Rim/nipple problems

i dont have this problem but maybe you need to purchase better
quality/more expensive nipples. Or try get the same ones that KH uses
on the KH unis.

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Urge to mock nipples! Soo hard to resist!!!

AAARRRGGHHH!!

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You and your nipples just cant keep it together eh Spencer?Lol.

Seriously though...I kno that Evan can probably build and tension a
wheel but maybe you should start from scratch and got to your LBS and
have them build a whole new wheel(Just spokes and nipples not the rim
and all). get them to use DT spokes and nipples, theyre the strongest
spokes ive ever come across and thats all we use in the shop i work at.
It could just be a batch of faulty nipples thats all.

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That's so weird that your still having problems with your nipples. I've
only broken a spoke once, and I've never had a nipple problem. So the
nipple just splits in half? I've never even heard of that happening
before. Maybe you just ride funny.

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That's so weird that your still having problems with your nipples. I've
only broken a spoke once, and I've never had a nipple problem. So the
nipple just splits in half? I've never even heard of that happening
before. Maybe you just ride funny.

It spits between the part that you can put a screwdriver in and the
part that sticks out of the rim. So I end up having the fat part of the
nipple rolling around my rim somewhere. Last time it happened I think
it popped my tube.

It is very annoying, I haven't taken the broken one out so that spoke
is still dangling there and moves all around when I ride. I don't want
to take it out because I might lose it.

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Something smells... is it me? or that sewer I fell in?

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Same thing happened to me the other day. Not sure how exaclty but yeah I
think the same as you, unispin combos etc with the feet hitting the
spokes. Still gotta replace mine sometime, its a KH05 too by the way.

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Spencer Hochberg said:

It spits between the part that you can put a screwdriver in and the part
that sticks out of the rim. So I end up having the fat part of the
nipple rolling around my rim somewhere. Last time it happened I think
it popped my tube.

It is very annoying, I haven't taken the broken one out so that spoke
is still dangling there and moves all around when I ride. I don't want
to take it out because I might lose it.

The reason that you are splitting nipples is that your spokes aren't
long enough. They need to extend up into the head, the part that you
put the screwdriver in. That is where you will get the strength of the
nipple. Too short and they will continue to shear off at the head.

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One on one said:

The reason that you are splitting nipples is that your spokes aren't
long enough. They need to extend up into the head, the part that you
put the screwdriver in. That is where you will get the strength of the
nipple. Too short and they will continue to shear off at the head.

That can't be the problem since they come out too far in the head so I
can't even put a screw driver in it. So if anything I think they are
too long.

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Something smells... is it me? or that sewer I fell in?

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maybe they're too long

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A spoke coming through the end of the nipple won't make it snap.

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Something smells... is it me? or that sewer I fell in?

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maybe you've got crappy nipples

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sorry, but LoL. that was funny. Spencer, you might want to invest in a
new wheelbuild, or new nipples. it doesn't make sense that youve
already broken like 5.

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They should make some strong mag wheels, those things look awesome.

Heh, a splined jugglebug.🙂

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I would have so much fun breaking one of those.

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maybe Evan over tensioned your wheel? torquing the [censored] out of the
spokes is just going to over-stress the spoke heads and nipples.

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That might be possible. It was happening before Evan touched my wheel
also. I don't think they are -that- tight, they can move enough to rub
against each other a little bit.

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get longer and brass nippples

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I just did the same thing again, snapped another nipple in half. I'll
have to get them both fixed (probably didnt help I hadn't had the other
one fixed yet).

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I have just been replacing mine as they have snapped. I am up to 3 at
the moment. It hasn't happened in a while, maybe it has stopped.

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Evan said:

i just found some candy in a suitcase under my bed, i have no clue how
old it is...i ate it anyway

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