Originally Posted by
Wesley36
So it is not as simple as slapping on a new spoke and tensioning that one spoke to how it was before.
It is if the spoke just broke because it got damaged somehow and the spokes were all tensioned properly until that happened, unless the rim ended up permanently deformed from the imbalance of tension resulting from the missing spoke (unlikely).
If the spoke broke because the tension in all the spokes on that side of the wheel was uneven, then the correct procedure is a lot more involved, as it involves balancing the tensions out properly across the whole wheel.