowledged, anticipate the model new hub to even be obtainable rapidly to revered expert wheelbuilders for custom-made builds. And with its slender design and a few:1 24-hole alternative, we anticipate to see loads of carbon freeway, all-road, and gravel wheels constructed up with the model new SON 29 S hub dynamo in time for the start of subsequent 12 months’s journey racing season.
New Ladelux LED dynamo headlight, too
Together with the trendy new dynamo hub, SON moreover has a smart new Ladelux dynamo-powered headlight, with low & extreme beams. SON designed the Ladelux for clear output USB-charging of your electronics with a small interior buffer battery. And SON claims it’s ready to draw additional vitality from a hub dynamo than one other charging machine accessible available on the market (from 700c utilizing velocity of >30km/hr) making it wonderful for the journey racer with loads of gadgets to take care of juiced.
The 480€ Ladelux locations out 120/180Lux at any velocity, backed by a 1200mAh battery inside, and includes a handlebar change and magnetic charging cable in your wise machine.
