Founder of Carbondale-based Revel Bikes attempts to revive the brand

Founder of Carbondale-based Revel Bikes attempts to revive the brand

Carbondale’s innovative Revel mountain bikes are built for excelling at both the up and down. The company — born in 2019 with two carbon-fiber models — has been enduring a prolonged descent, with the private equity company that bought the bike maker in 2021 announcing a month ago that it was ending the Revel run, citing a debt of more than $8 million. Now the company’s founder — Adam Miller, who first designed the carbon-fiber Revel rides in 201…