Originally Posted by
Derailed
Thanks for the suggestion about coming up the seat tube. I suppose I could come all the way up and perhaps even out the seat post above the collar and mount a light there -- is that what you do? Otherwise, I suppose you must exit the seat tube below the lowest extent of the seat post, but then I'm not clear how you mount the light there. I suspect I'm being dense...
At the recent San Diego bike show I saw a bike with a tail light integrated into the seat post. He used a milling machine to do it, but told me there was a commercial version available. I never looked into it, but some Google-fu might reveal something.
At any rate, I mount the light to the rear of the seat tube the way the old constructeurs used to do it - with a tube brazed to the seat tube and the light attached to the end of it. The wire runs through the tube.
This is my most recent one:
