Joined: Feb 2012
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From: Rochester, NY
Bikes: Stewart S&S coupled sport tourer, Stewart Sunday light, Stewart Commuting, Stewart Touring, Co Motion Tandem, Stewart 3-Spd, Stewart Track, Fuji Finest, Mongoose Tomac ATB, GT Bravado ATB, JCP Folder, Stewart 650B ATB
There are a lot of wheels with mixed gage and shaped spokes out there. I've known shops that would only use straight gage 14 spokes for any spoke replacement repair and I've personally subbed a different spoke a number of times when the matching spec spoke was, realistically, unavailable within the time line needed. Would this mixing be my first choice? No, but I would ride on with it if the other choice was to replace the wheel of not ride that bike. Andy
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