Originally Posted by
alanbikehouston
None of the bikes I owned prior to around 1995 had any toe overlap. Then, I discovered that the new road bike I bought had a LOT of overlap...discovered it while trying to make a slow, sharp turn...
Many younger folks may not even know what you are talking about. If someone's "oldest" bike is a road bike from after around 1995, they have never been on a road bike that does not have toe overlap, so it feels normal...nothing worth noticing.
I read a post recently where a guy bought his first road bike. When he discovered that his shoe was hitting the front tire, he thought the bike shop had sold him a defective bike...Naw...the bike was fine, it is just the design that was defective.
I guess my 1990 BASSO Paris-Roubaix frame was defective then. Most toe-lap out of any bike I have ever known. I ride smaller frames so toe lap is ALWAYS an issue for me.
Funny enough the bike that I own which has the least amount of toe lap....my 2005 Giant TCR Composite. That's right....a modern carbon frame with "compact" geometry. Maybe they just hired a bunch of old codgy in-gen-ears to design the frame. Ocassionaly if I listen closely I hear what I think is a slide rule bouncing around insider of the frame. One of them must have left it in there.
[Sarcasm]That or the finger the chinese slave child lost while building my frame finally dried up and is bouncing around like a rock......Oh those wacky slave children in China. Always losing something. A hat, glasses, finger, foot, eye, whatever.[/Sarcasm]