"Road Trip" - Gabriel Iglesias- (From Hot & Fluffy comedy special)
The man, stranded in the desert, is a motorcycle of his broken car.
The original story is in French and is very rough Google Translate Please forgive us if we do not get it exactly right.
While traveling through the desert somewhere in the northwest of Africa in his Citroen 2CV Emile was arrested and told not to go further because of some military conflicts in the region do not really want to listen to board, he decided to loop around, across the desert, to work around this roadblock.
After a time to tread off the beaten path, Emile manages to break an oscillating arm on his vehicle, leaving the failed, he decided that the best of the action was to dismantle the vehicle build and motorcycle parts This feat would impressive in itself, but remember, it is still in the wilderness and unprepared If we read this correctly, he managed to drill holes by bending metal and sawing and not bend to again be flat .
It takes him twelve days to build this thing more photos on the website, simply go watch Feel free to translate the labels and post them in the comments.
You have the right of translation, but there is not just a swing arm that's broken, it's broken beam frame also not sure of the exact term, one of the two beams of the frame, it is not far, but it many tools and other equipment that could be stolen if left unattended.
Can not really speak for Paul, but it seems that someone is stuck in the desert that happens to be smart enough and clever to do that take one of the decisions obviously better than to dismantle the car and turn it into motorcycle not even considering that if he could do mOTORCYCLE, why he could not fix a broken swingarm someone.
I agree this sounds absolutely crazy, I was just asking an explanation more like yours than its short statement seems enough to me directed to Lots of very aesthetic thinking going on here that probably wouldn t come in the real life.
He could remove the body and faked a single wheel at the front much faster and easier it is rear wheel drive.
The point being, why would you put a silencer on it, when you're goal is to get out of the desert.
Its a funny story, but complete BS Not because it is not possible, but because it had not been necessary, and the details added to this are far and above what anyone would need to just get that outta there, and they said that it took 12 days Imagine how much food and water as you go through with in 12 days to build a package, in the desert.
Where the muffler I see no silent I see the horizontal spring for the front suspension in it s original fasteners, but no exhaust pipes leading from the exhaust manifold.
To stop vital fluids such as gasoline to flee when he was not mount it.
I know when I want to keep my property being vandalized, the first thing I do is cut apart with a hacksaw.
There are a lot of logical holes in the ground If there is any valuables that you can leave t alone, you'll be able to take them with you on the bike seems easier to bury your stuff and help .
Moreover, if it took you 12 days to build said motorcycle and not be rescued, I think you've had enough time to get a tow truck.
I think that without history, there is a cool project, however.
The man was a bike enthusiast, he handles his new bike in the back seat just waiting to put on his road bike block him wait any longer so he decides to visit Broken down and failed he thinks to himself why not make a bike now so I didn t wait that long to watch mom Haha I can do BS too.
His handlebar is the main body taking a stripped 2CV They came as standard equipment in a 2CV with a handful of start and wooden wheels shock.
It sounds great stupid If you were smart enough to remove it, it seems that you be smart enough to buy one of these cPath 5 products_id 15 If you which will drive your 2CV in the desert in Africa in the middle of a war.
He also built a boat Let me guess he was stuck in the ocean for a week after trying to bypass the paradise of a pirate.
All he had to do was attach some rocks at the corner opposite to the broken and it would be on its way, these cars are so light and fragile, it would be operational in 1 2 hours.
You are on the right track, the fish, it might even go up a skid, a sled of sorts, as the broken wheel and skidded be leaving the desert I like this story because it makes people think, and you don t see much more of this lol.
Images Information The frame was cut leaving only the central part of front and rear extensions were rejected Direct transmission brake is at the top of the rear wheel Due to the rotation transmission, you have to drive in reverse gear, maxing 20 km h the seat was made from the end of rear bumper covered by the felt of the instrument panel and held in place with the orange tape, the right reel is blocked so that the differential distributes the power to the left front wheel alone has a handlebar suspension consists of the main part of the jack which are fixed the pinions and the drive electricity license plate is needed but didn t prevent a fine for non-compliance import vehicle the gas inlet pipe is used as a crutch.
You are almost right, but it wasn t direct transmission, but a friction transmission, such as former French Velosolex the same time, with a first wheel on the engine and the wheel touched the rear wheel.
He's on tour in Morocco, a good rating, it has a camera to work with tripod and timer It's just that it didn t take the pictures he wanted when he left.
These Raids Africa occur every year since at least 1973 by many groups and clubs of 2CV good chance they know enough to bring plenty of water as to take pictures, it's not like his daily schedule was filled with many other things to do and he probably suspected that he wasn t leave this life so why not spend a few minutes between work and sleep by a photo journal to whoever finds its bleached bones wrapped loincloths.
I guess if you are resourceful enough and prepared enough to do in the area you would also be able to simply repair the swingarm using unnecessary pieces elsewhere on the vehicle.
You guys have all its very possible to do wrong, first of all what happened there is no gps, second many years if your car is broken and your stuck in the middle of nowhere africa what alternative would you in addition to trying to repair your car home on the writeup and pictures, I would say it is probably easier to do than anything else do not be jealous of this guy just because you do are not smart enough to do it.
As others have said, it would be a heck of a lot easier to solve the original problem instead of creating an entirely different vehicle If this guy was really smart enough to pull this off and it was really failed then he would have taken the 'easiest option that could take more than 2 days for someone with this supposed skill set.
The point here is that even though this was before GPS, if he went driving around in the desert without a good idea of where he was and where he was going, he's screwed either way, I'm sure if you had twelve days you might have him back every time you come, especially since it could not have gone far in that car anyway also no doubt that the bike is just the history it was built in the desert under the terms of history seems very unlikely.
Why didn t he just drive the car in reverse, dragging the front around If he can drive t at all, then he could go out and just lift the front of the car back to point in the direction desired.
Second, if your car is broken and your stuck in the middle of nowhere africa what alternative do you have in addition to trying to repair your car to go home.
I ripped the passenger door and use little there to fix the broken arm or support so he will drive, and drive slowly home.
Much easier than redesign into something I can not guarentee stand on it's own, much less be passable.
Relax obviously, even with the tortured English, it is clear that the vehicle fiction exists and is in some operational Watch the video to see and learn how we get new Citroen 2CV.
From the video, it seems that it would be much faster easier to walk than to ride this bike in the desert also, as others have said, why not use some non-critical sections and bolt drill holes as braces for more broken folded sections, if damaged the chassis while it was well suspended and all media were originally improvised his bike could be not able to last long.
Totally plausible As mentioned above, French is the second language in many African countries and it is not full sun the whole time I was in Morocco for two weeks ago about a month and it was the mostly cloudy, rained Evey night and about 20 degrees Celsius to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
Oh, and the people there are very good to keep things working Most of the cars I saw on the road were the same car we had 30 years ago; Mazda 808 s, Datsun B210's, Toyota Crowns, etc. Held with wire and a bouncer little chewing gum, but work all the same.
For this lash the rear oscillating right arm was bent forward below and s using the front right brake drum as a friction drive on the rear wheel with the transmission in reverse.
The 2CV is equipped with inboard brakes mounted on the deck instead of the brakes on the wheels.
This reduces unsprung weight a little springs do not have to be as hard to control the suspension.
A 2CV was when they tested one at the end of its production in the 1980's only magazine vehicle Car Driver could not get to lose traction on their skidpad He didn t have enough power, you only heeled about 45 degrees stuck there and until he tortilla.
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