Photo tour of bike ride through Chernobyl area

[steved]

Here is a link to a website written by a daughter of a Russian Nuclear Scientist. She takes rides (with a few precautions and a geiger counter) through the dead zone around Chernobyl. Amazing story and eerie photos.

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/ki.../chapter1.html

[SimJen]

She's a fraud, she's been on the news ages ago and various websites.
http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/20...true-thing.asp

Do a search on google for it...
Interesting read though, and the pics are real.

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

[steved]

She's a fraud, she's been on the news ages ago and various websites.
http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/20...true-thing.asp

Do a search on google for it...
Interesting read though, and the pics are real.

Fair enough. Aw well, photos still tell a good story, as you say.

[Freakshow]

Why would you fake that for??

[mattimeo]

The kiddofspeed website has been around for a long time, and isn't a fraud. Its pretty cool!

[SimJen]

see here: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/text1.htm
Also many sites on the net have info on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Filatova
http://www.stargeek.com/item/141401.html

A lot of it is made up, still it bought the story of the accident to many people and got the "Story" out.