Patent ID: 7650813

Claim:
A position control mechanism for a bicycle control device comprising: a positioning member and rotatably arranged to rotate about a rotational axis between a plurality of predetermined shift positions; a position maintaining member movably arranged to selectively move from a first engagement position to a second engagement position, the position maintaining member contacting and holding the positioning member in one of the predetermined shift positions of the positioning member when the position maintaining member is in the first engagement position, and the position maintaining member contacting and holding the positioning member in another of the predetermined shift positions when the position maintaining member is in the second engagement position, the second engagement position being different from the first engagement position with respect to the positioning member such that an orientation of the position maintaining member changes with respect to the positioning member when the position maintaining member is moved from the first engagement position to the second engagement position; and a releasing member operatively coupled to the position maintaining member to move the position maintaining member between the first and second engagement positions.