Looking at the shoe, and how the cut goes deeper along the span of the foot whereas the front/toe box and upper part of the shoe are barely scratched, it appears that a circular object sliced into the top of the shoe, penetrating deeper in the area between toe-box and ankle.
Last time I checked, spokes weren't circular... so you better hold onto that brush.

Disagreed...
A shoe getting into spokes parallel to the rotational direction can stop a bike and a rider...
Given a solid shoe, this is less of an issue for the foot (given the large contact area of several spokes, unless the foot is also being sliced in the process by a small circular sharp object.

The plot thickens - the professional cyclists union threatens UCI

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/...c-brake-fears-316560

.......The union goes on to call on the UCI to “review their position” and bring in “a safety cover or measures that can prevent an accidental contact of the discs to the body of the riders”.
If such measures are not brought in, the CPA says that it will pursue “all the necessary legal actions to safeguard the health and safety of its members, who, as workers, must be guaranteed the adoption of all the appropriate preventive measures required by the legislation on the safety at work.”.......

https://www.bikerumor.com/2017/02/27/152600/

The comments are full of people saying Campy is trying to sway the UCI against disc brakes.

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Well it is the point of what I asked. I need to see a video of a disc brake actually cutting through something like a shoe in the way it is being explained.

My response has no herring on it. You showed me a video of a dude that was tired and fell on his bike that wasn't moving. I said, it is very easy to cut yourself or hurt yourself on many parts of the bike, while you fall on it and it isn't moving.

You won't show me that video I guess. But you will harp on and on about an accident that likely didn't happen the way people want to think it went down. It is called bringing bias to the argument that you can't get over. It is what Slowtwitch is famous for and why these threads go on and on and on and get nowhere. Which is why I have to remind myself to get my news elsewhere.

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I'm not sure if you read my account of my accident with shoe and spoke. If not, check the thread and have a read.

In essence, your summary of the interaction between a spoke and a shoe is incorrect. While my accident is an N=1 case, it does illustrate that a spoke can create the damage, almost identical to what Doull had. While 2 accidents will never be quite the same, the damage to my shoe in my accident almost exactly replicates the damage to Doulls shoe. Combining my experience with my shoe in my accident (NOT a disc brake equipped bike, just to be clear), the video of the shoe against a spinning disc rotor and the damage to Doulls shoe, I find it much more likely that a spoke did the damage NOT the disc rotor.

Without clearer evidence (from the actual crash), I don't think we'll ever know conclusively

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