As a new home owner, I’ve been faced with a lot of purchases lately, one of which was a lawn mover. In light of carbon neutrality, sky high fuel prices, and a desire to be old school, I opted for a human-powered push reel lawn mower. The same kind your dad had to use to cut 45 acres, up hill both ways, in scorching conditions for penny wheels and moonpies. I should have held out for the Mowercycle! Is this an awesome DIY design or what? This ingenious bicycle-lawnmower fashioned by an unknown suburban lawn owner out of an old bicycle and a broken lawnmower, is a testament to the creativity of the human spirit. Spotted in dot dream’s flickr stream, we have no idea who the original photographer was, nor do we know anything about the owner/designer of the Mowercycle. All we know is that it is awesome and should be an inspiration to sustainable design fans and DIY tinkerers everywhere.
