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Instructor Harold Toms (left) and participant Tathaiso Martin, 18, ride wheelies in a Baltimore parking lot. B-360, run by founder Brittany Young, is a program that seeks to offer alternatives to recklessly riding dirt bikes and ATVs on city streets.
André Chung for NPR
In an empty lot along the railroad tracks in Baltimore, the passing train horn competes with the reverberating buzz of dirt bikes.
The buzz is coming from a Saturday morning class for students at B-360, a nonprofit that uses dirt bikes to teach elementary and high school students math and science.