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Silver Bird was a motorcycle land-speed record setting streamliner motorcycle. It was powered by two motors delivering 240 horsepower (180 kW). It was the first motorcycle to set a speed record over 300 miles per hour (480 km/h), when ridden by Don Vesco at the Bonneville Speedway in 1975.
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Construction
The motorcycle was built by Don Vesco and sponsored by Yamaha. It had two four-cylinder, 694.9 cc reed-valve two-stroke engines from the Yamaha TZ750 racebike.
Specifications
- Displacement: 1,389.8 cc total
- Engine bore and stroke: 64mm×54mm
- Dimensions: 21 feet long, 32 inches high
- Weight: c. 900 pounds (410 kg)
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References
Notes
Sources
- Motorcycle Hall of Fame: Don Vesco, American Motorcyclist Association, 1999
- Cameron, Kevin (March 30, 2012), "Ask Kevin: Hard riding beasts - Yamaha TZ750", Cycle World
- Williams, Evan (c. 2007), Yamaha's TZ750: Where Legends Began ..., Superbike Planet
- Robinson, Rocky (2007), Flat Out: The Race for the Motorcycle Land Speed Record, Motorbooks, ISBN 9781610609296
- "Don Vesco, 63, Record-Setting Motorcyclist", The New York Times, December 20, 2002
- "Don Vesco Turbinator Streamliner Land-Speed Racer--Vesco's 300-MPH Bike", Hot Rod, July 2003
- American Motorcyclist "Record runs a family affair with Don and Rick Vesco" , American Motorcyclist, American Motorcyclist Association: 86, April 1982
- Phinizy, Coles (November 1975), "Flat out on the flats", Sports Illustrated, 43 (19): 38
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Further reading
- "Motorcycles - The Silver Bird - Don Vesco's 300-mph Yamaha streamliner", Hot Rod, December 1975
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External links
- Don Vesco & The Silver Bird 1975 on YouTube
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