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Brifters
Who the heck came up with this? They're shifters and, yes you apply the brakes also, but I shift not brift.
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I really haven't heard this term being used IRL.
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My sister-in-law's road bike has these. Squeeze to brake, push left or right to change gears. I don't really think it'd be a bad system once you got used to it.
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Originally Posted by Milton Keynes
(Post 20140339)
My sister-in-law's road bike has these. Squeeze to brake, push left or right to change gears. I don't really think it'd be a bad system once you got used to it.
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I'd likely screw it up!
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Originally Posted by one4smoke
(Post 20140406)
LOL...He’s talking about the term “brifter” not the actual mechanism.
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Originally Posted by mackgoo
(Post 20140285)
Who the heck came up with this? They're shifters and, yes you apply the brakes also, but I shift not brift.
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Okay ... In protest, my bike now has "Shake leverers."
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Originally Posted by mackgoo
(Post 20140285)
Who the heck came up with this? They're shifters and, yes you apply the brakes also, but I shift not brift.
Originally Posted by mstateglfr
(Post 20140472)
Its very clearly a portmanteau.
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If you don't want to say (or type) "brifter," try "combination brake shifter levers."
The short form's not so bad. |
brifters changed my life. was so done with downtube levers
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Originally Posted by mackgoo
(Post 20140285)
Who the heck came up with this? They're shifters and, yes you apply the brakes also, but I shift not brift.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appen...f_portmanteaux |
In 1974 a 6th grade classmate and I were checking out the new plastic combination spoon and fork in the cafeteria lunch line. He said his brother said they were called sporks. We wondered why they didn't call them foons?
So maybe shrakes? |
Originally Posted by texaspandj
(Post 20140865)
In 1974 a 6th grade classmate and I were checking out the new combination spoon and fork in the cafeteria lunch line. He said his brother said they were called sporks. We wondered why they didn't call them foons?
So maybe shrakes? |
Just call em multi functional levers for the purposes of losing speed or increasing or decreasing mechanical advantage of a bicycle drive train. Simple.
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Shift-aches?
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Shimano coined them "STI levers", and a variant of those they called "dual control levers." Campy called them "ergopower levers." SRAM calls theirs "double-tap levers." I'm embarrassed to say the word "brifters."
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Other words made up but now accepted:
Runcible Proactive Chillax |
Originally Posted by texaspandj
(Post 20140943)
Other words made up but now accepted:
Runcible Proactive Chillax Even words like "cock-a-doo·dle-doo" are vastly different in each language. |
Originally Posted by pickettt
(Post 20140924)
Shimano coined them "STI levers", and a variant of those they called "dual control levers." Campy called them "ergopower levers." SRAM calls theirs "double-tap levers." I'm embarrassed to say the word "brifters."
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Originally Posted by texaspandj
(Post 20140865)
In 1974 a 6th grade classmate and I were checking out the new plastic combination spoon and fork in the cafeteria lunch line. He said his brother said they were called sporks. We wondered why they didn't call them foons?
So maybe shrakes? |
grabby twitchable thingie-a-bobs?
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Shifter
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Brifters. We all know the meaning. Now, we just got to get the Webster dictionary to acknowledge the word.
EDIT: Got bored and submitted the term "brifter" to Marriam-Webster dictionary for review/consideration Brifter a bicycle handlebar mounted system used specifically on road bicycles that combines the action for both slowing the bicycle and shifting a gear derailleur through levers built into a single device. Plural: Brifters Brifters - a set of a left hand and a right hand brifter used for both controlling the front and rear derailleurs and the front and rear brakes |
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