Tern Eclipse P18 breaking spokes

adam6177

Hi there

I've had my Tern Eclipse P18 for around 10 months now and have ridden around 600 miles. In the last 2 months I've had 3 spokes break on the rear wheel, ALL on the sprocket side of the wheel.

Each time I'm having a local bike shop make me a spoke at a cost of £2.80, as I cannot buy them "off the shelf" (24 inch wheel). The first time I paid £20 for them to install the spoke but the last time my father did it himself after they made it. Last night another one broke.

On the non sprocket side the spokes are all laced from the same side of the hub, on the sprocket side they are alternate.

Does anyone have any bright ideas or suggestions? This is getting right on my nerves.

I have sent a message to Tern along these lines and I hope I'll get a decent response.

Adam

The Rookie

Once spokes start breaking like that you'll probably end up replacing them all, it's unusual to fit spokes from just one side although it shouldn't affect operation, and I would assume it's been done for a reason, but as it's the side laced in the normal way that is breaking spokes I suspect it's a read herring.

Maybe time to look around for a value source of a full set of spokes and relace the wheel?