Old 07-18-10, 07:19 AM
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Once you pop a spoke, it often starts a chain reaction because for the time you rode with the broken spoke, you overstress the spokes around it that take up the slack. So then the next one goes, then the next one. At some point you just gotta get a new wheel. For your weight, a locally handbuilt wheel is probably your best bet.
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