Originally Posted by
acantor
Could it be a matter of degree? Perhaps riders can compensate for, say, a quarter of inch of toe overlap, but not an inch. I did not measure how much toe overlap I had, but in three years of riding the bike, I never acclimatized to it.
Yeah, that's a good point. I never tried to check just how much overlap I had on that bike. But my compensation strategy was just making sure to coast, with pedals at 12 and 6, or the offending pedal all the way rearward, whenever I had to turn the handlebar sharply enough to have the overlap problem come up, so it wouldn't have mattered. Another but: I never actually had to do this very often; if the type of riding I was doing featured the need for a lot of sharp, low-speed turns, I'm sure I would have found it annoying enough to want to get a different bike.