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I can tell you this, with a normal fork, it's much harder to micro-correct your steering when you're cornering for example, with your fork, you can able to make evasive manoeuvre to avoid a pothole.
On my old CX bicycle, it have a high trail fork for stability off road, but designed to take a front load so it doesn't feel flexy (in other word, it's quite a beefy fork) it felt nice and solid when riding but it's much harder to react quickly to avoid a pothole, other than just bracing yourself for the impact.
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Continued to ride well. The weight was there, but I didn't feel like I had to adapt to a very different style of riding. Descending was fun (well, whatever small hills there are around here). Very happy so far.
I do believe that low trail has an effect on how the bike handles with front load, but frankly I don't have any prior experience with this much weight in the front.