Silver Bird (streamliner)


Silver Bird was a motorcycle land-speed record setting streamliner motorcycle. It was powered by two motors delivering. It was the first motorcycle to set a speed record over, when ridden by Don Vesco at the Bonneville Speedway in 1975.

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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