The Big Fat Dummy is a long tail cargo bike that took a few too many doses of growth hormones. At first glance, you might say that we just put bigger tires on a Big Dummy. But if you said that, you`d actually be very wrong so just? don`t. Think of Big Fat Dummy as more of a second or third cousin to Big Dummy rather than a brother. They share some of the same DNA and look sort of similar, but they?re two very different bikes and really only interact when they both reach for the potato salad spoon at that family reunion that no one really wants to be at anyway.

Enter: The Midnight Special - a Road Plus bike designed to provide comfort and speed on those all-day rides that extend well beyond fresh pavement. It rides like a cloud on smooth pavement. but that?s expected. Any bike can do that. Where it truly shines is on pot-holed, deteriorating pavement and the occasional long stretch of gravel. The Midnight Special`s 650b Road Plus tires eat up road chatter and absorb all the bumps in the road like the champion it was designed to be.

For this year, Ogre received a similar treatment as Troll did last year ? horizontal slotted dropouts with Gnot-Boost spacing, a tweaked non-suspension corrected geometry, and a beefier tire clearance, but in a 29er platform. The chainstay yoke has been redesigned to be fully compatible with both 29 x 2.5? and 27.5+ tires. Now with even more of the accessory barnacles you?ve come to know and love on many of our bikes: two water bottle mounts, four sets of three-pack bosses, mid- and low-blade fork eyelets, threaded holes for racks, fenders, and trailer mounting nuts, and a Rohloff OEM2 axle plate slot. If you opt to buy an Ogre complete bike, prepare yourself to get handsy with our new Moloko bar that comes stock on it. It offers hand positions that you didn`t even know existed and the ability to mount even more accessories.

We typically try to avoid bullshit cliché terms like Do-It-All or Swiss Army Knife of Bikes, so we?ll just say that Ogre can probably handle most of the ideas that are bouncing around in your head.