Marcel Kittel has confirmed he will not use a bike with disc brakes during stage 2 of the Abu Dhabi Tour following accusations that the rotors of his disc brakes cut into Owain Doull’s shoe in a high-speed crash on stage 1.
Kittel was the only rider using disc brakes in the Abu Dhabi Tour and has opted to switch back to a caliper brake Specialized Venge ViAS bike.
Kittel and Doull locked handlebars and crashed at high-speed with a kilometre to go. Other riders also went down, crashing into the roadside barriers.
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"My shoe was cut to pieces. That's definitely a disc brake that has done that," said Doull. "Nothing else could cut like that, it's like a knife, it cut straight through it. You can see that thin line, it's exactly in line, cut there and cut there on my shoe and both straight through in an arrow-straight line."
Kittel went to see Doull before the start of stage 2 and then confirmed his decision to change bikes.
“I will not use my disc brake bike today out of respect for my colleagues because I understand the safety issues,” Kittel told media, including Cyclingnews, before preparing for stage 2.
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