Claude Butler wheel problem

[Tafftrailer]

I bought a Claude Butler hybrid bike last year and I`ve had three spokes break on me all on the rear wheel, which doesn`t give me confidence to ride for any sort of distance. Has any body had similar problems.

 

[david1701]

generally one failing can cause the others to fail? I'd get it to the bike shop to look at it

 

[fossyant]

It's a problem with cheap factory built wheels. I bought some cheap (ish) wheels for my MTB, and I've snapped about 6 spokes on them - although I had spare spokes to replace them with, so no real bother. I've re-tensioned the wheel and it's been fine.

Ideally, you need the wheel tensioning correctly. I assume the bike shop's done the replacements ?

 

[billy1561]

Yeah my explorer 400 bust a rear spoke recently but I did go down a big hole couple of days earlier so no real surprise.
Local bike shop did the repair for 20 quid and seems fine now.

 

[PpPete]

Sadly wheels are one of the areas where bike manufacturers economise in order to get "down to a price".

Mate had a problem on a new Specialized Secteur last year. Turned out (on dis-assembly) the rim had a substantial natural "bow" to it, so no amount of spoke replacement/tensioning was ever going to get it right.

 

[KenG]

I bought a new Cannondale F6 in 2008 and over the course of 12 months had to replace 8 snapped spokes, I contacted Cannondale but never got a reply, sad really, as i would never consider buying another Cannondale or even recommend them now.
Poor quality wheel even poorer customer services!