"Souviens-toi, sois prudent": les pèlerinages motards

Authors

• Magali Jenny Université de Fribourg

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67370

Keywords:

Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Voyages and travels, France, Motorcycles

Abstract

This paper presents a kind of pilgrimage which is different from the idea of the conventional pilgrimage, namely the pilgrimage of so-called pilgrimage bikers. The author views the pilgrimage of pilgrimage bikers as a making of a rhythmic ritual. In biker culture, issues of death and risk are present, why blessing the biker and the vehicle emerges as an important ritual.