What are these type of gearlevers ?

[ozboz]

Could do with some of these ,

 

[TheDoctor]

Stem levers. They're long obsolete, and perfectly placed to give one a nasty gentlemanly injury!

 

[raleighnut]

 

[ozboz]

Its the position , would suit me ,

 

[CanucksTraveller]

They're the renowned "Geh Scheißen Wanglerbar" tourenrad knutsacken cracken model, invented by masochistic cycle inventor Bernd Armbrüster in Wien, circa 1936.
Very cool.

 

[midlife]

Noooooooooo!

I spent my youth in a bike shop removing these dangerous monstrosities.

Shaun

 

[swansonj]

Well, I've always thought they were eminently logical, if, like me, when riding a drop-bar bike, you spend most of the time on the flat section of the bars. Likewise interrupter brake levers. It involves the minimum hand movement to reach the lever, less that bar end or down tube. That wouldn't, of course, apply to those of you who ride mainly on the hoods.

My solution to recognising that I was riding mostly on the flat section was to switch to flat bars.

 

[midlife]

They don't always point upwards! Ready to impale your gentleman's vegetables...

Shaun

 

[robgul]

I have these on one of my bikes (and, I think, another set that I keep meaning to get round to selling) - I would challenge the "crotch-risk" issue, unless you ride/honk in a very strange way!

They provide a very simple alternative to down-tube levers, especially if you ride with flat bars - I like them.

Rob

 

[Globalti]

Why not just fit thumb shifters to the handlebars?

 

[velovoice]

Why not just fit thumb shifters to the handlebars?

This.

 

[ozboz]

I have these on one of my bikes (and, I think, another set that I keep meaning to get round to selling) - I would challenge the "crotch-risk" issue, unless you ride/honk in a very strange way!

They provide a very simple alternative to down-tube levers, especially if you ride with flat bars - I like them.

Rob

Hi , if you want to sell a set I am interested in buying them , thanks to all posters re safety issues ,

 

[robgul]

Hi , if you want to sell a set I am interested in buying them , thanks to all posters re safety issues ,

PM me an email addy and I'll send you a picture (and check the stem size - they should be all the same but you never know!)

Rob

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i had no issues with them on the first bike i had as an adult, and preferable to the downtube shifter i had on my raleigh olympus as a youth. having said that, integrated shifters/brakes on road bikes and micro-shift gears with thumb shifters on flat barred bikes are far preferable to any other solution…

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I had some on a Gitane, used catch the rear lever with my knee if in a low gear and getting out of the saddle, let you work out what happens when you drop from 2 to 5 in half a crank rotation.