We can normally recognize a Revival Cycles build immediately. The bikes have top-level craftsmanship, perfect proportions and tasteful finishes.
But this bizarre contraption had us puzzled. Sure, the hand-made bodywork and crafty engineering pointed towards Revival… but what about the three different neon hues, and that weird sidecar"

And what possessed the Austin, Texas shop to take a Ducati ST4 and turn it into, well… this" Alcohol, apparently. And a love for the mental sport of sidecarcross.
As the name implies, sidecarcross involves racing motocross with sidecar-equipped bikes. ?It’s a sanctioned motorcycle racing series based in Europe,? Revival tell us, ?and it’s popular in Australia and New Zealand, but an almost unheard-of secret in the US.?
?Like many of our ideas, this idea percolated years ago around the team. This time Andy James, our head fabricator, and Stefan Hertel had been out for a night of drinking, and realized that we should some day build a sidecarcross bike out of something totally inappropriate, to show our friends in the US just what it?s all about.?
The idea resurfaced when Rebel Yell asked Revival to build a custom for them, to give away in the Rebels Uncaged contest.

?The best part of the Rebel Yell build,? the guys tell us, ?is that they gave us total creative freedom to build whatever bike we wanted. We decided on a sidecar-cross bike, and took a stroll through the shop considering all of the bikes we h...