Enve has gone to exhaustive lengths to develop the SES Tubeless Road Tire set-up. Equally exhaustive has been their sharing of their intentions, results and testing processes that enabled Enve's team to deliver these tires to market. SES Road Tires are competitively lightweight, striking a refined balance between puncture resistance, rolling efficiency, and tread life; with all the data to back that up. Based on their rim widths and profiles, the concept was to create tires that combined a hybrid rim/tire shape based on proper width matching (of the rim and tire) that delivers balance between handling, stability, rolling efficiency and aerodynamics.

Why would Enve, a wheel and component move to create tires? To match the needs and requirements of their wheels and ensure maximum overall performance. Besides, Enve partnered with Tufo, the Czech Republic tire manufacturer known best here for their cyclocross history, to share the R&D process, build the prototypes, test, and manufacture the end result in smaller batch production. Tufo has over 25 years experience making top-end tires in a region that has serious rubber manufacturing tech, direct access to Vectran, and the capability to develop proprietary in-house formulated rubber compounds- all of which Enve needed.

From the Zylon synthetic polymer bead, a laminate designed casing featuring Vectran, the SPC Silica tread rubber, and out to the Breakaway Tread design, the entire tire breathes innovation, top quality materials, and impressive results. Optimized for hookless tubeless rim systems of the proper tire width, the SES Tubeless Road Tires are designed for the best tire size - rim size match, ideally defined by inner-rim width, to create a hybrid effective tire shape, not rounded, not elliptical, but in between. For example, a 29c SES Tire measures out to 29mm at pressure with a 21mm internal width rim. As mentioned, Enve has serious detailed information on their site with comparative testing results, tire shape diagrams, and charts that reflect which tire sizes work best with their wheels, what pressure ranges to run, etc. Far too much for us to list here, but if you are serious about your tires and Enve wheels, you'll be doing all the research. To be sure the SES Tires are not limited to Enve wheels, but can benefit similar tubeless rim and internal width aero wheel designs from other manufacturers. These fantastic new road tires are available in 25, 27, 29, 31 700c sizes