Drilling a hole for a lighting wire should only void the warranty if that is what causes the problem. So if your frame fails, and the crack clearly started at the hole, you wouldn't want to make a warranty claim. But if your frame fails where the downtube enters the bottom bracket shell, no reputable company will claim that drilling a hole in the headlug somehow caused that failure... (And Rivendell is a reputable company.)
It's interesting when I show around people who've never been inside a frame shop. They are shocked at what they see – all the frame parts are discolored from soaking off the flux. After brazing the frames get aligned by yanking on them with brute force. To the untrained eye, it all looks very rough. Yet the frames are stronger than what you could make in an aseptically clean factory... So drilling a tiny hole in the headlug (away from any stressed areas, of course) isn't a big deal. Speaking of not aseptically clean factories, during a recent visit to Panaracer, we got to meet quite a few of the engineers. It was very encouraging to see that many had rubber stains on their shirts, indicating that they actually made prototype tires and were involved in the making of things! Same thing at Nitto... If you only get to meet the guys in suits with clean hands, it always a bad sign! Jan Heine Editor Bicycle Quarterly www.bikequarterly.com Follow our blog at http://janheine.wordpress.com/ On Sunday, February 8, 2015 at 7:47:11 PM UTC-8, dougP wrote: > > The Atlantis has 4 factory drilled holes on the DT for the water bottle > bosses. Surely the lugged HT area is pretty stout, and the wire doesn't > have be very big. I would assume any customer modifications like this void > any warranty. > > As a point of reference and not to encourage you in any way, I performed > all manner of ham fisted butchery to my Atlantis fork, included TIG > welding, drilling, brazing & grinding things off to move them, and it > survived just fine (the metal, not the paint). Rivendells are not > delicate. YMMV. > > dougP > > On Sunday, February 8, 2015 at 8:58:58 AM UTC-8, William! wrote: >> >> I'm interested in running internal dynamo wiring, front to back, on my >> Atlantis. There's already a good size hole in the BB shell, so I'm thinking >> all I need to do is drill a hole in the downtube in the head tube lug. >> Wiring would go up fork (the outside, held with twine or something), into >> the new hole, down the downtube, out the BB shell and through a hole in the >> rear fender, all the way around the fender inside it to a fender-mounted >> light at the rear of the bike. That's the thinking, anyway. >> >> Yes, I'm really thinking bout putting a hole in my beloved Atlantis. >> Anyone done this and care to advise? Or perhaps you have a better idea? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
