Forgive me if I seem naieve, I'm not a hardcore 'offroad' biker but I like to think I go through some questionable forest paths and outright rough it a bit following little paths without proper consideration, trying to take the odd 'shortcut' .. I have ended up barrelling through blackberry-overgrown paths and other narrow sections, even taking some strong branches into my wheels before I could react to the terrain, but I've never broken a spoke, ever. What the heck are you doing?! :) Sounds fun!
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I am riding a railroad grade gravel trail (on Vancouver Island). I'm carrying a couple days worth of gear in a frame bag, handle bar bag, and a backpack (pretty light weight stuff, we are credit card touring). Huge, overkill tires at maybe 30 psi. And to be fair, I did hop up a couple curbs...
So, nothing hard core at all. I've done over 10,000 miles on this bike, including some truley rough stuff. The broken spokes only started a few days ago on a wheel that is just a year old or so.
Who built the wheel and who fixed the spokes? If it's the same shop, yes, I'd be mad because obviously they weren't tensioned properly. However, if the second shop (the one that replaced the bad spoke) was different, they probably didn't bother checking unless you specifically asked them to. Sometimes spokes just break from impact from rocks or something. So whether you get mad at the second shop depends on what information you gave them and what questions they asked.
Same shop, new owners. I go there specifically because of the wheel building, and assumed I didn't need to tell them to check the rest.
Lesson learned I guess, but damn.