Patent ID: 8181553

Claim:
A position control mechanism for a bicycle control device comprising: a positioning member being biased in a first rotational direction about a rotational axis; a position maintaining member movably mounted with respect to the positioning member to selectively engage the positioning member for maintaining the positioning member in one of a plurality of predetermined shift positions when the position maintaining member is engaged with the positioning member; and a position releasing mechanism including first and second driving members that are movably arranged with respect to the positioning maintaining member to selectively engage the position maintaining member such that the first and second driving members move the position maintaining member from engagement with the positioning member to rotate in the first rotational direction in response to operation of the first and second driving members, the positioning member moving through at least two of the plurality of predetermined shift positions in the first rotational direction in response to a single progressive movement of the position releasing mechanism, the first driving member being located radially outward of the position maintaining member relative to the rotational axis of the positioning member.