Guardians of the Flame

Guardians of the Flame

The introduction of methods that industrialized bicycle manufacture inevitably led to a reduction in hand-crafted production especially for competition models with proven success. Industrialization and the increase in the number of bikes produced forced many famous...

From Would-Be Writer to Bicycle Framebuilder

A funny thing happened to Richard Sachs eight years ago while he was making plans to enter college to become a freelance writer. Somehow, he wound up in England where he began learning how to make bicycle frames instead. “I was supposed to enter Goddard College...