[RBW] Re: How do you glue wire (from a light) to a rack?

[Brian Campbell]

I use the "shoe goop" method as explained by Anton of Velo Lumino (a.k.a 
somerville bikes). I forgo the tubes and just glue the wire to the bike. I 
hold the wire flat with blue painters tape and then glue the wire (not the 
tape!) let the glue cure and remove the tape. It keeps  wires flat against 
the frame or inside of a fender and makes it less like to get snagged on 
something. The nice thing about the shoe goop is that it is easily peeled 
off in necessary and it has no ill effect of the paint.
 

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[RBW] Re: How do you glue wire (from a light) to a rack?

[John Stowe]

I agree that somervillebikes' work is the gold standard when it comes to 
wiring. Lots of "textbook" photos on his Flickr 
photostream: https://flic.kr/ps/7De6c

If you don't feel like messing with glue: I went with 8 mil surface guard 
tape ("helicopter tape" or "racers tape"). It's thick enough to provide 
some surface protection (what it's designed for), and clear so it's pretty 
discreet. I have used it to run wiring on multiple bikes. At more than a 
foot or two away, the tape is barely noticeable, all you see is the wire. 
It's also forgiving in terms of changing your setup or realigning the wire. 
You can pull it right back off without damaging paint.

-John



On Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 12:40:13 PM UTC-4, René wrote:
>
> Thanks Bill. 
>
> On Sunday, June 12, 2016, Bill Lindsay  
> wrote:
>
>> Anton at VeloLumino is the best source of guidance and info.  The thing 
>> to do is glue short sections of aluminum tubing which comes in very 
>> accurate IDs so it can really fit perfectly.  The glue is silicone, like 
>> modest household Hogar. It's clear, waterproof yes easy to remove when you 
>> need to remove it. Anton has tons of photos. His Flickr handle is 
>> sommervilebikes or something like that.
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[RBW] Re: How do you glue wire (from a light) to a rack?

[René Sterental]

Thanks Bill.

On Sunday, June 12, 2016, Bill Lindsay  wrote:

> Anton at VeloLumino is the best source of guidance and info.  The thing to
> do is glue short sections of aluminum tubing which comes in very accurate
> IDs so it can really fit perfectly.  The glue is silicone, like modest
> household Hogar. It's clear, waterproof yes easy to remove when you need to
> remove it. Anton has tons of photos. His Flickr handle is sommervilebikes
> or something like that.
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[RBW] Re: How do you glue wire (from a light) to a rack?

[Bill Lindsay]

Anton at VeloLumino is the best source of guidance and info.  The thing to do 
is glue short sections of aluminum tubing which comes in very accurate IDs so 
it can really fit perfectly.  The glue is silicone, like modest household 
Hogar. It's clear, waterproof yes easy to remove when you need to remove it. 
Anton has tons of photos. His Flickr handle is sommervilebikes or something 
like that. 

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[RBW] Re: How do you glue wire (from a light) to a rack?

[René Sterental]

Cool ideas!

On Saturday, June 11, 2016, Tim Butterfield 
wrote:

> I'm not sure if this would work, but I came up with a couple of ideas.
> The first was to glue a plastic straw to the rack and run the wire through
> it.  They come in various sizes even down to the small coffee stirrer
> size.  Another possibility would be to glue some shrink wrap to the rack.
> After feeding the wire through, apply heat to reduce the size.  Since I
> haven't tried it, I wonder if the shrinking of the wrap would detach it
> from the glue.  Not too hard to test, though.  Both of these should be
> reversible without affecting the wire itself.
>
> Tim
>
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 11:16 PM, René Sterental  > wrote:
>
>> Saw this on the zippy zappy thread, and it just so happened I was
>> thinking if I should go that route for the cable of my Edelux II on my
>> Atlantis. I'm about to do the setup and was going to route the cable across
>> the rack, but don't really like how it looks.
>>
>> Then I though about zip-tying it to the edge of the rack, where the front
>> Rando bag would hide it and that led to the thought that perhaps it could
>> be glued to minimize the use of zip ties.
>>
>> Who would have thought that the subject of gluing would come up and I
>> would just see it tonight?
>>
>> Please send instructions or links to instructions regarding how to glue
>> the cable to the rack... :-)
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> René
>>
>>
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