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Old 05-25-08, 05:55 PM
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Nowhere near you, but if you can find another tourist with longer spokes that they can spare, you can use the 'z-bend' trick, cut off the head so the remaining spoke is a bit longer than your original, and then put the bend in to create another head to get a resulting spoke of the right length. You can see pictures on this thread about 3/4 of the way down the page:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=239070

I've done that before and its worked perfectly for me, drive and non drive sides in the rear, and I didn't need to remove the cassette to get one in on the drive side.

Enjoy the tour, and hope this helps.
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