True Love in Color

[spokewrench]

I managed to install a new spoke, but I had to bend the s*it outta it to get it in there and get it threaded on,..


Tightening it up helped to straighten it out,..
Hopefully I didn't stab it into the tube.

I had to bend my first replacement spokes because they were 5mm too long, I discovered. The ends extended about 5mm beyond the nipples, and I could see that wouldn't be a problem.

 

[PCeBiker]

The noise came back in December so I had to do an inspection.

The wheel was warped again so I tried to tighten that spoke and it didn't work, then I realized that it was either stripped or broken and it just pulled out of the nipple.

The spokes I bought were a few mm too short, I couldn't find my size, and the next size longer was a few mm too long and I didn't want to poke the tube or bother cutting a spoke.

I didn't want to buy longer spokes and start over, so I reinstalled my Special two-piece Sapin spoke.

My Sapin spoke was a perfectly fine spoke to begin with, that was manufactured to spec, on site, in my own backyard.

Of course while farting around dialing in my homemade spoke I managed to poke the damn tube and now I had a flat.

I wasn't about to remove the damn wheel to replace the tube if I didn't have to, and I managed to patch the tube without removing the wheel.

Of course the first patch didn't take so I had to do that all over again.

So it's back to looking like this,..