Originally Posted by
jibi
If you look at the vid you can see the wheel folding before it hits the dog.
In the rotational direction Carbon Fibre is very strong, but Burghartd turns his handlebars so the wheel is a 90 degrees. And the wheel does not the same strength across the fibre mesh,
It seems his travelling mass folds the wheel IMHO.
george
I'll say what I did over in the racing forum. I still think that if you look at the few frames around the 18 second mark that the wheel does not begin to bend until the leading edge touched the dog's shoulder. Coincidentally, that also causes the wheel to turn nearly perpendicular to the frame of the bike and then it folds in half. FWIW, the consensus over there is that it is a wheel from Lightweight - so there went half of a
$5000 wheelset.