Well that wasn’t so much fun.
10% chance of rain.
Set off from home, winter bike feeling good. Get 2/3rd of the way to bunch ride. Ping, hmm was that a rock between the tyre and mudguard. Bike feels OK, is tyre flat, no, going uphill not ridden for ages so feels a bit tough but OK. Over the top, descend at 55-60kmph.
Starts raining.
Get close to meet bunch, out of saddle, tough going and little noise.
Check bike. Broken rear spoke, rubbing brake.
Widen brake out as far as possible and ride hour home. ****** down rain.
Headset loosened off a bit. Thinking of putting a spacer under the top cap just incase it’s fouling slightly on the frame. FSA make microspacers specially for this. Or the stem is slipping up the steerer and that’s how it becomes loose? It’s a cheap Deda with bolts on the same side not opposite each other... worth adding carbon paste to the steerer (seen mixed feelings about doing this). Maybe slipping up, torque them up higher than 5nm but don’t want to crush the fork...?
I think it’s best if the wheel is totally rebuilt now.
I had shop A build the wheel and after a year the tension in the spokes was v low and a little noisy.
Shop B backed them all off and started again and the wheel felt to have higher tension.
Now the spoke has broken at the hub end on the drive side.
Do I have shop B rebuild from scratch with all new spokes (assuming they were fatigued when they altered the spoke tension and then have just broken, rather than they increased tension higher than really required which has led to them breaking) or do I try my luck and go for shop C?
