The backbone tube has a nice 5/8" or so hole in it below the seat. If you made a slot, maybe 1/4" x 1" in the other end, on the bottom near the steering stem, you'd have a very nice, protected conduit for wiring. My Bullet will get this mod when the top end comes off this winter. There are gusset plates in this area, you wouldn't lose anything strength-wise. - ACR -
Yes, that all may be true, my friend, and I would love to hide ALL the wires inside the frame, but that would involve undoing all the connections from everything that is wired by the main loom AGAIN and I've done that already and know what a job it is with hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, back that fight me with pain ALL the time and don't follow my orders any more. It took me most of a year at a half hour here a half hour there to get the wiring to my satisfaction when I did it the first time. I can't even lift a coffee cup in the morning without a knife being stabbed into my wrist and just the weight of my arms now will dislocate one shoulder or the other if I'm not careful. My shoulders have dislocated hundreds of times over my life and it takes concentration all the time now to keep it from happening. There's nothing holding them together any more.
And on the other end, standing on any hard surface (or leaning forward) brings on hip and lower back pain after a 1/2 hour that deMANDS another sit-down. I never get any one job carried through from start to finish. It's fits and restarts all the time and quitting when I don't really WANT to quit, but HAVE to. And the carpel tunnel numbness came back years ago also (left wrist surgery 1989, right wrist 1990). By the time I relented and had the surgery my hands and forearms were fucked.
And that's my greatest fear; I am a total mess and I just plain may not be able to even get the bike out of the garage by the end of this next winter. THAT is my main reason for doing this seat mount work; to hopefully get more foot (both of them
) on the ground. I canNOT move the bike around any more on tippy-toes; it's just too scary. That, combined with my loss of upper body strength and pain, makes it very scary for me even moving the bike in and out of the garage without it running. I really don't want to drop her. She's still a virgin
PS: I've looked into the hole you mention at the rear end of the center tube under the seat. It's full of loose welding slag. I keep forgetting to clean it out with my pick-up magnet.
Gotta go. Both my hands are completely numb and tingling just from typing. Gotta go feed and water the birds then feed my horse of a dog.