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The Bonneville Salt Flats. 30,000 acres of salt, sweat and speed. This is where the fearless go to set land speed records. People are here to so things others say is impossible. Now, it's Laura Klock's turn. A biker mom from Mitchell about to do something she's never tried before. Her husband's competing in a national biker build off, and needs someone to ride his newest creation. "He said we'd get more attention if you raced it," Klock explains. "Would you do it? I said would you let me?" "We won the biker build-off and 3 weeks later we were on the starting line of the Bonneville salt flats." Klock sets a land speed record her first time out. It's the start of new family tradition. "I thought well, the girls have kind of shown an interest, maybe they'd want to try this," Klock said. "And before I had it out of my mouth they were like, 'yeah, we want to do this.'" The next year, 16-year-old Erika Kobb sets a record of her own. And Erika and Laura become the first mother-daughter team in history to hold land speed records. Then, 14 year old Karlee becomes the youngest land speed holder ever. But there's a catch. "She had to take her sisters record to do that because her sister ran that bike the year before," Klock said. Like mother, like daughter, like kid sister. Before they can be the best in the world, they need to be the best in their family... "It's a once or twice a year thing where it's like extreme family bonding. You're doing something that's dangerous, you have to endure the heat and each other," Klock said. This year, the trio hopes to become the first mother-daughter-daughter team to ride the same bike 200 miles per hour. They got close last year. But you might be thinking, isn't this crazy? "I feel like yes, we get going fast but it's a very controlled environment, there's nothing that's gonna run out in front of them. It feels safe and to me it's like send them out into life. You kiss em on the helmet and say a prayer send them down the track and you hope they remember everything you taught em! I can't think of another way to teach them how to work as a team, how to handle success and handle failure," Klock said. And Klock takes that message to scores of other girls. The Abbott House in Mitchell, South Dakota is home to dozens of abused girls who need help. And Laura has a unique way to do just that. I thought, 'What if I took a damaged motor cycle into the facility?' Because they're in there working on the damage in their lives and we can fix the damage on this motorcycle and relate it to life," Klock said. The girls work in teams to bring a bike back to life. From a beaten up mess... to this. "I hear a lot of I can't I've never done that before and it didn't take them long to start working...and really after about the third class I don't think I touched a tool again," Klock said. "I got to watch them realize things about themselves. I mean the self discovery was pretty amzing. Just trying something and realizing hey I can do that," Klock said. "Most of our kids come here many of them have really difficult backgrounds -- some things that have happened to them in their lives drive what they do today, so that message is important," Abbott House director, Eric Klooz said. "Some of us haven't had people before," adds Abbott House resident Darion. "And some of us haven't been out there. And we've just had some really hard times. And when we see that people are helping us, we know that, that, there's like a little bit of hope." And when help leads to hope -- it doesn't matter if you're a kid trying to cope with the ugly parts of life or a small town biker mom with a dream. By trying something new -- impossible doesn't seem all that impossible.