![]() ![]() The steerer tube is flattened at the front and rear and a threaded sleeve slides down and is pinned into place ( the black part above the bearing at the top of the headtube). To install the fork on the frame, a top cap threads over the sleeve and pulls the fork up into the frame. The main body is bladder molded with solid carbon dropouts that are pressed solid at 250bar as the rest of the fork is being molded ( shown below). This creates a 295g fork that claims to have strength-to-weight ratios off the charts. #LOOK 695 IPACK 2011 FULL#Next up, they used a continuous fiber form for the full carbon fork, manufacturing it out of a single piece at one time. It has built in elastomers to cut vibrations and has 3mm of vertical adjustment before you need to cut down the frame. The integrated seat mast uses their E-Post that sits into the frame and expands out to hold in place. Result: denser carbon in key areas with higher strength to weight ratio. The result is that they can use more carbon sheets and compress them down to the same thickness as normal bladder molding, and it pushes out more resin, so it’s lighter overall and stiffer in those high stress areas. But those sections mentioned above are actually being pressed inward against a steel mandrel form rather than relying on a bladder to press them out against the outer mold. ![]() As the external mold is closed around the frame for molding, a bladder presses outward against the mold for the main tubes. This allows them to use higher pressures than can be achieved just with traditional bladder construction. In order to get the weight down lower than the outgoing 595, Look used a proprietary monocoque construction for the front triangle that’s molded against steel mandrels at the seat tube/seat mast/ top tube juncture, bottom bracket and head tube. Look Cycles has replaced their 595 road bike with an all-new, super integrated 695 road bike.įeaturing Look’s E-Post, ZED2 one-piece crankset, C-Stem and a unique fork, the frame is fully integrated from head to toe. Despite the full length seatmast and oversized BB, head- and downtubes, the frame weighs in at a scant 900g. Before you scoff and say “all that integrated stuff just reduces my options”, there are adapters to let you run whatever cranks you want and any normal stem can replace their C-Stem…but after reading through this post, you may not care to. Support us! BikeRumor may earn a small commission from affiliate links in this article. ![]()
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