I broke a NDS rear spoke this morning. It's 295 mm, 15/16ga with 14ga threads. I'm having a hard time finding exactly this size. I'm not sure if this one is right, but I think so. I'm definitely not sure if the bike shop will have a close match. They might not want to, either, because they come in boxes of 72 for a hundred bucks and they're not likely to ever use many of them.

The last time I broke a spoke on this wheelset, due to an accident, the bike shop replaced it with a straight spoke that they had handy, helped out by a super long nipple. But that was on the front, which I'm not too worried about.

Does it matter if they use a long nipple, and must it be the same butting?