Broken spoke on Mavic Aksium - Can't true wheel because nipples are glued on.
One of the rear drive side spokes broke on my Mavic Aksium with 1000km on it. I think it's kind of ridiculous that it broke with so few km but that's not the main problem.
I replaced the spoke, but when time came to true the wheel I noticed that all the other spokes have some kind of rubbery blue goo on the threads/nipple. I almost rounded off a nipple trying to get one free. I got the wheel true enough to clear the brake pads by just tensioning the new spoke, but I don't know what to do with the rest. Should I try to free the other spokes from the blue stuff so I can adjust them? Why is the blue stuff there in the first place? I thought it wasn't necessary to glue the nipples onto the spokes on a properly built wheel. Should I be gluing my new spoke too?