Bicycles

[Monkey]

So I’ve come across a cruiser bicycle that was free, just needs a little bit of work on the wheels. It looks like someone attacked the spokes with the baseball bat while Someone was riding it. It seems to be a fairly comfortable bike, just about my size, and I’m interested in getting it back together. Any of y’all ever re-spoke a bicycle?

[Premium Parrots]

I've never re-spoked an entire wheel but I've replaced a few spokes. Its pretty easy. Good luck

[Monkey]

I've never re-spoked an entire wheel but I've replaced a few spokes. It’s pretty easy. Good luck

I might be able to get away with replacing the broken spokes, not too sure about the tension of the wheel. It is enough to be a significant number of spokes on one of the tires. The other one is not too bad.

[Link]

Never had to replace spokes or true a wheel, but more than likely something on youtube university about the subject. Good luck figuring out if you want to spend the time learning and repairing vs just picking up a used wheel. My shed shingles need to be replaced, and while I appreciate youtube, I really want nothing to do with learning that or doing the repair either. And mostly because I dont want to screw it up while learning how to repair the shed roof.

[Monkey]

I like knowing this stuff, but I have tried to true a wheel before and found since that it is never too expensive to pay someone else to true my wheel.

Replacing spokes, if I can save on that labor I will do it myself, even if it’s all of them.

I was talking to one of my kids bosses who is big in biking and doing lots of his own maintenance said that the way they are bent and broken should replace them all to make sure they are all straight and the right length.

It’s a nice bike but if I screw up for 30 bucks in parts, and have to buy new wheels, it is still considerably less than buying a new bike.

Girl math.