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.
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When I saw that dry bag, my first thought was how do you shift? I did not see bar end shifters on your bike. Then I remembered your type of shifters.
I use a fairly large handlebar bag. When I built up my rando bike, I was unsure how a Campy brifter would work on that bike, but it works just fine, below:
But if the bag was up higher, that side pocket could get in the way.