New land speed record set saturday........

[roadhawg]

This past Saturday at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Georgia's Bobby Cleveland set a new land speed record of 96.529 MPH, breaking the old record by 8 MPH. I know, 96.529 doesn't sound THAT fast.....except he did it on a Briggs And Stratton powered lawnmower.

[Jon Cole]

A NEW HERO HAS EMERGED!

[Zoom Zoom]

If he's here in GA he can come by and cut my grass, should take about 30 seconds or so

[Jon Cole]

Put a wing on the back! Just because you can!

[Hoosierfarmboy]

That sounds wild. Not sure I would want to be on a lawnmower moving that fast. Do they have a stremliner class for lawnmowers? When I lived in Flowery Branch my yard was too hilly for a speedy mower! :-) lol

Edited September 27, 2010 by Hoosierfarmboy

[highway]

I wonder if Tim Taylor's mower would go even faster?

[Doughnut]

I wonder if he still had the kill switch in the seat?

Looks like a god subject for someone to model in 1/24th scale. Have at it.

[Brett Barrow]

Back in High School, a couple of buddies and I made a "racing" lawnmower, we just took an old chain-drive mower and reversed the sprockets, putting the big one on the engine and the little one on the axle. You had to push start it, it felt like it did 96.5 MPH when you were riding that thing, was probably closer to 30-35 MPH, it was as fast as a go-kart. Turning was an adventure.