I watched about ten videos about it today and this was the first one that showed me 1. How to remove the spoke easily with a spoke tool 2. How to install a new spoke without removing my tyre, tub and rim tape. Thanks!
I like the method to remove the spoke (which broke at the flange) without removing the tyre. It never occurred to me before to not have to remove the tyre but in that case it is not necessary. That will save me lots on time in the future. Thanks, much appreciated.
CJ, I love how you explain how things should work before telling us the way to repair them. That's why you are way better than many other RU-vid bike mechanics.
Thank you so very much for making this informative video. Can't believe I just changed my first spoke and didn't have to pay labor costs at my local bike shop
You did a really good job with this video: concise, comprehensive, organized, clear compared to many others I’ve watched. No wasted words. I don’t know why you have fewer likes. Additionally, your video doesn’t project a sense of self-importance by making spoke replacement sound like brain surgery. Down-to-earth. 👍🏼👍🏼 (P.S. I enjoyed how you used the bike itself for truing the wheel. Again, practical, down-to-earth.) Subscribed
GREAT SHOW I DISCOVERED I HAVE LIKE 11 BROKEN SPOKES ON MY E BIKE SO IM TAKEN THE BIKE TO A SHOP FOR REPAIR. IT WAS PRETTY MUCH RIDING GOOD WITH SOME WEIRD LITTLE NOISE BUT NOW I KNOW BETTER NOT TO RIDE THANKS TO YOU GUY.
Excellent tutorial 😁 I managed to get rock damage on my gravel bike. The spokes didn't break but two are bent. The nipples look OK so I'm going to try this method to replace the damaged spokes without taking off the tyre. Thanks!
Thanks for this great tutorial, today I found my v brake was rubbing to my wheel, finding out that actually one spoke was broken, tomorrow I will replace that spoke.
Not necessarily. If it's the first spoke that has broken on your wheel, it could have just been a defective spoke which failed prematurely. If you've already had to replace multiple spokes, it's possible that they are all approaching their fatigue limit.
11:40 The #1 cause of broken nipples like that is a spoke that's too short. The ideal length is one that just engages (fills) the neck/shoulder of the nipple, giving it extra resistance to being crushed or fatigued by the relative motion of the rim eyelet. Leaving the nipple "empty" there causes undue strain and may even pull the nipple through the eyelet.
Good to know, that makes sense. That type of failure actually seems to be pretty rare. More common (at least on the bikes I work on) is for the spoke to shear off just below the nipple. This happens when you are trying to true the wheel and you encounter a nipple which is badly seized onto the threads of the spoke due to correction. When you try to spin the nipple, the spoke shears off. Where I live they put a ton of salt on the roads in the winters which causes a lot of corrosion damage to bikes.
Thanks for the suggestion. I actually wouldn't recommend doing this because with a flat inner tube, there's a greater chance that the spoke/nipple could push past the rim tape and cause minor damage to the innertube. At the time you wouldn't know you were causing damage but the when you pumped it back up you might find out the hard way. The safest would just be to fully remove the tire and inner tube, but that's a lot of extra steps.
Yeah spot on. Hate when the tape comes off. Just extra work. BTW as the days get longer, do you think cycling turorial videos pick up? I think the days get longer and people ride more , and as the days get warmer in March, it really picks up. That's how I see it with the views. Thanks
This video wasn't helpful for me. All the process is very simple but how to work on back wheel that's the problem . He just showed it on the beginning, but was continuing on front wheel as a sample.
You must have missed something, because I definitely did not use the front wheel as a sample. As explained in the video, the procedure for removing the sprockets from a rear wheel can vary a lot from one wheel to another. As I mentioned, I have a separate video on this topic which covers this in detail for the two most common styles of rear sprocket systems. Please check the video description.
