earthquakes

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I've had two bikes fall over in the same day. It was the quake of '89, here in California, I was at work as a motorcycle saleman at Grand Prix on El Camino at the time, I had ridden my brand new (week old) '89 FZR400 into work and parked it by the back door. The store occupied a former furniture store with 8' pane glass windows all the way up the face of the two story building (so picture two stories of glass as your office window, that was mine :mrgreen: ). When the quake hit the windows started quivering and making a noise like a two-man saw undulating (how else do you explain that noise?), anyway I start running for the backdoor sideways (with the checkered floor undulating (there's that word again) underneath you, how else would you run?) and as I was headed towards the open door, I watched, as in slow motion, the bike fall over into the doorway. Minimal damage, no broken windows and the only other bikes to fall over were a dirtbike on the showroom floor and the customer's bike that pushed mine over.
We began selling generators like crazy, and at the end of the day I went home to find my Vision had fallen off its centerstand and the rear brake lever had punctured a hole in the case and there was oil all over the garage.