Originally Posted by
curbtender
Go and have the spoke measured and see if they have one. It doesn't take more tan 10 minutes to replace. Let them know it's your main ride. I'd think they'd understand.
I completely agree with this. Doing a wheel build is rather difficult, and requires quite a bit of skill. Replacing one spoke takes a spoke wrench and about 5-10 minutes. A couple of years ago, while on a long weekend ride, I brought my bike into a random bike shop with a broken spoke, and the guy there fixed it so quickly and easily that I was kind of embarrassed that I hadn't just done it myself.