Triumph Originals: 7 Triumph Scrambler Customs from Around the World

Tamarit’s “MIURA” Scrambler Takes the Crown…  

Seven countries, seven custom workshops, and seven radically different interpretations of the Triumph Scrambler. The votes are in, and Spain’s Tamarit Motorcycles has taken top honors in the Triumph Originals 2026 custom competition with its lightweight, desert-racing-inspired MIURA.

The 2026 contest marked the second running of Triumph Originals, the British manufacturer’s international custom-build competition. While the inaugural 2025 edition centered on the broader Bonneville family, this year Triumph turned its attention specifically to the Scrambler range, challenging builders from Canada, China, France, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the United States to reinterpret the bike through a theme called “Time Capsule.”

Each team was asked to select a defining decade or era from the Scrambler’s history and create a one-off machine capturing something of its style and attitude. It was an especially appropriate brief for a motorcycle whose roots lie in customization: long before manufacturers offered production “scramblers,” riders were stripping and modifying road bikes with wide bars, high pipes, knobby tires, and other changes for racing and riding in the dirt.

The resulting machines ran the gamut from a big-bore Canadian supermoto to a weathered-looking British workhorse, a Pacific Northwest adventure bike, and two very different interpretations of the Scrambler 400 XC.

Triumph Originals 2026 Winner: Tamarit MIURA

Country: Spain
Custom Workshop: Tamarit Motorcycles
Model: Triumph Scrambler 400 XC
Team Leader: Quique Berna

“True perfection lies not only in looks, but in impeccable technical execution.”

Tamarit Motorcycles of Alicante ultimately took the 2026 title, earning the highest combined score from the competition’s judging panel while also claiming an impressive 33 percent of the worldwide public vote. Thousands of enthusiasts participated in the voting.

Dubbed MIURA, Tamarit’s Scrambler 400 XC channels the look of 1970s desert and enduro racers without simply dressing the production motorcycle in vintage bodywork. The Spanish shop attacked the underlying machine as well. The finished bike weighs just 155 kg (342 lb) — some 25 kg (55 lb) lighter than the standard Scrambler 400 XC. Tamarit fitted custom WP suspension, 21/18-inch Excel Takasago wheels wearing Mitas rubber, Brembo/Nissin braking components, a raised fuel tank, an enduro-style saddle, and a host of handmade aluminum components and 3D-printed carbon-fiber parts.

That substantial weight reduction is particularly fitting for the concept. Rather than turning the relatively accessible 400 into an elaborate showpiece, Tamarit gave MIURA the tall, spare proportions of a competition motorcycle — more enduro racer than retro roadster.

The white-and-red color scheme and graphics add a distinctly Spanish identity, while the overall silhouette reaches back toward the Scramblers and off-road competition machines of the 1970s. Tamarit describes the project as a meeting of past and present — essentially the Time Capsule concept distilled into a single motorcycle.

Tamarit itself began in 2010 and is now led by Quique Berna and Matías Canales from Alicante. The company specializes heavily in Triumphs and says it has delivered more than 210 one-off motorcycles worldwide. Interestingly, Berna came into this year’s competition with an unusual perspective: he had served as a judge in the 2025 Triumph Originals contest before returning this year on the other side of the table as a competitor.

Triumph Chief Product Officer Steve Sargent led this year’s judging panel alongside custom builder Satoshi of Japan’s Fonk Motorcycles, journalist and FUEL magazine founder Rolf Henniges, author and journalist Eric Hendricx, and Chase McQueen. The entries were evaluated for Iconic Style, British Originality, Craftsmanship, and Creativity & Innovation, with the judges’ scores ultimately combined with the public vote.

Of course, MIURA was only one interpretation of what a Triumph Scrambler could become. Here’s the rest of the 2026 field.

The Entries

Canada: Motos Illimitées Scrambler 1200 XE

Custom Workshop: Motos Illimitées
Model: Scrambler 1200 XE
Team Leader: Pascal Lauzon

“The goal was to take this icon to another level where no one expected it to go.”

Where many builders would naturally push the Scrambler 1200 XE farther toward rally or adventure-bike territory, Canada’s Pascal Lauzon went another direction entirely: supermoto.

Inspired by Lauzon’s lifelong involvement with motocross and off-road motorcycles, the Motos Illimitées build turns the big 1200 into a large-displacement street weapon. Seventeen-inch Thruxton RS wheels replace the XE’s more dirt-oriented setup, joined by Moto-Master wave brake rotors and a custom Zard twin-silencer exhaust. MX-style footpegs and styling influenced by Triumph’s TF 250-E competition enduro further reinforce the theme.

It’s an unusual answer to the Time Capsule brief, recalling the heyday of supermoto conversions rather than the Scrambler’s more obvious 1960s desert-racing heritage.

China: BVL Garage BVL-VMX-900

Custom Workshop: BVL Garage
Model: Scrambler 900
Team Leader: JOMO

“We want to share China’s custom motorcycle culture with the world.”

China’s BVL-VMX-900 starts with the Scrambler 900 and looks to the 1981 Triumph TR7T Tiger Trail for inspiration. BVL Garage used a vintage-motocross, or VMX, design language to recreate the optimism and adventure associated with early-’80s off-road motorcycles, while retaining the modern Triumph underneath.

Rather than replicate the Tiger Trail outright, the team treated the early 1980s as a visual starting point, translating its slim, purposeful dirt-bike aesthetic onto the considerably more modern Scrambler platform.

France: FCR Original “Red Dust”

Custom Workshop: FCR Original
Model: Scrambler 1200 XE
Team Leader: Sebastien Guillemot

“For us, the word Scrambler, above all, evokes freedom.”

Triumph France teamed up with FCR Original for a much more traditional interpretation of the breed: the Scrambler 1200 XE “Red Dust.”

FCR looked to the classic image of the scrambler — dust, open terrain, action, and the stripped-back style of the 1960s — but the team was adamant that Red Dust shouldn’t merely look capable.

The heavily modified XE was conceived as a genuine performance machine rather than a static show bike, mixing the visual cues of Triumph’s past with the suspension, chassis, and overall capability of a contemporary Scrambler 1200.

Italy: South Garage Dune 400

Custom Workshop: South Garage Motor Co
Model: Scrambler 400 XC
Team Leader: Giuseppe Carucci

“I’m relentlessly in search of the perfect balance between aesthetics, functionality, comfort, and performance.”

South Garage Milano and Triumph Italy took the smaller Scrambler in a different direction from Tamarit, creating the Dune 400.

The build draws from both the original scrambler concept and the great desert-racing motorcycles of the 1980s and 1990s, giving the 400 XC a rally-influenced personality without turning it into an extreme competition special.

That restraint was intentional. South Garage describes the Dune 400 as a practical, reproducible, ride-ready custom rather than an exotic show bike — a motorcycle designed to retain everyday usefulness while encouraging its owner to leave the pavement behind. Triumph Media

United Kingdom: Stockwell Design Scrambler 900

Custom Workshop: Stockwell Design
Model: Scrambler 900
Team Leader: Charlie Stockwell

“It’s a balance of design, engineering, and storytelling.”

Charlie Stockwell and Stockwell Design approached the Time Capsule concept from perhaps the most literal — and unusual — direction. Instead of building a pristine motorcycle that merely references the past, the UK team asked: What if a brand-new Scrambler looked as though it had already lived an entire life?

Based on the Scrambler 900, the build evokes a dependable old workhorse shaped by decades of use. Its aged appearance isn’t meant to suggest neglect, but accumulated experience — a motorcycle imagined as having traveled the world before eventually returning home to muddy English lanes.

Musician, designer, and motorcycle enthusiast Dougie Poynter helped develop the project’s creative concept, while Stockwell translated it into the finished machine. The inspiration came broadly from the raw, functional Scramblers of the 1960s and ’70s rather than any one historical bike.

USA: Triumph Columbia River “A Tribute to PNW Adventure”

Custom Workshop: Triumph Columbia River
Model: Scrambler 1200 X
Team Leader: Liz Rubin

“The Scrambler doesn’t pretend. It’s built to get dirty, take a wrong turn, and keep exploring. Its heritage design and instant cool factor make it a perfect canvas for customization.”

America’s entry came from Liz Rubin and Triumph Columbia River in Portland, Oregon, after the dealership first won Triumph’s domestic competition for the right to represent the United States internationally. Their Scrambler 1200 X, “A Tribute to PNW Adventure,” is rooted firmly in the Pacific Northwest. Rather than recreating a particular historic competition motorcycle, Rubin drew inspiration from Forest Service vehicles, her childhood memories of Smokey Bear, the Rocky Mountains, and the strong outdoor culture surrounding Portland.

The result mixes utilitarian colors and details with bespoke components and parts from CROOKED, all while remaining deliberately approachable. Rubin’s guiding principle was simple: make something she’d actually want to ride every day.

That makes the American bike an interesting counterpoint to some of the more radical machines in the contest. It’s less about transforming the Scrambler beyond recognition than demonstrating what an enthusiast might reasonably want a personalized adventure bike to become.

Seven Takes on the Scrambler

That’s ultimately what made the 2026 edition of Triumph Originals interesting. Giving every builder the same model would have produced a cleaner design competition, but allowing teams to choose among the Scrambler 400 XC, 900, 1200 X, and 1200 XE resulted in dramatically different interpretations of the same basic idea.

There were vintage-motocross influences, desert racers, rally bikes, supermotos, deliberately weathered workhorses, and practical adventure machines. The Scrambler name has covered a surprisingly broad spectrum over the decades, and the seven finalists reflected that diversity.

Still, only one could take the title. With the strongest combined judges’ result and fully one-third of the public vote, Tamarit Motorcycles and its 342-pound MIURA are the Triumph Original for 2026.

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