enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Sudden unintended acceleration - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration

   Ways of resolving sudden unintended acceleration is to apply the brakes and/or clutch, or shift into neutral if the car has an automatic transmission. [72] [73] [3] In most cars, fully applied brakes are easily capable of stopping the car while the accelerator pedal is also fully applied. [17] "

3. Motorcycle stunt riding - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_stunt_riding

   Stoppie — Lifting the rear wheel of the motorcycle using momentum and braking force. Also referred to as an Endo. Biscuit Eater — Stoppie with the rider's legs over the handlebars. Also known as the "highchair endo" Burnouts use the power of the engine and braking force to cause the rear wheel to spin, heating the rear tire and producing ...

4. Trail braking - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_braking

   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 of the turn.

5. Brake check - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_check

   Rear-end collision is a possible outcome from brake testing.. A brake check, also known as a brake test, occurs when a driver deliberately either taps on the brakes several times or slams hard on the pedal when moving in front of another vehicle, with the intention of causing the behind driver to either collide or take evasive action. [1]

6. Brake balance - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_balance

   The brake balance or brake bias of a vehicle is the distribution of brake force at the front and rear tires, and may be given as the percentage distributed to the front brakes (e.g. 52%) [1] or as the ratio of front and rear percentages (e.g. 52/48). [2]

7. Brake - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake

   A brake disc (or rotor in U.S. English), usually made of cast iron or ceramic, is connected to the wheel or the axle. To stop the wheel, friction material in the form of brake pads (mounted in a device called a brake caliper) is forced mechanically, hydraulically, pneumatically or electromagnetically against both sides of the disc. Friction ...