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...metal roller coaster draws its inspiration from the aerospace industry. "We take great precautions to ensure that the biomechanical aspects of the rides are within the limits a rider can endure," says Terry Brown, vice president of Arrow Development Co. "We check each ride with instruments. The computer tells us about velocity, centrifugal forces and stresses...
Mopeds are the near-beer of the motorcycle world. They are more than bicycles but less-far less-than the roaring machines straddled by Marlon Brando in The Wild One and Peter Fonda in Easy Rider; no self-respecting Hell's Angel would be caught dead on one. Yet mopeds (from motorized-bicycle-plus-pedals) are coming on like Scotch after Repeal...
...slight, 95-lb. frame of Steve Cauthen was hunched over Bay Streak last week, moving to challenge the leaders in the fourth race at Long Island's Belmont Park. As onlookers gasped, Bay Streak snapped a foreleg, and the rider and his horse went down. Cauthen, 17, was rushed to a nearby hospital and treated for lacerations, bruises and fractures of his right arm and two fingers. A few days later, the youth was released and sent home to Kentucky to recuperate. The doctors' orders: no riding for at least six weeks, putting a temporary halt...
Virtually all available evidence supports an end to the continued use of jockeys in thoroughbread racing. In one oft-discussed event at Pimlico, Fla., in 1959, the palamino Soft Knight, an odds-on favorite to garner the roses, failed even to make the gate because his rider was stuck in traffic on the Florida Turnpike...
Another story, equally indicting, involves the now-famous jockey Valery Giscard-d'Estaing. D'Estaing fell from his horse while taking the second turn at Aqueduct. Despite the dead weight of the rider, hanging unharmed from a stirrup, his horse went on to win by 15 furlongs...