This "motorcycle" was designed by Joan Claybrook. Claybrook was a Carter appointee who headed at that time the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA). While she may not have coined the invective, "donor," short for "organ donor", which is how some in the medical community refer to motorcyclists, it is clear that she was in that same philosophical camp. In the 70s, Ms. Claybrook pondered the enigma of the motorcycle's basic instability, i.e. its steering end is also that to which weight is transferred upon braking, compounding (in her mind, presumably) an already dangerous design. Her office commissioned the prototyping of a small motorcycle with which to test her hypothesis that the conventional motorcycle is vastly unsafe, with the result what you see here, a bastardized Rokon Automatic (blast from the past!), made rearward-steering and complemented with outriggers. Reportedly, the outriggers were added after at least one engineer working on the project broke an arm trying to ride the thing. This picture was originally published by Cycle Magazine, who along with the rest of the motopress mercilessly ridiculed Claybrook and company for the boondoggle. Government continues to fester with her kind, as evidenced by the occasional but persistent proposals of such motorcycle equipment inanities as seat belts and roll cages. Claybrook was last seen protecting others from themselves as part of the Consumer's Union in New York.