kmxtornado
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I finally had some time since this past weekend to put my Hightekbike kit together and the wiring makes it look horrible. It's a big mess. There's 5 cables! Surely hiding the wires into the frame would be a pretty big task. It would involve:
- Drilling holes
- Breaking down the cables so it'd fit through. Each head of each cable would have to be removed to expose probably about 10+ wires.
- Identifying, purchasing, waiting for and installing grommets of some sort.
- Finding some way to fish the wires from one end of the frame to the other.
It seems to be well worth the effort though. I can imagine the outcome would be awesome. It's tough to make the 5 cables look sleek as they come down the headset, across the top tube towards the back where the battery and controller will be mounted. I did this on a different bike than I originally intended and this bike is blue. I can't imagine how horrible it'd look on a white framed bike.
So what are your thoughts? Anything I should be forewarned about before even attempting to hide the wires inside the frame? My idea is to drill a whole in front of the headset and feed all the handlebar mounted cables from there straight through the top tube and out either the top just before the seat post or somewhere around there. Yes, I'll have to get two grommets for either end as the cables enter the frame and exit the frame. This will prevent rubbing of a rough steel frame and the cable housing.
- Drilling holes
- Breaking down the cables so it'd fit through. Each head of each cable would have to be removed to expose probably about 10+ wires.
- Identifying, purchasing, waiting for and installing grommets of some sort.
- Finding some way to fish the wires from one end of the frame to the other.
It seems to be well worth the effort though. I can imagine the outcome would be awesome. It's tough to make the 5 cables look sleek as they come down the headset, across the top tube towards the back where the battery and controller will be mounted. I did this on a different bike than I originally intended and this bike is blue. I can't imagine how horrible it'd look on a white framed bike.
So what are your thoughts? Anything I should be forewarned about before even attempting to hide the wires inside the frame? My idea is to drill a whole in front of the headset and feed all the handlebar mounted cables from there straight through the top tube and out either the top just before the seat post or somewhere around there. Yes, I'll have to get two grommets for either end as the cables enter the frame and exit the frame. This will prevent rubbing of a rough steel frame and the cable housing.