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Old 12-14-09 | 09:16 AM
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For now, just fix the spoke. If you pass his shop anyway, there's no harm in asking Peter White to check the spoke tension --he can probably do it just by squeezing them a little. Perhaps they all need to be tightened up 1/4 turn.

If the spokes have been compromised by 2000 miles of riding under insufficient tension, they will keep on breaking; so have them all replaced. No big deal.

Eventually you may have to replace the wheel, but you should be able to get several thousand more miles out of it.
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