Originally Posted by JoFrNo

Madness! I've been riding since the late '80s, including racing up until about 1997, and have had (I think) about 6 road bikes and whatever amount of pairs of shoes in all that time but have never encountered this before, or even heard it mentioned by anyone until I searched for this today.

The only time I ever had toe-overlap was when I rode into the side of a car (it pulled out in front of me) and afterwards on the ride home the front wheel hit my shoe on a slow turn. Turns out the frame had bent in the crash.

So are you saying that toe-overlap is the modern norm, then?