I think he asserts that the pothole hit broke the bars which caused the crash. He’s also assuming a name brand would fare better. A big pothole hit at speed can easily destroy anything carbon.
Yeah, I went back and re-watched. And in his description and his reply to the top comment he does claim that the bars
caused the crash. But several commenters have expressed skepticism about his claim and his replies are not exactly illuminating. One commenter asks "how do you know that they cracked before the crash and not during?" and his response is "I couldn’t see any crack on them before and it was stage 7". Follow-up comment: "I am not defending these bars, but to this question, how are you certain on the sequence of events? Hit a pothole > bars crack > crash > bike destroyed... how are you sure the bars didn't break when the rest of your bike did? In my crashes while racing, everything happens so quick and its so traumatic, everything is a blur". He did not respond to it. As far as I can tell, he assumes that the bars cracked on hitting the pothole, thus causing the crash, but he is basing this purely on the fact that
after the crash, the bars were cracked. They could have easily been damaged by the crash itself.
I have no dog in this fight, although I'm not convinced that these bars are dangerous. I don't doubt that superlight bars are less robust than heavier bars. But 240g of carbon fiber in something the size of a bar is still a LOT of carbon fiber. A whole S-Works SL8 frame is only 680 grams lol.