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Originally Posted by MikeD
This was such an obvious failure that it should have been reported correctly to begin with. And this speculation that 1mm of tire width difference caused a blow off seems quite a bit far fetched.
Why is it that when a pro has a crash, everyone is all over that but if one of us poor schmucks suffers the same fate, everyone blames the victim?
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The reporting for this incident started when De Gendt asked on social media if anybody saw what he might have run over, because he himself didn't see anything on the road that he might have hit. As far as has been reported, no one else saw anything that he could have hit. The hypothesis that he hit a rock is just that - there is no eyewitness evidence of a rock, nor any definitive evidence at all that he hit something. It is entirely possible that the existence of the mystery rock is just a convenience for those who would be inconvenienced if the rock didn't exist. (Also note that rims break more easily after tire has flatted or blown off, so the fact that the rim broke is no evidence that the tire didn't blow-off first.)
So no, there is no obviousness of the cause of the failure. And may never be.