new wheels or individual spoke replace or relace
 

Flipped the coin for mechanics or C&V looking for input

I amfixing up my mother-in-laws early 80's univega for my son (he still likes his bmx...but was intrigued by the speed of the univega)

I have two sets of wheels both 27."... the ones from the univega and a set from my '82 nishki. The wheels as similar/typical sunshine hubs araya rims. The univega are high flange and the spokes really rusty because the bike was in a garage near the ocean, so I plan on using the ones from the nishki. Te spokes are going on the Niskhi also...a couple of broken.

So what you do you think

a) just replace the broken spokes as they go
b) bite the bullet and rebuild the wheels
c) or grab a cheap pair of 27 or 700c wheels

and unrelated.....grab a new freewheell or just go with the old one

I am trying to avoid sinking a lot o money into the project....but you know how that goes :D

thanks

A) depends on WHY they broke. Rim is likely bent.
B) fun project. UNLESS the rim is bent. then? not so much. ;)
C) Best bet! Medium quality 27" wheels are still common at the dump/garage sales. Inspect carefully.

freewheels? Grab one off a bike with low miles. again, inspect carefully.
old used freewheels give me the willies. :(

PROJECT = old Indian word for "hole-in-wallet".

out of which, larger denominations fall more quickly. ;)

OK, I'm cheap. I'd check spoke tension to see if you have any drastically over or under tensioned spokes. If you can get a relatively true wheel with relatively even spoke tension, I'd use what you have. Replacing a couple of spokes and repacking bearings isn't much of an investment and, if evening the tension minimizes future breakage, you're done. If you keep having issues with breakage, then look at picking up a cheap wheelset.