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after a nasty crash today,i managed to get my foot caught in my front wheel and broke a spoke,lucky it was'nt the rest of me,it could have been a real disaster,only damage to me was the handlebar end hitting my left calf and leaving a purple "HOPE BAREND PLUG" donut ring on it,pains is gettting a lot worse and i'm struggling to walk at the moment,this is to be expected i suppose but is there any chance of internal damage to your leg?,reason i ask is i broke the same leg before and got my self to a&e (i drive an auto) and they had a go for moving about on it and risking more damage,just thought i'd ask for any advice because it's starting to feel pretty bad at the moment.
also is fitting new spokes easy? or is it a lbs job?,
(advise about the wheel is more important to me than leg advice,ta!)
Spoke is a 5 min job if you know how to true it again.
There is no better time than now to learn!; after all you can always get the LBS to true it up if it all goes wrong. (Might need to remove another spoke to get a measurement (is it inside of bend to end of thread? I would have to look it up : )
Good luck and hope the leg heals
wheel is a dt swiss ex1750 with black aerolite spokes,theirs a label on the rim which says "spoke front 260/262mm"
am i right in assumuing either spoke length would be o.k?
or is this some kind of swiss tomfoolery?!
Suspect it means that there is one length on the disk side and the other on the non disk side. If it is DT swiss rim and hub you should be able to work out which is which from putting the details in their spoke calculator or even finding the info on their website. Given there is only a 2 milimetre difference you [i]might[/i] get away with using the wrong length but it will probably be a pain to true. It is also a pain to buy one spoke mail order so best bet is probably to extract both parts of the offending spoke and take them, or failing that the wheel, to the LBS and get them to work out the length required and source one.
looking at a fiver for 3 spokes delivered ,thought i might as well get a spare or 2,so may have go at doing it myself,
thanks for all the advice.