Good Story. I know the wires you mean. They are the ones that feed up the pedals to the pots of the toe brakes. What I couldn’t understand was that there seemed to about 4 cores close together and all uninsulated. My electronics knowledge isn’t sufficient to understand that one.
Glad you sorted it.
EDIT Those cables couldn’t been part of the electrical circuitry as I cant recall them being connected to anything. Their purpose remains a mystery.