Just venting was all. Two bikes in a row with rear wheel problems=frustration. Custom wheel? I have no problem doing that but then when you go to a builder
http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/wheels.asp that suggests you lose weight first and then come back and look for a wheel, well it kinda takes the air out of your sails.
Flats? Skipping derailleurs? No issues there. For whatever reason I view that as "accepted". Those issues tend to be a luck of the draw; sometimes you get them when you ride and sometimes you don't. My spoke issue is
every time I ride. So yeah I am a little frustrated with that.
The Sequoia in general is a really nice bike. Mine is the 61cm. It needed a little tweaking to get comfy on it and I changed to a shorter stem but it is pretty much dialed in now. In fact today's ride felt the best so far until the spoke popped. I would think about buying another one if I had to do it again.