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It's going to depend on your weight distribution and bar/stem set up. The near-universal consensus of 73°-74° and 40-43mm fork offset on modern road and timetrial bikes, with track bikes deviating only in having a shorter offset to give more trail, indicates that a happy medium has been settled upon after many years of experimentation. It's perfectly feasible to ride a bike with no trail at all, it's just that you might enjoy it more if you stick to what has been proven to work best. As I said in my first comment, read a lot before cutting any metal, so you at least know what you're letting yourself in for if you decide to go your own way. Eric Buell makes motorcycles with steering geometry which some conservative commentators thought (wrongly) would be a death trap on road bikes, so it's possible to buck the trend without dying.