Originally Posted by
chaadster
It's a pure road bike, but depending on your goals and the bike's design, you may be able to get a sufficiently wide tire on the KHS Flite 747, which is specifically designed by Leonard Zinn as a tall rider's bike and is available only in 65cm.
Try
www.torpedo7.com.au for availability.
Thanks but I am looking for something fairly robust to handle the broken edged pot holed bitumen of our country roads, also do packed and loose gravel on a local rail trail, hence my thinking that an alloy cyclocross bike might do the job.