Looks like it was a hoax.
The New York Times June 15, 2005
New Sight in Chernobyl's Dead Zone: Tourists
By C. J. CHIVERS
nytimes.com
PRIPYAT, Ukraine, June 11 ...
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.
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