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actually you're right about the barrel distortion - the seatstays look pretty straight to me, so not that. the back wheel looks slightly closer to the wall, though, and the photo looks like it was taken on a level with the top of the seat (NDS brake lever is level or maybe even above, and NDS chainstay is much higher), so could still be some kind of optical illusion...
ibob
Surely not. The bend is generally added to the tube when building a fork, isn't it? It would simply be a matter of employing a different bending jig to apply less bend to make a fork with less rake. Two different forks for the range of sizes was the norm, IIRC.
Fairly certain the blue bike has had a hit. If you zoom in on the head tube and fork and look across your screen, you can see that not even the rear edge of the blade is parallel, let alone the centre line.
That ain't no barrel distortion - look how close to round the wheels look; it's a proper bike pic, zoomed in from far.