I guess in a way it just saves time, she could have some set of gears to manually work up to that speed. Assuming you could fit that many gears on a bike, but yeah it’s not precisely what’s I’d expect either.
I think I understand where the comment is coming from. It's like saying the fastest car in the universe is the Tesla roadster in space. At what point does this become about semantics? Does getting hurled into space count as a car being fast? Does getting dragged by a car and letting something else roll along after decoupling count as being fast? The headline is misleading in that regard.