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Brommers
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What does everyone think about drilling (and just drilling) holes in steel tubing for dynamo cable routing?
It's on my own bike, the one I've changed the back end on recently. Wish I'd thought about it before painting it so I could do some sort of reinforcement but alas I did not.
It's fixed with only a front brake so there's no other cabling to route the dynamo cable along to a rear light. I would go for di2 guides but I've read they are actually a bit shit at sticking to stuff and given my paintjob is splatters and all bumpy I think there's nae fucking way they'll stick to my frame so I'm thinking drilling either the top or downtube is the only way to keep it neat.
Could probably drill the DT near the headtube, run it down there, around the bb, along the chainstay and out the breather that's already in the hooded Surly style track end. Might need to enlarge the breather slightly but I don't think that's too dangerous.