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Was lurking on Eric Saunders site and noticed he took some pics of the SRAM shifters at the Interbike show. He states that the shifter works by a short/long throw concept.

SRAM pictures from Eric Saunders

Anyone seen any other pictures (other than Eurobike, cyclingnews, and velonews)?

gmason

Drat! I thought that the cocking was to make it possible to shift up in one direction, and down in the other, using the small paddle. Guess I won't win the prize.

Tequila Joe

As the artcle states:

"The little lever does both shifts... Short throw for one way long throw for the other"

The "long throw", presumably, will to change to a larger cog. How many cogs you can change in one sweep? Also, if you do a "short throw" I wonder of it shifts a single cog at a time or if you hold it there, would it will do multiples? Does the FD shifter have trim?

Anyone in the know?

Any new tech is cool to me and I look forward to trying it out.

T.J.

gmason

But is it not stated as a supposition, as opposed to a proven fact?

Tequila Joe

It seems like the guy "Jared" was at Interbike and has seen this first hand. The picture of the dude being handcuffed by the SRAM booth "eye candy" confirms it.

T.J.

krazyderek

there was an article on velonews or something around the begining of sept that stated how they worked, the reporter had talked to two of the test pilot's for sram's new shifters.

I can't wait to try them out

Tequila Joe

Here is the Velo article...

The Eurobike trade show in Friedrichshafen, Germany, is a wonderful place to gather information. It turns out it also is a good place to generate misinformation, as we inadvertently did yesterday. After seeing the Sram road group prototypes, we speculated about the shifting system, noticing that there was one shift lever behind the brake lever on each side, but no apparent way for the brake lever to swing or rotate to provide the other half of the shifting equation.

Well, that's because the one lever does it all. Today, we talked with two people who have used the system -- neither one of them Sram employees, so we're taking this on faith -- who say that to upshift, you give the lever a long push, and to downshift you give it a short push. Click-click: what could be easier? If this information is accurate, the Sram road shifters could turn out to be the easiest and fastest to use of all. Unfortunately, it's all speculation until Sram releases official specifications in a few months; we will do our best to keep you posted.


T.J.

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Even though I like the new groupo I am a bit unpleased with the shifters. I would expect them to be a bit more aero. This may be due to the function over fashion issue. Or it may be due to the Shimano brain washing we all incur when beginning the sport.

Am I the only one?

DocRay

Shifter-brake levers are not just levers, they are ergonomically important for hours in the saddle. Campy hoods are too small for larger hands, they always have been, and Campy doesn't care. I'd love to hook these guys up to my Campy group.

As for info-ignore all you read until October 14th. SRAM has a press embargo in place until the 13th over this group.

gmason

I have big hands, and they are comfortable for me. Always have been.

tinrobot

You know what they say...

Big hands, big..... shifters.

Patriot

I have big hands too. The Campy Record shifters feel much more comfy and plenty big for me as well.