My Fourth Broken Spoke In 4400 Miles

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MTVP49

MTVP49

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What the heck is going on here? All road riding as well. I'm looking for reasons so when I take the rear wheel back to the dealership. I'll have something to push back with. One spoke broke at 2300 miles on the chain side and three more at 4400. Two on the chain side and one on the disk side . Before my last ride . I cleaned and lubed the chain and adjusted the chain. I went for a half an hour ride. Looking at the tire size to replace it I noticed the missing spokes. I've been riding for many miles in my life time and never had a spoke issue. My confidence is now low on this 1200 Scrambler XC. After a call to them. They said they could not find any warranty recalls! Anybody have any thoughts as to what might be causing this to happen?
 
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MTVP49 said:
What the heck is going on here? All road riding as well. I'm looking for reasons so when I take the rear wheel back to the dealership. I'll have something to push back with. One spoke broke at 2300 miles on the chain side and three more at 4400. Two on the chain side and one on the disk side . Before my last ride . I cleaned and lubed the chain and adjusted the chain. I went for a half an hour ride. Looking at the tire size to replace it I noticed the missing spokes. I've been riding for many miles in my life time and never had a spoke issue. My confidence is now low on this 1200 Scrambler XC. After a call to them. They said they could not find any warranty recalls! Anybody have any thoughts as to what might be causing this to happen?
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If the bike is have an average time on the roads its odd.....maybe a bad batch of spokes.

Needs to be taken seriously by Triumph just in case there is a band back in circulation....Triumph at the factory in the UK....have an after sales email address.....I found them very helpful when I have an issue with my bike.

The average owners I know would prob not even notice they had missing spokes.
 
nickjaxe said:
If the bike is have an average time on the roads its odd.....maybe a bad batch of spokes.

Needs to be taken seriously by Triumph just in case there is a band back in circulation....Triumph at the factory in the UK....have an after sales email address.....I found them very helpful when I have an issue with my bike.

The average owners I know would prob not even notice they had missing spokes.
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After dropping off the rear wheel. My sales guy sent off an email to his Rep. asking him to look into it as well. The dealership had no replacement spokes in stock and gave me the world response of, "Out of stock". He had no idea as to when they might show up.
For all I know , I might be done riding until fall or the season.
They are going to check the torque on the remaining spokes . I'm not sure if they can check the rim for trueness without all the spokes or not. I could have left with a complete new wheel for a grand if I did not want to wait around for mine to be fixed. Stay tuned!
 
Update on the rear wheel after two months. Well, the spokes have all been replaced. The Dealer did not charge me for them as they will be filing a "Good Will Warranty claim". They marked all the spokes and nipples with a paint stick so I can keep an eye on them to see if they move. Hopefully, this is fixed.
 
MTVP49 said:
Update on the rear wheel after two months. Well, the spokes have all been replaced. The Dealer did not charge me for them as they will be filing a "Good Will Warranty claim". They marked all the spokes and nipples with a paint stick so I can keep an eye on them to see if they move. Hopefully, this is fixed.
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Well done re your dealer.
 

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