i keep breaking spokes

I ride only 36 and I ride up and down curbs and some stairs. I keep
breaking spokes at the hub. I have the wide hub with the nightrider rim
and 14 guage spokes. I don't want to change back to the superwide hub.
In my opinion too much side to side wobble. Any suggestions?

Aj


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i have never broken spokes before. talk to unicycle.com


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If you are breaking spokes your spokes aren't tensioned correctly. Your
best bet would be to bring it to a bike shop and have them re-true your
wheel. Once that starts happening this is the only real solution, i've
been through it with a bike wheel. I kept replacing the same spoke and
finally had to rebuild the wheel, then it was fine.


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The two main causes of spokes breaking are insufficient spoke tension
and movement of the spoke head within the spoke hole on the hub.
Tensioning your wheel will help with the first of these (do it yourself
or take yr wheel to yr LBS). Note new wheels need to be retensioned
after about 5 hours of riding, as the spokes stretch and the heads 'bed
in'. If increasing the spoke tension doesn't help and you keep breaking
spokes you can rebuild your wheel using 'spoke washers'
(http://tinyurl.com/5tstje) which reduce the movement at the spoke head.


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There was a thread on this befo
http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70758

New spokes (the whole wheel) and bindings on the cross-over points have
fixed it for me.


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Yeah, it is tension. I've had both wheel builds; one I did (with Chuck's
help) without a gauge, and I broke 4 spokes. Two others with a gauge
(and experienced help), and never broke spokes on those. The latter I
also used brass washers.


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