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  • I had a DNF on BCM :( . The Cycling Gods struck me down for my travel light philosophy. I suffered a series of spoke breakages. The first occurred Sat lunchtime close to Aberystwyth so had a repair and retrue at a bike shop. The second happened just shy of the halfway point and that was that. So nearly 300Km ridden and nearly £300 total spent on cabs to get back to Chepstow (wasn't going to go through a 6hr multiple changes Bank Holiday train journey with no guarantee of getting the bike onboard) . Live and Learn!
    Going to invest in some kevlar repair spokes.
    WCW this weekend

  • Kevlar repair spokes? Cool. I'd pose the question why were you breaking spokes in the first place though? Are you running silly light wheels? Was the build less than perfect? Were they crashed? Spokes tend to just fail unless there's an issue already.

  • Its like a string so you don't need to remove the cassette; http://www.amazon.com/FiberFix-Emergency-Spoke-Replacement-Kit/dp/B001GSMQZC
    Spokes failed midpoint which is unheard of apparently - I did have a slight issue with the derailleur just catching the spokes in lowest gear a few weeks back, but quickly fixed and there was no apparent damage.
    Thinking about it I have had an occasional "pinging" noise ( that I thought was from the front but could have been the back) on really rough surfaces, so the spoke tensions may have been out?

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