Kicking front wheel

It's got nothing to do with clearances, it has to do with the angle of your head tube and a little to do with rake and length of fork.

pretty sure clearances play a part - tho it is down to frame geometry.

i have never had this problem 60+cm top tubes ftw

mowgster, you can try my spare forks when my new ones come.

Use a touring-frame... ?

Yeah short of just practicing in a car park doing tight turns this is the only solution I can see too. Because the frame is small it's difficult not to get toe overlap on any bike with 700c Wheel I would have thought.

I had toe-overlap on my old bike, and this was a 58cm frame.

This is the issue that is stopping my girlfriend from riding the bike she built- whenever she gets slightly more confident she kicks the wheel again, and that confidence goes out of the window.

She said the other day that she would ride her bike "if it did not terrify me".

Solutions (apart from HTFU please) on the back of a postcard!

Might be worth riding on a track, or in parks where sharp turning isnt necessary, for confidence-building?

Or frame/forks changes as detailed above. I think Sano and Julio are right though, you get very used to it with regular riding, and steer accordingly when pedals might strike to counter it. Just need to build the confidence/ expectation of it into how you manoevre in tight spots. It won't make her fall off, since the wheel isn't going to be dragging the toes downwards if it does strike.

mowgster, you can try my spare forks when my new ones come.

thanks mate, getting used to it now, it's only day 4 of riding the beast, but have done an awful lot of slow speed weaving through traffic...and some high speed, so getting the feel of pedal angle versus steering...

I've also got a small frame (51 or so), the overlap is quite bad. Usually not a problem, I just pedal through it until I can turn where I need to. Yesterday though I got a little unbalanced, swung the bars to re-balance and bang! took out my foot out with the wheel. I while I was thinking about this, I was slowly going over, going, going, gone. Had to quickly ride off before the boozed up smokers outside a pub started laughing at me.

Crash into a wall with the forks backwards?

Yeah short of just practicing in a car park doing tight turns this is the only solution I can see too. Because the frame is small it's difficult not to get toe overlap on any bike with 700c Wheel I would have thought.

All in all HTFU is the answer... :) But he want another answer...
It's pretty weird to choose riding a tight trackbike if you care about toe-overlap... imho.

edit:
don't want this:

Then get this:

It's not a track bike, it's a road bike.

Reason it is tight is that it is a small (47cm) frame.

I could tell her to GTFU? (Grow TFU), but she is unlikely to gain 6" in height at the age fo 27 I would think.

Still it's not that big a problem.. just need getting used to it.

i have never had this problem 60+cm top tubes ftw

+1

so grow bigger

+1

so grow bigger

bought new 66cm frame, fitted my suginos on but put 7" wooden blocks on pedals like that kid in temple of doom....
fixed.