Patent ID: 8863611

Claim:
A bicycle control device, comprising: a housing fixedly mountable to the bicycle; a brake control mechanism including a brake cable housing seated in the housing and a brake cable slidably disposed in the brake cable housing; a shift control mechanism operated in a cable-release direction and a cable-pull direction; and a lever having a rest position and rotatable about a brake axis to actuate the brake control mechanism, wherein the lever is rotatable relative to the housing about a single shift axis to actuate the shift control mechanism in the cable-release direction and in the cable-pull direction, the bicycle control device not displacing the single shift axis relative to the housing upon actuation of the brake control mechanism, wherein the lever includes a brake cable receiving portion for receiving a distal end of the brake cable of the brake control mechanism and wherein the single shift axis intersects the distal end of the brake cable when the lever is in the rest position.