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Bike Messengers NYC
"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message news:... I used to go down to watch the night races on the Hellyer Park Velodrome banked track in San Jose, CA The fixed gear is quite noisy, and when you get a swarm of 30 track riders all bunched together, it's a pretty eerie sound. -tom I meant when they're riding at 30+ mph bunched together. I imagine they could sound pretty eerie statically bunched together. The other sound that I'll never forget is the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber doing a fly-by at Moffett Field Airbase, CA. As the crowd waited patiently, a voice came on the intercom that the B-2 will pass overhead in 3 minutes. Heads were turning everywhere, no sight of a Stealth anywhere. Another announcement, the B-2 will pass in 2-minutes....still no Stealth in sight. People were becoming a little bewildered as heads turned in all directions. The last announcement, the Stealth will pass in 60 seconds. I glanced up and spotted a tiny black dot, as others did as well. Soon people began to point in that direction as the dot grew larger as each 1/10 of a second ticked off. Looked like a flying black disc as it approached closer and it was dead silent... a very eerie feeling. As the B-2 made a low pass over us, it felt like a shadow of death, and we didn't hear the sound until it completely passed us by. A very low turbine compressor sound that sent chills down our spines as it swished by and slowly tailed off. I'll remember that sound for the rest of my life. -tom |
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