Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
I met a German gal at a hostel, we were both going the same direction so we traveled together for a few days. She had a heavy load on her rear rack but the bike seemed to handle ok with it. Photo below.

That front fender line is like a car crash- I cant look away! It may be jacked up because it was in a car crash, actually. It looks to be dragging on the tire even.
I dig the metal handlebar basket- its quite the juxtaposition from the large waterproof panniers.