Anja's Jack Taylor Custom build,Bicycles,Components,Adventures
 with great skill, and continue to enjoy the loyalest of followings, but what ostentation they allowed  was reserved for the paintwork, graphics and well-documented skill with a lining wheel.)
Jack Taylor's fillet-brazed step-throughs are of a singular and distinctive design, but manage to be both of those things while remaining entirely classic and relatively understated. In the post-war years, Jack Taylor Cycles was comprised of Jack himself, and his two brothers, Ken and Norman, and they shared the framebuilding and finishing work. They used traditional techniques (including a fondness for fillet brazing, on account of the number of tandems they built) with great skill, and continue to enjoy the loyalest of followings, but what ostentation they allowed was reserved for the paintwork, graphics and well-documented skill with a lining wheel.
This particular example arrived with us in a sorry state, bearing the scars of a number of botched repairs, including to the junction between the seat tube, top tube, and the extra stays, necessitating a new top tube. The work was undertaken at Argos Cycles in Bristol, who in addition to the skilled repairs, offer box lining on their paint jobs of which you can imagine Taylor himself would be proud.
This bike was destined for the countryside outside of Berlin, to a a customer who's ridden a Taylor for many years, and loved it, and wanted another built around a larger frame, and was sourced (at some length!) for that purpose.
