Can you Taylor a Brifter?

I prefer "brafting"

IIRC, Sheldon Brown either coined the portmanteau "brifter" or at least popularized its use.

That sounds like trouble.

Shimano's Dual Control mountain bike shifter/brake levers also fall under this category. Though, they were an EPIC failure.

I'm not even going to attempt to correct that misnomer until after I succeed in getting people to stop using the word "alloy" as a synonym for "aluminum".

:thumb::thumb::thumb:

What does a travel case have to do with brifters?

Alternate definition;

"a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others, for example motel (from ‘motor’ and ‘hotel’) or brunch (from ‘breakfast’ and ‘lunch’)."
"podcast is a portmanteau, a made-up word coined from a combination of the words iPod and broadcast"

I was going to mention these units, I have them on my dual suspension.

Thread drift below.

I may be the only person who likes them. I got them as a package with Sun disc rims, disk rotors, plus the hydraulic shifter-brake things. They shift great and are easy to use. I understand they were hated due to the ease of accidentally shifting while using the brakes, especially in bumpy terrain, but I’ve never had that problem. As well and on my regular XT shifters where the R thumb goes to bigger cogs, my thumb gets tired pushing the lever, possibly as I’ve had assorted sprains, dislocations and other thumb injuries, so the dual control things work great for me.

While I don't disagree, to be fair... the aluminum used in the manufacture of bikes is an alloy. Alloy is generic and could be pretty much anything on the bike made of metal as you're not going to find a part comprised 100% of any single element.

Well so is steel. Try explaining to a customer that steel rims are truly "alloy".

I would hope that the customer would already know that steel is an alloy, but maybe I’m giving the general populous too much credit. So if you’re advocating that we do away with the term alloy all together, regardless of if it refers to steel, aluminum, titanium, magnesium or chromoly (yes, I know it’s a type of steel); yes, I agree with you.

I kinda-sorta almost want to build a 1x cruiser bike with a suicide brifter, similar to this. Maybe even Di2.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wb8bAl1P-N...andlebrake.jpg

Love me some brifting

Good luck with that quest, you guys. "Alloy" has been a colloquialism for "aluminum alloy" for generations now. ;)

Yes steel is an alloy, mostly of iron and carbon.

Of course. That's my point. Steel is by definition an alloy. Steel doesn't exist until you mix iron and carbon together. Aluminum is an element of itself. You can have pure aluminum with nothing else in it. My peeve is with people using the word "alloy" as though it were a synonym for "aluminum".

I'm pretty sure Thermionic Scott is right, however, and it's not going to change.

Sry bout that, That's what I get for not using my reading glasses. As far as 'brifter' is concerned, Those having an issue with that very descriptive word should pull the aluminum out of their @$$. . . or is it alloy?

My first two bikes were chromoly and steel, third was aluminum. All said "alloy" on a sticker somewhere, so when I hear "alloy" I just think "cheap metal", or revert back to chromoly. Either I don't hear people referring to aluminum as "alloy" much, or it's selective hearing due to my assumption that they are referring to cheap Target/Walmart/Toys'R'Us chromoly. I honestly don't really hear the word alloy that much. Maybe it's regional?