Big Red was the machine with which American Don Vesco took the motorcycle land-speed record, 405.25 kilometres per hour (251.81 mph), on September 17, 1970 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
At Bonneville Speed Week in 1969, Vesco took Big Red to a speed of 365 km/h (227 mph). The following year, with the five and a half meter long motorcycle built from an aircraft drop tank, he undertook several more attempts to break the 395.363-kilometre-per-hour (245.667 mph) record set by Robert Leppan in 1966. He succeeded in setting a new record of 405.25 km/h (251.81 mph). A month later, the record was broken again: Cal Rayborn reached an averaged 427.25 kilometres per hour (265.48 mph) in two runs in opposite directions.
The bike is now an exhibit of the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum.
Video Big Red (motorcycle)
References
- 1969 - 1970 Don breaks motorcycle landspeed record, Team Vesco, retrieved 2014-01-18
- Power, speed and drag, Yamaha (Europe), retrieved 2014-01-19
Maps Big Red (motorcycle)
External links
- Don Vesco & Big Red, 1969-1970 on YouTube
Source of article : Wikipedia
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