A customer brought in the rear wheel of an EA70 for repair.

One spoke on the freewheel side was broken.
Since Easton wheels are supposedly off-limits for shop repairs
and the wheel was bought online (—or so I heard)
there was no way any shop would touch it anyway, so I was about to give up
but someone who knows the wheel's owner
knew about this sketchy, questionable backstreet bike shop type
that might be able to fix it, so they brought it by on their behalf.


The spoke broke in the middle.
Unless there was some kind of external impact, this doesn't just happen.


The break point happens to be right where the spokes cross,
but this wheel isn't actually laced with a crossing pattern (the crossing spokes aren't touching).


It's fixed.


I was lucky that the spokes are Sapim Race straight-gauge spokes.
They're reliably stocked everywhere as long as you don't need some unusually short length.