Ingrid Components brifters Ingrid Components, an innovative Italian company that manufactures high performance bicycle parts, has showcased something its been working on for a little while at the recent Bespoked show. That is, their new road ‘brifters’ which allow users to shift both up and down the cassette with one ‘shifter’ in a unique way as well as braking.
Alongside this, the company has also teased a new groupset in conjunction with Formula brakes. Here’s what we know so far… "The cybertruck of bike shifters"
Okay, so if you have a look at some of the social media commentary on this topic, it’s noooot exactly been 100% favourable towards Ingrid so far. We know us roadies aren’t really the quickest adopters of new products, because we usually like to leave it to the mountain bikers to test things out and establish them before we take them on; but brifters – quite literally meaning brake and shift levers all in one – are already in use in the road bikes.
What is so different about these from Ingrid Components is the way that the user interacts with the shifters. Typically, you’ll push the lever or button in one direction, regardless of whether you’re shifting up or down the cassette. With these, you pull the shifter from left to right to change one direction, and push to shift into the other direction. On top of that is the brake lever, which adds further ‘complexity’ to the design. A radical design?
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