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06-10-11 | 04:41 PM

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Scooby214

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Originally Posted by sathor

now, are they great? they are nice. mostly. They are better than the grip shifters, but the left thumb trigger was hard to hit all the way until I did a fair bit more adjusting than I would have preferred. I havn't seen any other markings on the device, no luck googleing them when I tried, but... they were $25 at the LBS, he had them laying around in a bag in the workshop area, and about the same for the installation and new cables.

Actually, the shifter portion works on the same principal to the Sram X3 trigger shifters on my bike. They are my preferred way to shift a flat bar bike. You are the first person I've ever heard refer to units like these as brifters. I wouldn't worry about the brand, as they are definitely an upgrade from the stock gripshifters. Schwinn has sold some flat bar bikes with similar integrated brake/shifter units, such as the Schwinn Tourist with Shimano RapidFire 8 speed integrated shifter/brake units.

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