Took off from a Allez sprint build with all enve components (including bottle cages) that I bought on fb marketplace. I moved these wheels to a different bike a while ago and have had them on my sl8, but just noticed this sticker on both wheels. 3/10 interesting but thought I’d share. Curious if anyone else has the same
by DankDeanoo
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The sticker suggests that you don’t own these hubs.
Well now you have to reach out to Enve and submit a review with a full ride report and any details about maintenance required
My guess is someone who works for ENVE got them through some kind of employee program. I don’t know about ENVE specifically but this happens all the time in some industries where prototype parts or early design models used at shows or something are made available to employees for very little or free. They’re not usually supposed to sell them, though. So either the person you got them from didn’t care about that or they gave them to someone, maybe a friend, who then sold them not realizing or caring that they were never production models.
Ha! This is *cool*!
the property of enve sticker is funny, basically been riding around on test samples this whole time without realizing. curious if those dark 6 prototypes ever made it to actual production or if they’re just one off engineering pieces that never went anywhere. would be cool to know how they actually ride compared to the retail ses wheels.
I have a funny story about prototype parts.
I rode BMX for many years. I spent a lot of time at skateparks. There was this one guy who would ride BMX, but mainly rode hardtails. Well he tried really hard to get noticed to ride professionally. He ended up making one of the Haro amateur teams I believe. He immediately went and got a tattoo of Haro on himself.
Very shortly after that he ended up getting kicked off Haro because he was selling prototype parts 😂. I don’t think I ever saw him at any skateparks again after that.
Congratulations on one of those once in a lifetime deals for all us regular folk. Pretty cool stuff.
I wouldn’t call these a prototype, but likely a pre-production sample. I’m being a bit pedantic for sure, but “prototype” better describes a one-off experimental piece of kit. Fun nonetheless, nice set of wheels.