Electroluminescent Mountain Bike

Step 9 Center-Frame

This is the most complex install for the EL Wire. You will have to navigate around gears, suspension, water bottle holders, welds, and cables. Once again, you'll need to accommodate however your bike is designed, and take advantage of cracks, crevices, cables, and holds that you can use to wrap your wire around. In some ways, all of the obstacles can be beneficial by keeping the wire from sliding around the tube if you take advantage of them properly.

There are two strips of EL Wire I am using for the center frame. A single strip for the Top Tube, and a second strip that runs down the Seat Tube and up the Down Tube. I began both strips at the 90 degree junction where the Seat Tube and Top Tube meet, since I have a little triangle there which I can feed all my wiring through, along with it being close to the inverters final location in the middle of the Seat Tube.

Be sure to thread your EL wire for the Top Tube under the gear-shift cable, and around the headstock as a solid mounting point. Once they're wrapped, plug them into the inverter, attach the inverter to the battery pack, and light them up.