Woman Rides Wheel To 183.9 Mph — A Globe Record

Huh.
From NPR:

The fastest human to ride a bike over opened upwardly footing is named Denise Mueller-Korenek, who rode a custom bike at an average of 183.932 miles per hr – shattering a footing tape that had stood since 1995.

Mueller-Korenek, 45, ready the tape for fastest speed riding inward a slipstream, teaming upwardly amongst Shea Holbrook, a professional person race motorcar driver who piloted a dragster that led the cyclist across the Bonneville Salt Flats inward Utah.

"Good job, Mom," Mueller-Korenek's son, Daniel, said inward a video he recorded every bit he joined his woman rear inward the complete expanse on Sunday.

"That was rough," she said. In add-on to getting bounced roughly at speeds precisely supercars tin aspire to, Mueller-Korenek said the common salt dust had alone coated her throat.
The dragster has fairing on the dorsum that essentially looks similar a closet, to protect the cyclist from the wind. Behind it, Mueller-Korenek sat on a bike amongst gearing as well as therefore steep that she needed to live on towed to nigh 100 mph earlier taking over nether her ain power.

The tow rope was released some 1.5 miles into the run, Mueller-Korenek said on Facebook, "leaving 3.5 miles inward the draft to accomplish an average speed for the concluding mile of 183.9mph (between mile iv & 5)!"...

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