I have Campagnolo Bora Ultra carbon wheels on a couple of my bikes. On a hot day the valve of the front wheel pushed through to the inside of the wheel causing an instant flat. That valve had a conical kind of triangular shape which enabled the failure. The ENVE valves are, by comparison, have a long and rectangular base which fit the rim valley perfectly and, once installed, allowed me to pump up the tires with my old Silca pump as quickly as pumping up a tubed tire. This is especially important as on the road puncture management with tubeless tires can be especially difficult.
Two years ago I was losing blood flow in my legs, heart rate soaring on easy rides. Did the MRI, exhaustive tests with doctors and sports medicine, nothing made sense, and then we did a bike fit where we finally figured out the problem was my saddle. I tried at least seven saddles of various brand, shape and size before i found this one and then tried various versions of this one. The shape fits me, and the Supercomfort is definitely more comfortable on long rides. Saddles are personal, but this one works for me. I bought one for every bike I own (4). Not cheap, but well worth the investment to me.
I like how you can place these shifters where ever its most comfortable/convenient. In my case, I placed them on my aerobars on my road bike. This enabled me to keep my hands on the aerobars while shifting, greatly reducing the number of times I have to reach for the hood shifters. This enables quicker shifting and a smoother ride. It was easy to pair these with my AXS system.
Two things could be improved.
(1) The battery. I'd like to see a replaceable or rechargeable battery. This would extend the like of the blips.
(2) Providing more (or better) options for mounting these securely. My aerobars are round and pretty thin. The mounting stickers and cheap plastic mounting covers don't appear to provide long-term protection from falling off. Time will tell though. The plastic covers don't fit well around thin, round bars. I realize you can try to wrap some bar tape around them to help with this, but they are so small it makes it difficult to get them wrapped without having to cut the bar tape to avoid the blip contact points.
The Gravel H tires are the first 45c tires I've had experience with so a big caveat in terms of a comparison to other 45c tires. I chose this one for a durable and long lasting do-it-all and so far it fits the role.
Grip is good and handling is more than adequate. A little slippery on slick wet mud as expected. On dry bumpy terrain it excels in smoothing out the edges of the rocks.
It is a heavy tire, no getting around this. I noticed this as coming from 35 and 38c tires, these take more effort to spin up.
