If the rider plans a significant amount of hillclimbing, a triple-crank ( three chainrings ) front gear system may be preferred.

If a rider is thrown from a horse but has a foot caught in the stirrup, they could be dragged if the horse runs away.

If one rider closely follows, they draft or slipstream another, because the leading rider pushes air around themselves ; any rider closely following has to push out less air than the lead rider and thus can travel at the same speed while expending less effort.

If a horse or rider knocks down a bottom or middle rail while still clearing the height of the obstacle, providing the rails are directly underneath the top rail, they receive no penalties.

If the dressage rider has long hair, it is typically worn in a bun with a hair net or show bow.

If the rider is a member of the police or military, they are permitted to wear their respective uniform during competition.

If the rider should fall off the horse they are eliminated.

If the rider has a refusal at the direct route, he may jump the other B element without additional penalty than incurred for the refusal.

If the rider is riding at FEI level, only then can they wear a shadbelly tailcoat and a top hat.

If a rider wishes to stay within normal requirements for higher-level competition, breeches should be white, but beige or another conservative light color is permissible.

If the rider on horseback on the image on the Böksta Runestone has been correctly identified as Odin, then Odin is shown carrying Gungnir while hunting an elk.

If the Weyrwoman dies, or if her dragon ceases to mate due to old age or serious injury, the rider of the next gold to rise to mate will take the position.

If a Wing falls to fewer than 12 healthy dragon / rider pairs, the Wing is disbanded and absorbed by other Wings.

If the goat becomes untied before six seconds have passed, the rider receives no score.

If that team is eight or more points in arrears, they may bring in the use of a different rider in their team lineup, to race in any heat except for heat 15.

If they are ten or more points behind, a rider with a scheduled ride may go out for double points, in which the riders points will be doubled if he beats a rider of the opposing team.

If that rider remains unbeaten by either opposition rider his scored points are doubled and also count towards the rider's calculated match average ( CMA ).

If the sheer power of a swing did not fell the horse or its rider, the bill's hook was excellent at finding a chink in the plate armour of cavalrymen at the time, dragging the unlucky horseman off his mount to be finished off with either a sword, spear or the bill itself.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

* If the two players sitting opposite are partners, the players can exchange numbers.

If the family was too small to finish eating the entire offering in one sitting, an offering was made for a group of families.

If a player is not sitting on a particular spot, the hand is still assigned, but then placed on the discard pile with the four unused cards.

Wender and Klein point out that pessimism can be useful in some circumstances: " If one is subject to a series of defeats, it pays to adopt a conservative game plan of sitting back and waiting and letting others take the risks.

If white people were already sitting in the front, black people had to board at the front to pay the fare, then disembark and reenter through the rear door.

He writes, " If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

* In the series Flight of the Conchords, Bret serenades his girlfriend sitting in front of the Unisphere with the song " If You're Into It ".

If the curved track turns the cars 60 degrees, and three rail lines meet as three equally spaced spokes, 120 degrees apart, then the curved track sitting on a turn table can be rotated to connect any two of the three rail lines at this junction, creating a triangle junction.

If he is granted bail it will be bail to appear at a Magistrates ' Court at the next available sitting.

If it is sitting lower in the water, so that the white on the flanks is reduced to a patch on the rear flank ( thus resembling the pattern of the Black-throated Loon ), that patch tends to be less clearly defined than the comparative patch on the Black-throated.

" If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence?

If I had not heard long ago from other people that you were a fool, I might now have known it of myself, since you thought I was sitting in an empty jug, and went to cover it up with your hand, as if you had me caught.

If paddlers are not synchronised to the two lead strokes, for example if a pair of paddlers takes their cue from the pair of paddlers sitting immediately in front of them, then each successive pair of blades hits the water a fraction of a second behind the blade just in front of them.

If at the beginning of a sitting the quorum is not met, the bells are rung for five minutes and a count is then taken ; if the quorum is still not met the sitting is adjourned until the next sitting day.

If a member calls for quorum to be counted and a first count shows there are fewer than 20 members, bells are rung to call in the members ; if after 15 minutes there are still fewer than 20 members, the session is adjourned to the next sitting day ; the members present sign a roll on the table of the house, and this list is included in the Journal of the House.

If conflicting legislation is enacted by the two Houses, a joint sitting is held to resolve the differences.

If the lynx kills or scavenges a larger animal that it cannot consume all in one sitting, it will drag it to a hiding area such as a bush or under a rock and then will cover the dead animal with leaves and return to consume it later.

If the kacapi indung is played while sitting on the floor, usually a pillow or some other small object is placed under its left hand side, as seen from the player, so that the sound can freely escape through the resonance hole in the bottom of the soundbox.

If the conflict continues after such an election, the governor-general may convene a joint sitting of both Houses to consider the disputed legislation.

" If members do not follow his or her instructions, the Speaker may punish them by demanding that they leave the House for the remainder of the day's sitting.

If one is sitting or standing up, the aspirate ends up in the posterior basal segment of the right lower lobe.

If uncorrected, a second or third degree hypospadias can make male urination messy, necessitate that it be performed sitting, impair delivery of semen into the vagina ( possibly creating problems with fertility ), or interfere with erections.