Originally Posted by
wahoonc
Lot's of decent shops up in that area, sounds like you got a bad one. There used to be one up there called Neighborhood Cycles. Great place, but I think it is closed now, the owner was riding home from work one night and got run over by a drunk driver. He survived but was in pretty bad shape for a long time.
Aaron
I'm sorry to hear that. There used to be a bike shop in the city that I live in, but it closed down a little less than a year ago. Since then, I've been going to Spinz in High Point and have hated every visit. There are a lot of bike shops in Winston, so I'm sure I'll be able to find something.
Wheels are defective for many reasons, the 2 that are invisible are the spokes are incorrectly tensioned spokes and the rim has a warp that causes too much stress on one or two spokes. One a spoke breaks it means the surrounding spokes pick up the slack, so they end up breaking and so on.
This is what happened. I noticed a warp in the wheel when the first spoke broke, and they continued to break on every other ride even after being repaired. It took me two weeks to convince the owner I needed a replacement wheel built.