{"id":33072,"date":"2019-02-25T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=33072"},"modified":"2019-02-12T12:53:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:53:39","slug":"fiberfix-emergency-spoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/fiberfix-emergency-spoke\/","title":{"rendered":"FiberFix Emergency Spoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking a bicycle spoke is a rare occurrence\u00a0&#8212; I&#8217;ve had it happen twice in a decade of commuting &#8212; but after the first time, I decided to be prepared for the next. I&#8217;ve carried a FiberFix Emergency Spoke for the last five years, and finally got to test it this week! Bicycle spokes have to be a very precise length, and different spokes in the pattern will be different lengths. This makes it a real pain to actually replace a spoke in the field. They also have to be laced through the hub, making removal and replacement a problem if it&#8217;s on the drive side of the rear wheel, which is blocked by the cassette (which mine was). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B001GSMQZC\/cooltools-20\">FiberFix<\/a> $13 solves these problems by being flexible. It&#8217;s a kevlar cord and cam which can be used to replace a spoke of any length without having to remove the cassette. I don&#8217;t know of anything else like it! (It&#8217;s unrelated to the FiberFix brand resin repair tape elsewhere on this site)<\/p>\n<p>The wheel still needs professional repair after you use this &#8212; I wouldn&#8217;t ride with a kevlar spoke any farther than necessary, because it is a lot stronger than its neighboring spokes, and will cause them to wear more quickly! I extracted the broken spoke from underneath the cassette with a pair of multitool pliers, then pushed the stub out through a gap in the cogs. Threading the kevlar cord on and tightening it required the included instruction sheet, but was by no means difficult. The wheel came within 2mm of true. I loosened the rear brake a little to reduce rubbing (it was still quite usable, though). I rode all the way home with no further issue. It was really empowering to get myself home, without needing to call a friend or a cab. It was so quick and easy that, had it been on the commute to work, I doubt my boss would have noticed the delay!<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_66215\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1SHlLigtEa8?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stronger-than-steel emergency bike spoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33074,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33072\/revisions\/33074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}