Revolution bikes offer fair quality and outstanding value and I know this as I've worked on a few, some friends in my cycling club have these and have a good opinion of them.

For someone starting out touring they are a good choice.

What I would do before using the bike is have the wheels re-tensioned and stressed by a competent wheel-builder. The weak link in any budget-priced bike is always the wheels and having them tweaked before using the bike can save many a problem.