Silver Bird (streamliner)
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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
Don Vesco with Silver Bird at Bonneville Speedway
Silver Bird c. 1974 with shorter stabilizing fin than on the 1975 record setting run
Yamaha TZ750
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The Yamaha TZ750 is a series production two-stroke race motorcycle built by Yamaha to compete in the Formula 750 class in the 1970s. Motorcyclist called it "the most notorious and successful roadracin
Silver Bird (streamliner)
…in 1975. 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. Displacement: 1,389.8 cc total…
Yamaha TZ750 (1977)