Zipp just announced a new version of the 303. Hookless bead (so tubeless tires only), 23mm internal, disc-only, 45mm deep. $1300. Going after the ENVE 45s HARD with these. They look amazing. [image] New Zipp 303-S aero wheels are wider, hookless, tubeless, cheaper, disc-only... Zipp’s …

Nice to see another high end wheel company come in with an “affordable” option. The more options in the 1500ish and under range the better. Wonder if they always had the $1300 price take in mind or if the Enve Foundation offering at $1600 led them to set the price where it is I personally prefer …

At $1200, these are sufficiently low priced to be OEM on sub-$5K bikes. Since Zipp is owned by SRAM, they could package 'em together with a Force groupset for a song.

The very thought of it makes me tingle.

The thing I find interesting here, is that Zipp says that any tubeless tire is compatible with the wheels, while Enve has very specific requirements about what tires you can or can’t use. I wonder what’s different? Regardless, these will likely find there way onto one of my bikes in the not too dist…

[image] QuittingBikes: Since Zipp is owned by SRAM, they could package 'em together with a Force groupset for a song. Nope…one of the major reasons SRAM is in business today is because they successfully sued Shimano back in the late 90’s for “grouppo pricing”, which was illegally blocking SRA…

Just got these yesterday (haven’t even had a chance to set them up yet). Early, non-ride impressions: They look really nice in person. You can tell that they’re manufactured using a different process than higher-end wheelsets. For example, the UD finish is a little offset at the very top of one of…

[image] summerson: They come pre-taped with valves, but that’s it. Enve should do the same, would save a lot of headaches I think.

I recall hearing that Continental was not comfortable with their tires on hookless rims. I’m likely to wait for actual tubeless rim and tire standards that are designed to work together, rather than everybody doing what they think better, and then producing compatibility charts. There are so many …

Even ENVE says the 25c GP5000 is fine on the Foundation series. It’s the 28 where it starts to have issues. From what I can tell, this is very much a Conti issue, not an industry issue.

Zipp's new 303-S wheelset

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sleepyf18 May 6, 2020, 5:43am 7

While they are undercutting the new ENVE 45/65 that are made in the USA by a US company, the new 303s are made in Taiwan by a US company. One of the ways they saved some costs.

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Zipp's new 303-S wheelset

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