This thread shamed me into cleaning up the ugly part of my wiring on my Lynskey Backroad, the taillight wiring along the downtube looked pretty ugly. It is no longer wrapped around the brake cable, I instead zip tied it to the downtube.

On most of my bikes the lighting wiring is temporary because I expect for one reason or another to change it. But, I do not have that excuse on the Lynskey, I have no plans for any changes, thus it should look like it was intended to stay this way. So, here are the photos of my Backroad.

The specifics are an SP PV-8 dynohub, Luxos U headlamp and USB charger, and Spaninga Pixeo taillight mounted on the rear fender. The wiring between the taillight and the bottom bracket area is glued inside the fender, no photos of that. I also have a rack mounted battery powered taillight so that I have a blinky.



Rack mounted blinky (battery) and Spaninga Pixeo dyno powered taillight, wiring glued inside the fender.



Taillight wiring inside the fender is two conductor wire, one half is red, the other half black. I tried to paint the red part black, but the paint flakes off. There are quick connects (2.8mm spade connectors) at this point to different wires that run under the bottom bracket and then under the downtube.



Taillight wiring runs under the downtube, held to downtube at front and back with zip ties. I think it is 18 or 20 gauge wire, two black wires twisted together. From the front zip tie, the wire then runs between the fork crown and fender to the light where it connects to the light with 2.8mm spade connectors. Note how loose the wire looks behind the head tube, it has to be loose enough so that the handlebars can turn and not pull on any of the wiring.



The photo below shows the wire under the downtube better than the photo above. The photo below also shows the wire to the hub, it is two wires twisted together and zip tied to the fork blade, then it goes over the top of the fork crown.



Thats it, not much to it.