Jake

Manager and Mechanic

Jake Voelcker started Jake's Bikes in January 2008 having done a small amount of work on the bikes of friends and friends-of-friends in the preceding two or three years. To read more about the background to Jake's Bikes, click here.

Jake's job is to service and repair customers' bikes and provide tuition and teaching, as well as helping Yael with the shop, maintaining the website, and managing the business side of things.

A lifelong cyclist, as a child Jake spent hours tinkering with and riding BMXs and later got into cycle camping holidays with friends. Nowadays he enjoys cycle touring in the UK and abroad, and of course uses a bicycle on a daily basis as his only means of transport around Bristol.

Jake previously worked as a freelance web designer for five years for clients in the charity and environmental sectors. He moved to Bristol in 2004 to study Social Policy at Bristol University, including some cycling-related research. Jake has previously worked for renewable energy charity Mid Wales Energy Agency and wind farm consultant EcoGen, and at the CAT Eco Centre in Wales.