![]() ![]() When you’re descending on such roads for the first time, in a group of people who don’t know the roads either, you need a bike that’s responsive, agile, stable and predictable. First of all, bike fitting was simple, with saddle height easily adjustable with inserts and stem positioning a cinch.Ĭorsica has more than its fair share of twisty roads, with endless blind corners, often with broken or melted tarmac and gravel in all the wrong places. We rode a Look 695 Aerolight Premium Pro Team on a 40km Corsican route that had almost no straight or flat sections and would be a serious test for any bike. There are five colour options for the 695 Aerolight – the Premium Pro Team, as shown here Premium Reflect, with bold reflective frame and wheel decals Premium Heritage, which plays on the Look Mondrian logo Flash Blue, which is black with blue highlights and White Acid, which is white with acid green highlights. This measurement probably applies to the electronic cabled version, though, as with mechanical groupsets the Aerolight can be configured with removable down tube cable stops – together with the cables, this will interrupt airflow. The tubing has some aerodynamic shaping and, although it’s still largely square, Look claim it creates about 3 percent less drag than on the original 695. There’s the option of a new bracket that hangs beneath the saddle clamp to support an internal Di2 battery. The Look E-Post seatmast design appears again, with coloured elastomer (three options) separating the frame and seatmast from the saddle clamp and offering some extra comfort – black is the hardest, red is average and grey is softest. Its independent adjustment allows the stem position to be altered without the headset being loosened. ![]() The Look Head Fit 3 headset has a 1 1/2in lower bearing that fits directly onto the Continuous Fibre Design (CFD) tapered steerer. It’s incredibly stiff and has unique triangular lobes within each crank, making it possible to alter the effective length to 170, 172.5 or 175mm. Like the C-Stem, the 160g (claimed) Aerostem is adjustable from –13 to +17 degrees for a precise fit, and comes in 80mm to 130mm lengths in 10mm increments.Įach 695 Aerolight build comes with Look’s one-piece, 320g Zed 2 carbon crankset. A thin stainless steel clamp then envelops the bar and holds it with two 3mm bolts, hidden in a stem recess protected by a magnetised cover. Instead of a conventional bolted faceplate, the system uses a semicircular carbon cover – almost a shim – at the front of the bar. It has a similar square profile to the chunky C-Stem, but is slimmer with a cleaner frontal profile. Because the rear brake has been moved, the seatstays have no bridge or caliper above the wheel, which avoids the turbulence they cause.Īnother new component is the Aerostem. This is also adjustable from 17mm to Firecrest width, with the use of washers. It weighs a claimed 130g and also has internal cabling that passes inside the bottom bracket shell. The rear brake is mounted under the chainstays, and is a V model developed with TRP. Very clean lines on the fork edge, and tension adjustment access holes in the outer brake arm Claimed weights are 320g for the fork and 137g for the brake. The front brake cable routing is completely internal too, passing through the stem and steerer tube all the way to the brake. Said to improve braking by 20 percent, the design is also adjustable to work with rim widths up to Zipp’s Firecrest, and permits tension adjustment without any disassembly. In this window is housed the patented dual lever brake concept, which comprises twin brake arms – the outer remains flush with the fork leg, to preserve aerodynamics, and the independent inner operates the brake. The HSC7 fork has a vertical rectangular window, which Look believe prevents deformation under braking loads. The main feature of the new machine is its integrated brakes – Look are the first to have placed the front brake in the middle of the fork leg. Unlike many manufacturers, Look do their own carbon pre-preg preparation and development, allowing ultimate control of the finished product. ![]() They’ve developed an ultra-light, high-modulus 1.5k carbon for the bike, using a greater number of thinner layers to create lighter, stiffer structures with fibres oriented for optimum strength. ![]() They also worked with Dr René Hilhorst, who spent 17 years as a Formula 1 aerodynamicist. To develop the 695 Aerolight, Look combined knowledge gained from their Look 596 and L96 framesets, sponsored track riders, the Cofidis pro team, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and a wind tunnel. ![]()
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