I believe you can purchase just as brake levers with the shifting bits removed. I have those on a bike.
Brent Harrell Orlando, FL
I'm not familiar with "brifters" but those brake levers sure look like
> them. I wonder if they actually have the shifting function disabled to use
> the downtube shifters.
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> (sorry about the premature send before I was done)
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> >> http://i205.photobucket.com/
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> John Betmanis
> Woodstock, Ontario
> Canada