The World Tour race season is now underway at the Santos Tour Down Under. A new year means new equipment and often new bikes to take a look at, you can stay on top of all the changes for 2023 in our World Tour bikes and tech guide.
Cofidis were one of two World Tour teams who changed frame as well as equipment manufacturers for this year. The team’s new Look bike was spotted in the wild recently for the first time after their switch from Italian manufacturer De Rosa.
We managed to snap Cofidis’ sprinter Bryan Cocquard’s new Look 795RS race bike before the racing kicked off. Read on for a closer look at the makeup of the new Look bike.
Official details regarding the new Cofidis team bike are scarce. The new 795RS has a clearly different frame design to the currently listed 795 Blade RS which has been around for a little while now.
This new machine features dropped seat stays, a horizontal top tube, a large bottom bracket junction, a very short headtube (In Cocquard’s size anyway), and wider more aerodynamic fork legs. What looks like a new Look one-piece handlebar and stem are also present.
Elsewhere the team also switched from Campagnolo equipment to Shimano and is now running Shimano Dura-Ace 12speed R9200 di2 groupsets. French company Corima provides the wheels, which in this case are carbon fibre tubular versions, whilst Michelin tyres complete a French wheel package. Selle Italia provides the saddle whilst bottle cages are the Elite Leggero carbon fibre models.
Cofidis have chosen not to run Shimano’s own Dura Ace 9200-P power meter chain set, instead plumping for the SRM-Origin carbon fibre power meter chainset. The chain set axle itself is available in 24 and 30-mm versions, which aids frame and bottom bracket compatibility. This decision must presumably be influenced by the power meters themselves, as Dura-Ace chainrings are still mounted to the chainset spider.
A Look logo on the crank arms ties in the chainset with the rest of the bike and keeps things on brand. The chainset at first glance looks like the Zed model which Look produces in-house.
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