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Twisted wire. Types of Bits: snaffle, gag, curb What it is: Mouthpiece is a single-jointed bit made of a thin twisted piece of wire for each joint. Action: The wire bit is extremely severe. It is not only very thin, but it has twists in it that cause pressure points.
A disgraced Missouri teacher is scheduled to enter pleas next month to 19 charges alleging she paid her underage students for sex with cash, alcohol and marijuana and then attempted to intimidate ...
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Old-style tank shift. Regular clutch hand Shifter - This is where the shifter is a regular knob either located on the tank, which operates through a linkage to the transmission (tank shifter) or on a lever bolted directly to the top of the transmission (jockey shifter or slap shifter depending on the transmission design) and involves the semi-complex task of foot clutch operation and hand ...
The origin and invention of the Bowden cable are open to some dispute, confusion and myth. The invention of the Bowden cable has been popularly attributed to Sir Frank Bowden, one time owner of the Raleigh Bicycle Company who, circa 1902, was reputed to have started replacing the rigid rods used for brakes with a flexible wound cable but no evidence for this exists.
A highsider or high-side is a type of motorcycle accident characterized by sudden and violent rotation of the bike around its longitudinal axis. This generally happens when the rear wheel loses traction, skids, and then suddenly regains traction, causing the rider to be thrown head-first from the side of the motorcycle or over the handlebars.
Simone Biles explains the twisties, the phenomenon that led to her withdrawal during the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo. Discover what they are and if she's overcome it.
Lift-off oversteer (also known as trailing-throttle oversteer, throttle off oversteer, or lift-throttle oversteer) is a form of sudden oversteer.While cornering, a driver who closes the throttle (by lifting a foot off the accelerator, hence the name), usually at a high speed, can cause such sudden deceleration that the vertical load on the tires shifts from rear to front, in a process called ...