I originally posted this on the hybrid forum and they sent me over here so here goes

I am 6.4 and weigh 240. - I have a comfort bike and looking to upgrade to something faster I ride on avg 100 miles + sometimes a 50 mile avg sunday ride my current bike had a lot of issiues with wheels and other componants. Trying to decide between giant rapid or defy or trek 7.2 fx (or 3) or 2009 trek 1.5. That's for bkgrnd. This was my post
I am trying to under stand the diff between a road bike and a hybrid. Is it beacuse it has drop downs that it is a road bike? I look at some bikes example the giant rapid and giant defy the frame is nearly exactly the same maybe a inch diff and one is calles a hybrid and the other a road


The bigger question is that a few lbs talked me out of a road bike seeing I am 6.4 and weigh 240 they tell me it won't hold up as good on the ny roads which are pretty bumby. Is it tru. I mean just because I put drop downs will it suddenly be ore likley to warp the wheels etc.especially seeing on a lpot of hybrids the wheels are just as thin