Liane Langlois Sets LSR Record with Carpenter Power
The Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials (BMST) – part of the FIM Land Speed World Records (LSWR) discipline – concluded on Thursday (28 August) following a six-day stay on the world-famous Bonneville Salt Flats in the American state of Utah.
The action on the Mountain Track came thick and fast and the first new FIM World Record was set on Tuesday morning by Liane Langlois, a fifty-year-old HR Manager from Alberta, Canada.
All record categories are gender-neutral and determined by the method by which the motorcycle is propelled, body kit, power source, capacity and number of cylinders.
Riders are measured over both a timed mile and a timed kilometre and after their initial down run they have two hours to complete a return run with the times combined and an average calculated to determine the official speed and Langlois piloted her unfaired, three-cylinder 2012 JKR Powersports 2295cc Triumph Rocket 111 Roadster with weighted sidecar to an FIM World Record of 136.331mph (219.404km/h) over the timed kilometre.
“It’s pretty cool,” said Langlois, who has been a BMST regular since 2014. “We did a shakedown pass a couple of days ago and I ran 130mph and it felt bumpy, but my down run today felt better. On my return run I wasn’t feeling a lot of traction, but I managed to keep it above 135mph for the world record. I’m really excited.”