Originally Posted by TransitBiker

Nah man, the tire was coming apart at the bead, like you can see the nylon bead & a hole 3 mm higher towards the tread. I put the new tire and tube on after the "pinch flat" the next day, then after that on its first ride out second spoke broke. As far as both situations.....I was riding along on flat even smooth pavement & the tube simply deflated suddenly and the spoke suddenly snapped respectively. I carefully matched the rim, tube, and tire, and found no correlation, i even was careful to see if anything fell out as i took the tube out & tire off, but nothing did. The rim tape was likely to blame & who knows about the tire. I have nothing to gain from riding stupid and hitting road holes and going up driveway lips too hard.

I have not had this bike for two years, i got it in april.

I have not ridden a few hundred miles, and the wheel was built wrong, then fiddled with wrong and 7 spokes were replaced all told. I do not touch the wheels as that is not an area where i have any expertise. I leaened about 90% of what i know since buying this bike & joining here. Ive never had a spoke do anything but what it was supposed to, never touched any of the wheels on any of my bike. I'm not a bicycle mechanic, its not my skill area to do that stuff. My skill area is riding, and making sense of specs and how they might translate into real world use. The "master mechanics" (thats how they were referred to) are supposed to take care of those things, as that is their job.

In essence , i got a brand new bike, and it was not assembled correctly then it was not serviced correctly. They did not do their job of making sure it was road ready & safe. Saying i had anything to do with the tire coming apart, literally is insulting and has no basis in reality. I never even touched the tires till stuff started going wrong.

I dunno why i'm even bothering to explain all of this. This bike is not some toy to me, it is literally the first thing ive ever owned that i would run into my house and save if my house were on fire. I treat it like gold, i baby it, i'm massively cautions and paranoid about every small detail every squeek every smudge or scratch. To imply that my hand was involved in these problems is beyond absurd.

I didn't just screw around with the brakes, i downloaded the tektro instruction manual, thats how i knew it was wrongly adjusted to begin with.

Ugh, you know i'm just gonna shut my trap and not bother anymore since clearly i'm some kind of hapless buffoon.

- Andy