Big Red (motorcycle)
Big Red was the machine with which American Don Vesco took the motorcycle land-speed record, , 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 . 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  record set by Robert Leppan in 1966. He succeeded in setting a new record of . A month later, the record was broken again: Cal Rayborn reached an averaged  in two runs in opposite directions.

The bike is now an exhibit of the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum.

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Motorcycles of the United States
Land speed record motorcycles
Feet forwards motorcycles
Streamliner motorcycles
Motorcycles designed by Don Vesco