What are brifters?
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Originally Posted by Viich
I don't see how this is different from the Road Cycling forum. Those bikes are obviously not old enough to be C&V, because that would mean that I'm old, so they're just not the newest spec stuff. 
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Before 1990, the basic design of the road bike wasn't finished.
That's what brifters are - the final element of our favourite machine.
That's what brifters are - the final element of our favourite machine.
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Originally Posted by Viich
I don't see how this is different from the Road Cycling forum. Those bikes are obviously not old enough to be C&V, because that would mean that I'm old, so they're just not the newest spec stuff.
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I avoid using the term “brifters”. Ergo levers for Campagnolo, STI for Shimano or integrated shifters & brake levers as a universal term.
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Originally Posted by smurfy
Sheldon Brown may have invented the term?
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Call it what you want, I'm just glad the section is here. Maybe someone can explain Campagnolo vintage brifters to me, what works with what, and I can finally start venturing out beyond Shimano.
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Brifters are...
Too Expensive!
I do have to admit they are coming down in price...
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Anybody who doesn't like the term "brifter" is welcome to come up with something better. But it has to be generic (Microshift doesn't make "Ergopowers", and Campy doesn't make "STIs") and concise in order to catch on (are you really going to say "shifting brake levers" every time?), so good luck with that. 
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Originally Posted by ThermionicScott
Anybody who doesn't like the term "brifter" is welcome to come up with something better. But it has to be generic (Microshift doesn't make "Ergopowers", and Campy doesn't make "STIs") and concise in order to catch on (are you really going to say "shifting brake levers" every time?), so good luck with that.
Any replacement for the generic term "brifter" can only have a maximum of two words or it's too long to ever catch on. "Brake shifters" or, even worse, "shift brakers" won't work because it's confusing. It sounds like it's shifting the brakes or braking the shifts.
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levers. context handles the rest.
no one ever asked me "which levers you talkin' bout?"
no one ever asked me "which levers you talkin' bout?"
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Originally Posted by blacknbluebikes
levers. context handles the rest.
no one ever asked me "which levers you talkin' bout?"
no one ever asked me "which levers you talkin' bout?"
So I can convey what exactly I'm talking about with several words of context, or I can just use one word to do exactly the same thing? I'm going with the one word.
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Originally Posted by Milice
Bifters is a made up work found mainly here on BF. It's sort of like the made up words they try to make you use at Starbucks when ordering.
So would that make the people that make or install them Briftras?
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I'm calling BS on this one
"B"rake + "S"hifter = BS
"B"rake + "S"hifter = BS
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hmmmm.
I haven't heard or read a word "brifters" in Japan.
I looked in a dictionary and found none, but internet taught me. lol!
Friends and I still call them brake levers.
Bike shop guys call STI or dual control levers for Shimano, Ergo Levers for Campy.
I'm not sure if "brifter" is a common term for them in Japanese.
I haven't heard or read a word "brifters" in Japan.
I looked in a dictionary and found none, but internet taught me. lol!
Friends and I still call them brake levers.
Bike shop guys call STI or dual control levers for Shimano, Ergo Levers for Campy.
I'm not sure if "brifter" is a common term for them in Japanese.
