I know that Shimano and Enve certainly don't recommend ridding these wheels this way but, at the same time, Shimano are probably pretty freaking stoked the guy left the stickers on. LOL
They're just bikes. Ride 'em in the rain, salt, snow and crap to fully appreciate them.
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The thing about the cold is that you can never tell how cold it is from looking out a kitchen window. You have to dress up, get out training and when you come back, you then know how cold it is.
I'm guessing they ride full rigid on the MTB trails.
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We would get pinch flats all the time on our mtb bikes when we did stairs, I don't know how they do it with road tires/wheels. Hey still wanna buy those sweet "slightly used" Shimano carbon wheels on ebay?
I'm sure shimano threw a freakin party after this.
They thanked them in the credits, sure they were free, and WHAT an ad campaign!
If I were a shimano marketing rep, I'd try n get rights and run a social media campaign touting the wheels durability and resistance to impact.
A lot of that could have to do with the skill of the riders. You can build up a tough as nails wheel and still taco it if you are a harsh rider. Don't get me wrong those; those wheels are tougher than I thought (already thought that they were really tough.) I was already planning on getting a pair of Enve SES wheels.
Those are Enve Smart wheels. The logos are black. If you look close enough you can see the stickers in a couple of shots.
I have two sets of Shimano RS80 wheels in 25 & 60mm depths featuring exactly the same carbon laminated rims as the Dura-Ace versions but with cheaper hubs/spokes and I am a big Clyde rider and everyone tells me they won't take my weight and are shocked that I ride ups and down kerbs, stairs on them but they are now just over a year old and still going strong fitted with Conti GP4000S / 25 tyres.
I know that Shimano and Enve certainly don't recommend ridding these wheels this way but, at the same time, Shimano are probably pretty freaking stoked the guy left the stickers on. LOL
Everyone keeps pointing out the skill of the riders and this is 100% true, however, as I said somewhere else, the true indicator of how strong these wheels are isn't on the drops/jumps themselves but in the pivoting on either the front or rear wheel.
In all cases, 100% of his weight (plus bike) is on a small area of that wheel and he is twisting that wheel/bike around towards the direction he wants to go. There is no "absorbing" any of those extremely odd forces that are acting on that wheel (gravity/friction is ensuring that). Hit's from drops and the like are somewhat similar to hitting a big pothole or maybe less (if you have the skill these two dudes have).
"Twisting" a wheel isn't a standard test and I'm sure it puts a TON of strain on those wheels. What's more impressive still is that the wheels are staying together even in dirt which, in my opinion, would offer even more resistance/strain than pivoting on pavement.
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