Runningwithbees wrote:
It's entirely possible. I have stated before that I don't know what happened for sure. What I have seen, leads me to believe his foot jammed in to the rotor. I think Tridork is being entirely disingenuous with his arguments against that happening.
With the cut being on the inner half of his foot, and being mostly straight up his foot, I don't see how that would line up with the spokes cutting it. If it were a spoke, I would believe the cut would have been more across his foot than up and down it.
Kittel definitely could have grabbed a fistful of breaks, but a fistful of rim brake in that situation would still send you over. I would like to think an experienced and accomplished sprinter knows better than that.
Several years ago I was heading out my driveway from my bike shed, to ride to work. I came around my garage and turned left from the path, onto the driveway. Walking pace. Then I turn right to go down the drive to the street. Traditionally I would mount my bike at this point. I click into my left pedal with my left shoe, while turning slightly right. As I complete the right turn, pushing the pedal with my left foot, I complete mounting my bike and click in with my right shoe as I ride away down my driveway. All good.This particular morning I hadn't noticed the chain had come off the chain ring. This meant that as I pushed with my left foot, intending to ride away, my left foot went straight down from TDC to BDC, and the bike came to almost a complete stop. Rather than my right leg swinging over my bike, it too went straight down. My right shoe went into one of the bladed spokes, resulting in a near identical cut through my shoe, to what Doull got. My cut was slightly diagonal, but still pretty straight (remember the dish on the rear spokes). It completely cut through the front Velcro closure of my MTB shoe and put a cut most of the way through the second Velcro strap. the 3rd ratchet strap was undamaged. As I fell, my knee bent two other spokes and sustained a couple of cuts deeper than I'd like to have go, plus some grazing. Blood all over my bike and my driveway. My right hip ended up bending the rim.
Sure, it's an N=1 incident, but combined with the video evidence of the shoe against the spinning disc, that lead me to believe that it's more likely that a spoke is the culprit than the disc. Note that a shoe jammed in the spokes of a wheel will jam a wheel pretty well too.
TriDork
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