French man made motorbike out of crashed car in desert.

[Lord Percy]

Title says it all.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/18/emile-leray-built-working-motorcycle-broken-car-citroen-2cv-escape-african-desert/

Not sure if this is known among the more well versed motorbikey types, but it's certainly news to me.

[TheArchitect]

Mythbusters covered this. They replicated the whole thing and found it to be plausible I think.
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[duhawkz]

mythbusters tried it fo real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHhCBmREtwY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXL1KOdj5V8
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[ScaredyCat]

[weasley]

Le sous-châssis est tordu et la chaîne est lâche.
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[Rogerborg]

You think he'd have learned his lesson after the first time he did it.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[Lord Percy]

[Rogerborg]

You knew the risks when you joined here. Don't get all safe-spaces on us
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike