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Loved for her daring and foolhardy rides - often smashing the speed limit - as well as her risqué pictures, Olga Pronina died when her BMW S1000RR rammed into a crash barrier near Vladivostok. She suffered multiple injuries and was dead by the time an ambulance arrived at the scene. Using the nickname Monika, she had a following of 140,000 on social media with her fans intrigued by her intoxicating mix of speed, rule-breaking, love of freedom, dicing with danger – and glamour.

Olga Pronina in pictures Wed, August 2, 2017 Olga was a popular figure on social media due to her risky stunts on her BMW S1000RR and raunchy outfits Play slideshow monika9422/Instagram 1 of 16 Olga Pronina

CEN/MONIKA9422/INSTAGRAM Biker Olga Pronina’s social media fans are grieving after she was killed in a high speed crash

She boasted to her fans about her 155 mph jaunts on the roads of the Russian Far East. Police were seeking to establish the cause of the crash but were well aware of her audacious love of speed and "no hands" antics. The number of followers for the hair-raising hairdresser has ballooned since she was killed on Monday evening, now numbering 166,000. "Her death brought a vivid reaction on the web, many admiring her risk-taking, others condemning it as reckless,' reported The Siberian Times.

It was a revelation for me that a girl can ride like this Close friend Ilya

She was 40 but seen as much younger by many fans. Close friend Ilya was one of many to rush to the scene of the crash to understand what had happened. One wheel of her motorbike was found almost 2,000 feet from the accident, highlighting she was riding at high speed, he said. "Her speed must have been crazy. "In my opinion, Olga was reckless about her riding, but she was a lively and cheerful person.

MONIKA9422/INSTAGRAM The ‘Queen of the Bikers’ was known for her daring rides and risqué pictures

"It was a revelation for me that a girl can ride like this. She was a cool biker, like Valentino Rossi. "I personally would have never ride the way Olga did. But she was good at it. "She used a BMW S1000 RR like professionals from MotoGP. So something extraordinary must have happened that the bike didn't make it into a turn." Maksim, a biker from Blagoveshchensk, said: "Olga was kind, an easy to get on with person which is very rare for such a beautiful and popular girl. "She was a very good biker - she had a feel for it. It was a complete shock for me that she lost control."

MONIKA9422/INSTAGRAM She had 140,000 followers online under the nickname Monika

But another said: "I watched her videos... they are scary of course... mischievousness on the highway and at such crazy speed. "It was just outrageous... she played with death." Eduard Khasanov, the director of a driving school in Vladivostok, said: "Olga disregarded basic safety rules. "Too often she rode her bike not wearing necessary protective gear - and at very high speed, sometimes over 155mph. "It is very sad that a young woman and mother died." He blamed her death -- which leaves her 16-year-old daughter motherless - on her passion for high speed and "ignoring basic safety regulations".

The biker queen write about her BMW as if it was a person. "I love her because she forgives me my recklessness," she said. It never let her down "brightening my sometimes lonely evenings, helping me forget troubles, training my body and brain". She wrote: "I'm grateful to her for my shining eyes, the warm evening on my cheeks, the indescribable enthusiasm and feel of flying, for doses of adrenaline - for giving me freedom." She was "in perfect physical shape because motorbikes are not for weak women". But many slammed her for chancing with death, and not considering her daughter when she took risks with her life, while also posing for revealing pictures.

MONIKA9422/INSTAGRAM Police are attempting to find out the cause of the crash