- Tamarit Motorcycles wins Triumph Originals 2026
- Spanish-built Scrambler 400 XC took 33% of the public vote
- Seven custom builds from seven countries competed for the title.
Spain’s Tamarit Motorcycles has taken out the 2026 Triumph Originals custom competition, turning the humble Scrambler 400 XC into a rather tasty desert-racer-inspired special.
Seven countries, seven very different custom Triumphs and thousands of public votes later, Spain has come out on top in the 2026 Triumph Originals competition.
Alicante-based Tamarit Motorcycles won with its heavily reworked Triumph Scrambler 400 XC, securing 33 percent of the public vote as well as the highest combined score from Triumph’s international judging panel.
And looking at the finished bike, it’s not particularly difficult to see why.
Led by Quique Berna, Tamarit has taken Triumph’s relatively affordable 400cc Scrambler and transformed it into something that looks much more like a lightweight desert racer than a mildly adventurous road bike.
The white bodywork, red number board and stripped-back proportions give it a proper competition-bike feel without completely disguising what sits underneath.
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Tamarit has transformed Triumph’s 400cc Scrambler into something that looks much more like a lightweight desert racer.
Seven Countries, One Brief
This year’s Triumph Originals competition brought together builders from Canada, China, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and USA, with each given the same basic challenge – create a one-off Scrambler around a ‘Time Capsule’ theme.
Rather than everybody starting with the same motorcycle, the builds covered much of Triumph’s Scrambler family, from the 400 XC through to the Scrambler 900 and 1200.
The public vote was combined with scores from a judging panel led by Triumph Chief Product Officer Steve Sargent and including custom builders and motorcycle journalists, along with Chase McQueen – grandson of Steve McQueen.
McQueen summed up the winning bike rather nicely, describing it as having an old-school desert-racer attitude, while fellow judge Eric Hendricx noted that despite the scale of the transformation, the Triumph DNA was still clearly there.
From 400 XC To Custom Special
Tamarit Motorcycles has been around since 2010, when founders Quique Berna and Matías Canales turned their enthusiasm for custom motorcycles into a business.
Since then, the Spanish workshop says it has produced more than 210 one-off motorcycles, with a particular focus on Triumph machinery. Interestingly, Berna was actually a judge in last year’s Triumph Originals competition before deciding to have a crack at building an entry himself this time around.
That seems to have worked out reasonably well.
The winning Scrambler 400 XC also shows just how much potential there is in Triumph’s smaller 400 platform. Underneath the custom work is the same single-cylinder Scrambler that’s designed as the more off-road-focused member of Triumph’s 400 family.
And while we’re not expecting to see a Tamarit edition appearing in Triumph dealerships any time soon, there are definitely a few ideas here we’d happily see make their way onto a production Scrambler.
Especially that desert-racer look.
Tamarit Scrambler 400 XC Gallery
