Oh, and for some personal experience, I bent or broke a couple of rear axles on freewheel bikes in my younger years and weighed about 150 pounds...
I have ridden cassette equipped bikes for the last 10-12 years, weighing between 300 and 365 pounds and I have had no problems with rear axles.
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