Originally Posted by
seat_boy
You have two choices:
learn to live with it
this seems totally unreasonable to me!
Originally Posted by
seat_boy
- put on a fork with lots of rake. This will move the front wheel further away from your feet, but will also transform the handling of your bike in the "low trail" direction. Some people would find this an improvement while some would not.
I've just measured: trail is around 5cm. if I can get a fork with 2cm more rake (1 for the overlap and 1 for the fender) I'll be left with a 3cm trail.
all of a sudden the first choice starts to look totally reasonable to me! :-)
not kiding now: I'll see if I get used to it w/o fenders. if I do I'll put on the fenders and see if I get used to it. I hope I'll do but if I don't I'll get I bigger (60cm) frame and sell this one (with a $100 loss) instead of quick-dirty tricks like smaller crank or bigger rake which could impact the geometry in un-imagined ways.
thanks for your help!