[s_gourichon]

From the photos and videos, the guy is indeed a 2CV hacker. I think the contraption is real.

Source: my father owned several cars of the 2CV family and we rode in them for years.

Did he actually build it in the desert? Without tools it seems rather difficult.

Here's the central point of https://sahara-overland.com/tag/emile-leray/

> I believe the 2CV bike was indeed built in the desert, much as Leray claims, but he set out from France with the explicit intention of performing this task. Otherwise he’d have walked out like any normal person in a similar situation.

> His claimed unease about leaving his stricken car doesn’t ring true, let alone the spontaneous idea of making it into a two-wheeler. Tellingly, in 2006 Leray went on to build a ‘2CV boat’ in Mali. He clearly likes mucking about with 2CVs. Fair play to him!