Originally Posted by
KJ43
I ride mountain bike trails with switchbacks all the time on my gravel bike which has toe overlap. Not an issue with good technique.
While sure you can and so did I do it, it was much more fun on my Giant Revolt adv 2 with no toe overlap. I think for road bike it's not that big of deal, on gravel/mnt that does a lot of switch backs I think it's a design flaw.
On level or down hill you have momentum to carry your speed if you foot touches. While going up a steep technical section at 2 mph then a 180 switch back is not the time you want to hit the front tire.