Broken Spokes

My bike is 3 months old.
My first spoke broke at the end of January, the bike shop where I bought it fixed it with my first service and charged me £12 for the spoke. "Spokes are not covered by warranty, you must of gone over a pot hole" I did not ride over a pot hole and one night I arrived home with no problems, the next day when i set off for work it was broken.
2.5 weeks later another spoke went as I was riding it, no pot hole, just road. Shop charged me £13 for the spoke.
4 days later (last night), I am sitting eating dinner when I hear a loud metallic ping in the kitchen, oh yes of course, another spoke went wasn't even riding it! Let alone abusing it with a phantom pothole.
Now I think this is a duff wheel or something and I haven't gone back to my LBS yet about the third spoke. What do you suggest I do? Aside from the small expense each time each spoke goes it is a huge inconvenience as I rely on my bike for work. and getting it too and from the shop isn't easy either.
Is three times in a month cause for some kind of replacement wheel? Or a free spoke replacement at the very least?
My first spoke broke at the end of January, the bike shop where I bought it fixed it with my first service and charged me £12 for the spoke. "Spokes are not covered by warranty, you must of gone over a pot hole" I did not ride over a pot hole and one night I arrived home with no problems, the next day when i set off for work it was broken.
2.5 weeks later another spoke went as I was riding it, no pot hole, just road. Shop charged me £13 for the spoke.
4 days later (last night), I am sitting eating dinner when I hear a loud metallic ping in the kitchen, oh yes of course, another spoke went wasn't even riding it! Let alone abusing it with a phantom pothole.
Now I think this is a duff wheel or something and I haven't gone back to my LBS yet about the third spoke. What do you suggest I do? Aside from the small expense each time each spoke goes it is a huge inconvenience as I rely on my bike for work. and getting it too and from the shop isn't easy either.
Is three times in a month cause for some kind of replacement wheel? Or a free spoke replacement at the very least?
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As for duff... I doubt it, and if it gets trued and the tensions re-done it'll probably be ok. I think the LBS should offer a different wheel or to re-do the spoke tensions on that one. I'd be a bit unhappy if they tried to charge me.
If you don't get it done you're likely to continue popping spokes. You're not a giant of a man riding around on super-lightweight racing wheels, are you?
I don't think they are super lightweight, they are racing wheels though. Alloy 28h with double wall rim?
Thing is the spokes have been fixed and the wheel trued by the bike shop twice now, the latest fix lasting 24 miles of riding over three days.
Is truing the wheel different to re-tensioning the whole wheel? I guess it is?
I think I will just take the wheel in this time rather than the whole bike.
Edit:all the spokes are popping on the real wheel on the same side as the cassete - from what I have read that is where they are most likely to go.
I would create stink and demand a replacement wheel, that they have not trued or built (as they seem incapable of it!), or at the very least they should have the work done to the original (reducing the tensions and building it evenly) free of charge.
I don't weigh much less than you (a few pounds) and I certainly have never experienced a broken spoke on a wheel so new, let alone 3!
IM<HO, you shouldn't have had to pay for the spokes - what rubbish to say that they aren't covered by the warranty - and you should now be looking at a new wheel (and a refund for the two spokes) from the manufacturer.
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This is the kind of thing that my dad used to deal with and get sorted for me!
So, I am still borrowing a bike for a few days waiting to hear the fate of the wheel.