[Closed] Surly Ogre for touring?

FWIW, i built up a "mainly MTB parts" tourer out of an inbred frame with the exact same intention.

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I even ran is SS for town duties, but I never got around to using i with 26" wheels offroad, and used it constantly as a town run around (i live 20 min walk, 5 min ride from city centre) and a commuter. In the end accepted that i was better off with a "road a path specific" Disk trucker instead.

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I dont have a "road bike", so i ride it more than any other bike,

I realise this doesnt answer your question at all

I have a Fargo and use it everywhere, great for touring and general dicking about on trails for the other 50 weeks of the year.

Thanks all.

I hadn't noticed the new dropouts on the Fargo. Guess it might come down to fit against the Ogre, drop bars are the priority but I wouldn't mind being able to swap.

Olly - I have a Pompino which I use for the bike paths around here, so that helps a little. No doubt a LHT/DT would be the best tool for the job, but my head says to think about what will realistically be the other 95% of the year. I'm not much of a roadie, and a lot of the roads round here are decidedly offputting for keeping it as a pure tourer.

Bump for the evening. Not very scientific, but a drop/midge bar Ogre seems a bit more straightforward than a flat bar Fargo. Think there was a thread here about drop bar Karate Monkeys a while ago.

Neither would be perfect though, so don't want to rule anything out yet.

Deft -apologies if this if a bit off your thread.....

Olly I realise it might be difficult to quantify, as it looks as though the seat to bar drop is much less on the LHT so the riding position looks quite different, but how do you find the LHT ride compared to the Inbred?

for the amount of offroad riding I do now, I tried to get 1 bike for it all.
I went for a disc trucker, which for canal paths, cycle tracks, it is ok, but for anything any rougher, or riding offroad at speed, it is too much of a compromise.
a ogre fitted with 700c x 32c tyres for on road or 2.5 tyres offroad, would be a far better option I reckon.

wanna buy a 62cm disc trucker? 😉

My 29er is built with drop bars and works great as a tourer.

I tried a Fargo too - seemed pretty similar, just a ton heavier, I sold it after 5 miles of riding.

Any stiff bike with rack mounts works as a tourer.

An Inbred would be a lot chuffing cheaper...

wanna buy a on one 29r fitted with singular rigid forks, bb7's and a set of spesh armadillo touring tyres?

only rack and guards needed

I've been using a Troll (the Ogre's 26" cousin) for pretty much everything for a while now and I've been really happy with it. It's not the snappiest mtb frame (unsurprisingly) but it certainly does the job. If I bought again, it'll be the Ogre (it wasn't available at the time)

Thanks Ton, faffing and speculation only until after Christmas though.

Am leaning towards a 29er Inbred mind. Ogre I tried (sat on) did feel brilliantly tank like, but I know people have done far more than I ever will, on much less bike.

See, I bought a Troll a few years ago thinking I could take off the mudguards, put on knobblies and go bike packing with it.

What I actually did with it was never really leave the roads. I'd have been better off getting a proper road touring thing like a disc Trucker, but I'm too attached to my orange Troll to just sell it now!

Holy thread redirection batman. Andy, its much more comfortable, and is the main reason I changed it. Gone from lots of weight on hands to nearly none.
Inbred now has 120mm (130mm, dont tell brant) forks and still feels obscenly hands heavy in comparison
Delft, I reckon I could fit 29" race kings on the disk trucker if that helps.

I have a alu bike built as a drop bar 29er which also gets used touring and as a cross bike.

It's light enough to be fun in non-youring guise, and stiff enough to tour on. It may break at some point though.

I tried a Fargo, it weighed a ton, I sold it after a 4 mile ride, I couldn't see any benefit.