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All other things being equal, a bicyle with more trail will steer slower, less twitchy, than a bicycle with less trail.
Counterintuitively, more rake reduces trail and makes a faster steering, more twitchy, snappier handling bike.
Decent summary here,... http://www.phred.org/~josh/bike/trail.html, althought the diagram above is also very good and clear.
LRM will likely notice a change from 71mm to 62mm trail. It's pretty easy to get used to, though, and neither figure is low. I'd expect the handling to be improved by the change, as 71mm is seriously slack for anything other than a town bike or roadster. 62mm is pretty typical for a tourer, road bikes on average a bit less, track bikes less still. (http://www.kgsbikes.com/news/brent-stability-handling)