by Richard Sachs | Mar 19, 2022
I’m riding again. And when I leave the driveway it’s with a plan. This amount of time. That loop. Normally I stick to the plan. I’m a pedaler. Cadence is everything to me. Almost in an Old School way. Like when we used to spend winters on a fixed gear. For those...
by Richard Sachs | Mar 9, 2022
Gabrielle Chanel, the company’s founder, once designed a Baccarat crystal plate that depicted the tools of her trade, along with an epigraph summarizing her art. “With these scissors”, an inscription on the plate read, “I cut away everything that was superfluous in...
by Richard Sachs | Mar 7, 2022
A Nervex Ref 32 lug. This time, for the top tube/head tube confluence. I routinely wax on with flowery verbiage about these, so much so that I may have exhausted my adjective batch leaving my subjectivity suspect. But I’ll try. These parts, produced through maybe 1976...
by Richard Sachs | Mar 6, 2022
Apotheosis. It happens rarely. When it does, I know it. More aptly, I feel it. In all my years standing next to a bench I’ve felt it fewer than ten times. But when a frame goes together superbly well, with all boxes checked (design, construction, craftwork, finish), I...
by Richard Sachs | Mar 3, 2022
I spend a lot of time on things that never mature, myself among them according to my opinion. All This By Hand .
by Richard Sachs | Mar 1, 2022
“Essentially, fetishism is the attribution of inherent value, or powers, to an object.” All This By Hand .
