Don Vesco Freeway Flyer
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 7:09 pm
anyone remember or have a image?
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Re: Don Vasco Freeway Flyer
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:11 pm
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.
Re: Don Vasco Freeway Flyer
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:23 pm
Re: Don Vasco Freeway Flyer
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 10:14 pm
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???
Bonneville motorcycles???
Re: Don Vasco Freeway Flyer
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:12 am
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
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
Re: Don Vasco Freeway Flyer
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:01 am
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."jagarra wrote: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???
Here's his bio at the Motor Sports Hall of Fame:
http://www.mshf.com/hof/vesco_don.htm
Re: Don Vasco Freeway Flyer
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:07 pm
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
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
Re: Don Vesco
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:28 pm
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:
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:
Re: Don Vesco Freeway Flyer
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:58 pm
thats very close maybe the one
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Re: Don Vesco Freeway Flyer
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:30 pm
Oh yeah! Ugly...but beautiful. Airhead all the way.