Originally Posted by
jefnvk
I mean, sure if you are talking about an experienced wheel builder and hand built wheels, not so much a machine built wheel or someone who didn't know what they were doing. I had to have a brand new wheel gone over by someone who know what they were doing after the first ride, the first 15 miles the thing was pinging like crazy and I could feel the differences in spoke tension from one spoke to the other just with my fingers. Get a crappy wheel, get it fixed a couple times, and maybe the last guy that touched it fixed the issue.
Just a thought, though.
Spokes don't break because some of them aren't adjusted right while the rest are. Spokes break because the tension on the whole wheel is bad, or because the elbows were never bedded. Unless you're suggesting that subsequent truing included bedding the elbows, then I would expect all the original spokes to likely be suffering the same problem as the ones that already broke.