by Richard Sachs | May 7, 2022
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 Richard Sachs | Mar 27, 2022
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...
by Richard Sachs | Mar 14, 2022
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 –...
by Richard Sachs | Mar 7, 2022
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...
by Richard Sachs | Apr 7, 2021
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...
by Richard Sachs | Aug 2, 2020
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...
