today I was doing another trials demo on main street with a trials biker, 15 minutes from the end I did a sort of side gap/drop, and when I landed I heard a snap noise, after doing the drop again, I decided to inspect, I found 1 of the spokes had snaped. now my question is is it still alright to ride with one broken spoke? I am going to get it replaced I just want to know how urgent it should be.
You will be wanting to do three cross and it depends on the hub which you are using. Also I would recommend having the wheel rebuilt as soon as possible. I thought it wouldn't be too bad riding with a couple loose spokes and I ended up twisting the wheel which meant a rebuild anyways, but also it meant that I ended up bending the rim which meant that they had to use a few different sized spokes. I was also talking with a shop when I was planning on substituting longer spokes and doing a 4 cross pattern and they explained to me that at that it would actualy create a weaker wheel to do that and they cut me some spokes for the same price. So don't skimp out on the wrong sized spokes and get that wheel rebuilt asap.
