Giant Revel 2014 review: A wolf in sheep’s clothing

A handful of entry-level bikes can give you the kind of confidence the Giant Revel does. The Giant Revel 2014 disc came for a review and we decided to test it out in the MTB Himalaya, touted as the world’s third toughest mountain bike race. At first, the 7-day multistage endurance race seemed like a mammoth task for a bicycle that explicitly warns “No freeride, downhill or any hard riding”.But I did all of this and much more!Initially, I was slightly apprehensive about the bicy