Patent ID: 7152497

Claim:
A position release mechanism for a bicycle control device comprising: a positioning unit that is adapted to be biased in a first biased direction; a position maintaining mechanism including a position maintaining member that maintains the positioning unit in a plurality of predetermined positions corresponding to speed steps of a bicycle transmission when the positioning unit is biased in the first biased direction, wherein the position maintaining member rotates in opposite first and second directions when the positioning unit moves between a consecutive pair of the plurality of predetermined positions; and a position releasing mechanism that moves in a position releasing direction, wherein the position releasing mechanism includes a release member that is operatively coupled to the position maintaining mechanism and causes the position maintaining member to rotate in the first and second directions a plurality of times for a single movement of the release member in the position releasing direction so that the positioning unit moves in the first biased direction through at least two of the plurality of predetermined positions for the same bicycle transmission.