Enve SES 100 PRO Front Wheel With PRO Ceramic Bearings

Deep, fast, and entirely uninterested in being sensible about it, the SES 100 PRO is ENVE’s least apologetic front wheel yet: a 100mm speed weapon built for the specific discipline of going in a straight line as quickly as physics allows. Developed over the course of a year alongside UAE Team Emirates-XRG and a roster of professional triathletes, Sam Long among them, it had already done its talking on World Tour start ramps and Ironman finish chutes before ENVE got around to announcing it. That’s how we like our race products to arrive.

The aero case isn’t made in isolation. ENVE tested the 100 PRO the way riders actually experience it, with a pedaling body attached to the front of the bike rather than in the sterilized nothing-space of a bike-only tunnel run. Measured that way, against the outgoing SES 6.7, the added depth is worth a genuine 5.31-watt advantage (their WAVE metric, not ours, but we’ll take it), most of it showing up exactly where triathletes and time trialists need it: at the deeper wind angles you actually hit on an exposed, rolling course rather than a wind-tunnel fantasy of a headwind.

None of that matters much if the wheel gets pushed around in a crosswind, so the rim is optimized specifically around 28mm tires, wider than plenty of riders still default to, for a combination of rolling efficiency and stability that lets you hold the aero position instead of whiteknuckling the extensions every time a gust comes through. At the hub, the SES 100 PRO runs ENVE’s PRO Hub rather than the drive-side Innerdrive internals ENVE reserves for wheels that actually turn a freehub: an ultralight straight-pull shell paired with PRO Ceramic Bearings, hardened stainless races and non-contact seals, so a wheel that never has to freewheel still spins with as little resistance as possible. All of it built, tested and assembled under one roof in Ogden, Utah.

This is a front wheel for one job, and it doesn’t pretend otherwise. If your race day involves a start list, a finish time, and no patience for wheels that split the difference between speed and everything else, the SES 100 PRO is the correct answer.