Did you read this review? The 8 Freight's designer, Mike Burrows, is a man of strong and sometimes radical opinions, one of the foremost bicycle designers of our age. Whether he's right or wrong, I will not venture an opinion, unless he sends me an 8 Freight to try (in which case, I'll be sure to post a completely objective review)(Mike, you reading this?)(pm me!).

Think about this, though. Turning the handlebar of a bike with a 90 degree fork angle does not lift the front end of the bike any higher from the road; relax that angle, and offset it a bit, and now turning the handlebar does lift the front end of the bike up higher. So if you have a lot of weight on the front wheel, that weight will naturally resist the effort to steer the bike to some degree. So Burrows' low trail design must be pretty easy to steer.