Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
Brifters would not work with that drybag you have on your handlebars, more and more people are touring on brifters. I do not recall the brand name of the shifters you use, but they must have very short levers to work with that dry bag. I can't quite make out the shift levers in the photo.
Hi T, didnt see this message. Nope, they aint brifters, thems those oddball Gevenalle shifters, so the levers dont swing at all, they are just regular old brake levers.
But yes, makes things easier with baggage, to an extent.
I still do have to place the yellow drybag properly to not get in the way of the swing of the shift levers, and I have 46cm wide bars-- a lot of bikepacking bars are really wide nowadays, part for more wide control on sketchy surfaces, but with bonus of working well with brifters. The son of a friend put wide dropbars on his bike earlier this year, they were super wide, like 54cm or something.
Here are the shifters, easier to see, on narrower bars than now.
