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Trail braking into a corner at Miller Motorsports Park, USA. Trail braking is a driving and motorcycle riding technique where the brakes are used beyond the entrance to a turn (turn-in), and then gradually released (trailed off). Depending on a number of factors, the driver fully releases brake pressure at any point between turn-in and the apex ...
30 fatalities, including President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Akhtar Abdur Rahman, United States Ambassador to Pakistan Arnold Lewis Raphel, US Brigadier General Herbert M. Wassom, and a group of senior Pakistani army officers. Lockheed C-130B Hercules. Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
Pagan's Motorcycle Club, or simply the Pagans, is an outlaw motorcycle club formed by Lou Dobkin in 1957 in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. [1] [4] The club rapidly expanded and by 1959, the Pagans, originally clad in blue denim jackets and riding Triumphs , began to evolve along the lines of the stereotypical one percenter ...
Yamaha Champions Riding School is a motorcycle training program based primarily at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, New Jersey, [1] [2] but operating at race tracks all over the Continental United States. [3] It is the successor to the now-defunct Freddie Spencer High Performance Riding School, and spent its first four years at Miller ...
Marlboro Motor Raceway ( MMR) is a now-defunct motorsports park located in Prince George's County, just outside Upper Marlboro, Maryland. MMR closed after the 1969 season and local Sports Car Club of America ( SCCA) racing moved to the more advanced Summit Point Motorsports Park due to safety concerns and issues with MMR's management. [1]
Racing line. On racing tracks, black stripes of rubber on the tarmac from previous cars often indicate the racing line. In motorsport, the racing line is the optimal path around a race course. [1] In most cases, the line makes use of the entire width of the track to lengthen the radius of a turn: entering at the outside edge, touching the "apex ...
James J. Rowley Training Center. / 39.0360; -76.8427. The James J. Rowley Training Center [1] ( JJRTC, RTC, or Secret Service Training Academy) is the law enforcement training center operated by the United States Secret Service just outside Washington, D.C., in South Laurel, Maryland, [2] near Laurel. It is named after former director James ...
Andrew Adelsberger, 48, of Boonsboro, Maryland, died in the wreck on Route 116 near Valley View Trail after losing control of his motorcycle, said Adams County Chief Deputy Coroner Scott Pennewill ...