by Richard Sachs | Jul 3, 1995
THE BUILDER To Connecticut’s Richard Sachs a bicycle has a split personality. As a builder, he identifies an art form in the construction of a frame. But as a racer, he knows that a finely made bicycle means very little in the midst of competition. “I...
by Richard Sachs | Nov 5, 1994
A custom, hand-built, made-to-measure bicycle ranks with things like first-class airplane seating and hand-tailored suits. If you’ve ever experienced such luxuries, it might be hard to comprehend what separates them from the mundane. But once you try the good...
by Richard Sachs | Jul 18, 1988
A damaged orange bicycle frame sits in the corner of Richard Sachs’ shop in Chester. Stripped of its wheels, handlebars, pedals and saddle what was once a proud new bike is now a confusing mass of orange tubes, twisted together like a giant Krazy Straw. The...
by Richard Sachs | May 5, 1985
Connecticut craftsman Richard Sachs is a racer/framebuilder who, like an artist, lets his work speak for itself. Amid antique shops, country art galleries, and whitewashed New England clapboard houses that all seem to sit on their own little hills in Chester,...
by Richard Sachs | Feb 1, 1975
For most people bicycling is only a hobby. For Richard Sachs it is a way of life. Sachs, formerly of Bayonne, has devoted full-time to cycles and cycling over the past three years, including spending nine months in England at his own expense, working for free,...
