Originally Posted by
arbalest
I was going to ask about this in a separate post but this seems like a good place...
Do you have problems with steering? Any sense that the stem is actually twisting? What happens when you lean the bike to throw your leg over?
I recently put a Wald basket on a beater to carry a 10lb box to UPS for shipping. The ride was terrifying. Here you have MUCH more load. Maybe I could tighten things up, change stems and move the basket down to a front rack. But I want to be convinced that it is a solvable problem without a frame-mounted basket (apparently it is).
No real handling issues, it does handle different loaded than empty. Fork rake and trail along with the bike frame angles have a lot to do with how the bike will handle with a load. I rode a heavily loaded Schwinn Heavy Duty delivering papers for years. Perhaps I just quickly adapt to what I am riding? That Raleigh frame is pretty small for me, I usually don't tilt it to throw my leg over.
Aaron
