Wanted: urgently - 288mm spokes, to sell or swap for 290mm

Posted on Wed 19th, December 2012

• #1

andyfallsoff

Bought the wrong size online, anyone have 36 spokes?

Or know where they are for sale in London for a price that isn't like £1 per spoke... Urgent help would be much appreciated!

Ta, Andy
• #2

Bearlegged

I can't help you, but might you have any joy finding a London stockist of the same brand and seeing if they could swap them for you?
• #3

andyfallsoff

Time is the issue, need this wheelset built before Christmas! Also I don't know if a bike shop would consider these seconds now they've been laced, even though I couldn't tension them. But yes, I am ringing around now...
• #4

Emyr

You might find someone with the tools to roll some extra thread on and cut off the excess length (unless bladed spokes etc)
• #5

andyfallsoff

I wasn't sure if that level of labour would be uneconomical! But yes, if anyone know where those tools might be available, that would help too...
• #6

Chopsicle
I've got;

16x 288 silver Sapim
20x 288 black Sapim
16x 286 silver Sapim
- and Sapim nipples needed.
Probably wouldn't recommend using different types of spoke on the same wheel, but they're the same brand and it all depends how desperate you are. What are you building?
• #7

Dom

PM Spotter – I believe he has 72 black 288mm nipples and spokes for sale for a good price :)
• #8

spotter

^ i do, let me know if you want them

Post a reply
- Bold
- Italics
- Link
- Image
- List
- Quote
- code
- Preview
Formatting Help

Don't worry about formatting, just type in the text and we'll take care of making sense of it. We will auto-convert links, and if you put asterisks around words we will make them bold.

Tips:

Create headers by underlining text with ==== or ----

To *italicise* text put one asterisk each side of the word

To **bold** text put two asterisks each side of the word

Embed images by entering:
![](https://www.google.co.uk/images/srpr/logo4w.png)
That's the hard one: exclamation, square brackets and then the URL to the image in brackets.

* Create lists by starting lines with asterisks

1. Create numbered lists by starting lines with a number and a dot

> Quote text by starting lines with >

Mention another user by @username

For syntax highlighting, surround the code block with three backticks:

```
Your code goes here
```
Just like Github, a blank line must precede a code block.

If you upload more than 5 files we will display all attachments as thumbnails.

For a full reference visit the Markdown syntax.