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The World's Fastest Mobility Scooter - Video

Sam Bendall
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The World's Fastest Mobility Scooter - Video

The title of World’s Fastest Mobility Scooter—yes, that's a thing—is now held by British mechanics David Anderson and Matthew Hine who attempted this run back in 2014. It has taken over a year to verify the results, but the scooter achieved a record speed of 107.6 mph.

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The scooter took six months to build. Both Anderson and Hine thought it would be a great idea to strap a 600cc engine from a Suzuki Bandit onto a go-cart chassis with racing slicks capable of handling the high-speeds.

They were right.

To get their scooter completely up to spec, they fabricated bodywork, attached a mobility scooter seat and hand controls. To further the madness, the scooter lacks front brakes, so perhaps stopping the ballistic scooter was an afterthought.