Larger front wheel on Giant Stiletto??

[Miguello]

Will I run into toe overlap (pedals hitting front tire) if I put a larger front wheel on this bike? When these first came out I was thinking they were pretty cool, but the 20 inch front wheel was a huge fail in my book. The bottom line of the frame isn't level, which should have been a no go situation to begin with. It just looks like they didn't think it through, made the forks too short, then said WTH throw a 20 inch on it and no one will notice. I'd like to use a 24 inch stingray wheel, or maybe a 26 inch with a 1.5-2.0 tire.

Will the pedals have to be stopped in order to turn without crashing?

BTW, just found this at a pawn shop yesterday. WHAT? Yes, it was priced at $100, and they were having a 40% off sale on bikes, for ONE day only. I rolled this out the door for $64 and change....

 

[Miguello]

The lady said they priced it so low to begin with, since the rear tire was flat... I brought it home, pulled the piece of metal out of the tire, replaced the tube, and voila. I think I will just go around to pawn shops letting the air out of tires for a discount, haha! Nah, it was strange I thought though. They think a tire not staying inflated had such a huge impact on the overall value.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Best bet would be to measure the clearance from your toes to the current tire, if you have an easy 2" of clearance then a 24" will fit.

Just looking at the pics, I am not sure you will have room without adding extensions to the fork dropouts to move the wheel further forward.

Luke.

 

[Miguello]

NICE!! It worked!! With the angle of my foot on the pedals, the tread just barely grazed the bottom of my toe. There was no side interference, only the bottom of the shoe. I used a QR mtb wheel just to try it. I can live with a little rub, if it means that 20 inch is gone! It looks TEN times better IMHO.

 

[Miguello]

I will probably use a 1.5 tire or maybe a 1.75. With the smaller size, and a smooth tread, it might not even rub at all.

 

[Miguello]

Got to get some 14mm to 3/8's axle adaptor washers though.

 

[Fv2]

There's one of these at a local shop that I don't usually go to. It's NOS I guess you could say, the guy who owns the shop is asking nearly $500 for it. So I'd say $64 is a check of a deal.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Looks much better!

Luke.

 

[Miguello]

Got some 3/8" to 14mm washers, and put a 1.5 Pasela tourguard on another front wheel. MUCH better. One side of the original wheel wasn't even tightened, probably from the bike shop.