Originally Posted by repechage

Falerios's designs avoided toe clip overlap. Really bugged Baylis. As he rode a small frame and felt the solution to avoiding it, slack head angle mostly to achieve a short top tube made the bike handle like a wheelbarrow.
On the subject bike here, shorten the front center 8mm and I think that there will still be no overlap.
Some of this was the work of the UCI regs at the time. They are different now, and the UCI even mandates "lawyer lips" for the fork to retain the wheel... Cannot trust the Pro mechanics?