I had a friend with repeatedly broken spokes on the drivetrain side, apparently this is a common casualty of hauling a heavy trailer, and he ended up getting good at fixing them himself. The bike shop let him use their truing stand, and the spoke itself plus a spoke nipple only costs a dollar or so.
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12-14-2007, 09:13 AM #1
A tooth shy of a sprocket
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12-14-2007, 09:43 AM #2
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Sounds like your friend didn't have a proper wheel for the job he needed to do with it. A new wheel with more spokes and heavier spoke gage could have saved him repeated spoke replacements.
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12-14-2007, 11:26 AM #3
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Well, I'll be without my bike all weekend. The have to order the spoke! It's one of those bladed ones. Guess I'll have to break out the old bike.
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12-14-2007, 11:55 AM #4
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can't you just swap out the wheel with the old bike? Originally Posted by li10up
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