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Any diagnosis advice on my rear wheel failure
mavic open sport rim 32 hole on tiagra hub bought before xmas and as completed a few hundred my on my turbo. Used it on the road for the first time yesterday when a drive side spoke snapped after 45 miles ( when ive had snapped spokes before(different wheels) its always on the bend of the spoke at the hub) this was halfway up the spoke ?? where it crossed another spoke.
Never built a wheel before but ive replaced spokes with a direct replacement and tensioning as needed but on this wheel
I had to increase the tension on all the non drive side spokes to pull the wheel back in.
Did loose NDS spokes cause the failure or did riding 5 miles with the buckled wheel cause the spokes to work lose or was the broken spoke probably over tight