Eurobike 2015: ENVE

Enve – purveyors of extremely high-end rims and carbon wotsits – had a couple of new things on display. The M60 and M70 (their somewhat more aggro models) are now accompanied by HV (or High Volume) variants. Essentially, they’re a bit wider.HV, see?The M70 HV rims are 6mm wider, internally and externally, than the regular models – rigorous testing apparently forced the conclusion that there weren’t too many benefits at present to going wider with today’s rubber (and your scribe tends to agree). So these ones have a 31mm internal and 36mm external width…

…and the M60 HV rims gain 3mm in width over their brethren for 26mm internal and 31mm external widths. Very tasty.

And on a bit of a side note…
ENVE were also showing these full carbon road hubs of extraordinary blinginess, and a scant 232g per PAIR. Which is ridiculous enough to warrant a mention here, as well as some idle speculation as to what they might do with mountain bike hubs. The mind boggles…

Details of ENVE products here.

Barney Marsh

Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome. He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable. Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles. He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds. He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.

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