Originally Posted by
SquidPuppet
Look at this bike below. The fork BLADE itself is STRAIGHT. But it is fastened to the steerer tube at an angle. That creates the reake/offset. This fork has almost the same amount of rake/offset as the blue bike I pictured earlier. 45mm vs 50mm.
Use a straight edge on your monitor in line with the head tube and you will see the the axle is well in front of the steering axis.
I know, I perfectly get that, it's obvious that having a straight fork but with an angle at the joint with the head tube will have the same effect. What I was saying is that in the previous posted picture, just that picture, the increased rake of that very specific bicycle was likely consequence on the curvature, so I am not sure how we did get here to be honest.