Popular with roadies, combined shifters and brake levers came to mountain bikes with Shimano’s last XTR incarnation. In essence, you pull these towards the bar to brake, or pivot them up and down to ...

Save for the occasional cable replacement or unfortunate crash, the Ultegra SLs will give you many years of shifting performance on your favourite roads. Shimano has tweaked and enhanced its Shimano ...

A decade ago, Shimano introduced Dual Control. Typically with the Japanese manufacturer, they didn't do it quickly or lightly. But nevertheless, it flopped... The idea was a on the face of things (if ...

Chick, chick - boom, and victory, right? In reality most true sprinters have styles that won't change with Shimano's new SW-7972 'Sprint' satellite shifter for their Dura-Ace Di2 group, but that doesn ...