* A 1976 novel by Steve Wilson, The Lost Traveller, deals with a post-apocalyptic world in which descendants of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang act as paramilitary forces for a community called the Fief.

During the occupation by German forces from 1940 to 1945 it was difficult for Fisker & Nielsen to obtain the materials needed for motorcycle production and only about 600 machines were made during the period.

When going through a curve on a motorcycle, centripetal force ( added to the other lateral forces such as acceleration or deceleration ) is transferred from the road to the motorcycle through the contact patch, and is directed at a right angle to the path of travel.

All forces occurring between the motorcycle and the road ( such as accelerating, decelerating and steering ) are transmitted by friction occurring in the contact patch.

The capsizing moment provided by the motorcycle lean into the corner is in moment equilibrium with the centripetal forces at the ground when all is working correctly.

If, having reached a given lean angle, the centripetal forces are reduced then the motorcycle increases its angle of lean until it touches the road surface, usually unseating the rider in the process.

Because the forces are applied at ground level, this pulls the wheels " out from under " the motorcycle and to its right.

It was originally intended as an individually packaged daily ration for issue to airborne troops, tank corps, motorcycle couriers, and other mobile forces for short durations.

Recalling his days as a motorcycle racer, he forces one officer off the road and eludes the other officer by jumping across a dry creek bed.

The Italian armoured division, augmented by 23 tanks of the 15th Panzer Division and supported by Bersaglieri motorcycle troops, lost no time in assaulting the pursuing Commonwealth forces.

Transforming into a motorcycle and wielding an Energon crossbow, she arrived in the middle of Megatron's attack on Cybertron, guiding the Omnicon forces into subduing Unicron's hunger.

A police motorcycle is a motorcycle used by various police forces and departments.

But if anything can bring home to Mr. Khrushchev the idea that he will not really get much enjoyment from watching this Braddock-against-the-Indians contest, it will probably be the fact that SEATO forces are ready to attempt it -- plus the fact that Moscow has something to lose from closing off disarmament and other bigger negotiations with Washington.

Military experts say a tight naval blockade off Cuban ports and at the approaches to Cuban waters would require two naval task forces, each built around an aircraft carrier with a complement of about 100 planes and several destroyers.

The Cuman mercenaries among the Byzantine forces immediately defected to the Turkish side ; and, seeing this, " the Western mercenaries rode off and took no part in the battle.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

Rommel's forces had to withdraw urgently lest their retreat through the British minefields be cut off.

Driven off by Roman forces, the coalition host moved overland into Thracia, where finally it was crushed by emperor Claudius II ( r. 268-70 ) at Naissus ( 269 ).

His forces met little resistance, burning numerous towns to the ground and living off the land, until they reached the Loire River at Tours.

This way that Teutonic forces in Prussia on the right bank of Vistula were cut off from the supplies form Western Europe.

General Oreste Baratieri, commander of the Italian forces, knew the Ethiopian forces had been living off the land, and once the supplies of the local peasants were exhausted, Emperor Menelik's army would begin to melt away.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

Constantius immediately gathered his forces and set off west.

* 1943 – World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.

:" When you deprogram people, you force them to think ... But I keep them off balance and this forces them to begin questioning, to open their minds.

A different explanation was provided by Desaguliers ( 1725 ), who demonstrated the strong cohesion forces between lead spheres of which a small cap is cut off and which were then brought into contact with each other.

Though they are assisted by humanoid creatures they refer to as ' trolls ', the Magistra's forces are driven off.

After fending off Guatemalan military forces, Bonilla sought peace with the country and signed a friendship pact with both Guatemala and El Salvador.

" Around four days later, an army of well-trained Georgian troops arrived to the town after hearing of Gurgīn's death but Mirwais and his Afghan forces successfully held off the town.

Under a red flag bearing Skanderbeg's heraldic emblem, an Albanian force held off Ottoman campaigns for twenty-five years and overcame sieges of Krujë led by the forces of the Ottoman sultans Murad II and Mehmed II.

Also, fictitious forces do not drop off with distance ( unlike, for example, nuclear forces or electrical forces ).

One approach is to argue that all real forces drop off with distance from their sources in a known manner, so we have only to be sure that we are far enough away from all sources to ensure that no force is present.

This might have happened during the initial marshaling of forces from a jump off point, or the deployment of reserves, but once the great encircling sweep of frenzied warriors in the " horns " and " chest " was in motion, the izinduna could not generally exercise detailed control.

When her husband was captured in 1509 and held hostage in Venice, she took control of Mantua's military forces and held off their invaders until his release in 1512.

There are two forces ; one is the force of gravity vertically downward through the center of mass of the ball mg where m is the mass of the ball and g is the gravitational acceleration ; the second is the upward normal force exerted by the road perpendicular to the road surface ma < sub > n </ sub >.

On September 24, he and Brown, whose company was guarding the road between St. John's and Montreal, met at Longueuil, and, according to Allen's account of the events, came up with a plan in which both he and Brown would lead their forces to attack Montreal.

The long road from Bandar-Abbas in southern Iran to highway 1 in southern Afghanistan is carried out by state-owned Border Roads Organisation ( BRO ), the mission statement of which states that the BRO is India's " most reputed, multifaceted, transnational, modern construction organization committed to meeting the strategic needs of the armed forces.

The country's fiscal situation improved steadily, education improved slightly, the road network expanded, and the armed forces were modernized.

* 1940 – Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.

Policing the road is carried out by an integrated policing group made up of the Metropolitan, Thames Valley, Essex, Kent, Hertfordshire and Surrey forces.

Rains deployed " sub-terra shells " or " land torpedoes ", artillery shells with pressure fuses buried in the road by retreating Confederate forces to delay their pursuers.

* January 6 – 13 – First Anglo-Afghan War: Massacre of Elphinstone's army ( Battle of Gandamak ): British East India Company troops destroyed by Afghan forces on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, by Akbar Khan, son of Dost Mohammed Khan.

During World War I, occupying forces opened up new road sections mainly in the mountainous areas of the country.

He divided his forces, sending 2, 000 men under his nephew Gibamund across a salt pan in an effort to flank Belisarius ' army, which was advancing in narrow columns along the road.

The road was the main factor that allowed them to concentrate their forces sufficiently rapidly and keep them adequately supplied to become a formidable opponent.

In 1900 John Fowler & Co. provided armoured road trains for use by the British forces in the Second Boer War.

In the ensuing battle, only a small force managed to hold one end of the Arnhem road bridge and after the ground forces failed to relieve them, they were overrun on 21 September.

French General Lafayette traveled this road to join forces with Washington, and stopped in Douglas during the Revolutionary War.

Aided by a tribe of Wild Men of the Woods, Théoden's forces travel a long-forgotten forest path to avoid an Orc ambush on the main road and reach Minas Tirith stealthily.

Trotsky claimed that the Third Period policies of the Comintern had contributed to the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, and that its turn to a popular front policy ( aiming to unite all ostensibly anti-fascist forces ) sowed illusions in reformism and pacifism and " clear the road for a fascist overturn ".

Layers of volcanic ash ejected from geologically recent but now extinct volcanos, compacted and now tilted by compressive forces, may be seen at the site of some road excavations.

T. Dewitt Talmage to have saved American independence by detaining Lord Howe long enough to permit Israel Putnam to pass up the Greenwich road from the city and join the forces of George Washington in the north end of the island, before Howe was able to overtake him.

It disrupts the relaxed canter of walking and forces pedestrians repeatedly onto the road, a hostile, anxiety-generating territory.

For example, a bicycle helmet must protect against blunt impact forces from the wearer's head striking the road.

The French responded by dismantling their small posts along the road and concentrating area forces in the fortified positions at Dong Khé and Cao Bang.

* Radial Force Variation ( RFV ) is a property of a tire that characterizes forces between the vehicle and the road.

Livingston theorizes that the invading allied armies entered England in two waves: Constantine and Owen came from the north, possibly engaging in some early skirmishes with forces loyal to Athelstan as they followed the Roman road across the Lancashire Plains between Carlisle and Manchester, with Olaf's forces joining with him en route.