
Jack Taylor bikes are a national treasure thanks to their high quality and beautiful detailing.
Not only that: Jack and his two brothers, Norman and Ken, have also acquired hero status in their native Stockton-on-Tees and have their own page on the borough council's website to prove it.
The "three canny lads", as they were called in a classic 1986 BBC North East documentary called The Bike Brothers, were accomplished racers and rode the first Tour of Britain in 1945.
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