THE GUNS of THRUXTON

Spain's Tamarit Motorcycles crafts a cool-as-hell custom Triumph café racer

- DUNCAN QUINN

Spanish Jade. A magnetic piece of art in the form of a Triumph Thruxton transformed from the practical to the beautiful. The antithesis of the raison d’etre of the original 1960s Triumph Bonneville “Thruxton”—a racing machine par excellence built for speed and nothing else. This re-imagination by Tamarit Motorcyles, the renowned Spanish custom builder based in the small town of Elche near Alicante, is the opposite. A thing of beauty built not for speed, but to be adored. To melt the hearts of steely, hardened, motorcycle men. In much the same way that a sidelong glance from a seductive blonde siren would.