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Old 06-09-22, 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Kai Winters
It is likely you will continue to break spoke after spoke based on the condition you describe.
You'll save a lot of money and aggravation by having all the spokes replaced at one time.
If you're a heavy person consider having them replaced with a larger diameter spoke. We just did a wheel with 22 gauge spokes...it should hold up but it is for a heavy person...we'll see.
Higher spoke gauge means thinner spokes, doesn't it? So 22 gauge would be really thin, right?
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