by Richard Sachs | Mar 1, 1987
Any bicycle that costs $1900 might be expected to pedal itself. The bikes made by Richard Sachs in his shop on Main Street in Chester Start at $1900 and he will be the first one to tell you that they won’t make you go any faster. No faster, that is, than you...
by Richard Sachs | Mar 5, 1986
CHESTER—The façade of Richard Sachs’ workplace on Spring Street is unremarkable. What’s going on inside is not. In a small grey garage tucked away from the center, Sachs toils everyday building bicycles. Not just any bicycles. Contenders in the Olympics...
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 | May 14, 1980
“Handmade.” A fast disappearing word in these assembly-line times. Handmade brings back memories of bygone days, fine workmanship, and lasting quality. The end product becomes an expression of the maker’s personality transmitted through the tools to...
