OT: Easton Circuit spoke replacement?

[Nathan Dushman]

I have an Easton Circuit rear wheel (bought used from an SF2Ger a few years back), and it now has a broken spoke. This wheel has an unusual, Easton-specific straight pull spoke threaded at both ends. I know several SF2Gers had these wheels; does anyone know of a local shop that could replace the spoke at a reasonable price? This includes removing the stub of the old spoke, which apparently requires a torch to heat up the thread locker, and probably cutting threads in one end of a new spoke if the correct spokes aren't available. There are lots of posts on various forums about these wheels more generally, so I'm just looking for San Francisco-specific advice here. I don't want to spend more than the wheel is worth (which is probably not much, since it won't take an 11-speed cassette) but I'd also hate to throw out a good wheel due to one broken spoke.

Nathan

[Bret Lobree]

Have you tried Velocity?  They can cut and thread I’d needed. 

Bret

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 9:32 PM Nathan Dushman <nathan...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have an Easton Circuit rear wheel (bought used from an SF2Ger a few years back), and it now has a broken spoke. This wheel has an unusual, Easton-specific straight pull spoke threaded at both ends. I know several SF2Gers had these wheels; does anyone know of a local shop that could replace the spoke at a reasonable price? This includes removing the stub of the old spoke, which apparently requires a torch to heat up the thread locker, and probably cutting threads in one end of a new spoke if the correct spokes aren't available. There are lots of posts on various forums about these wheels more generally, so I'm just looking for San Francisco-specific advice here. I don't want to spend more than the wheel is worth (which is probably not much, since it won't take an 11-speed cassette) but I'd also hate to throw out a good wheel due to one broken spoke.

Nathan

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[d chang]

easton used spokes from sapim, so as long as you know the length it's
a straight swap (0.50$ for a fancy cx-ray). the threadlock isnt green
(or any of the crazy permanent ones), but i've taken the broken spoke
opportunity to swap in brass nipples.

\p

[Jason Thorpe]

> On Dec 29, 2020, at 10:06 PM, Bret Lobree <blo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Have you tried Velocity? They can cut and thread I’d needed.

Do you mean Velocipede? I broke a spoke my Lemond’s rear wheel … wheels that I built and have been completely trouble-free for thousands of miles, never even one requiring a truing … broke at the J-bend, which is usually a symptom of insufficient spoke tension, but I think it’s just a symptom of me being, ahem, somewhat out of shape, if you catch my drift.

Anyway, I could fix it myself, but I don’t have the time to sink into that right now, so I think I will leave it up to The Pros. It needs a 291 mm Sapim CX-Ray (sigh, I wrote down the calculation results — 290.5 — but I forgot to write down exactly which length I ordered…)

-- thorpej

[Jason Thorpe]

Yah, as I recall Easton Circuits just used garden-variety Sapim straight-pull spokes. Shop could just pull one from the same side that’s not broken and measure it. (I put many thousands of miles on a pair of Circuits.)

-- thorpej

[Nathan Dushman]

I have not yet tried Velocipede (nor anywhere else). I did email Easton and they tell me they have the right spokes in stock, and provided the part number and what I think is a cost of $0.79 (although they appear to have copied a single row off a spreadsheet without providing the headers so it's a bit hard to tell), but has to be ordered through a dealer. Looks like Sports Basement is an Easton dealer so I'll inquire there, and I'll also check with Velocipede. I'm not in a rush to fix this as a I have a spare wheel.

I'm not sure what threadlocker is used on the hub-side threads, but forum posts elsewhere suggest it needs to be heated to allow it to release. My options for that are either the kitchen stove (gas) or an old RadioShack soldering iron, we'll see how it goes.