Thread: 8 broken spokes, do I weigh too much?
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Old 09-17-10 | 03:51 AM
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slcbob
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Originally Posted by EKW in DC
Certainly not your weight. I'm near 300 lbs, and since I got a quality handbuilt wheel in December, I've put nearly 3,000 miles on my my Velocity Dyad rear wheel. No broken spokes. One truing and retensioning at the LBS. Couldn't be happier.
Originally Posted by Mattrek
I must be the luckiest guy in the world. I have weighed over 300 for two years and have ridden the same bike on the same rims and never broken a spoke...
Don't press you luck, guys. Let's lose some weight so our spokes don't outlive us by too much. I'm trying, too.
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