Hi all!
I’m about to buy my first gravel bike. I have started my journey to look for a new bike with e-mtb on my mind but then I have realized my area has no mountains 😅 I have started considering gravel bikes since most of my tracks are cities, parks and forests. I don’t want to buy a strict road bike since I don’t like riding on the road exclusively (yet). I’m trying to get back in shape after my spine injury from few years back so I’m looking for a comfortable ride that won’t stress my spine and joints too much.
There are a lot of good bikes in my local store. Right now there are 2 available that I’m considering: Giant Revolt X Advanced Pro 0 (size M/L) and S-Works Diverge (size 58). My height is 180cm and my weight is 127kg.
Here are specs of both rides:
Giant Revolt X Advanced Pro 0 2023
https://www.giant-bicycles.com/int/revolt-x-advanced-pro-0-2023
S-Works Diverge 2022
https://www.specialized.com/pl/en/s-works-diverge/p/199968?color=322106-199968
There’s $1500 price difference in the store right now but I think it’s negotiable 🙂
Can you help me with deciding which one would be better for me?
For the front suspension I’m pretty sure that both solutions will work fine (fox gravel fork in giant, future shock in s-works), s-works just looks much better since it’s hidden. Giant has dropper seatpost with suspension, S-works has a carbon seatpost which I can ugrade in the future with PNW dropper coast suspension (https://www.pnwcomponents.eu/products/coast-suspension-dropper-post-external?variant=40010488053837). It would be ideal to be able to hide cables from PNW dropper inside S-Works’ frame.
Let me know if I am looking at the right direction 🙂
by memstel