Departure in Béziers of two friends for a tour of France of conviviality, by bicycle … and with barbecue

These two cyclists-handists do not leave for an ordinary adventure. First clue, bikes: these are not high -end machines clad with bags, but old motorbike biclous, memories of an era when electric motors were not there to relieve the calves: “We like it simple, old -fashioned”, they explain. Second clue: executives. From one of them, Edouard comes out of the tubes, and the other a set of triangular plates, which he begins to assemble in just three minutes: “This is the tripod, then the body for charcoal, the grid … and we have a barbecue, ready for grills!”

So much for the equipment. As for its use, it is just as original: “We leave for a Tour de France which will make us pass through the Camargue, Provence, the Alps, the Vercors, the Cantal, Limousin, La Creuse, La Loire, Brittany, Normandy, Paris, La Champagne, La Bourgogne and finally Aquitaine … A sort of big eight”, Describe the Biterrois Edouard Teisserenc-Bonesteve, the stage of the stage. “In the small towns and the villages that we are going to cross, in the markets, the squares, alongside butchers and bistro patterns, we will offer grills, continues his friend Romain Tournerie-Esseric. Because it’s user -friendly, because it’s a great way to create a link and put the mood. “

These two young people aged 23 and 24 met during their studies in a business school in Bordeaux. And since then, they have gone a bit in a dancer: trips to Mexico and Singapore, experiences in catering, small jobs … “We are looking for each other, and this project came to check a lot of boxes, explains Edouard. We like good food, conviviality. Romain does the kitchen very well, and I started ironwork to make this barbecue. “

arrival in four months

The goal is to please, to share a moment for a grill or a simple discussion, “And to see what will happen”. More concretely, this Tour de France is also a way to bring life to places where, sometimes, there is little. “We will announce our arrival on social networks and in the local press, says Edouard. We also count on word of mouth. “

The arrival will be done in four months, in Montgaillard-en-Albret, in Lot-et-Garonne, the village of origin of Romain: “There are three months of bicycle, 50 kilometers per day, and a month of break, he details. Because we also want to discover France, slowly “.

The Departure was this Monday, May 5, in this Béziers dear to Edouard. Friends and families had met for the occasion at Café Plaisance, not far from the Canal du Midi. The two young people climbed on their bikes, and left for applause. Ludivine, Edouard’s mother, who works at the nursery the landscape, could not hide her pride: “What an idea, what a freedom of mind!” With however a small anxiety in front of these 4,500 kilometers awaiting his son: “He has never bicycle, in any case not on such a distance. His sport, to him, is rather tennis …”