One thing after the other!

[L3EOO]

Right ok, so I managed to source some more robust tyres, as previously I was achieving about 2 punctures a week on average! Now using Gatorskin and must say I'm impressed, but only 1 week after these have been on and running fine, I go to my bike this morning and find out the back wheel no longer runs true and half way round sticks at the pads.

I cycle to work and half way there get another puncture, I try fixing this twice (for some reason the glue wasn't drying!!) end up removing back wheel and changing inner tube, as I'm doing this I see that one of the spokes on my rear wheel is no longer attached to the hub.

I am fairly new to commuting and cycle maintenance, Can I ride on a broken spoke? are they easy to fix or do i need to buy a new wheel??

any help will be appreciated!

cheers

 

[dodgy]

They are easy to fix, you need another spoke the same length. If it's on the drive side of the rear wheel you will probably need to remove the cassette to put a new one in.
There are quite a few online guides to repairing/building wheels, not sure how much you know so won't scare you by pointing you to something that might put you off. In summary, you don't need a new wheel, but if you don't repair the wheel you have, it might start to become more buckled. You can bodge a repair by taking up the slack in the wheel using the adjacent spokes, but again, you need to read up on the concepts first.

Dave.

 

[AdamBlade]

Right ok, so I managed to source some more robust tyres, as previously I was achieving about 2 punctures a week on average! Now using Gatorskin and must say I'm impressed, but only 1 week after these have been on and running fine, I go to my bike this morning and find out the back wheel no longer runs true and half way round sticks at the pads.

I cycle to work and half way there get another puncture, I try fixing this twice (for some reason the glue wasn't drying!!) end up removing back wheel and changing inner tube, as I'm doing this I see that one of the spokes on my rear wheel is no longer attached to the hub.

I am fairly new to commuting and cycle maintenance, Can I ride on a broken spoke? are they easy to fix or do i need to buy a new wheel??

any help will be appreciated!

cheers

Exactly the same has happend to me. Riding home yesterday after having 2 punctures last week, noticed back wheel seemed to be going down again. Stopped to pump up and when I took pump off the valve broke. Then I looked at wheel to find that a spoke has broken.

Like you I'm quite new to commuting but will try reading a few articles before trying to fix it myself. I'm really keen to learn so it stops me spending a fortune on labour charges.

 

[BentMikey]

2 a week, that's a lot! Do you guys use cycle lanes/paths by any chance?

 

[AdamBlade]

Mainly road with one stretch of cycle lane which I have noticed seems to have a lot of broken glass on. Previous to this I'd only had 1 since March. Just seem to have all come at once.

 

[J4CKO]

Some twunt broke some glass on my route, the car tyres clear it but on checking my tyres there were loads of little shards embedded in the tyres that I had to pick out.

 

[L3EOO]

i go by roads only, going through angel, camden, top of regents park, st johns wood, harrow road till willesden, i only get punctures if i go over massive rocks or fail to see huge potholes which must be how the spoke broke,

anyone know if i will do any damage to the wheel if i ride it whilst with a broken spoke??