Which spokes did you break? Were they next to each other?
Originally Posted by
Tundra_Man
I've found once you break a spoke, the sudden stress put on the rest of the spokes often cause them to fail soon as well. My rule of thumb is if I break a spoke, I'll replace it. If it holds, great. If I break a second spoke on the same wheel, then the wheel gets re-laced/replaced. Otherwise I'm just going to keep breaking spokes on that wheel.
When one spoke brakes, all of the rest of them pick up the slack ( and go through a lot of stress doing it ), but especially the ones near the broken spoke. It's like dominoes.