There’s a thought gnawing at me, scratching gently at the bit of my brain where really good thoughts come from. I’ve got a dropper post, two-inch tyres and a squishy air fork. I’m riding serpentine singletrack. But my thumbs are pointing forwards rather than down, and my hands are closer together than perhaps they should be.
The thought is this: I am riding a mountain bike but also I am emphatically not riding a mountain bike.
The Giant Revolt X is the Giant Revolt (see issue 129) but more so. A chunk more tyre clearance and commensurately more substantial rubber is accompanied by a Fox suspension fork offering 40mm of
