Dual Control put me on the sidelines for 4 months, try not being able to stand to bend over to tie your shoes on cold days, but can't due to bone chips in your lower back. Having to walk on crutches because you broke bones in your foot and having sprained every ligament in that leg all because the damn shifter is also the damn brake, went to shift to the third gear on the front and instead wound up with the damn brake engaging, thus sending me over the bars landing hard on my back and and landing awkwardly on my right leg, and slid into a rock foot first. Never had that problem before with triggers, preferred shimano's triggers over sram's twist shift. How many freeriders actually use the dual control levers, most people remove them and put on lx or deore triggers and use the hydraulic brake of their choice. I haven't had a single deraillieur failure since switching to Sram X.7. I broke way too many shimano deraillieurs because of a simple hit to the cage. I've smashed this deraillieur against stuff hard and it has never broke or gone out of adjustment. The only issue I had was that I did not have 5th gear for awhile, had the others, but no 5th gear. Found out that it was the shimano xt cassette I had was broken, put a new cassette on and had 5th again. I'm actualy very easy on my equipment. Yes, I'll admit I had a brainfart when saying that sram didn't offer a x.9 twist shift. I'm about due to replace the deraillieur will probably put a X.0 on this time or go SS. I have a bit of a right to dislike dual control.