Technically, she managed to maintain a speed of 184 MPH by pedaling her bicycle, in a slipstream, for less than a minute.
It's very brave of her to attempt this, but it's as detached from the actual cycling as it gets.
It's very brave of her to attempt this, but it's as detached from the actual cycling as it gets.
It's also an engineering feat, but again TFA: "As they targeted the overall record, their team revamped the same dragster that was used to set the men's record" -- they're reusing last time's engineering.
Yes, she also needed to accelerate from 100 to 184, which (I am guessing) is a significantly lesser feat than maintaining a balance on a salt lake surface and keeping herself in 3 meters of a slipstream area. This is all remarkable, but the point was that this setup is probably not what most people would imagine when told of "a woman riding bicycle at 183.9 MPH".