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Spoke replacement cost?

  • 30-08-2015 3:54pm
    #1
    Subcomandante Marcos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭


    Spoke on my back wheel just popped while cycling home from Sunday lunch at the parents place.

    Never happened to me before and not the sort of job I'm comfortable trying myself.

    It's on the drive side so I couldn't just slide the loose spoke out so I had to bend it around another to stop it from doing serious damage but as a result the wheel is way out of true.

    How much would a good lbs charge to retrue the wheel and thread a new spoke?

    Just bog Standard 700c round spoke,nothing fancy.


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  • #2
    funnights74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭funnights74


    I Just had one replaced , e3 for the spoke and e10 for the fitting. it's a tricky enough process, especially as the wheel has to be trued. Not something you should try yourself unless you know what your doing. You could end up wrecking the wheel and maybe more.


  • #3
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    You shouldn't be paying more than fiddy cents for a 2mm butted dt swiss stainless spoke.


  • #4
    Subcomandante Marcos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    Carawaystick wrote: »
    You shouldn't be paying more than fiddy cents for a 2mm butted dt swiss stainless spoke.

    And how much should fitting cost, based on your experience?


  • #5
    ted1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,890 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    There fairly easy to replace, pick one up for less than a euro in your local bike shop and do it yourself


  • #6
    mikedoherty99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 70 ✭✭mikedoherty99


    I paid 20 for spoke and wheel trueing

    Not on drive side though


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  • #7
    cdaly_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    I bought and read Roger Musson's Wheelbuilding Guide and learned how to do my own. I've since repaired and ridden a wheel whose rim was snapped in half. I also built the front wheel which I used to ride Paris Brest Paris and haven't had to do anything with it since I built it in December 2014. It's got around 5000km on it since.

    Trueing a wheel is not hard, it just takes a bit of knowledge and patience.


  • #8
    greenmat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭greenmat


    This is one of those times that buying some of your gear at your Local Bike Shops pays you back. I buy nearly everything I need from Humphries Cycles in Finglas and for minor repairs like this get it done for free or practically nothing. Having said that I have often seen things on the internet I wanted at a sale price to later find it's the same price or cheaper in the shop.


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