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    Heard a snap on the way home is this fixable or need to buy a rear wheel?

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    1. Posibill on

      Broken spoke. Take it your local shop and they’ll fix it. I’ve worked at shops that charge anywhere from. 25-35 for this plus $2 a spoke. May be more because it’s a rear hub motor.

    2. CandidFirefighter241 on

      A bike shop should be able to just replace the spoke that’s broken, assuming there isn’t any damage to the rim (can’t really confirm from the video)

    3. Ass_Over_Teakettle on

      Yes, very easily too. Take the broken spoke to a bike shop and get a replacement one. If you can keep the nipple in place, you won’t need to take the tire and rim tape off. Run the new spoke through the rim flange, route it across the other spokes as the rest. Attach it back to the nipple, tighten it to the same tension as the rest of your spokes. True the wheel if necessary.

    5. cowrevengeJP on

      This is a 5min repair. You don’t even need to remove the wheel. Do not keep riding it AFTER you are home. You can bend your rim.

    6. craigerstar on

      Fixable, yes. Be aware that you may be at the beginning of more broken spokes. They don’t all fail at once, but once one breaks, others are usually close behind. Definitely repair this one. And the next one. If a third one breaks, pro-actively rebuild the wheel. If you’re lucky, you may not break any more than this one.

    8. caculo on

      Super ultra easy to fix. Buy a dozen of spokes (if you make any errors you can try again). Take the old one and screw the new.

    10. Zettinator on

      This can be easily fixed. Maybe the one broken spoke is a fluke, but if you continue to have trouble and you get to the third broken spoke, all spokes should be replaced.

    11. Wizardofsmiles on

      so many post resounding to this?! it’s fixable. WTF. Life seems like a challenge for so many people.

    12. AdditionalFly8641 on

      Look at how to replace a spoke on YouTube. Buy a spoke and a spoke wrench. As the bike shop what size wrench you need.

    14. T0nysoprano on

      No, my LBS was able to do it for like $20. Just need a new spoke and truing the wheel

    16. _haha_oh_wow_ on

      You need a new rear wheel…

      …spoke.

      Your LBS should be able to lace it it for you and make sure the wheel is true if you aren’t comfortable doing the repair for under $40 including parts (maybe a little more if they charge for trueing on top of the repair)

    17. CabinetEmotional3894 on

      Easy enough to repair yourself if it’s not a electric motor wheel. Take the wheel out once you have either measured the spoke or taken the bike /wheel to the shop to get the correct length spoke.remove the tyre and inner tube and remove the rim tape or move the tape to the side and poke the spoke back through the wheel so the nipple comes out of the rim.once out look at the hub and see which way the spoke needs to go into the hub they alternate, look at the hub and you will see.look at the spokes to see how they are laced and copy the the others.put the nipple in the rim and carefully turn it onto the spoke and tighten hand tight.buy a spoke key and tighten at first half a turn at a time until the wheel pulls into line use a cable tie on the dropouts to gauge distance of the rim. There are loads of videos on YouTube failing that take it to the shop if you don’t feel confident to do it yourself or can’t be arsed.looking at it even if it’s a motor wheel you can remove the tyre in the frame and inner tube and lace it ,it’s abit of a pain but possible.

    19. nineelevglen on

      My first broken spoke sent me down a spiral that first ended in so many new tools, endless readings and now I’m just into on building wheels.

    20. BLOD111 on

      Good sound advice above from others but adding in my 2 pennies worth – not sure what kind of tire you run on there but a good way to avoid further broken spokes is to make sure your tire is not too highly inflated. Go by the sidewall guide and stay lower end unless you very heavy or carrying heavy load. I see ppl on fat wheel bikes and they have the tires rock hard and its brutal on the thin metal wheel rims and therefore spokes also and hubs.

    21. randomipadtempacct on

      Where is the actual break? Is it up by the nipple? I know I am wrong but it looks like it just came undone at the hub

    22. Motocampingtime on

      Hope I’m not too late. A lot of people are saying bike shop, but a lot of them don’t want to work on e-bikes and especially rear hub motor e-bikes. They also carry standard size spokes for manual bicycles. Yours will need a shorter spoke (it will say what you need in the owners manual).

      You can definitely ride a few days (or longer) on broken spokes. Just be sure to order replacements ASAP in good quantity. Thread in the new spoke/s when they arrive. Tighten the thing till it sounds and feels like the other spokes. And then have an amateur hand at wheel trueing depending on how misaligned the wheel is. You can true it in the frame just put a zip tie on the frame or tape up something flexible. Good luck – normally you can go for a while on okish home jobs, but it is nice to have a pro make things lightning straight after a couple at home fixes.

    23. edwardothegreatest on

      Shop may require you to remove the wheel and bring it in. Some shops won’t touch the electrics if you didn’t buy it from them.

    24. Ok_Macaroon4196 on

      Yup that’s fixable.. if you need to ride it try to tape it to another spoke temporarily so it doesn’t fetch up on the chain

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