Via: BikeMagic.com

 

The current incarnation of XTR has always had a rather obvious gap where the separate brake lever used to be. It dates from a time when Shimano was pushing Dual Control hard, and so if you wanted to run your XTR disc brakes with RF+ (or someone else’s) shifters you had to drive them with levers drawn from another Shimano group. Not any more - for 2007 there’ll be a proper XTR hydro lever. The design places the reservoir between the bar clamp and the lever blade, along similar lines to Magura’s Louise (or, venturing further back into history, Hope’s old Pro) levers for a compact design. They’re designed to fit close together on narrow bars - Shimano’s pictures show the brake levers mounted inboard of the shifter pods, but you can put them either side as you prefer. The levers have adjustable reach.

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