I have an old mountain bike right now that I use for commuting, single track, and gravel riding. The commute is pretty short and I have to jump up a lot of curbs so the mtb is good for that, and obviously single track but I'm looking to get a decent bike for long (70-100km) gravel rides, also looking to do some touring and maybe tts. I live in a flat place right now but I plan on doing some riding in mountains so needs to be able to climb with it.
https://www.giant-bicycles.com/us/toughroad-slr-gx-0-2018I'm interested in this bike, the expensive one has a 1x drivetrain, is the ratio low enough for climbing and touring, but high enough for road and gravel? It's got a sram apex 40t crankset and 11-42 cassette, no idea what my MTB has now because it's pretty old and I got it used.
