Regarding your spoke...even if you have a cassette puller, it is recommended (unless you are a well experienced technician) to have this done by a professional.   You probably broke the spoke due to your wheel being unevenly tensioned or due to a warp in your rim pulling at that spoke.    

 

Spokes will wear out over time, but usually in a decently maintained bike if they fail it is a fault of the wheel not be true or by way of an accident.  This means you need to be careful adding in the new spoke to make sure the rim is nicely trued or you will might end up breaking the replacement spoke as well in short order.

 

I learned this lesson the hard way with an old bike of mine

 

On 7/27/05, Benjamin Reid <breid@...> wrote:

Impressive. But I feel compelled to ask: What's the helmet for?

 

Good luck on your cert this weekend.

 

Ben

 

PS unless the shop can fix the broken spoke on my ride before this weekend, I'm probably not in action. How does one break a spoke anyway? I broke it by the cassette otherwise I'd fix it myself. I dont have a cluster removal tool. or a big vise to hold it.

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From: nycadgeekbikers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:nycadgeekbikers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Shankman

Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 2:42 PM
To: nycadgeekbikers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [NYCAdGeekBikers] Ride this weekend?

come on now - Da Vinci did it.  If you've really got nothing to do, download the video... www.geekfactory.com/psjumps.htm

 

:)

 

-Peter

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From: nycadgeekbikers@yahoogroups.com [mailto: nycadgeekbikers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Lee
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 2:40 PM
To: nycadgeekbikers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [NYCAdGeekBikers] Ride this weekend?

 

So Peter,

 

That's the equivalent to being certified as insane, right?

 

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From: nycadgeekbikers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:nycadgeekbikers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Shankman
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 1:34 PM
To: nycadgeekbikers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [NYCAdGeekBikers] Ride this weekend?

 

I'm actually going for my licensing certification test this weekend for skydiving... (Geeky photo attached.) Will be out this weekend, but count me in next.

 

-Peter

 

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From: nycadgeekbikers@yahoogroups.com [mailto: nycadgeekbikers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rick Bruner
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 2:27 PM
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Either of those work for me. Any other takers?

On 7/27/05, Benjamin Reid <breid@...> wrote:
> Not meant to be facetious but I'd assume that Jersey is cooler than NY. I've
> never biked beyond the five boroughs but I'd imagine a Path train to NJ
> would be the way to go. After that, I'm lost.
>
> An alternate idea is to do a bigish loop from Wall St to Coney Island up to
> Central Park and back to Wall St. Not sure how ambitous folks are.
>
> Ben Reid
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> Anyone free and got ideas about someplace to go?
>
> Rick
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