Build them up with 2mm brass washers under the spoke heads.
If you can find them anywhere?
Steven Johnson, Shiloh, IL
built up. Commuted, with 20 pound loads, and I'm a load. Did a
saddlebagged motel tour and an overnight camptour on dirt. Seems like
this should not have happened on a reasonably fresh wheel like this.
I've got fixed hubs with tougher miles on them almost 2 decades old.
Something's awry. I figured maybe it was a fluke spoke. Or maybe because
it was built with straight guage instead of double-butted. Then Doug, my
wheel building guy, suggested it might be those thin steel flanges
cutting into spokes made for thicker alloy hub flanges. Now there's an
interesting thought. Were spokes made differently 70 years ago? Anybody
else experience a spoke break like this on a Sturmey hub?
Craig Montgomery in Tucson-about to go test this thing on another motel
tour.
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