Look Ergopost Ti tightening help
 

Hi all
I got a bit carried away in the Geoffrey Butler January 20% off
everything sale. I "saved" over £500 :)I am in the process of building
up my lovely new Look bike. I bought a Look Ergopost Ti to go with it
and am a bit concerned about overtightening it. The instructions say
to tighten to 2 m.daN I have no idea what this means. I certainly dont
have a torque wrench that goes that low. What is the best way of
getting this tight without doing damage? TIA

Stan Cox

P.s. Just did a search in google for m.daN and it told me that Dan is
short for Daniel :)

Stan Cox wrote:

Hi all
I got a bit carried away in the Geoffrey Butler January 20% off
everything sale. I "saved" over £500 :)I am in the process of building
up my lovely new Look bike. I bought a Look Ergopost Ti to go with it
and am a bit concerned about overtightening it. The instructions say
to tighten to 2 m.daN I have no idea what this means. I certainly dont
have a torque wrench that goes that low. What is the best way of
getting this tight without doing damage? TIA

Stan Cox

P.s. Just did a search in google for m.daN and it told me that Dan is
short for Daniel :)

daN is a very complicated way of saying Kilo (deca Newton ie Newton *
10)

20 Nm= 14 lbsft

If you don't go beserk with a short allan key you should be ok

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m-gineering wrote:
Stan Cox wrote:

Hi all
I got a bit carried away in the Geoffrey Butler January 20% off
everything sale. I "saved" over £500 :)I am in the process of building
up my lovely new Look bike. I bought a Look Ergopost Ti to go with it
and am a bit concerned about overtightening it. The instructions say
to tighten to 2 m.daN I have no idea what this means. I certainly dont
have a torque wrench that goes that low. What is the best way of
getting this tight without doing damage? TIA

Stan Cox

P.s. Just did a search in google for m.daN and it told me that Dan is
short for Daniel :)


daN is a very complicated way of saying Kilo (deca Newton ie Newton *
10)

20 Nm= 14 lbsft

If you don't go beserk with a short allan key you should be ok


Aahh, Thank you very much. If they had just said 20nm I would have
understood. I am much more likely to undertighten it out of caution :)

Stan Cox

I don't know which LOOK you have, but to fix the seatpost, the 461 has a
bolt that goes through the top tube/seat tube lug and that system isn't
compatible with carbon seatposts according to TOUR magazine.

Greets, Derk

I meant to type: in order to fasten the seatpost. Don't know what hapenned
to my hands while typing: they didn't obey my mind.

Greets, Derk

Derk wrote:
I meant to type: in order to fasten the seatpost. Don't know what hapenned
to my hands while typing: they didn't obey my mind.

Greets, Derk
OK now I'm concerned. Although its a 25mm pin and I cant think of
another company which needs a pin of that diameter. I also have
trouble believing that Look would make a pin that you couldnt use on
their frames. I must investigate more.

Stan Cox

Stan Cox wrote:
OK now I'm concerned. Although its a 25mm pin and I cant think of
another company which needs a pin of that diameter. I also have
trouble believing that Look would make a pin that you couldnt use on
their frames. I must investigate more.
I spoke about thsi in detail on the LOOK Web forum and they say you can use
it safely, but TOUR showed a destroyed pin. They say it's unsafe to use it
on the 461 frame, since it has a system the french call "tampon tangent". I
have no idea what you call that in English. I think the 461 is the only
LOOK frame that has this system. As long as your frame has a collar that
has to be tightened I wouldn't worry. I jave a 461 frame myself and mounted
an aluminium ITM Milennium seatpost for the reason mentioned above.

Greets, Derk