I'm 6'3.5" with long-ish legs and, like johnnykrisma, have an XL Giant
OCR 2 (mine's a 2004). It's been a fun bike but I'm starting to
believe that it is too small. I've got the seat post way up and a
Delta extender on the handlebar stem, and the adjustable head set
cranked as vertical as possible for height. Still my handlebars are
about 0.5" BELOW the level of my seat. I've had problems with wobble
going downhill fast (thought I was gonna die from it on Tour de Blast
in '05) and when riding with no hands.

And speaking of wheels, the OCR2 came with low-spoke-count wheels and
I DID have to replace them when I noticed a split in the rim at one of
the spokes. I was about 200# at the time, which I wouldn't have
thought was excessive for modern-day wheels.

Jeff Jansen


--- In tallrides@yahoogroups.com, "johnnykrisma" <johnvenable@...> wrote:
>
> I'd imagine that would depend on a few different things. Lacing
pattern, riding style, riding
> terrain, rims and spokes. I've never had any problems with wheels,
though, like you, in
> recent years, I've been mostly a mountain biker.
>
> My current bike is a Giant with one of those 12 spoke (per side)
single cross lacing
> patterns, not sure what they are called. I was a bit concerned when
I first got it that I'd
> torque the crap out of the thing. I've only got about 400 miles on
the thing, but I do ride it
> to work every day and they still seem pretty true. Obviously not a
huge sample set but
> some empirical help.
>
> John
>
>
> --- In tallrides@yahoogroups.com, "Big Man" <bigkahuna47@> wrote:
> >
> > In my research it looks like cannondale also. Are there any
> > problems with wheels????
> >
> > I have non with my mountain bike so far. But did have a French
> > built road bike where the tork would bend the wheels on an uphill
> > run.
> >
> > Any comments on wheels???
> >
> > --- In tallrides@yahoogroups.com, "johnnykrisma" <johnvenable@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In tallrides@yahoogroups.com, "Big Man" <bigkahuna47@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm 6'6 225 and was looking around for a road bike? Any
> > suggesstions?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I'm actually the same size as you and currently ride an XL Giant
> > OCR-2. I'm having
> > > problems with getting the thing sized for me and I'm thinking it's
> > just not big enough. I've
> > > got about 7+ inches of seatpost showing as well as swapped out to
> > a 130 stem.
> > >
> > > From what I'm reading the Cannondales work well for us big guys.
> > Large diameter
> > > aluminum tubes I guess keep it stiff while also absorbing some of
> > the vibrations.
> > >
> > > Speaking of Aluminum though, does anyone feel like they could snap
> > their handlebars in
> > > half? I certainly do, when I get cranking the flex in my bars is
> > quite frightening. I don't even
> > > want to think of how that would go down if I snapped them.
> > >
> > > New to this group, so Hello all.
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> >
>