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
> >
>