• Replacing a couple spokes on a wheel for a mate, easy job me thinks as I even had spokes in stock that while maybe a mm or 2 too long should do the job.

    Get the spokes in without even taking the tyre off, go to true wheel, half the nipples are 'seized'.

    Strip tyre and rim tape off and find first of all that there's red stuff all over the ends of the spokes, at first I presumed it'd be grease but it's gone hard and brittle, like sugar or something. Threadlock? Who the hell would threadlock spokes though?

    Well, kinda answer that with my next discovery, all the pre-existing spokes are about 5mm longer than the ones I fitted. So the 'seized' spokes might just be either bottomed out on the threads or threadlocked. GAH!


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