Intervista con Richard Sachs: :BDC-forum.it

I have always watched with great interest all the work of Richard Sachs, who is considered one of, if not the best, framebuilders. And when I say ‘all’ I mean everything he has done for his brand, and not only with respect to bicycles. As other frame...

Two Wheels

The world’s best bicycles are American, and made of steel I didn’t know it at the time, but my first bicycle came in the waning years of a sort of revolution. Over the decade The Beatles played together – from 1960 to 1970 –the American bike market grew slowly from...
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...
fastidiousness

fastidiousness

“needing some air, he went into the garden. “ah, look at the afternoon light,” he said, for shadows were forming dark zones in the pasture recesses, as they do in his masterpiece, ‘the mountain.’ he went over to a small shed in the corner...

the little white bird

it’s the little details that matter the most. because once all the big stuff has been appreciated, written about, photographed and tidied away, it’s the little details that you either notice or miss. after the first of the alpine stages in the tour de...