6/29/1992 rattle and roll

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From: (scott evans)
Subject: Earthquake takes out IV's, Costa Mesa Grand Prix
Date: 29 Jun 92 20:00:52 GMT

Just when you thought you've heard every crash story from the Cat
IV's...

The second of two major earthquakes to rock Southern California, a
magnitude 6.5 on the Richter scale, struck at 8:04 am Pacific time,
which was just in time to catch the Cat IV Costa Mesa Grand Prix in
progress. The riders' general opinion was that they all felt like
they
got flats at the same time or that some invisible being just grabbed
their bikes and shook. About 20 riders went down in a chain-reation
crash as one rider near the middle of the group of some 100 riders
lost
control and crashed.

Sheesh. Now we HAVE seen everything.

Scott Evans
UCLA Cycling

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On 30/05/2012 21:10, wrote:
> From: (scott evans)
> Subject: Earthquake takes out IV's, Costa Mesa Grand Prix
> Date: 29 Jun 92 20:00:52 GMT
>
> Just when you thought you've heard every crash story from the Cat
> IV's...
>
> The second of two major earthquakes to rock Southern California, a
> magnitude 6.5 on the Richter scale, struck at 8:04 am Pacific time,
> which was just in time to catch the Cat IV Costa Mesa Grand Prix in
> progress. The riders' general opinion was that they all felt like
> they
> got flats at the same time or that some invisible being just grabbed
> their bikes and shook. About 20 riders went down in a chain-reation
> crash as one rider near the middle of the group of some 100 riders
> lost
> control and crashed.
>
> Sheesh. Now we HAVE seen everything.
>

It would be interesting to see how the pro peleton would have done in the same
situation, maybe there'll be a quake in this year's Vuelta...would lively the
race up a bit.

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