Originally Posted by
SJX426
jimmuller - I feel a difference when a spoke breaks on the rear wheel! The wheel will not turn from the rubbing on the brake pad!
Good point! With that I cannot quibble, for I have been there myself.
However I can state truthfully and proudly (which will certainly make a spoke break tomorrow) that I have never broken a spoke on a wheel which I built or which I trued before riding. Yes, I have built most of my wheels, even the tandem's rear wheel, and up until last year was riding between 5000 and 8000 miles a year. Of course you may argue that when one spreads the riding out over so many bikes no single one of them gets all that much use, and I could not quibble with that point either. Okay, enough bragging for today.
