This ever happened to anyone?
11-26-07, 09:32 PM
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This ever happened to anyone?
Anyone ever cracked a spoke nipple in half before? I hit a small pothole with my back wheel (too dark to see) and felt something give, then heard a spoke rubbing on my chainstay. My first thought was that I had broken a spoke, but the spoke was intact and the tip of the nipple was still threaded onto it. the other half is still seated in the rim. The nipple looks like it has a threaded steel core with an aluminum body, and there appears to be a tiny gap between the two. I'm guessing this is why it broke.
I'm really bummed because with my fixed gear out of commission, my road bike was my only form of transportation, so now I have to walk and take the bus.
If you were in my situation, would you:
A. just replace the busted nipple and keep riding,
B. get the hub relaced to a new rim, or
C. replace the nipple until I can get a new wheel/relace the old hub?
Buying a new wheel is probably out of my financial abilities at the moment.
I'm really bummed because with my fixed gear out of commission, my road bike was my only form of transportation, so now I have to walk and take the bus.
If you were in my situation, would you:A. just replace the busted nipple and keep riding,
B. get the hub relaced to a new rim, or
C. replace the nipple until I can get a new wheel/relace the old hub?
Buying a new wheel is probably out of my financial abilities at the moment.
11-26-07, 09:48 PM
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can you get a new nipple/replace the spoke?
or am I missing something
or am I missing something
11-26-07, 09:52 PM
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11-26-07, 09:55 PM
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If this is your only bike for now, I would just replace it. If it's aluminum, you might want to consider replacing them with brass nipples when you make a permanent repair.
11-26-07, 10:08 PM
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I've seen them a couple of times, just replace the nipple and keep riding.
11-26-07, 11:36 PM
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+1 - Replace the nipple and ride.
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I dug around the pile of dead bikes in my backyard and scavenged a nipple from a taco'd wheel. took about 15 minutes to replace and true. The wheel is as true as its going to get without a truing stand. Yay! I' going to go on a little night ride now.
