From Matt:

I can remember the summer night when I was ten. I got a spanky new Ross Compact and immediately took it on the dirt trails. There was something intoxicating about gears and dirt. I grew up riding a bmx bike but did not find bike racing until 1995 at age 25, racing MTBs in Atlanta GA. My four year Atlanta stay was highlighted by being the best sport MTB rider in the state.

In 1998 I moved back to the east coast, racing MTB for IF's grassroots program; dabbling into road racing. In 1999 while a Cat 5, I lived my first cross race in Amherst MA placing 7th as a B. Most importantly finding cross was finding my athletic home. There was no doubt this one ruled the roost. In 2000 I was getting on the podium in the Bs, but had to sit out the 2001 season with an injury. In 2002 I was able to return to the sport I love. I was on the warpath to win the "B" National Championships, which I did convincingly. I was ready for the elites.

Since 2003, I have devoted my whole racing chutzpah to cross, including becoming a Cat 2 in 2005. Everything I do in the summer is aimed at the fall. I have always had a job and never been a full time pro but the last two cross seasons I have done my best to level that gap. Twenty-four years after the Ross Compact, I am honored (atmo*) to have a spot on this team, an amateur national cyclocross title, a few mastersí cross natz medals and a top 20 ranking in the elite US men.I do it my way and the really real way. I see cross as an art, and devote too much time studying how to find ways to improve this craft and make the dern thing go faster.

Cyclocross is Fall in New England, the two are one in another. After three seasons (post J.P. era) on Red which has morphed Black, I have witnessed first hand the Richard Sachs Cyclocross Team progress from a very nice little New England 'Cross program into a full fledged National Level Cyclocross Team.

It seems that the Team's development has gone hand in hand with my own level of Cyclocross skills upon my re-entry to the sport in 2004. Every year the Team gets stronger and stronger. Every year the Team becomes a tighter knit group of friends with a notorious reputation for producing fine results and looking good in the process.

Most importantly Team Richards Sachs has fun and represents the sport of Cyclocross in the same exuberant and eclectic manor it was intended to be when first conceived decades ago in Paris, France. Personally, I hope to be racing my Team Issue red and white bikes in Treviso, Italy next January... but regardless of the final destination, the journey continues.

Thank You. You are all supporting and partaking in something very special and rare in today's world of Bicycle Racing.

I can't wait for the first race!

Richard Sachs is a craftsman framebuilder who has been refining his skills for over a quarter-century.  For more information, please contact: