>>1231726Front baskets mean you can grab shit while you're riding and keep an eye on your stuff if it's not super securely bagged up.
Also, you can get up out of the saddle without the rear load wagging the rear end all over the place and trying to break your frame in half.
>>1231735>It's because look at that motherfucking fork, just look at it! it's so stretched out, and the 68* HTA on the bike sure helps too. Long stretched out bikes like this are stable AF as fuck with a basket.Yeah, but this actually sucks. That slack head tube angle means you have hella wheel flop and you really have to muscle the front end around at low speed.
High trail steering geo can be OK with a front load if you live in flatlandia, but the front end will wander all over the place on low-speed climbs, and it's basically impossible to adjust your line mid-turn on fast, twisty paved descents.
High trail also makes the bike much more cumbersome to park with a load in the basket - the front always wants to flop over.
Here's basket bike #1: Very typical, mid-90s MTB geo. It works - I've done some gnarly dirt climbs on it before. But it's not great; it's a REAL challenge to keep the front end pointed in the right direction on bump low-speed climbs.
