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Ben Pfaff
Guest
At the beginning of July, I bought a new commuter bike from
Performance Bike in Redwood City, a Schwinn World Avenue One.
I've been very happy with it on the whole, but it has had four
broken spokes thus far on the rear wheel, one at a time, about a
month apart. The first three times I took it back to the store
and they fixed it at no charge. Now that the fourth one has
broken, it's a pattern that I'm getting tired of, and I'm trying
to decide how to deal with it.
This is more trouble than I've ever had with a wheel before, new
or used. The wheel in question is 32- or 36-spoke (can't
remember), 700C, Alex R500 rim, and came with 28mm tires. I've
never broken spokes on the low-spoke-count wheel that came with
my Trek 2300 in several thousand miles, so I don't think that
it could possibly be that I'm too heavy for the wheel.
The best solution, I suppose, would be to fix it myself, but I
don't have the right skills.
The options I'm considering are:
* Take it back to the store and get it repaired for the
fourth time.
* Go back to the store and ask to speak to a manager
about the problem, and hope that he can arrange for
some kind of more permanent fix.
* Buy a new wheel (probably somewhere else).
* Take the bike to a better bike shop (probably Chain
Reaction in Redwood City, the best bike shop I know)
and pay them to fix it, in the hope that it would be a
permanent fix.
Any advice?
--
"To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of sub-optimized and
feature-poor toys."
--Scott Adams
Performance Bike in Redwood City, a Schwinn World Avenue One.
I've been very happy with it on the whole, but it has had four
broken spokes thus far on the rear wheel, one at a time, about a
month apart. The first three times I took it back to the store
and they fixed it at no charge. Now that the fourth one has
broken, it's a pattern that I'm getting tired of, and I'm trying
to decide how to deal with it.
This is more trouble than I've ever had with a wheel before, new
or used. The wheel in question is 32- or 36-spoke (can't
remember), 700C, Alex R500 rim, and came with 28mm tires. I've
never broken spokes on the low-spoke-count wheel that came with
my Trek 2300 in several thousand miles, so I don't think that
it could possibly be that I'm too heavy for the wheel.
The best solution, I suppose, would be to fix it myself, but I
don't have the right skills.
The options I'm considering are:
* Take it back to the store and get it repaired for the
fourth time.
* Go back to the store and ask to speak to a manager
about the problem, and hope that he can arrange for
some kind of more permanent fix.
* Buy a new wheel (probably somewhere else).
* Take the bike to a better bike shop (probably Chain
Reaction in Redwood City, the best bike shop I know)
and pay them to fix it, in the hope that it would be a
permanent fix.
Any advice?
--
"To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of sub-optimized and
feature-poor toys."
--Scott Adams