Timeline for Back wheel spokes keep breaking
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| Dec 6, 2018 at 0:29 | comment | added | user36575 | Spoke do normally go because of fatigue, either because they're unloading at normal amounts over millions of revolutions (the way life is) or as mentioned above, more quickly if they're not strong enough to stay unloaded and they're fatiguing more quickly. What's the total load? My buddy who weighed 290 used to break spokes like crazy, as well as destroy headsets. At least until he got a bike with properly-built wheels and a more robust headset. All this assumes a reasonably strong rim. A weak rim will flex more and force the spokes to do more work (or not, and fatigue and break). | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 18:27 | comment | added | Michael | @markd: Yes of course, tension can be too high. Though I think quite often it won’t be the spokes which break but instead the spoke nipples, rim eyelets or hub are going to tear apart. | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 18:19 | comment | added | markd | I agree that even tension is critically important, but spokes actually break from too much tension. The wheel needs to flex and if your spokes are all PING! tight they cannot stretch, so they break. I think that's what you meant with your point on "High enough tension" tough... | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 8:14 | history | edited | Michael | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2018 at 9:32 | history | answered | Michael | CC BY-SA 4.0 |