Johan Bornman

Looks like Charlie. Over and out.

If you have a single bolt in there, it should ideally be a high tensile bolt. These don't come in stainless or galvanized, only black. However, M7 is very, very strange. Sure it is not M6?

How much you ride per week is irrelevant. It is total mileage that matters. If you ride one mile per year, a wheel will last 20 000 years. If you ride 20 000 miles per year, your wheels will last 1 year. Your spoke wasn't broken by the pothole. The pothole was the last straw for an already fatigued-spoke. Spokes break from metal fatigue, not tension. Should tension have broken your spoke in that pothole, it would have ripped out of the rim. Further, your break was either at the bend or at the nipple, both weak points in fatigue but since they have larger cross-sections there than in the middle, a true tension break would have been in the middle. As you attest, low spoke count wheels are troublesome wheels. They don't stay true and getting them true is not easy.

You are one serious brand bunny. Stop fussing about irrelevancies like this and use whatever you can get your hands one.

Oh what rubbish!

It is impossible to say. I don't know how much the wheel has already worked, what load is carried and how it was built. However, once you start piling on the kays in summer, you will break spokes and walk home. Unless you one of those people who ride with a cellphone.

Don't rest too assured. A low spoke count wheel in this scenario is not a good idea. It may be strong enough to carry your weight but certainly not durable enough to carry it over a considerable distance. When that distance runs out, you walk home 'cause those wheels aint gonna turn with one missing spoke. I've written plenty of strength vs durable. Search and you shall find.

That's called insurance fraud. In my language, just straight dishonesty.

Your frame is toast

Take it to Stoke Suspension.

I feel like al proper poepol here but what is ASO?

I love your take on that word...schmokkeled. Feels good enough to practise.* *Yes yes, the "s" is intentional

I wasn't aware of that but it puts the UCI on the lower than sharkshit rack for me. I remember other pathological liar winners too. Why were they invited? It is a mess and has spoilt the greatest show on earth for me.

If there was just one clean rider he was done out of a fair competition. Therefore...

You serious?

You are doing something wrong, or perceiving something wrong. There is no way that you have to rebleed when changing pads.

IN big big, the RD should bend forward no more than 45 degrees from the horizontal. IN small small, the RD should bend back no more than horizontal.

After reading through all that post-rationalized bumph, I can sum it up like this: Right in the middle.

And now for Eldron's next tip: Carry a spare cable. Or is that too solft?

Perfectly repairable. Take it to Ab 1. Dont' sell it. That would be unethical.

The answer is no. Refer back to my original request or retract your remark.

I may disagree, depending on the wheel. If it is a robust, 32-spoke (or more), 26er or 700C wheel, it is perfectly rideable. That's the whole point of a robust wheel - so that small incidents don't prevent your ride or you finishing your ride. However, if it is a super lightweight 29er wheel, don't.

This is simply untrue. State the time and occasion this purportedly happened and lets get the other party to comment on this statement too.

Those trails are not maintained. They're just ridden so often that they stay smooth and clean. It is a function of the soil type and terrain - flat doesn't take as much punishment as slopes. And as for using the words "fixed soon" and JHB municipality in one sentence...bah!

Oops! Sort of a Freudian slip. I once worked with a Theo Momsen. I meant tos ay Victor, who BTW I don't know and have no beef with at all. I just commented on the psychology of putting a bike range together. I also didn't know that Finishline was involved and thus addressed "the wheelbuilder" anonymously. It is them who came out of the closet.