HI.

I posted at the begining of summer about my rear wheel breaking spoke after spoke, only on the drive side and followed the general recommendation of getting the wheel rebuilt. After 1500 kms (approx.) on my newly rebuilt wheel I broke another spoke last night on my way home.

The rebuilding job look good but I'm no expert, I will take the wheel back to the LBS tomorow and ear what they have to say about it.

I'm telling you all this because I'm starting to question myself about the whole weight on the bike. I'm at 215-220 pounds and I carry up to 40 pounds of lunch box, spare clothes and stuff on a low end triathlon bike with 700x23 tire/wheel. Am I to heavy for the wheel? I commute 55 kms RT 4-5 days a week on a very rough rural road, lot of big pot holes. The bike was not made for racks and panniers but I modified a few things to fit them anyway so I'm starting to think that it's too heavy

What do you think? Anyone as heavy as me on a similar bike?