One broke spoke - ok to ride?

Iwingstein

Any advice please as a friend who moved house yesterday and wants to ride tomorrow, managed to break a spoke in the move.

Will he be ok to ride for a couple of (careful) hours?

Any advice gratefully received.

He's quite light!

Thanks and regards

Simon

tri-sexual

careful ride should be ok, dont do anything too wild though

Clark3y

Should be fine, I had a wheel with a broken spoke once and road on it for quite some time. Actually I broke the axle in it in the end, rest of the spokes still fine.

ilovedirt

I've ridden a wheel with a broken spoke for quite some time, on a rigid street/park hardtail. Aside from being a little out of true, it was fine.

ddraver

Fix is ASAP though....It's not too hard unless it has gone way out of true

Iwingstein

Thanks guys,

Appears he's found a spare spoke and mended it, though he says it's slightly out of true. Better that than spokeless I guess. He'll get it sorted asap by lbs.

Cheers again.

Simon

SDK2007

I rode Glentress, Inners and Laggan Wolf Black with 3 spokes missing, on a front wheel with only 28 spokes to start with and it held up - you'll be fine with only one down.