That seems like an odd place to keep your toolbag. It seems to be at the junction where the seatpost goes into the seattube. Why is it not mounted uner the saddle?
Also notice zero clearance front tire to H2O bottle!!
How many tubi’s do you think you could get in there? 
Actually I think it’s the SRM transmitter for the real time Wattage tracking.
Cheers!
Trevor
I have the same zero clearance for my bars which are 11 cm above my front wheel, so no front mounted bottle. Did that bottle have anything to do with flatting. Is it possble that it came lose and got so low that it burnt the rubber right off? Is there a “lower depth” aero bottle on the market?
Is the first picture an illusion? Notice how the saddle bag or tranmitter is not there.
I had the same problem but just taped two small rectangular pieces of balsa wood to increase the height of the ‘ledge’ on the bottle (by about 0.6"). Problem solved.
I am pretty sure that the “toolbag” in the first pic is just a tubular taped to the frame in a non-traditional way. I watched the race on ironmanlive and some of the live video made it clear. I’m not sure where his tools are. last year they were in a cut up water bottle.
Dan
during webcast Norman was trying to adjust the ‘toolbag’ and looks like eventually got rid of it
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My handlebars are super low and I tried to use an aero bottle on my long rides for extra fluid. I had to use an ugly maniuplation of tape an zip ties to keep it high enough to not rub the tire, but sitll did at times. When I tried to use it for the long ride day at the El Paso camp I coul,d not because of the hole in the bottom of the bottle.
That makes sense actually, but where was his data being transmitted to? I didn’t see it on the 2 peak website.
Also the “bag/object” is there in the pre-flat photo but not in the post flat photo.
Last year he had a toolbag under the saddle. On his old Look frame he used to keep his tools in a cut-up water bottle.
Look at the cranks, no SRM
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You’re right. My bad.
I thought it was like the transmitter Jens Voight had on his bike during this year’s TdF.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2004/tour04/tech/voigt-bike/CH8949.jpg