SRAM Force Shifters - 2012
Genre: Sports
Brand: Sram
Price: $0.00
These shifters just keep getting better and better. The latest redesign of SRAM Force Integrated Shifters represents the third iteration, and are markedly better than the second. The big change is the reduction in shift lever throw to start a shift. It has been reduced from 32-degrees to 15-degrees. The result is faster, easier shifting. And no small change is the reduction of nearly 30g of weight in the set. Still, what people will notice and talk about are the new brake lever blade and graphics. The blade is made from unidirectional carbon fiber. The graphics are splashy, consciously designed to evoke the graphics on Red DoubleTap levers, but be ever-so-slightly different, as in to suggest these are pretty fast, but not quite Red fast. To us, these graphics remind us of the checkered flag at the finish line.Just like the previous iteration of Force, the second generation, these levers have lots of top-shelf features once only the province of SRAM Red DoubleTap: SRAM's Zero Loss shifting and the ability to trim the front derailleur, you can run both the brake and shifter cables along the front of your handlebar, and SRAM's reach adjustment feature, so you can customize the lever reach to the size of your hands. And like the earlier Force, these levers have a magnesium shifter paddle on each side.At heart, DoubleTap boils down to 3 key parts in the shifter: A transport pawl, a holding pawl, and a spool. You've surely seen SRAM's Make the Leap ad campaign. That's not just a suggestion that you make a leap of faith from your Shimano or Campy-centric comfort zone and give SRAM a shot, but it's also a technical description of how DoubleTap technology works. In short, when you engage the small magnesium shift lever that sits behind the dedicated carbon fiber brake lever, the following occurs: The transport pawl literally leaps over the holding pawl, and with the help of the spool pulls (or releases) 3mm of cable per shift.