Originally Posted by Kapusta

Um, no.

Look at the head tubes on those Fargos. The one with the suspension corrected fork is much shorter..

That is what “suspension corrected” means..

You have to look at the hight of the fork plus the head tube length. You have only been looking at the fork length. This is why you are confused.

Also, you can’t go comparing head tube lengths of one bike to another (or anything really) unless you have bikes of the same size, and same fork length. And even then you are not taking into account BB height.

Forget the pictures, look at the actual geometry numbers.

Your frustration is not due to how bikes are designed, it is due to your profound lack of understanding of bike geometry. The fact that it is not obvious to you that you should be on a smaller sized frame is just one example of how clueless you are about any of this.