Ogre or Bridge Club
TL;DR - looking to try and make a faster gravel tourer to keep up with friends on the odd gravel group ride.
Hi folks - I’m looking at either the Ogre on skinner tires or a bridge club on 700c and looking for input from you strangers haha!
Use case is 90% solo riding to and from work, around town, and just the usual meandering around local fire roads. I have a proper road bike and MTB so I’m kind of at a crossroads on the build. I don’t really want to replace either of my current bikes so these tourers feel like a good middle ground. The other 10% is gravel with guys on proper gravel bikes. I’ve been using my hard tail but I can’t keep up on the flats.
Either bike will get alt bars either moloko or a jones to help with a little extra aero on the flats.
I originally started on the Midnight Special trail but that feels a little too roadie IMO and I was looking to not do drop bars.
All opinions welcome! Thanks for the help.