I was planning a ride across the Trans-Labrador Highway in Canada in the summer of 2011. While planning for this trip, I was concerned about riding my 2002 BMW R1150GS (review) on the hundreds of ...

As we enter the sloppy period of the cyclocross season, some of you may have suffered from gunked-up or broken shift levers and races hampered by unreliable drivetrains. If you’re on a budget and ...

Shimano Total Integration revolutionized the way we shift our bicycles. Instead of taking our hands off the bars and reaching way down to the down tube to change gears, we could shift right at the ...

I tested the Audax without the Gevenalle-supplied shift levers, which meant I used my own existing shift levers (9-speed Shimano) from a prior barcon setup. Moving to the current millennium, it was to ...

Cyclocross bikes typically have paddle-style shift levers integrated into their brake levers, like road bikes do. While this setup his its advantages, cyclocross riders generally like things to be ...

Fresh patent drawings reveal SRAM is continuing to work on a new brake and shift lever, which could be part of an updated – but yet to be released – Red AXS electronic groupset. In August 2023, SRAM ...

The shift lever – a device familiar to generations of car buyers – is undergoing a rapid evolution of the sort rare in nature, but increasingly common in the automotive world. Joe White reports. Photo ...

Some car controls have become so perplexing that they might even be dangerous. There's been speculation that such confusion might have played a role when a Metro-North commuter train crashed into an ...