tom thompson
This sounds pretty isolated ,maybe we should leave it be and not stir up
any ideas amoung outhers[ tack distributers] for future races.
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From: Mike Murray <mmur-@teleport.com>
To: OBRA Remailer <ob-@topica.com>
Subject: RE: [OBRA Chat] District tt course, tacks, impressions?
Date: Sunday, July 30, 2000 10:48 PM
Fortunately there were actually few flats. I believe only 6. Also
fortunately sabotage of this type is rare... I have only seen it 3
previous
times since I started bike racing almost 30 years ago. Once was at the
Jack
Frost TT when it was held on a nearby road. Another time was at a
criterium
in Eugene where there were several other actions done to make the road
less
usable (oil poured on the road, road closure signs removed and concrete
"speed bumps" constructed). In the Eugene episode the number of flats
was
huge and the police motorcycle that was driving pace was pulling tacks by
the handful out of his tires.
I don't think that there is really much that can be done about this sort
of
thing. The people that do it rarely raise their heads enough to be
identified. They never make their objections, if they have any, known
through normal channels. After the Eugene episode I wrote a letter to
the
editor of the Eugene newspaper. I received a response from a women who
said
that too many roads were closed for running races in Eugene making it
difficult for her to drive to church and that somehow that justified the
acts of sabotage against a bicycle event. Go figure. I think that most
of
the time The people that do this are just common vandals although it is
difficult to understand why they would go to so much work. It really is
a
buyer's market for idiots.
Mike Murray
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