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Old 11-02-09, 02:50 PM
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Once you break two or three spokes, you know that you have many fatigued (i.e. weakened) spokes. You can bet that more will break. However, if you rebuild your wheel with all-new spokes, your problem will not necessarily recur. If you replace spokes one by one, it will recur.

It's hard to say whether you need a wheel with more spokes. At your weight, I would recommend at least 32 spokes. What kind of riding do you do? What are your wheel's components? Who built the wheel?

The fatigue's greatest contributor might be the fact that the spokes were not tight enough to begin with or they were not uniformly tight.
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