Don Vesco Freeway Flyer

[Motorhead]

anyone remember or have a image?

[Major Softie]

It's Don "Vesco." The correct spelling may help you out with your search, but I don't find anything on the web about his freeway flyer.

[robert]

Could this be it?

http://www.suzukicycles.org/high_milage_suzuki.shtml

[jagarra]

If that is the Don Vesco I am thinking about, he wasn't into high mileage, but more into high speed. Didn't he campaign
Bonneville motorcycles???

[Motorhead]

My Computer usually corrects but I'll try again with Vesco

a few year back I was in a bike shop and there on a stand was a Don Vesco freeway flyer cockpit and lowers for a BMW

sorta like a R90S faring but with hand area covers and installed signels and H4 headlight and frame mounts

1/2 price off sale 180.00 I had the Jones to do it, but not the Money wonder what ever becme of that one
the owner said a BMW fellow wanted it but back out last minute

with Matfishs recent thread with his, I thought of Don's with the finish photo of Mad max Goose's bike

as the R90s faring was the best I ever had from a faring and my luck with farings I never wanted one again

but now maybe I might try that next not a tour type, but a sport tour type

[Major Softie]

If that is the Don Vesco I am thinking about, he wasn't into high mileage, but more into high speed. Didn't he campaign
Bonneville motorcycles???

Yes. He was still in pursuit of 500 mph on a motorcycle streamliner when he died. As Paul Carruthers said: "Vesco and Bonneville will be forever linked - the King and his Salt Castle."

Here's his bio at the Motor Sports Hall of Fame:
http://www.mshf.com/hof/vesco_don.htm

[Motorhead]

Humm Interesting I wonder about the faring I saw and sometimes see here and there

Did he ever MFG the faring? or did a licence MFG make them???

I remember a smaller faring like the Mad Max Goose's bike in time I saw Triumphs and Moto Guzzi with them and somes Heard of a BMW with one

the Shop was in Costa Mesa Race Crafters

[vanzen]

Don Vesco was responsible for the popular Rabid Transit:

1962, Don Vesco & Manx Norton at Bonneville:

1978, Don Vesco's Lightning Bolt averaged 318.598 mph. The record stood for 12 years:

Don Vesco, current custodian of the ‘Wheel Driven Labd Speed Record’ at 458.196 mph over 1 km, 470.444 mph over 1 mile:

[Motorhead]

thats very close maybe the one

rapid transit.jpg (82.26 KiB) Viewed 2495 times

[mattcfish]

Oh yeah! Ugly...but beautiful. Airhead all the way.