@MLE_online i have no idea how many miles I put on my old Trek or the Marin i have now.
But I've never broke a spoke. Tubes and chains, sure.
Did it just randomly snap or did you hit something etc?
@MLE_online interesting.
Off the top of my head I've had cassettes, chains, tires, and brake pads replaced as routine wear items, and chains and tubes replaced due to field failures.
Never had a wheel rim or spoke go bad in 11 years of frequent (but not daily) bike commuting. Maybe the roads here are just better maintained or something lol
@MLE_online My Trek was bottom-tier "actual bike shop" bike, quite the step up from the $70 "toys r us floor model that I got cheap because it was a discontinued model and the floor demo had a cracked fake leather seat" that lasted me all through school.
The Marin I have now is a slightly higher end "real bike" that I got after selling the Trek when I moved to the bottom of a steep hill and decided I wanted disk brakes rather than rim brakes for going down the hill in the rain.
@LabSpokane @MLE_online Interesting.
My bikes are definitely not ultra high end carbon fiber "weighs less than your water bottle" things lol. I wanted stuff that could survive the rigors of daily riding, would be relatively low maintenance and not break if you looked at it wrong, etc.
Also since I tend to carry a lot of cargo ranging from a thinkpad with its massive power brick to repair tools to rain gear and extra layers because I never know when it's gonna get hot/cold/downpour, I'm not super concerned about shaving ounces on the frame or something
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