Holdsworth
Über Member
- Location
- Crewe, Cheshire
I have suffered a few of these over the past month or so, all of them on the rear wheel. My usual commute is through the back lanes and there is a stretch that is riddled with potholes and has a bumpy surface. I think that this is what is causing the spokes to break so often.
There is nothing I can do as the only alternate route is the a530 and a51, not again, I much prefer the relative quietness of the back roads.
I suffered a broken spoke on a 30 mile ride on Saturday out near to Whitchurch, I had to ride 13 miles back into Crewe to get the wheel repaired. By the time I got there it was well out of true and neeeded immediate straightening.
It is now fixed but some of the spokes seem loose and move about more than others. I though they all had to be equally tensioned to work properly, should I take back to the LBS to be put right?
My wheels are original, I think, to the bike (90s Holdsworth) and I haven't thought much about changing them since I bought it last year. I don't have much to spend (much less than £100) but I'd like to know if it would be worth upgrading at all?
There is nothing I can do as the only alternate route is the a530 and a51, not again, I much prefer the relative quietness of the back roads.
I suffered a broken spoke on a 30 mile ride on Saturday out near to Whitchurch, I had to ride 13 miles back into Crewe to get the wheel repaired. By the time I got there it was well out of true and neeeded immediate straightening.
It is now fixed but some of the spokes seem loose and move about more than others. I though they all had to be equally tensioned to work properly, should I take back to the LBS to be put right?
My wheels are original, I think, to the bike (90s Holdsworth) and I haven't thought much about changing them since I bought it last year. I don't have much to spend (much less than £100) but I'd like to know if it would be worth upgrading at all?