Can't comment on the price, but have some observations:
1) You don't say which side you're breaking spokes. Loose spokes are often the cause
of breakage
and that usually means the non-drive side. Your wheels may need an occasional
retightening if they
were not built properly to begin with.
2) Fat, straight-guage spokes are not necessarily stronger. You'll probably get a
better wheel with
14/15 double-butted.
3) How many spokes in your current wheel? You might want 36 at your weight.
4) The Sun Rhino ("Lite"!!) is a staggerlingly heavy rim (700gms). You cannot
possibly need this
heavy a rim if you are, as you say, not particularly rough on your bike. It's spokes
you're
breaking, not rims. Something in the 420-450gm range should be fine. e.g. Mavic Open
Pro
5) Some cheap hubs are not friendly to spokes; the spoke holes have sharp edges which
eventually
cause the spoke to break at the bend. A good quality hub will solve this problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 8:31 PM
Subject: [obc] advice on new rear wheel
> Hi,
> Thought I would ask the general advice of the group on buying
> a new rear wheel for my road bike. I have been having increasing
> problems with breaking spokes on my rear wheel. I ride a Schwinn
> Supersport (piece of junk!) on which I had the rear wheel
> rebuilt late last year with 14g DT spokes. I have since put
> about 4000kms on the bike and it has now started breaking
> spokes again. I dont think I am particularly rough on the
> bike - I weigh anout 190 lbs and only ride on the road.
> I got the bike in the summer of 2000.
>
> Rather than pay the $50 or so to have the wheel re-strung
> again, I was thinking about just getting a new rear wheel. One
> bicycle shop quoted me approx $100 for a new wheel with
> Sun Rhino rim, Deore hub and DT spokes. Does that sound
> reasonable? If anyone has any other recommendations for
> wheels, or general wheel advice, I would love to hear them.
>
> Thanks,
> Derek Barlas
>
>
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