On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:54 PM, John Ferguson <rfj1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> More difficult is wiring the taillight. Originally I had considered a > battery-operated taillight, but I found a great Luxor hammered- > aluminum headlight that, with a little cleaning and a few minor > modifications, works great. Perhaps down the seat-tube, through a > small hole in the fender, and then some sort of glue inside the > fender? This still leaves the problem of how to attach the wiring to > the downtube. That's similar to how I routed the taillight wire on my Velo Orange; the wire (Schmidt coaxial) runs from the fender-mounted headlight into the front fender's rolled edge, out of the front fender and through a hole into the downtube, out of the downtube and around the bottom bracket into the rear fender's rolled edge, and finally out of the fender to the fender-mounted taillight. To make it easy to disassemble the bike for travel, I put power connectors in the line between front fender and downtube and between downtube and rear fender. This was all incredibly labor-intensive but I felt like lavishing loving care on this bike. The practical way, with no disadvantages other than maybe aesthetics, would have been to run a continuous wire from the headlight along a fender stay to a fork dropout, up a fork leg to the downtube, down the outside of the downtube to the bottom bracket, along a chainstay to the rear dropout, and finally along a fender stay to the taillight, with the wire held in place by zip ties or tape. --glenn West Chester, PA, USA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
