Silver Bird (streamliner)

It was powered by two motors delivering 240 horsepower (180 kW).

[1] 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.

[2][3] The motorcycle was built by Don Vesco and sponsored by Yamaha.

[4] It had two four-cylinder, 694.9 cc reed-valve two-stroke engines from the Yamaha TZ750 racebike.

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Silver Bird c. 1974 with shorter stabilizing fin than on the 1975 record setting run