A Ride Through Chernobyl "the dead zone"

[kycarguy 935]

Has anyone seen this before? It's a pretty cool read. No affiliation.

"Ghost Town - Introduction

My name is Elena. I run this website and I don't have anything to sell. What I do have is my motorbike and the absolute freedom to ride it wherever curiosity and the speed demon take me."

"Biking

I have ridden all my life and over the years I have owned several different motorbikes. I ended my search for a perfect bike with a big kawasaki ninja, that boasts a mature 147 horse power, some serious bark, is fast as a bullet and comfortable for a long trips. here is more about my motorcycle.

I travel a lot and one of my favorite destinations leads North from Kiev, towards so called Chernobyl "dead zone", which is 130kms from my home. Why my favorite? Because one can take long rides there on empty roads.

The people there all left and nature is blooming. There are beautiful woods and lakes.

In places where roads have not been travelled by trucks or army vehicles, they are in the same condition they were 20 years ago - except for an occasional blade of grass that discovered a crack to spring through. Time does not ruin roads, so they may stay this way until they can be opened to normal traffic again........ a few centuries from now."

much more here:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

[nostatic]

the story is a fake, but the pics are cool.

And you can go there and see for yourself:

http://www.ukrcam.com/tour/tour_3.html

[Jims5543]

I did not know that was a fake story. It was a good one too. Darn.

[Stanley]

Here's some more info on the fake story http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.asp?fid=1&threadid=8951&currpage=1&pp#post13

[Z-man]

Fooled again. Geez - I thought it was for real...

-Z.

[kycarguy 935]

I thought it was for real for a couple of years and googled the subject earlier and found where some said it was fake. While it looks like many parts of it are fake most of the pictures still tell a good story of something we hope never happens again.

Thanks guys for the clarification.

[cool_chick]

Are any of the pictures on this woman's site real, todd?

[Rick Lee]

I was in Kiev in '92. We went swimming in the Dnieper, where it's about 100 km. downstream from Chernobyl. There were old German tank turrets still sticking out of the water where we were. Maybe that's why I never get sick anymore.

[RickM]

Too bad. It was an excellent story.....

[IROC]

I got suckered into that one too when I read it a couple of years ago. I thought it was legit. Good story.

I started working in the nuclear industry the year after Chernobyl. Chernobyl changed the way the public viewed nuclear energy, but the design of that plant was scary to begin with. Luckily that could never happen here.

Mike

[onewhippedpuppy]

Even if the story is fake, the pictures are chilling. It's a sober reminder of our mortality, that there are still powers that we can't entirely harness. Cool stuff, thanks for the link.

[cool_chick]

Originally posted by cool_chick
Are any of the pictures on this woman's site real, todd?

Todd?

(aka nostatic)

[nostatic]

they look real to me. From what I read she went on a semi-guided tour of the area. But she didn't solo a bike through it.