In the dash end on stage 2 of the Étoile de Bessèges, Marc Brustenga (Equipo Kern Pharma) was sitting in tenth wheel with 100m to go when he inexplicably veered left, misplaced management of his bike, and crashed into the limitations.
At first, it appeared as if the Spaniard had crossed wheels with Sam Bennett (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) as he tried to cross however the overhead pictures instructed a unique story.
In the video under from Eurosport, at 43 seconds, a small white cloud emanates from Brustenga’s rear wheel simply as he leans left to cross Bennett.
The purpose for that is that his tubeless tyre had punctured, with the white tubeless sealant inside exploding out instantly, failing to seal no matter injury had been finished to the tyre.
Images captured of the dash end present Brustenga within the background, halfway by way of his incident with the bike bouncing by way of the air, his rear tyre ejected from the rim and as an alternative entangled across the body of the bike.
Luckily, regardless of the swirling peloton powering towards the end line behind him, he was the one rider to go down, and importantly, a subsequent tweet from his Kern Pharma group has confirmed the Catalan rider got here away with “many abrasions and accidents” however in any other case “fantastic and in a position to cross the end line.”
More to observe.
