Originally Posted by
vrooom3440
Many tandem wheels have 36 or 40 (or maybe even more) spokes. Wheel failure is not going to be my worry if a spoke breaks with that level of redundancy.
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If the wheel goes very out of true from one spoke... you have more issues than one spoke and likely many spokes are loose. Which was probably why the spoke broke in the first place.
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Yeah, the wheel is a 40 spoke DaVinci V-23, only about a year old, so it should be plenty robust. Even when I noticed the broken spoke (on the bike stand) (head had broken off, spoke still in place), the wheel was still true. Unfortunately, I don't know if it broke while out riding or due to mishandling in the garage with a cable lock attached. The wheel was used for 4 days of loaded touring (most of the load in a BOB) on some rough roads, so it had a pretty good reasonto break a spoke. After a couple of rides now, the wheel is still looking and sounding properly tensioned, so I'm not going to sweat it too much.