Originally Posted by
FBinNY
IMO the advice to try to save the wheel isn't well thought out.
Consider the time element. 2 broken spokes within less than a hundred miles, maybe less than fifty.
Most people knowledgeable about wheels consider a single broken spoke after a LONG while an isolated event. 2 is kind of a warning of things to come. Generally, the interval between breaks gets shorter, not longer. What you're seeing means that something is fundamentally wrong.
So, let the past guide your expectations.
It's true, that proper reworking of the wheel might help, but it would be disingenuous to assume that, whatever the problem, it's isolated to those 2 spokes.
Time to rip off this band-aid, and start fresh with new, proper build, using new spokes better suited to your needs. If you like this rim, and want to save dough, that's probably OK.
It isn't an assumption that the problem is two spokes, but the assumption that those two spokes were probably the furthest ones off tension.
But the real problem here is time and money. Spokes aren't actually cheap, neither is wheelbuilding. The rim is okay, but nothing stellar. Having a mechanic go over the tension on the wheel will cost $20-30, and may be everything needed to solve the problem. If we start replacing all the spokes, now we are talking $100, and you still end up with the same rim and hub.
For $100 a more appropriate wheel could be purchased that already has a heavy rim and the shop has gone over the tension on. Even if you spend $20 on the current wheel AND then replace it for $100, you've still spent barely than rebuilding it with new spokes.
Just because some of the spokes have broken doesn't mean the rest are so stressed they are about to break. Spokes are made from very tough, plastic, carbon-less stainless steel. They aren't brittle. Stop stressing some of them unnecessarily and they will all last a long time.