Ever break a spoke on the front wheel?
07-13-06, 12:19 PM
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Ever break a spoke on the front wheel?
Almost every tour journal that I have read (of cross-country tours) has had reports of broken spokes. They are pretty much always on the rear wheel.
As I get ready to leave in a few weeks I am getting a new rear wheel for my bike (since I have heard reports of the fuji/windsor having a bad rear wheel). I am wondering if I should replace the front wheel as well. I want to be safe, but the more I think about it, I have never read a report of a front wheel breaking a spoke.
So, have you ever broke a spoke up front? Any fuji touring people out there care to comment?
As I get ready to leave in a few weeks I am getting a new rear wheel for my bike (since I have heard reports of the fuji/windsor having a bad rear wheel). I am wondering if I should replace the front wheel as well. I want to be safe, but the more I think about it, I have never read a report of a front wheel breaking a spoke.
So, have you ever broke a spoke up front? Any fuji touring people out there care to comment?
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Originally Posted by subigo
Almost every tour journal that I have read (of cross-country tours) has had reports of broken spokes. They are pretty much always on the rear wheel.
As I get ready to leave in a few weeks I am getting a new rear wheel for my bike (since I have heard reports of the fuji/windsor having a bad rear wheel). I am wondering if I should replace the front wheel as well. I want to be safe, but the more I think about it, I have never read a report of a front wheel breaking a spoke.
So, have you ever broke a spoke up front? Any fuji touring people out there care to comment?
As I get ready to leave in a few weeks I am getting a new rear wheel for my bike (since I have heard reports of the fuji/windsor having a bad rear wheel). I am wondering if I should replace the front wheel as well. I want to be safe, but the more I think about it, I have never read a report of a front wheel breaking a spoke.
So, have you ever broke a spoke up front? Any fuji touring people out there care to comment?
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Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Old School…When It Wasn’t Ancient bikepacking
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
