Sydney is at the epicenter of the ?third wave? coffee movement in Australia?you can’t throw a single origin coffee bean without hitting a barista or a discerning customer. Combine that with the city’s thriving motorcycle scene, and it was only a matter of time before we got this: a Ural sidecar rigged up as a mobile cafe.
It isn?t the first time we’ve seen a mobile barista workstation: Portland-based See See Motorcycles built one two years back. But we don?t see this as derivative?we’re seeing it as a start of a new genre of custom bike build: the ‘catering sidecar hack.’

We’re hoping it’s a trend that takes off, because ordering an espresso from the back of a motorcycle is guaranteed to raise a smile. This ‘cafe racer’ (get it") is the work of Jason Leppa and Sean Taylor at Gasoline Motor Co. They built it for The Alternative Dairy Co., as a vehicle to promote its new range of plant-based dairy alternatives. Gasoline nailed the brief too?getting the point across without descending into gaudy territory.

Unlike when building a flat tracker or scrambler, there’s no blueprint for shoving a mobile coffee setup into a Russian-made sidecar.
The boxer-powered Ural itself didn’t need any real upgrading, so Gasoline focused on the sidecar. With help from metal fabricators and regular collaborators Chunk Design, they took it from a person-carrier to a portable barista workstation.

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