Simon Brooke wrote:
> in message <[email protected]>, Sam Salt
> ('[email protected]') wrote:
>
>> Had some broken rear wheel spokes fixed on the Brompton a few months
>> ago.
>>
>> Yesterday it happened again,so it's back to the LBS tomorrow for a
>> another repair.
>>
>> It's not yet two years old and is not ridden hard or even every day.
>>
>> Is this going to occur every few months ad infinitum ?
>>
>> Can't say I am impressed.
>
> Paging Guy.
>
> As I remember it, Guy, who can be a bit reticent about mentioning his
> Brompton, alleges that they come with badly stress-relieved machine
> built wheels and that it's a good investment to have the wheels retrued
> and stress-relieved by a competend wheelbuilder.
Mine did too (DIMIHAB) but fortunately I like building wheels and
spotted it early. The spokes were sufficiently loose on the rear of mine
that stress relieving would not really be possible before first giving
them a good tightening and truing. Frankly, if the OP's repaired rear
wheel only lasted a few months, then the bike shop he took it too didn't
bother to service the wheel while they fixed the broken spokes. Some
bike shops won't do anything you don't ask them to do, but they should
at least advise this IMHO. I normally expect to break at least one more
spoke when repairing a wheel where metal fatigue has started causing
spokes to break (my record is four more broken fixing a wheel with one
broken spoke). I find the "just about to go" ones when I stress relieve
the wheel - they snap. If they don't, I know they're still there because
the wheel goes out of true on the next ride.
JimP
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