Spoke Breakage
04-19-17, 02:01 AM
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Spoke Breakage
hello I am riding a road bike with 26 by 1.25 going to work. Over the last 2 months i encountered spoke breaking twice..I normally take a route with asphalt road and dont slosw down for any poithole...i am not sure why it happen.... btw i am a 200 lb rider with a 5 ' 7 built 
04-19-17, 02:36 AM
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To prevent breakage:
-Use good spokes.
-Occasionally make sure spoke tension is adequate, especially after major impacts.
04-19-17, 06:23 AM
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Which spokes are breaking and how old is your wheel?
There was a window in time when non-drive rear spoke breakage was rife. The simple solution was to tighten all 32 spokes (usually) a turn. It's easier if you do all of the drive side spokes first.
There was a window in time when non-drive rear spoke breakage was rife. The simple solution was to tighten all 32 spokes (usually) a turn. It's easier if you do all of the drive side spokes first.
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04-19-17, 06:32 AM
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Is this a department store bike? If so, the wheels are most likely under-tensioned and can be expected to fail if you do abusive things like running into pot holes. Also, on a tensioned wheel, all the spokes depend on all the other spokes. Breaking one spoke places more stress on all the others, especially the 2-3 adjacent ones in either direction. Once I pop a few spokes, I consider all the spokes in the wheel to be compromised and will have the entire wheel rebuilt rather than suffer continuing one-at-a-time spoke failures forever.
04-19-17, 08:49 AM
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It goes without saying that hitting pot holes at speed is hard on wheels. Your weight, while not a problem in itself, exacerbates the stress on the wheels when you're abusing them like that.
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FWIW, potholes are the cause for only a minority of spoke breakages, improper tension or improper build causes the majority of broken spokes. You haven't told us WHICH spokes you broke, so we can only guess.....
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