Originally Posted by
tashi
Doohickie, I'm not sure if it's possible, but if you can lower your front rack as close to the top of the fender as possible your handling would improve a great deal. Might be tricky to do without modding the top brackets significantly though...
There are two issues: as you said, I'd have to mod the top brackets. Also, this is a rod brake bike with a Raleigh headlight bracket/emblem on the front. So the brackets have to go forward and not down:
The headlight bracket is visible at the top of this pic:
I did the best I could without modding the basket. I carry heavy stuff in the back, lighter stuff up front.