Triumph TR6R cafe racer by Tricana Motorcycles

Minimal, elegant and beautifully finished, this is one of the best Triumph cafe racers we’ve seen for a long time. It comes from Tricana Motorcycles, a small workshop in Switzerland that’s building a reputation for classy, slightly off-kilter café racers. Tricana is run by Jonathan Natario, and he’s called his latest creation Briosa, a musical term meaning ‘lively’ in Italian. But when the Triumph TR6R arrived in Jonathan’s Coimbra workshop, it was far from lively—it was a decrepit, incomplete 1972 TR6R that had seen better days. Unfazed, Jonathan saw its potential. “I thought it’d be an excellent bike to reconstruct...