Originally Posted by
kahn
Nice pictures and trip.
Hope you don't mind my asking but are front panniers better than rear one? Or a reason for a preference?
Thank you and its no problem. That's actually my buddies bike along with a pic I shot of him- I just liked that one. Mine is the green/white Gorilla Monsoon with the chunkies
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With the low rider front panniers, as far as I know its very dependent on the bikes geometry. He tells me with the trail of that bike along with the head tube angle, and how he has them located that they barely affect his handling and even almost smooth it out. You will see with touring bikes designed for a front load (Surly pack rat) that they have pretty steep head tube angles.
The cons of carrying weight there is that its pretty bad for chunky off road or even technical road sections, but that's not an issue here and was great for road/gravel touring.