Wanted: Campagnolo Vento bladed straight spoke

My brother broke a spoke in his Campagnolo Vento rear wheel and he would like to replace it with an original item.

It is a straight spoke, there is no bend near the spoke's head. Length is 272 mm

Can anyone help him out please?

cheers!

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This is a very old Vento, dating from the 1990s, I think. It looks like a Vento HPW16 from the look of the hub & the fact that it's an 8s cassette body.

You are probably going to struggle to get a spoke for this - Campagnolo in Italy have not had stock for several years.

The original spokes were made specifically for Campagnolo (by Sapim, IIRC) and are of a different material and profile (yes, they are stainless, it's true, but there are a lot of different forms of stailness steel and they don't all behave the same) to any after market spokes that we have ever tracked down. The spoke head shape is also proprietory.

Probably your best bet is www.campoldy.co.uk - have a chat with Nigel Scott, the owner there - as he may have odd spokes for these wheels. Another possibility is a donor wheel from ebay.

As a back-up plan, you could replace all the spokes on the side with the damaged spoke - a Sapim straight pull spoke head is more-or-less the same dimensions as the Campagnolo item and through your LBS, Sapim's UK importer can (we were told recently) supply cut-to-length Sapim spokes in various formats. The closest for looks would be Sapim CX:

http://www.sapim.eu/spokes/aero/cx

HTH
Graeme
Velotech Cycling Ltd
Campagnolo main UK SC

thanks Greame,

Indeed it's an oldy. I'm already on the lookout for a donor wheel through as many channels as I can think of as well, maybe I'll get lucky. If not, I'll give your suggestions a try

cheers
Peter

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