A customer dropped off the rear wheel from a Racing 3 for repair.
A spoke broke while riding, but
it broke on the rim side at the thread base, not at the hub. With straight spokes, this area seems to be weaker than the neck.
It broke quite a distance from home, but
since it was possible to ride back by releasing the brake, they just rode it back.
If the tire had been rubbing against the chainstay,
riding it wouldn't have been advisable, but apparently there wasn't that much deflection.
In this world, there exist crappy wheels with tire rub against the frame despite not having broken spokes (→here),
which means in a sense
those wheels are even worse than this Racing 3 with a broken spoke.
This is totally beside the point, but when you enter "kusu" or "kuso" into Google Translate and convert it to Czech,
apparently someone (who exactly, I wonder?) has suggested corrections to the information,
and now different words come up.
If you translate the Japanese "kusott" or the English "damn" into Czech,
you can still hear that famous pronunciation, so if you're interested, give it a try.
Writing this probably means these will get fixed too, though.
All fixed.
↑The replaced spoke and nipple
Sometimes we can reuse the nipple if we can recover the spoke remnants,
but this time it just wasn't possible.
A spoke broke while riding, but
it broke on the rim side at the thread base, not at the hub. With straight spokes, this area seems to be weaker than the neck.
It broke quite a distance from home, but
since it was possible to ride back by releasing the brake, they just rode it back.
If the tire had been rubbing against the chainstay,
riding it wouldn't have been advisable, but apparently there wasn't that much deflection.
In this world, there exist crappy wheels with tire rub against the frame despite not having broken spokes (→here),
which means in a sense
those wheels are even worse than this Racing 3 with a broken spoke.
This is totally beside the point, but when you enter "kusu" or "kuso" into Google Translate and convert it to Czech,
apparently someone (who exactly, I wonder?) has suggested corrections to the information,
and now different words come up.
If you translate the Japanese "kusott" or the English "damn" into Czech,
you can still hear that famous pronunciation, so if you're interested, give it a try.
Writing this probably means these will get fixed too, though.
All fixed.
↑The replaced spoke and nipple
Sometimes we can reuse the nipple if we can recover the spoke remnants,
but this time it just wasn't possible.