Wolf Tooth Components has released a new dropper post lever that has been completely redesigned for riders running front shifters, lockout levers, or e-bike controls.
With the move to single chainrings becoming the norm it meant that dropper levers could become more ergonomic as they took the place of what would have been your front shifter. But for those still running controls on the left side of their bar, it became a puzzle trying to find a way to make it all fit and be easy to use while riding.
The new product from Wolf Tooth called the ‘BarCentric’ aims to fix this issue by instead mounting the moving parts of the remote around the bar itself. To achieve this the ‘BarCentric’ uses an Enduro bearing that fits around the handlebar allowing it to only take up 14.5 mm of space on the bars. By wrapping the remote around the bar it allows far more positioning options to help the remote work with a number of different positions to accommodate for shifters, lockout levers and even e-bike controls.
The ‘BarCentric’ is designed to work with all cable operated dropper posts and is available now for $74.95. Find out more
here.
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As a guy who has snapped those old ones at the hinge before, I think it'd be a big improvement. Plus it would be a much smoother action and doesn't rely on the cable being oriented a certain way (and therefore limiting dropper compatibility).
I think it's a rather clever rethinking of an older solution.
I tired the W/T paddle lever but to me, the Command Post SRL lever feels more refined and solid.
This new unit lever may be perfect replacement for the stock KS lever on my old H/T 2x Jack of All Trades bike though.
I'd 2x levers don't have good ergonomics. Scott now makes a twinlock with an integrated dropper lever though.
I used similar remotes from other brands ' RF' etc - total utter shit, however WT are solid folks, would consider buying this asap!
P.S. I have a BikeYoke Revive dropper, which is great. That came stock with a good lever, but it won’t fit on my bike.
On my other bike I have the Wolf Tooth long lever, that one is great too. This is a good company.
Course it's stupid there are still so many dropper posts on the market with crappy levers...?
I'm saying that a state of the art 12 speed shifter is WAY more complex and innovative than a single pull dropper post lever and that it doesn't makes sense as a consumer to pay more for it. I'm not saying it ain't gonna sell, or that I might not buy one some day if the need arises... But I am saying I don't think it makes sense...
As far as size, there are companies WAY smaller than Shimano selling shifters that are less expensive than this dropper lever...