Originally Posted by
Bat22
A wired tail light would may get frayed from all that hand carrying.
That probably just depends on where you run the wire.
I ran mine from the headlight, down the downtube, under the BB shell, along the left chainstay, and up the rear rack. I secured it with a ziptie at each frame tube junction. I don't think I've ever grabbed the wire since installing it.
The neat thing was, when I bought the lights, it was at a shop in Germany that my sister often used. They asked if I had a taillight wire already, and when I said I didn't, they pulled some off of a spool, eyeballed it for length, and attached some spade connectors at one end for plugging it into the headlight. When I installed it, the length was almost exactly right, with just a few inches extra. Yup, they sell a LOT of that stuff over there.