OK so on to the spoke question.
I broke another spoke this weekend so I'm thinking to myself, maybe I should pick up a few so that when this happens I have a handful so I can swap a new one in, in no time. As anyone who has looked at spokes online can tell you, there's a zillion to chose from. How to make sense of it. My first step was to go to Universal Cycles:
http://www.universalcycles.com/shopping/index.php?category=779
Those are just the DT Swiss ones, which are already on my bike. So with all those choices I go to Sheldon Brown to help me out:
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_sp-ss.html#spoke
I guess the first thing is that I don't know what the numbers mean. The spoke diameter is listed as 2.0/1.8/2.0. Well which is is? 2.0 or 1.8?
For reasons I don't know I boil it down to Competition and Revolution. The Revolution is 1.5, I have 1.8. So obviously if I wanted to go nuts I could slowly change out all the 1.8s with 1.5s. But if I'm breaking the 1.8s...is that a good idea?
So what I'm asking is, can anyone make sense of all this? What are the 3 numbers? Should I always work to lower the weight of the bike? The Super Comp are more expensive, but heavier than the Revolution. Why?
I broke another spoke this weekend so I'm thinking to myself, maybe I should pick up a few so that when this happens I have a handful so I can swap a new one in, in no time. As anyone who has looked at spokes online can tell you, there's a zillion to chose from. How to make sense of it. My first step was to go to Universal Cycles:
http://www.universalcycles.com/shopping/index.php?category=779
Those are just the DT Swiss ones, which are already on my bike. So with all those choices I go to Sheldon Brown to help me out:
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_sp-ss.html#spoke
I guess the first thing is that I don't know what the numbers mean. The spoke diameter is listed as 2.0/1.8/2.0. Well which is is? 2.0 or 1.8?
For reasons I don't know I boil it down to Competition and Revolution. The Revolution is 1.5, I have 1.8. So obviously if I wanted to go nuts I could slowly change out all the 1.8s with 1.5s. But if I'm breaking the 1.8s...is that a good idea?
So what I'm asking is, can anyone make sense of all this? What are the 3 numbers? Should I always work to lower the weight of the bike? The Super Comp are more expensive, but heavier than the Revolution. Why?