Yeah, thats what I'm afraid of - it seems that with front rack you always need to think really hard about distributing weight evenly or you get real steering problems. Whereas with the back, while that helps tremendously for long rides, you can kind of wing it and learn to compensate and the issue with only one pannier (or generally uneven packing) is more that of drag and weight than of steering.. Does that make sense? The other option is *both* but with the Troll and Big Apple 2.35, bikes starting to get plenty heavy :-(