These come from a bike that crashed and had the rim broken. I took them out and only having that one spoke bent, can it still be usable after that? or should I get new ones?
by _Irusu
These come from a bike that crashed and had the rim broken. I took them out and only having that one spoke bent, can it still be usable after that? or should I get new ones?
by _Irusu
11 Comments
Probably/maybe but spokes are cheap. I would not even consider it.
Always best to build with new spokes. You’ll probably need different lengths anyway for a new rim, eh?
spokes are NOT cheap, go price them…but yes you can re-use them, perfectly fine
Usually not on an adult bike. If the rim broke, spokes are an unknown damage factor, especially for such short ones: fatigued, bent, twisted. For $30 for new spokes, compared to your, safety, or life ?
Why not remove disk
The amount of spokes I’ve broken, there’s no way I would risk reusing
YMMV. I’ve personally never had an issue reusing spokes when swapping out rims. In ~40 years of riding bikes I’ve only ever had 3 or 4 spokes break, and they were all on the same wheel which was an obviously poorly tensioned machine built wheel on a new bike. And when they did break, there was almost nothing dangerous about it.
You can use them if they’re not bent, and if the new rim is exactly the same dimensions as the old rim. But, we’re talking $10USD worth of spokes, and it’s safest to just use new ones, especially after a crash.
Only if the wheel is new/unridden is the advice I was given, from an industry professional
Otherwise, toss and forget they existed
Can, yes. Should, no.
I’d reuse the disc over the spokes