Thanks for the feedback! Ok yeah probably not pushing limits of traction with a light load.
Fork I’m aiming for is the Rodeolabs spork 3. AC 396mm R 50mm.
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To address the toe overlap concerns, I would do a design with the ENVE adventure fork’s 55mm rake option. That would allow you to slacken the HTA to maintain your 70mm of trail. It would probably add an extra 10-15mm of front center to reduce toe overlap.
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I think toe overlap from the side drawing shown is fine. The tyre will arc forward and have a bigger gap to the toe. Other than that this design is ripe for a custom stem that does away with most of the spacers or extend the head tube above the top tube. Both would look more aesthetically tidy.
Other than that just build it. It really is the only way to hone your own spider senses in laying a bike out and having fit numbers to work with.
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Doing a a bit more testing, today groceries added 16.7kg of weight in rear panniers (to the Vagabond) and that was certainly too much as the bike started to handle strangly.
For day to day it doesn’t really matter as the distances are short enough, but for touring I think it would be annoying. So designing around ~10kg in the back before adding more in the front seems to work out.
10kg is a pretty good amount of gear for touring with modern equipment. How much do you plan to carry?
10kg is my ~3-season kit. So food and additional water gets added depending on availability, maybe 2-4kg additionally? Don’t have any experience carrying a lot of extra food, usually just what’s left over from the day before or comes in big packages.
Man those bikes are not a good choice for that route! It would have been even worse with all the weight in two rear panniers. If that’s the type of riding you want to do (which is the type I like…), please consider getting out of your comfort zone a bit with some more capable bikes. I will use a Jones LWB as a point of reference, which would have been perfect for this route IMHO.
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