I'm asking this really on beahalf of a colleague who is having no end of problems with the rear wheel on his six month old Bianchi Nirone.
We both bought the same bikes last summer, niether of us having had a bike for a long time. Whilst mine has been faultless over 900 miles, he has had real problems with his back wheel having done less than half the miles I've done.
He first noticed it had gone out of true about a month after getting it, the lbs straightened it and it seemed fine. But it needed to be re-tweeked by them three times over the following month or so. On saturday after not having ridden it several months, five miles into a twenty mile ride home, a spoke breaks. I recover him to the LBS who fix it up and off he sets for home again. This time he gets about five miles from home before another spoke breaks.
NOW, yesterday I was out on a local event ride and hooked up with a guy who also happened to be riding the same bike, after striking up a conversation, one of the first questions he asks is whether I had had any problems with the wheels! He had bought his bike from the same LBS and had had similar problems to my colleague before buying/part-ex his wheels for some replacements.
So it seems like this could be an 'issue' with these wheels, having never dealt with this type of issue with an LBS, what would your approach/view's be?
Cheers
Chris
We both bought the same bikes last summer, niether of us having had a bike for a long time. Whilst mine has been faultless over 900 miles, he has had real problems with his back wheel having done less than half the miles I've done.
He first noticed it had gone out of true about a month after getting it, the lbs straightened it and it seemed fine. But it needed to be re-tweeked by them three times over the following month or so. On saturday after not having ridden it several months, five miles into a twenty mile ride home, a spoke breaks. I recover him to the LBS who fix it up and off he sets for home again. This time he gets about five miles from home before another spoke breaks.
NOW, yesterday I was out on a local event ride and hooked up with a guy who also happened to be riding the same bike, after striking up a conversation, one of the first questions he asks is whether I had had any problems with the wheels! He had bought his bike from the same LBS and had had similar problems to my colleague before buying/part-ex his wheels for some replacements.
So it seems like this could be an 'issue' with these wheels, having never dealt with this type of issue with an LBS, what would your approach/view's be?
Cheers
Chris