page_title: Silver Bird (streamliner)
section_title: Construction
hierarchical_section_title: Silver Bird (streamliner) / Construction
caption_attribution_description: English: Don Vesco's Silver Bird streamliner circa 1974
context_page_description: Silver Bird was a motorcycle land-speed record setting streamliner motorcycle. It was powered by two motors delivering 240 horsepower. It was the first motorcycle to set a speed record over 300 miles per hour, when ridden by Don Vesco at the Bonneville Speedway in 1975.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Silver Bird c. 1974 with shorter stabilizing fin than on the 1975 record setting run
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