Forget the new bikes, these gargantuan prototype Enve wheels are the craziest thing I saw at The Traka

The Traka 360 is over, and it is surpassed even the Critérium du Dauphiné by way of new bikes; I noticed eight model new or prototype machines in the previous couple of days, so keep tuned for a whopping tech gallery shortly. Whereas these bikes are actually worthy of the headlines, what I noticed because the male riders trickled over the end line is probably much more thrilling – a fully astounding set of unreleased Enve gravel wheels that make the hefty Zipp 303 XPLR NSW wheels appears to be like svelte.

I did not catch the rider to ask about them, so all we now have are a number of photographs I managed to fireside off earlier than he went to bathe up and presumably hoover three or 4 pizzas in fast succession, however what I can say is that they’re deeper than something I’ve seen really ridden off-road earlier than, and they seem like super-wide too and, most unusually for Enve, they’re barely wavy on the spoke mattress too.

Fulcrum’s Sharq wheels are additionally wavy, and I discovered them to be unimaginable in crosswinds, so it is my suspicion that the waves have been added not for an aero profit, however to make these rims simpler to deal with when crosswinds barrel throughout the Kansas plains in a number of weeks time for Unbound.

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I could not say for positive how deep they’re, however assuming they’re utilizing the usual Enve logos they have to be 70mm deep or so.