Manufacturer Don Vesco Class Streamliner | Predecessor "Big Red" streamliner Bore / stroke 64 mm×54 mm | |
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Successor "Lightning Bolt" streamliner Engine 2×Inline-4 two-stroke, 1,389.8 cc total displacement | ||
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.
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Silver Bird Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA