The Zipp 454 NSW has been around long enough that the internet has moved on to reviewing whatever launched last month. That works in your favor if you’re shopping smart. I picked up a set recently for around $1,600 — roughly a third of the $4,450 retail you’d pay for the current production pair — and spent some time thinking hard about whether the technology has actually aged or just the press coverage. ...
ENVE just dropped its new G SES gravel wheel lineup, and the headline spec is going to make a lot of people do a double-take: a 35mm internal rim width on the flagship 6.7 Pro. That’s wider than most mountain bike wheels from five years ago, on a gravel race wheelset. It’s a bold statement, and ENVE is clearly not interested in incremental. The range has three wheels: the G SES 4.5, the G SES 4.5 Pro, and the G SES 6.7 Pro. Here’s what separates them. ...
When Zipp launched the 303 XPLR SW in 2024 with a 32mm internal width, it felt like a line in the sand. Nobody had pushed a production gravel wheel that wide before, and the message was clear: the era of putting 45mm tires on 25mm rims was over. Now ENVE has responded with the G SES lineup — and specifically the 6.7 Pro at 35mm internal — and the aero gravel wheel market looks meaningfully different than it did twelve months ago. ...