25 mph I tell you! I had ridden my pushbike faster than that! And not been nearly as frightened! The "bike", as you might now have guessed from the photo onthe left,
was in fact a Lambretta motor-scooter. And to this day (I'm writing this in 2006) I have never ridden one since! And, despite the surge in popularity of scooters in recent times, I still don't particularly want to! There is something about those tiny, wheel-barrow wheels that are inherently unstable.