> 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.
Those look like ordinary Tektro/Cane-Creek levers... the most comfortable of the ordinary, modern brake levers:
http://www.bikeman.com/
http://www.bikeman.com/
Regards,
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)