Bike Fit

azzurri05 said:

On a road bike is it unusual for your foot to reach the front wheel when it is on an angle? Or should the wheel be able to fully turn unhindered? cheers in advance

Hi,

not sure i follow what you are saying? I am guessing you are asking if you leg should be fully extended (kink in your knee straightened) when you are at the bottome of the stroke? By the bottom of the stroke I mean the crank arm being roughly on the same angle as the seat tube NOT crank being verticle (plumb)

The answer to this is that when the crank is at full extension, then you should still have a bend in your knee - just - dont be fully strenctched out.

dont forget there are more areas to take care of when fitting, not jjust seat height

Hope this was the info you are after

azzurri05 said:

On a road bike is it unusual for your foot to reach the front wheel when it is on an angle? Or should the wheel be able to fully turn unhindered? cheers in advance

Yeah, you can snub your toe on the tire, if you are doing a track stand for instance, with your feet at 3 and 9 and you turn the bars enough. It's not nomally a problem since you rail a bike rather than steer it at speed.

not quite, when the pedals are horizontal my front foot hits the front wheel if it is turned. Obviously you don't usually turn by twisting the handlebars but when at very low speed you need to twist the bars and this is when it hits my foot if i am pedalling- my should are clipless if that helps

CDAKIAHONDA said:

Yeah, you can snub your toe on the tire, if you are doing a track stand for instance, with your feet at 3 and 9 and you turn the bars enough. It's not nomally a problem since you rail a bike rather than steer it at speed.

Thanks honda, good to know it is normal

azzurri05 said:

On a road bike is it unusual for your foot to reach the front wheel when it is on an angle? Or should the wheel be able to fully turn unhindered? cheers in advance

Toe overlap is NOT unusual, particularly on smallish frames.