{"id":1364,"date":"2009-03-22T13:03:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2009-03-22T13:03:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T18:03:20","slug":"broken-nipple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/22\/broken-nipple\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Nipple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/bike_stuff\/IMG_3374.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/81909-2\/IMG_3374.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 alt=\"Broken spoke on the Mavic XC717-based wheels on my Specialized Rockhopper Disc.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today while looking at my bikes and deciding which to try new pedals on I found that the the rear wheel on the Rockhopper Disc has a broken nipple, causing one of the spokes to be loose. I guess this means that I&#8217;ll be trying the pedals (more on these later once I have an opinion on them) on the Bianchi D.I.S.S. and taking the wheel in tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>While I normally like doing bike work myself, not having a truing stand, spare spokes, or spare nipples means that I can either take it in and pay $20 (or so) to get it fixed for riding this week, or spend 2x that (or so) and a tens hours of time (plus waiting for deliveries) and do it myself. I do wholly intend to be building bike wheels by the end of this summer, I want my bike up and working properly ASAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today while looking at my bikes and deciding which to try new pedals on I found that the the rear wheel on the Rockhopper Disc&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/22\/broken-nipple\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Broken Nipple<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}