Originally Posted by
lopek77
Question is... what to do to make my wheels/spokes lasts for a long time, without spending to much $$$? What options do I have?
One of the best things you can do to make them last a long time is to have them properly tensioned.
Do you have any idea what the spoke tension was/is? That is a key number.
Now tthat you've ridden with likely undertensioned spokes and had spokes break you most probably have metal fatigue problems with many, most or all of the rest of them and can look forward to more of the same - broken spokes even if you now have them tensioned properly.
At this point I would replace all of the spokes with new, double butted ones and have them properly tensioned.