--- In bentechriders@yahoogroups.com, "Phil Prosser" <p.prosser@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In bentechriders@yahoogroups.com, "Russell Allen Zech"
> <raz711@> wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > I have been having troubles with non-drive side spoke failures on
> > the rear wheel of my Infinity LWB. I was hoping that someone here
> > might have some advice. They failed on the 27" stock wheel, they
> > evenutally failed on a used 700c wheel (concave Winemann off of a
> > Trek 360)and again after I had it relaced.They have failed on a
> > brand new Sun CR-18 with Wheelsmith DT spokes and an Ultegra hub
> > that I just had built. The spokes are failiing at the bend right
at
> > the hub.
>
> We need to know more about you and about the wheels - it does sound
> like you're hard on them.

Maybe but my riding is stricly road riding.


Recumbent rear wheels can take a beating
> because on some bikes they take most of the rider's weight,

70% in the case of my Infinity

If the rider's a little heavy

I weigh 230 lbs.

> well, rear wheels need to be pretty beefy.

The wheel I had built, a Sun CR18 36 wholes with Ultegra hub and 14
gauge Wheelsmith DT spokes is for all intents and purposes a tandem
wheel.


> The bend in the spoke near the hub is its weakest point. Sometimes
> spokes fail here because they're not a good fit in the hole in the
> hub.

Standard hub and standard spokes should be a match.

> You could also try more spokes. Heavy touring bikes and tandems
used
> sometimes have 40 or even 48 spokes.

These hubs are 140-160 mm wide. My rear frame width is only 130mm.


>it seems one of those jobs that women might be better

OUCH, AND I THOUGHT I WAS PI!

Russell