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Cycling Weekly
|July 27, 2023
Stockton's favourite son could turn his torch to anything
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.
This story is from the July 27, 2023 edition of Cycling Weekly.
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