Jakes Bikes & Trikes by John Bradshaw
An individualistic and creative self-made engineer, motorcyclist and racing driver from Stafford, throughout the 1970s to the ‘90s Jake designed, built and very successfully raced a series of 3-wheeled hill-climbers & sprinters, all being variations of the tadpole configuration and called ‘TARKUS’.
This new book is the first ever account of his unique series of Competition & Roadster Specials.
Details:
- Well illustrated in b&w and colour
- 120 pages, soft-back, written, printed and bound in England
- Price: £20 + p&p
About The Author
John Bradshaw
When writing Prose:
John Bradshaw’s professional life was spent working with and writing about mathematics and education. For seventeen years he was an editor for one of the Mathematical Association’s journals and also organised conferences and workshops. He has taught in primary, secondary and high schools and then in college and university. He now also offers some books that are actually intended to be fictional.
When writing ‘factual tales of fettling’:
John Bradshaw grew up surrounded by mechanical things and has not escaped so far. He has always owned wheels and currently has a stable ranging from an 1880s Cogent Ordinary bicycle to a 1990s BMW Z3 sports car, with examples of many things in between.
He was the Social-Sec and then Chairman of the Ariel Owners MotorCycle Club in the 1980s and then created and for a decade organised CycleFest, an international alternative cycle event.
He has written articles for a variety of cycling and motoring magazines. The restoration, modification and maintenance of cycles, motorcycles and cars, and then and writing about it, is nothing new to him, but the Morgan-Ariel Special is his first true creation.
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