Originally Posted by
avhed
I do not follow this. I have not seen fudged TT numbers, but you may have seen more frames than I. The mentioning of TT frames does the opposite of clarification.
Oh, sorry. TT frames have super agressive geometry, so you would expect a longer top tube. It's not really so weird though, because the frames are so short. Imagine in your mind a standard road bike. Keep the crankset and head tube where they are. Then make the seat/seat tube more vertical and move the rear wheel forward. The rider is shoved forward a lot. So for the bike to fit the top tube length in actual measure is shorter than you would think because the bars are meant to be under the riders elbows.
I think I see your confusion. In my post above, I mis-typed head tube, I meant seat tube. I edited the post above.