Wow. I had never... Here they would just let you have it on credit. Then charge you when it broke, then sold you a new one... Hmmmm rex
Carrying a full face helmet on your forearm whilst going to pick up a mate/your girlfriend. Imagine the carnage if you fell off with your arm wedged up to the elbow in the visor opening Oh, and having to pick up the new GF down the road from her house as her Dad did not want her going on a bike.
Carried one of these every morning tucked into my bag on my morning paper round. Anything was fair game.
I had the Leader. It ended up with expansion chambers and instead of 2 stroke oil I ran it on Castrol R. The smell was unbelievable.
Yep Vauxhall Velox. Three speed box 2.2litre four cylinder petrol, top speed about 80mph. But the best thing was the wipers were driven by cable from the gearbox so double declutching from top to second they went absolutely berserk. The car I learnt to drive in.
The single seaters were A12s. There is one on the deck of USS Intrepid at pier 86 on the Hudson River, NY. All of the SR 71 Blacbirds were two seaters and because of the additional crew member did not have as good a camera as the earlier A12. One of the pilots giving a presentation His book Sled Driver is well worth a read but a tad expensive unless you know the right people.
