HONDA MEAN MOWER
P98
Feature
a 2017 Honda CBR1000RR SP1 motor, pushing a
package that weighs a claimed 309 pounds. It'll
accelerate to 100 mph faster than a Nissan GTR.
Oh, and there's no seat belt to save you. Jessica
Hawkins then took this machine to a new Guin-
ness World Record of the fastest accelerating
lawn mower on the planet, measuring 100 mph in
6.285 seconds in Germany earlier this June.
"After Stihl took the record from us, I went back
to Honda and said, 'what about this?' Not on your
bloody life, was the answer," says Team Dynam-
ics' James Rodgers, in his delightfully British tone.
"The world has changed since we did the last
one. Honda's HR and our insurance teams would
have a hissy fit. But we kept pushing and kept
pushing, and they finally agreed to it. The project
nearly got pulled at various stages through the
build process. In these days 150 miles an hour is
quite normal, but in reality it's exceptionally dan-
gerous—especially in a lawn mower."
A working mower though this is, the Mean
Mower 2.0 is far from a case of just bolting a su-
perbike motor to the chassis.
(Above) Trying to squeeze into that tiny seat in the
foreground there is no easy feat. (Left) Hoosier
slicks measure 10-inches and are normally found on
junior open-wheel race cars.
