Re: Windsor Tourist Bike review addition

[nopcbs]

Just a cursory examination. Watching the wheels in rotation, they were
very close to perfectly "true". Essentially no visible wobble. The rear
wheel now has NO visible wobble at all.

I don't think it was a case of bad tensioning as that was checked when
the second pair of spokes were replaced. I have 34 miles on the rebuilt
rear wheel now with no broken spokes. Fingers still crossed, but I
think my problems are over.



- GRL
Frank Drackman wrote:
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> > No, please re-read the post. You seem to have missed ssome facts. The
> > rear wheel kept breaking spokes, in a very abnormal manner AFTER I had
> > a LBS true the wheel (it really didn't need that) and check the spokes'
> > tension. What, exactly, do you think should have been done beyond that,
> > short of what I did, replace the **** spokes with DT spokes? Also, note
> > the VERY abnormal failure mode. Good spokes don't break, but if they do
> > it's at the bend, not at the flare. All of mine broke that way.
> >
> > The bike is good, the spokes are ****.
> >
> > - GRL
> >
>
> You might be correct that the spokes are **** and nothing could be done to
> save them. If the wheel was in horrible shape, which I have seen with bikes
> from bikesdirect, before the first ride it could have contributed to the
> broken spokes. Was the wheel correctly tensioned before riding?

 

[Dane Jackson]

nopcbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Just a cursory examination. Watching the wheels in rotation, they were
> very close to perfectly "true". Essentially no visible wobble. The rear
> wheel now has NO visible wobble at all.

A wheel that is true does not necessarily have even tension. That is
even more important than that the wheel doesn't wobble. You can have
a wheel with pretty drastically uneven tensions that is still straight.

Even if the tension is even, that doesn't mean you have *enough*
tension. Ideally your wheel should have been brought up to the point
of nearly taco'ing when it is stress-relieved, and then the tension
should have been backed down. You can have a straight wheel that is
true that will go all wobbly in less than 100 miles. Sigh. As I know
from personal experience.

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