Sometimes spokes break.
While many online big names and "big box" stores sell spokes for "full-size" bikes, where does one go to get a spare spoke for a smaller-wheeled bike, like, for instance, the Cinzia folding bike I owned for 20-odd years?
While very popular bikes, like the Brompton, are catered fairly widely catered for, when it comes to the various lesser known brands, it gets a bit harder.
After some careful measuring up, I established that my folder needed a 192mm long spoke.
Go online to your favourite supplier, and just see if they stock 192mm spokes!
Anyway, I found a source (in the UK, but talso probably ship internationally if you do want odd-sized spokes!) that did just the thing I wanted - SJS cycles in Bridgewater, Somerset.
SJS only sell one type of spoke that is 192mm long, mond, but that's a good start,
It is a "straight gauge" 14g stainless steel spoke, with a nipple included.
A pretty "basic" spoke, but sold at a pretty basic price, too!
Just £1.84 (plus postage) for a pack of 6, including brass nipples.
For my American friends, that's just 50 cents a spoke!
So that was what I put in!
And I found them to be fine.
Although some of the other spokes intermittently broke, the "new ones" never did!
Jobst Brandt puts most spoke breakages down to metal fatigue, so I guess that is why - the 20-year-old spokes were more fatigues than the new ones!
So, if you want odd length 14g "straight" spokes, you know where to go!
While many online big names and "big box" stores sell spokes for "full-size" bikes, where does one go to get a spare spoke for a smaller-wheeled bike, like, for instance, the Cinzia folding bike I owned for 20-odd years?
While very popular bikes, like the Brompton, are catered fairly widely catered for, when it comes to the various lesser known brands, it gets a bit harder.
After some careful measuring up, I established that my folder needed a 192mm long spoke.
Go online to your favourite supplier, and just see if they stock 192mm spokes!
Anyway, I found a source (in the UK, but talso probably ship internationally if you do want odd-sized spokes!) that did just the thing I wanted - SJS cycles in Bridgewater, Somerset.
SJS only sell one type of spoke that is 192mm long, mond, but that's a good start,
It is a "straight gauge" 14g stainless steel spoke, with a nipple included.
A pretty "basic" spoke, but sold at a pretty basic price, too!
Just £1.84 (plus postage) for a pack of 6, including brass nipples.
For my American friends, that's just 50 cents a spoke!
So that was what I put in!
And I found them to be fine.
Although some of the other spokes intermittently broke, the "new ones" never did!
Jobst Brandt puts most spoke breakages down to metal fatigue, so I guess that is why - the 20-year-old spokes were more fatigues than the new ones!
So, if you want odd length 14g "straight" spokes, you know where to go!
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