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Motorcycle protective clothing

Motorcycle protective clothing is specialized garments and armor, including jackets, pants, gloves, and boots, that reduce rider injury in a crash by resisting abrasion and absorbing impact energy.

Motorcycle Safety Foundation

The Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) is an American not-for-profit created by motorcycle manufacturers in 1972 that develops rider training curricula and licensing tests used by most states.

Motorcycle trials

Motorcycle trials is an off-road motorcycle sport in which riders ride marked sections without putting a foot down, rewarded for balance and clutch control rather than speed.

Motorhome

A motorhome, also known as a motor caravan, is a self-propelled road vehicle built to provide living accommodation, with permanently installed sleeping, cooking, and storage facilities.

Motorland Aragón

Motorland Aragón is a motorsport venue near Alcañiz, in Aragón, Spain, whose racing circuit has hosted the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix since 2010, alongside a karting track.

Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling

Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling (MIDAS) is a National Highways system that detects congestion on England's motorways and automatically sets signals and variable speed limits.

Motorways in Austria

Austria's motorways, known as Autobahnen, form a network of about 2,249 kilometers of motorways and expressways operated by the state-owned ASFINAG and financed by vignette, GO toll, and section tolls.

Motorways in Ireland

Motorways in Ireland are public roads designated as motorways under the Roads Act 1993, identified by M-prefixed route numbers and carrying the bulk of inter-urban traffic from Dublin.

Motorways in Switzerland

Motorways in Switzerland, or Nationalstrassen, are federally planned road networks managed by the Federal Roads Office. They feature tiered road classes and common A designations like A1.

Motorways in the Netherlands

Motorways in the Netherlands, known as autosnelwegen and designated with A-numbers, form one of the European Union's densest motorway networks, about 2,500 km long, mostly managed by Rijkswaterstaat since the first motorway opened in 1937.

Motorways of Pakistan

The Motorways of Pakistan, also called Pakistan Motorways, are a network of controlled-access toll highways managed by the National Highway Authority, starting with the M-2 from Lahore to Islamabad, opened in 1997.

Mount Panorama Circuit

Mount Panorama Circuit, also known as the Bathurst Circuit, is a 6.213 km street racing circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, opened in 1938 and home of the Bathurst 1000.

Mountain bike

A mountain bike is a bicycle designed for rough off-road terrain, featuring rugged frames, wide knobby tires, strong brakes, and usually suspension, developed in 1970s California.

MOVA (traffic signal control)

MOVA (Microprocessor Optimised Vehicle Actuation) is a traffic-responsive signal control system for isolated junctions, developed in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and installed at over 3,000 UK sites.

Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act

The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, known as MAP-21, is a US federal law signed in 2012 funding highways and transit.

Moving bottleneck

A moving bottleneck is a slow vehicle, such as a bus or heavy truck, that restricts faster traffic flow and causes queues to form behind it.

MTA Regional Bus Operations bus fleet

The MTA Regional Bus Operations bus fleet, also known as the MTA bus fleet, is the roughly 5,800-bus fleet of New York City Transit and MTA Bus Company.

Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive is a scenic 24-mile ridge road in the Hollywood Hills and Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles, opened in 1924 and named for engineer William Mulholland.

Multi Media Interface

Multi Media Interface (MMI), or Audi MMI, is Audi's operating and display system controlling infotainment, navigation, telephone, and vehicle settings; it debuted in the Audi A8 in 2002.

Multi-link suspension

Multi-link suspension, also called four-link suspension, is an independent wheel suspension using three or more separate links per wheel, used chiefly at the rear axle.

Multilink suspension

Multilink suspension is a form of independent vehicle suspension that locates each wheel with several separate links rather than one or two large arms, giving engineers fine control over ride and handling.

Mumbai Coastal Road

The Mumbai Coastal Road is an arterial highway along Mumbai's western seafront, built on reclaimed land, bridges, and tunnels by the BMC, with its southern phase opening in 2024.

Mumbai–Nagpur Expressway

The Mumbai–Nagpur Expressway, also called the Samruddhi Mahamarg, is a 701 km, six-lane, access-controlled expressway in Maharashtra, India, cutting travel time between Nagpur and Mumbai to about eight hours.

Mumbai–Pune Expressway

The Mumbai–Pune Expressway, officially the Yashwantrao Chavan Expressway, is India's first access-controlled tolled expressway, a 94.5 km six-lane highway connecting Mumbai and Pune, fully operational since April 2002.

Muncie 4-Speed Transmission

The Muncie 4-speed is an aluminum, fully synchronized four-speed manual transmission built by General Motors in Muncie, Indiana, used in GM passenger cars from 1963 through 1974.

Muscle car

A muscle car, also known as an American muscle car, is a high-performance American automobile with a large V8 and rear-wheel drive, launched by the 1964 Pontiac GTO.

MV Agusta

MV Agusta is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer based on Lake Varese, founded in 1945 and known for winning 75 Grand Prix world titles between 1952 and 1974.

N1 (South Africa)

The N1 is South Africa's longest national road, running from Cape Town through Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, and Pretoria to Beit Bridge on the border with Zimbabwe.

Nagel–Schreckenberg model

The Nagel–Schreckenberg model (NaSch model) is a stochastic cellular automaton for single-lane freeway traffic, introduced by Kai Nagel and Michael Schreckenberg in 1992 and regarded as the prototype traffic cellular automaton.

Nairobi Expressway

The Nairobi Expressway is a 27.1 km tolled highway in Nairobi, Kenya, opened in 2022 and cutting airport-to-downtown travel from 2 hours to 20 minutes.