See video: World's fastest mobility scooter smashes speed record at 108mph

David Anderson and Matthew Hine custom built the scooter, which comes with a shopping basket, to break the speed record.

17:22 05 September 2014

A custom-built mobility scooter, designed by David Anderson and Matthew Hine, is thought to be the world’s fastest thanks to its breakneck top speed of 108mph.

The creators from Anderson’s Body Shop in Ballasalla on the Isle of Man said that they specifically created the scooter, which comes with a shopping basket, to shatter records.

Mr Hine, who built the scooter from scratch with his colleague, said: ‘It’s a 600 Bandit, slightly modified, split exhausts, tweaked carburetors shoehorned into a mobility scooter.

‘The frame was a cart chassis, shortened and lengthened to fit into the scale of a mobility scooter.’

Mr Anderson, who carried out the body work, said: ‘The body work is all aluminium and everything works on it as well such as the lights, indicators, brake lights – even the horn works.’

The scooter isn’t registered for road use though because it doesn’t have any front breaks.

Following minor modification, the pair was able to make it run at a maximum speed of 107.6mph in tests – breaking the current official records held by Klaus Petersen from Denmark. A follow-up broke 108mph.

‘It’s an unofficial new world record – we just have to wait for Guinness to confirm everything for us,’ said Mr Anderson.