Originally Posted by
staehpj1
That was back when I was a kid in the late 50s and early 60s. I had a bike with permanently broken spokes that I never bothered to replace. I just twisted what was left of the broken ones around an adjacent spoke and trued it up the best I could.
Sounds like me, but in 2002. I had an old MTB that I rode to and from school, and then used for Ride the Rockies the summer after I graduated. Someone else noticed how badly out of true my rear wheel was (but it wasn't hitting the brakes, so I hadn't noticed) and I took it to one of the support mechanics, who pointed out three broken spokes. I have no idea how long they had been broken.