Originally Posted by
robow
And again the story just won't die, yes, 10 or more years ago, some Fuji touring bikes were sent out with defective spokes of which Fuji was more than willingly to replace the wheels. But since then, according to my local Fuji dealer, he's not had one issue with even one tourer leaving the shop and returning with multiple broken spokes. After all this time, I wouldn't let that prevent me from purchasing a Fuji touring bike.
I purchased my 2008 Fuji Touring with the thought that they had fixed the problem. I loved that bike, but in the four years that I put about 30,000 miles onto it, I replaced almost half of the rear spokes because they broke. Luckily, it had a place to mount extra spokes on the chainstay and I kept a spoke wrench with a cassette breaker with me at all times.
So while Fuji did probably address the issue from 10 or 15 years ago, I question how well they did on actually correcting the problem.