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Sure, the shifters are usually integrated into your brake levers rather than on your downtube, but regardless of where the actuator is located, the system is doing the same thing.

Sequential transmission shifts are faster because the shifter slides a very short distance.

The electric mountain bike features an 8-speed shifter and full-aluminum pro-wheel crankset and chain, making the overall transmission system smooth and durable.

In other ways they are similar to regular bicycles, often with carbon frames, electronic shifters, and models with more than 30 gears.

Mad with hunger and armed with razor-sharp teeth and bodies that contorted like shape shifters capable of entering the smallest of spaces, the rats that hadn’t starved to death themselves were everywhere.

He says that if you had a hot rod in Detroit in 1963, you had to have a Hurst shifter or you were nowhere.

Ever the shape-shifter and opportunist, he ended his career as a high official in the very empire he had once helped defeat.

Malaria is a shape-shifter, like HIV, always reshuffling the deck to make a new pathogen.

Kenney, by contrast, was a shape-shifter who tried on different personalities and never quite found a fit.

"Correa will have to gauge his decision very carefully," says Shifter.

The effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene-shifter.

I must have the good-will of all, be obeyed by all, from prima donna to scene-shifter.

To stop and start, the belts are shifted from the tight to the loose pulleys by a belt-shifter, f.

There was a hitch here somewhere; the scene-shifter was hardly up to his work, so that it was rather a failure.

The note procured me an engagement as errand boy at the stage-door and later I rose to the dignity of scene-shifter.