Of bike and body: The tale of how one Richard Sachs frame touched three lives A celebrated framebuilder, a 1980s racer and her daughter connected by one 40-something-year-old bike frame BY KRISTIN JENNY It was a sizzlingly hot day in Truckee, California. The early...

By Steven L. Sheffield — Richard Sachs is one of the preeminent bicycle framebuilders in the United States, and yet building bicycles was never really an aspiration of his. After being wait-listed for admission to Goddard College, Sachs saw an advertisement in the...

It'’s off to Connecticut to speak with frame builder, Richard Sachs. Last week, an interview on the site, Tempus Fugit, shed some light on more of Richard’s life and thinking. This conversation begins with a chat about an interview Richard gave to Tempus Fugit – a...

In the 12 years since this little project started, I have met a lot of people both inside and outside of the watch industry. There have been some pretty good interviews, and to be honest a few clangers. Well, gentle reader, I have to say that the following interview...

A "prolonged adventure." That's how Richard Sachs describes the pivotal moment when, as a teenager killing time before college, he flew to London seeking a temporary job with Witcomb Cycles, armed with nothing more than an encouraging piece of snail mail. The job...

FR) Life takes many paths, and your current path began in London at Witcomb Cycles. What year was that and how did that come to be? I arrived in southeast London at Witcomb Lightweight Cycles early on in 1972. How that came to be is its own book. I had just graduated...

TSC: Without the rise of Cyclocross in the US (and globally) would you still be making bikes? RS: Hmm. I went to my first cx race in 1972 and saw many events when I lived in London. I was at the 1973 UCI World Championships in Crystal Palace when EDV won his seventh...

You may have heard of Richard Sachs.  Or perhaps you haven’t.  In that case:  You should know that Richard is the dean of American bicycle frame builders.  He takes steel tubing and cast parts and combines them into the foundations of truly wonderful bicycles.  People...

Why Design Within Reach partnered with Richard Sachs It’s always a good thing when non-endemic brands join the cycling world. We are huge fans of the modern home furnishings offered by Design Within Reach, so when we found out DWR’s vice president of creative, Michael...

Rapha Custom x Richard Sachs Cyclocross Team The North American cross scene has many variants, but only one constant: the Richard Sachs Cyclocross Team. Since 2003, RSCX has come to represent everything that makes the muddy discipline so beloved of its practitioners....

From September to February, all over the world, cyclists gather to partake in a sport unseen by most people. On the agenda: racing on and off their bikes on a course dotted with sand traps, logs, steep hills and other barriers. Entering and exiting the corners is...

my good friend, richard sachs, has been building bicycle frames for around 45 years, probably having built more than he cares to remember. on his website he states "The fascination I (once) had with perfection has lately become an interest in elegance. Defining it....

The Pull is a new podcast from Red Kite Prayer. My many interviews with framebuilders over the years have all lost something in translation from the conversation to the printed page (or pixels). I spent years dissatisfied with the outcome and honestly, reduced the...

RICHARD SACHS DISCUSSES THE NATURE OF MAKING, BECOMING THE HEAT, THE BEAUTY OF POSSIBILITIES, AND HAVING STANDARDS BEYOND ALL REASON I told him that traditionally, there is an introduction at the start of a Q&A, wherein the writer pontificates about the subject of...

The decision to become a custom bike builder is definitely not an easy one. You have to be tough and unrelenting to make a name for yourself in the world dominated by corporate companies with armies of engineers and designers, and even larger teams of sales and...

The decision to become a custom bike builder is definitely not an easy one. You have to be tough and unrelenting to make a name for yourself in the world dominated by corporate companies with armies of engineers and designers, and even larger teams of sales &...

The decision to become a custom bike builder is definitely not an easy one. You have to be tough and unrelenting to make a name for yourself in the world dominated by corporate companies with armies of engineers and designers, and even larger teams of sales &...

Richard Sachs really needs no introduction. You probably not only know him by name but you’re also likely to have an established opinion about the polarizing builder. In his work, he challenges the cycling industry at large as well as the small builder community by...

VS: How did you get introduced to Verge Sport and the people behind the business? RS: I was the bicycle sponsor of a team that was wearing Verge (The brand was called Vitesse at the time) in 1996. It may have been a year earlier or later, the eras escape me. All of us...

In the March issue, Squid Bikes dropped a few names for their inspirations, which inspired us to seek out those makers for ourselves. We jumped at the chance to catch up with Richard Sachs—his longevity in the business makes for a lot of stories and opinions. Because...

Ask anyone in the United States about handmade bicycles and one man's name will always come up: Richard Sachs. The Godfather of American hand-crafted frame building, Sachs' fingerprints are all over the handmade resurgence, keeping steel alive in a sea of...