Post by Jake on May 29, 2009 6:30:52 GMT -5
Many people will have seen Elena Vilatova’s web site
of her (allegedly) fictional bike tour of Chernobyl.
It embodies every bikers’ dream of touring through
miles and miles of traffic-free roads with no speed-limit
and no speed-camera’s…..just the threat of radiation
poisoning in a bleak and lonely landscape….
www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/
www.kiddofspeed.com/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Filatova
For those people who haven't seen this site then
fictional or not, it’s a fascinating story, and a good way
of keeping the tragic events of Chernobyl alive in
peoples minds.....
But it was an article in the New York Times that
eventually revealed the so-called ‘hoax’:
‘One group came for a hoax. About two years ago,
Mr. Tatarchuk said, a Ukrainian woman booked a tour,
wore a leather biker jacket and posed for pictures. Soon
there appeared a Web site in which the woman, using
the name Elena, claimed that she had been given an
unlimited pass by her father, a nuclear physicist and
Chernobyl researcher (''Thank you, Daddy!'' she wrote)
and now roamed the ruins at will on her Kawasaki
Big Ninja. The site, www.kiddofspeed.com, billed as a
tale ''where one can ride with no stoplights, no police, no
danger to hit some cage or some dog,'' was a sensation,
duping uncountable viewers before being discredited. ….
The Finns said they had seen the Web site, and hoped their
planned site would be as popular.’ ;D
query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902EEDD163BF936A25755C0A9639C8B63&sec=travel&spon=&pagewanted=2
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Filatova#cite_note-nyt-1
www.uer.ca/forum_showthread_archive.asp?threadid=8951
of her (allegedly) fictional bike tour of Chernobyl.
It embodies every bikers’ dream of touring through
miles and miles of traffic-free roads with no speed-limit
and no speed-camera’s…..just the threat of radiation
poisoning in a bleak and lonely landscape….
www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/
www.kiddofspeed.com/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Filatova
For those people who haven't seen this site then
fictional or not, it’s a fascinating story, and a good way
of keeping the tragic events of Chernobyl alive in
peoples minds.....
But it was an article in the New York Times that
eventually revealed the so-called ‘hoax’:
‘One group came for a hoax. About two years ago,
Mr. Tatarchuk said, a Ukrainian woman booked a tour,
wore a leather biker jacket and posed for pictures. Soon
there appeared a Web site in which the woman, using
the name Elena, claimed that she had been given an
unlimited pass by her father, a nuclear physicist and
Chernobyl researcher (''Thank you, Daddy!'' she wrote)
and now roamed the ruins at will on her Kawasaki
Big Ninja. The site, www.kiddofspeed.com, billed as a
tale ''where one can ride with no stoplights, no police, no
danger to hit some cage or some dog,'' was a sensation,
duping uncountable viewers before being discredited. ….
The Finns said they had seen the Web site, and hoped their
planned site would be as popular.’ ;D
query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902EEDD163BF936A25755C0A9639C8B63&sec=travel&spon=&pagewanted=2
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Filatova#cite_note-nyt-1
www.uer.ca/forum_showthread_archive.asp?threadid=8951