If you had a mountain bike with SIS shifting while you were still rolling with shifters on your road bike’s down tube, you’ll have a certain inkling that mountain biking technology has often been at the forefront of the most innovative designs. The Shimano XTR Di2 M9050 Right Shift Lever will be proof again that MTB technology still loves to be ahead of the curve.
To be confident that taking the leap to electronic shifting on your mountain bike is absolutely the right decision, you probably won’t need to do much more than push off and make a couple of shifts using the XTR Di2 M9050 shifters. Combined with the other essential components of the XTR Di2 system like the derailleurs and the display unit, you will be able to customize just about every aspect of your shifting experience, from which button of which lever controls which gears, how many gears are changed per click, and how long each gear change takes. It really is breathtaking the amount of choice.
These XTR 9050 shifters prove revolutionary in design, consequently Shimano has called them the Di2 Firebolt to indicate just how bold the design is. Though they are actually buttons, Shimano managed to design the shifter with the sort of ergonomics that will make them easy and intuitive to use. They are fully programmable including multi shift, shift speed, and control of Fox iCD suspension. You can customize these aspects by connecting the bike to your PC using the Display Unit and give the system all the instructions you will want to have access to at your thumb tips during your ride.
By using the Shimano Synchronized Shift function and programmable shift mapping, you will be able to toggle from traditional left-right one-gear-at-a-time shifting, if you have both shifters installed; to your two Synchro Shift modes that may give you gearing for when you are tired and when you are fresher, for example. And with the Synchro Shifting, you will only need to have one shifter to work both rear and front shifts. So if you are going to stay in Synchro Shift indefinitely, you could ditch the other lever and save yourself some weight and clutter on your bars. If you are a right-hander, you’ll probably want to go with the right shift lever, but the level of adaptability will put this Di2 system in class all its own.
The Shimano XTR Di2 M9050 Right Shift Lever can be adjusted to fit your hands on the bars perfectly, so that you will always be ready to make that essential shift. Join the avant-garde of the cycling world.