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Broken Spoke Question

  • 14-03-2011 9:19am
    #1
    Jawgap
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    Can you ride with a broken spoke on the back wheel?

    There's no danger of it tangling in the drive drain - it's on the non-drive train side and it snapped this morning at the elbow.

    thanks


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  • #2
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,456 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    If the rim is not rubbing the brakes you should be fine - I did 150km or so of the 2009 WW200 after breaking a spoke on the rear wheel - just be a bit more careful over the potholes

    Best get it replaced at asap though

    (funnily enough I had to replace a spoke on the back wheel yesterday)


  • #3
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    Yeah as long as the wheel is true enough to keep going. It may though, over the long term,put additional stress on the remaining spokes causing them to snap.


  • #4
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Beasty wrote: »
    If the rim is not rubbing the brakes you should be fine - I did 150km or so of the 2009 WW200 after breaking a spoke on the rear wheel - just be a bit more careful over the potholes

    Best get it replaced at asap though

    (funnily enough I had to replace a spoke on the back wheel yesterday)

    It may have been the same pothole :) - happened as I was traversing what's left of the speed bumps on the way out of Rush this morning.


  • #5
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,456 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    No mine was a case of spontaneous fracture - either that or it was the way I leaned the bike against the lawnmower in the garage:o

    Tbh, I will not ride through Rush or Lusk any more because of the state of the roads - I go along the Lusk bypass when heading into work, and up to Balbriggan or Man O' War (the road up has a new road surface) on the way home


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