Originally Posted by
sknhgy
Its got a broken spoke on the drive side. If I replace it and true the wheel what's the prognosis? Is it likely to pop more spokes?
Also, it has 27 x 1-1/4, 90 psi gum wall tires. Will replacements be a problem to find? They're not some kind of old-time obsolete tire, are they?
The bike looks like its had some use. There's a worn spot in the paint where a cable rubbed. That tells me it's seen some miles.
Need more pics?
...the future of the wheel depends a lot on how well it was evenly and properly tensioned initially, and how good a job you do on it now, in the reconditioning process. I'm ricing plenty of wheels that date from about that era, which I carefully and lovingly retensioned, stress relieved, and trued without replacing the spokes. It might need just the spoke replaced and tensioned to match the others, and you're good to go.
That's a standard tyre size, and replacements are readily available. The cheapest decent tyres you can get locally here are probably the ones sold by Perfomance. But there are some pretty good tyres in that size available on the internet for sale, that are slightly better and possibly more expensive. If you want something like that, there's a thread on 27" tyres here on BF you can find with Google.
That style of bike is popular with college girls and the
Lovely Bicycle /
Cycle Chic set.