Building a custom motorcycle that loosely resembles a café racer is easy enough. But building a café racer where every part harmonizes with the next?and the finished product is actually rideable?is easier said than done. Both of those sentiments are reflected in the story of this shiny Triumph Street Twin café racer from MFix Workshop.
The Vietnamese crew was presented with a 2016-model Triumph Street Twin that had already had some work done?but still needed a makeover. The owner had fitted the fuel tank, seat, and tail cover from a Triumph Thruxton 1200 R, plus clip-ons and different forks. But the whole thing felt a bit off.

?Everything seemed to be slapped on just because the bolts would fit,? says our contact at MFix, Giang Nguyen. ?The stance of the bike was pitched so far forward, that the owner struggled to keep himself from getting thrown off every time the front brake was pulled and needed a massage after every commune.? ?To say that he was frustrated with the bike would have been an understatement. It wasn’t a question of trying; we had to make it work, or the bike would have been sold. We salvaged what he had already done to the bike, improved it, and, most importantly, made it functional.?

Giang is quick to admit that MFix had a head start with the build. Since the Thruxton bodywork was a good fit for the Street Twin?and since it had cost a pretty penny?it stayed on. But the workshop still had their work cut out for them.
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