Originally Posted by
kingston
There's no way I would ever run a tail-light wire on a bare top tube on one of my bikes.
I'm trying to remember a time when the wiring on one of my bikes wasn't "temporary."
I use gorilla repair tape to hold it to bare tubes, and usually it doesn't look too bad for a couple of years. The part that makes it look bad is that I don't trim the wires because it's just temporary.
I use dyno taillights on all my bikes because I have had battery lights go out on me and I don't want that to be the only light I'm using. I actually had 2 battery lights die on the way home from work one very cold day. It was 5F, which is not a good temperature for batteries.