I dunno. It's an older, low-end women's road bike with fairly generic alloy rims. I do know that larger guys have to worry about having enough spokes in their wheels ... my "little" brother is 6'2, about 230 pounds, which is big enough that his mountain bike choices were a little limited. (Although he borrowed my mountain bike for a day this summer, and it came back filthy but intact!) When he gets around to buying a road bike he thinks he'll probably buy a touring bike for a number of reasons, one of which is that it will stand up to his size better than a racing-type bike would. Touring bikes tend to have wheels with more spokes, and the spokes are beefier, too.