I think that there was a form of helmet for them at the time.
I looked at the Royal Enfield, but want more oomph than that. An Indian friend and I were thinking of just buying a couple of them in India and riding the hell out of them for a couple of weeks and selling them back to a dealer for whatever we could get. We wanted to go, amongst other places, to the Wagah border crossing on the border with Pakistan to watch the gate closing ceremony that the Indians do with the Pakistanis.
Ping list?
That is interesting. I ended up on a ‘72 BMW R60/5. Of course this was well before the Internet (duh) but I somehow came across a photo of Pakistani police, lined up about 20 abreast, but they were all on my exact motorcycle! I later learned that mine was indeed a police bike.