"I'm almost there. Just hang on."

This is what Liane Langlois, 50, said she repeated to herself as she rapidly accelerated on her motorcycle to speeds faster than 200 kilometres per hour on a salt flat.

Langlois was pushing for a new speed record at the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on Aug. 26. But she said conditions on the salt flat were extra rough that day, and it was the first time since she started riding motorcycles that she felt nervous.

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"We had weather problems all week," Langlois recalled. "[The salt flat] was all chewed up. It was wet, it was slippery and it didn't feel good."

[Liane Langlois stands with the three-cylinder 2012 2295cc Triumph Rocket 111 Roadster that she use

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