If we had to pick an adjective to describe Revival Cycles, we?d say unpredictable. You just never know what Alan Stulberg and Stefan Hertel are going to come up with next. We?ve had a Honda CBX with hub center steering, a Ducati-based sidecarcross racer and a modern-day reinterpretation of the Ernst Henne Landspeeder.
And now this: A BMW S1000RR sportbike with bodywork created using the metalworking techniques of a century ago.

Three years ago, BMW invited Alan and Stefan to ride the relaunched and revamped S1000RR at the Circuit Of The Americas.
Alan jumped at the chance, albeit with some misgivings. ?My sportbike experience was short blasts on a friend?s modded Suzuki GSX-R750R, scaring the crap out of myself at 160 mph. I quickly decided that sportbikes simply were not for me!?
Instead, Alan?s need to explore the absolute edge of riding fostered an appreciation for vintage machines. ?Their easily-mastered ?slower pace? kept me safer. I even developed a taste for pre-war bikes and beyond?and the rest is Revival Cycles history.?
But when BMW put Alan?s leather-clad butt on a 200 horsepower rocket ship, everything changed. ?I saw the light,? he admits. ?The light of technology, power, and grace. This mammoth machine was a docile kitten under extreme conditions, even with an amateur like myself hastily thrown on top of it.?

A plan was hatched to recommission an S1000RR as a track dweller only, in the vintage style of Revival. Months later, the right deal presented ...