car f...ed? Miles from anywhere? Fate worse than death await

[y2blade]

.........
I know, convert car into a motorcycle and ride my bad-ass way out of trouble... genius!



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Meet a man sure to go down in the Kludging Hall of Fame. In 1993, Emile Leray, a French electrician, was driving through the Moroccan desert when his Citroën car broke down.

Stranded in the desert, and far out of walking distance of civilization, Leray pulled up his bootstraps, made a small offering prayer to MacGyver (allegedly), and proceeded to disassemble his trashed car and reassemble the parts into a fully functional motorcycle.

Leray is quoted as saying:

“I put myself in what one calls survival mode. I could not have gone back on foot – it was too far.”

Survival mode paid off big-time, as Leray successfully rode his new motorcycle back to civilization, and out of the clutches of very painful and unfortunate death in the desert. In the end, he journeyed over 20 miles, which may not seem like much, but let me reiterate: try walking 20 miles in the scorching north African desert heat.

Despite making his journey 19 years ago in 1993, he has only recently begun telling his story to the press. Now that is a TIFI WIN of monumental proportions.

Edited by y2blade on Wednesday 4th July 13:06

[Twincam16]

That is an incredible story, even if he is wearing his wife's underwear in the first pic.

[y2blade]

Twincam16 said:

That is an incredible story, even if he is wearing his wife's underwear in the first pic.

dodgy pants alert!!!!

[205alive]

Wonder when and how the photos were taken? And to use a dangerously worn PH cliché, I wonder if there is more to this story?

[Prof Prolapse]

20 miles really isn't that far to walk...

If the heat is an issue you would presumably seek shelter and wait until night?

Yours,

Captain Hindsight

[C.A.R.]

Imagine the same circumstances in a modern car - you'd be knackered. Oh look, a T40 torx, I don't have one of those in my tool box. Or not being able to remove a piece of trim due to a myriad of plastic fasteners!

[RWD cossie wil]

So his car broke down, never to move again yet he had enough tools & skill to make it into a motorcycle?? I am calling whoosh....

[y2blade]

205alive said:

Wonder when and how the photos were taken? And to use a dangerously worn PH cliché, I wonder if there is more to this story?

Google "Emile Leray"



http://designtaxi.com/news/352610/Real-Life-Tony-S...

http://www.barnorama.com/emile-leray-and-his-desse...

http://www.odditycentral.com/news/real-life-macgyv...

http://gizmodo.com/5912640/real+life-tony-stark-tu...

[Face for Radio]

Incredible if true.

But surely walking 20miles would have been quicker than building a motorcycle out of your knackered car and then riding it?

[Six Fiend]

RWD cossie wil said:

So his car broke down, never to move again yet he had enough tools & skill to make it into a motorcycle?? I am calling whoosh....

Personally I reckon he's the long lost member of The A-Team

[Leptons]

I don't get it. What was fked about the car?

[Prof Prolapse]

Leptons said:

I don't get it. What was fked about the car?

Everything by the time he'd finished.

"Oh no, I 'av run out of petrol. I could wak into towan but it is very 'ot. I must tear it apart and build le motorcycle. Not so small a penis now eh?"

"Yes actually. We can see it quite clearly."

[Matt UK]

Prof Prolapse said:

20 miles really isn't that far to walk...

If the heat is an issue you would presumably seek shelter and wait until night?

Yours,

Captain Hindsight

Agreed

I call bullst on the story

[Mr2Mike]

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[monthefish]

Face for Radio said:

Incredible if true.

But surely walking 20miles would have been quicker than building a motorcycle out of your knackered car and then riding it?

^^this

[Changedmyname]

Yes sorry ,but if the car is knackered ,then the engine is knackered,yeah?
So how is it that the guy built this motorbike to go 20 miles with an engine that didn't
work?
Hence my meter.

[Twincam16]

monthefish said:

Face for Radio said:

Incredible if true.

But surely walking 20miles would have been quicker than building a motorcycle out of your knackered car and then riding it?

^^this

Also, if the main danger of the desert is the way the heat dehydrates you, then I would have thought taking a car apart, most significantly lifting an entire engine out of its bay all by yourself, would make you sweat a lot more than walking.

I suspect he created the motorbike, then decided to add the story to it later.

[hairykrishna]

Changedmyname said:

Yes sorry ,but if the car is knackered ,then the engine is knackered,yeah?
So how is it that the guy built this motorbike to go 20 miles with an engine that didn't
work?

It's claimed that the suspension and driveshaft on one side were broken, I think. Why the fk he couldn't just bodge that or walk rather than spending a week building a motorbike is less clear.

[LuS1fer]

Have we had a "Yeah right, like a French car would start!" comment yet?

[Roop]

hairykrishna said:

Changedmyname said:

Yes sorry ,but if the car is knackered ,then the engine is knackered,yeah?
So how is it that the guy built this motorbike to go 20 miles with an engine that didn't
work?

It's claimed that the suspension and driveshaft on one side were broken, I think. Why the fk he couldn't just bodge that or walk rather than spending a week building a motorbike is less clear.

Jam up one side of the diff and one-wheel drive to the town. Easy