Spoke Length

Triathlon Forum
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Yesterday I popped a spoke on one of my wheels. Now I need to get replacements. So how do you measure to determine the length. I have one of the other spokes out and in my hand.

This was on my tandem and the spoke was damaged because I dropped a chain off the freewheel a year or so ago.

thanks

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Measure from the threaded end to the bend in the elbow on the opposite side in millimeters. Don’t sweat it if you’re off by a millimeter or two.

The easiest thing to do would be to carry the broken spoke into your local bike shop and have them find one for you. Good shops have hundreds if not thousands of miscellaneous spokes in stock.

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Thanks John, thats what I thought. I wish I had a good shop close by with plenty of spokes on hand, but I do not.

I did live next to a shop in New Orleans that only had a handfull of spokes on hand, but they had one of those Phil Wood threading machines. That was great, any length I wanted. He would even thread spokes that I brought in. I don’t, however, have time to make the drive back to that shop.

thanks