VOLUME 56 ISSUE 28 JULY 16, 2019 P97
Every now and again, it's nice to do
something utterly bonkers. For some,
that might be a trip to the casino, or a
holiday on a whim, or a night on the tiles.
However, for the Honda Motor Com-
pany's UK subsidiary, their idea of "utterly
bonkers" is a little different from most.
Thanks to their partnership with Team
Dynamics Motorsport—the
same outfit that runs the
factory Honda British Tour-
ing Car team for them—the
world now has the sec-
ond edition of
the Mean Mower series, this one pow-
ered by a Honda CBR1000RR SP1 motor.
Yes, it sounds nuts. Because it is.
The Mean Mower story started a few
years ago when the first version, pow-
ered by a Honda VTR1000 Firestorm V-
twin, garnered world attention by taking
the Guinness World Record of World's
Fastest Mower at 117 mph.
This machine opened the
proverbial can of mower
worms, however, as the
next two years would see
the Viking Stihl Garden
Equipment company from
Scandinavia build their own
mental mower (using a 408
horsepower LS engine out
of a Corvette, no less) to
move the new record to
132 mph in 2015.
If there's one thing Honda hates, it's
being shown up.
Enter Mean Mower 2.0. This is still a
working ride-on Honda HF 2622 lawn
mower (the cutting blades under the
chassis still work), but it's now got a
claimed 190 horsepwer on tap thanks to
The exhaust is now a
full Scorpion system, but overall
the engine is mainly stock.
Take one ride on
a lawn mower,
rip the motor
out, and wedge
a superbike
block in there.
Seems like a
good idea to us
