Don?t be fooled by the conservative stereotype: the Swiss have a long-standing love of fast bikes. The small country has given us the racing builders Egli and Suter, and workshops like Britalmoto, Erne?s Euromotos, VTR Customs and Erbacher.
To that list we can now add Tricana, based in the tiny French-speaking mountain village of Chamoson (pop. 3,461). Shop boss Jonathan Natário has just built a custom Electra Glide that can shred on the drag strip and the twisties.

We met Jonathan at Wheels & Waves in 2015. He?d just finished an amazing custom Triumph TR6R, and was preparing to move his workshop from Portugal to Switzerland.
He?s now an official MV Agusta dealer, and will soon start selling Aprilia motorcycles too. But he still enjoys building and fabrication?which is great news for the Swiss custom scene.
?The Electra Glide was my first paycheck in Switzerland,? says Jonathan. ?At the time I was working for a Harley-Davidson garage, and I thought it?d be a good idea for the next Tricana to be a Harley.?
It was probably tempting to plunder the giant Screamin? Eagle catalog, but Jonathan decided to try something entirely different.

?I realized that I could create something crazy, using parts from my track day bikes,? he explains.
So the front suspension is from a Yamaha YZF-R1, the brakes are from an R6, and the wheels and front rotors are from a Ducati 999R. The aluminum swingarm is custom, and a Suzuki GSX-R supplied the rearsets.

The regular Electra G...