Front Wheel Hitting Foot

[Nigeyy]

Ouch!

Of course it's personal preference -and I haven't been badly affected by toe overlap -but I can't help but think it would only take one time when you are crossing a road turning and suddenly see a vehicle bearing down on you (that is not going to stop) and in haste you forget about the toe overlap, hit the front tyre, and you suddenly slow down or fall off. Call me a mamby pamby, but that's what puts me off. At least for my body dimensions I don't have a problem finding other bikes with no toe overlap that handle extremely similarly so I don't even feel like I'm compromizing. Again, horses for courses on this one.

The blog link my midliferrider was a good one to read -I think it tried to put both points of view fairly.

I only realised I had toe overlap when I caught my foot badly on doing a sharp turn, stopped the bike dead in its tracks and put myself over the handle bars, badly breaking my arm!

 

[midliferider]

Look what you have done to me.
This morning I checked my bikes for toe overlap before riding to work. Both my road bikes toe overlap. But I had never encountered any problems. Now that I am aware of it, it happens!

 

[jack smith]

ive got the same issue but i do have size 14 feet but its only ever when the bike is stationary i notice it

 

[MikeW-71]

I have toe-overlap on all of my road bikes, occasionally you notice it, usually when slowly wobbling around, the rest of the time it will never cause a problem.

^^ this

My road bikes and a previous hybrid have toe-overlap. In normal riding you will never turn the bars anywhere near enough for it to be a problem, I only have to watch out when trying tight turns at low speed. Like turning in the width of a road for instance.

The MTB does not have overlap, I'd say it would be extremely bad if that happened given the low speed manouvering you need to be able to do while still pedalling.