I thought the day of the wired taillight was over until I found myself a few miles from home on a busy highway with half dead batteries in my taillight. Not a nice feeling at all. My winter commute bike has a battery powered taillight because I take the lights, fenders and studded tires off for summer use, but the tourer has a wired taillight running off the SON and I like it a lot better. I do use a Super Flash in blink mode on both bikes to augment the non-flashing taillight, but it's reassuring to have one light that always works when the bike is moving.
The winter bike and the tourer have the headlight at the fork crown and the wire wrapped around the fork leg from the hub to the light, with zip ties at the ends to keep everything tidy. For the taillight on the tourer, the wire runs under the seat tube with the computer speed and cadence wires, under the BB shell, wrapped around the chain stay a few times on its way to the rear dropout, up the leg of the rear rack and to the light. If you're going to carry panniers it might not hurt to wrap the wires in electrical tape where it follows the leg of the rack. I use zip ties at crucial points to keep the wires tidy. If you locate the wires carefully under the seat tube and BB shell they really aren't that obtrusive, and if you don't like the look of zip ties I suppose you could glue the wires in place or use clear plastic packing tape. If you really wanted to be fastidious I suppose you could route the taillight wire under the chainstay protector, but I'm just not that fussy. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
