Glen, Did you drill the frame or did it come ready to run internal wiring? I ask because I have a similar frame that is going to get a fender mounted taillight, but it isn't drilled or anything. I'm not sure I have the stomach for drilling holes in a new frame, but I'm curious...
Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Glenn Ammons <glenn.amm...@gmail.com>wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
