Hello every one! Hope someone can help. I would like to contact Scott Van Sant. He used to be the USA National Service Manager for Yamaha International Corporation back in the 70's. My particular interest is the sadly (although very few people seem to think that these days!) long gone English marque, Viscount, who rose out of the ashes of the failed Lambert company. Mention Viscount and of course the words 'death fork' INEVITABLY pop up in most vintage bike dudes minds. That should jolt a fair few members memories! Yamaha were the distributors of Viscount bicycles in the US. I am researching the history of the marque particularly the 1974 - 78 'golden era' ("Aerospace" bikes) hopefully with a view to producing a book/website (risky though as unlikely to be a best seller!) and hence would like to contact Scott. I suspect Scott played a lead role in the 'death fork' recall (30,000 units!!!!) so is a key figure in the Viscount story. The Viscount story is s - l - o - w - l - y coming together not helped, I suspect, by the marque's almost complete disappearance off just about every one's radar. Any other thoughts, memories, experiences, problems, photos, old magazine road tests, etc. would always be most welcome, warts and all (hope you Americans are familiar with that phrase?). My irrational LOVE of Viscounts is another shining example of that glorious human attribute best summed up by the words "for every pot there is a lid".
Thanks.
Steven Brereton
Chorley
England