ENVE SES Disc Pro Disc Brake Wheel - Rear

The ENVE SES Disc Pro Disc Brake Wheel - Rear is a solid aero disc wheel built for time trial and triathlon, not a general-purpose road wheel — this is the rear-only piece of a race-day setup, meant to pair with a front wheel like ENVE's SES 100 Pro. ENVE developed it alongside pro triathletes and World Tour time trialists, and the wheel has been raced to wins at both Ironman and World Tour level during that testing process, which is a different design brief than a everyday road wheel built for cornering and general handling.

This generation replaces ENVE's original SES rear disc wheel with a lighter, wider shape. ENVE cut roughly 200 grams from the previous design while widening the disc and reshaping it for improved rolling efficiency and stability, and this specific rear wheel comes in at 1030 grams. The rim has been aerodynamically tuned around 28mm tires specifically, since a disc wheel's aero performance is far more sensitive to yaw angle than a standard spoked wheel — the kind of crosswind and steering-angle exposure a rider sees in a solo time trial or triathlon effort, not a group ride. ENVE states this tuning is worth roughly a 0.69-watt advantage over its original rear disc wheel at those same conditions.

The hub is ENVE's Innerdrive Pro, which carries over the internals from ENVE's Premium Straight-Pull hubs with a lighter-action ratchet spring and a 40-tooth engagement ratchet for quicker pickup out of a corner or off a turnaround. It runs on ENVE's Pro Ceramic Bearings, built with hardened stainless steel races, ceramic ball carriers, a non-contact seal on the interior-facing bearing to cut drag, and a semi-contact seal on the outside to keep road grime out. It's a hub built to spin freely without giving up the sealing a wheel needs to survive wet time trial courses and long triathlon bike legs.

This rear wheel is built around a Centerlock disc brake rotor mount and a 12x142mm thru axle, so it's disc-brake specific rather than compatible with rim brake frames. It's tubeless only, with a 22mm internal rim width, a 25mm minimum tire size, and a 100 psi maximum tire pressure — specs that point toward running it with a 28mm tubeless tire rather than anything narrower, which is where ENVE optimized the aero shape. It's available with Silver or White decals, and with either an HG11 freehub body for Shimano or SRAM 11-speed drivetrains or an XDR driver for SRAM's wider-range road cassettes.

ENVE builds the SES Disc Pro at its own facility in Ogden, Utah, where design, testing, and manufacturing all happen under one roof. At $2,800 for the rear wheel alone, this isn't an upgrade for a rider's everyday bike — it's a dedicated piece of time trial or triathlon equipment for someone who already has a TT or tri bike and is chasing the aero gains that matter most when there's no draft to hide behind. For that rider, pairing this disc with a front wheel built to the same standard is the natural next step.