Is it the Fastest Mobility Scooter in the World?
Photo: GEOFF ROBINSON
Complete With Original Panels and Basket
Many people attempt to break some strange world records and fail, but when there isn’t a world record to beat, it makes the game slightly easier, or does it?
Over the last three months, 31 years old Colin Furze from Stamford in Lincolnshire has been locked away in his garage throwing spanners everywhere in an attempt to transplant a 125cc motocross bike engine into a mobility scooter, and all for the sake of being the “fastest man on a mobility scooter!”
Furze, who was given the scooter by a friend, decided to take on the challenge just for fun. But when he was told that there wasn’t a world record for the fastest mobility scooter, he began to get just slightly excited at the thought.
Colin contacted the Guinees Book of World Records and was told his information was correct, but would have to meet some tight standards to get into the presigeous book for 2011. The recommendations from the Official’s at The Guinness World Records was that the scooter had to be finished to look completely standard, with orginal panels, wheels and tyres.
Now that Furze has completed the mission and tested the scooter, he now aims at taking his “mean machine” to Santa Pod Raceway in Northamptonshire, so that he can do some straight line testing before he meets the World Record Officials.
On completion of his 125cc petrol powered scooter, Colin said: “I was a bit nervous when I first started it up as I wasn’t sure if it would work, but it sounded good and got to 64mph, then 69mph very quickly.”
This is all well and good for testing, but the guidelines which have been enforced by The Guinness World Records people was that he would have to travel at 61.4mph over a measured distance. When finding this out, Colin said: “I will be wearing full leathers and a crash helmet for the record attempt. My aim is to hit 70mph – and that would make me really happy.”
