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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 1984
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1981
Keizo Shimano, Sakai, JP;
Shimano Industrial Company Limited, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An operating device for a bicycle, which is mounted on a drop handlebar having a straight portion and bent portions and has a bracket member pivotally supporting a first lever extending along the bent portion and a second lever extending along the straight portion and connected with the first lever, the bracket member and the pivoted bases of the first and second levers being covered with a grip-like shaped cover, and supports each having a height larger than a thickness of the second lever and being disposed between the outer surface of the first side wall pivotally supporting the second lever and the inner surface of the cover opposite to the side wall and at both sides of said second lever in the swinging direction thereof.