>>2018819I popped a spoke last week and replaced and retrued it. after some short road rides I pronounced it good. but yesterday, the instant I took it offroad it turned into a pringles potato chip.
I knew it was under a lot of tension but that's what I needed to straighten the bends that got in it after the spoke broke.
got home and detensioned it and did it right by pushing the bends out by hand and beating the low spot down with a block of wood and a hammer until the rim was straight to begin with. tensioned, trued, prestressed, didn't need the excess tension to pull those bad bends. feels the same tension as the other wheel now.
if it fucks up again I'll just get a new rim but I'm pretty sure I've got it now. sick of fucking with it but should have known better than to think I could pull those bends out just with tension
