Adolf Hitler was a tee-total, non-smoking vegetarian, and was quite passionate about the virtues of healthy living. Don't know if he ever rode a scooter, though...
Hitler owned a moped but never rode it. Goebbels owned several imported Harley Davidsons, including the one with variomatic transmission. This got traded with a russian political officer for some vodka and a go at driving a train. It was last known to be used for pulling up stumps and driving a drainage pump on a collective farm somewhere on the edge of the Pripet marshes. Goering favoured British bikes and owned a Rudge Imperial which he stole from the Danish embassy in Paris in 1929. Doenitz won the Rudge off Goering in a bet - something to do with which one of them could fit in the pilots seat of a Me 109 however Goering welched on the bet and Doenitz never forgave him. The later conduct of the war had a lot to do with the rivalry that grew
between the two after this incident. Of the Nazi top brass, only Himmler did not have a motorcycle. He regarded them as trivial playthings which represented decadence and depravity. Nobody else liked him and were probably a bit afraid of him, including Hitler. This would not have prevented Hitler from riding his moped though. The real reason was because he only had one testicle which was permanently and painfully swollen. Thats why he never rode the moped, and why he was always so cross and short tempered.
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