by Richard Sachs | Jul 1, 2006
Bike-Frame Builder: The Richard Sachs formula: steel, silver flux and a 6000 F flame—plus lots of hours set aside for riding. At a time when many high-end bicycles are made from materials worthy of a Pentagon wish list, Richard Sachs builds his frames the...
by Richard Sachs | Dec 1, 2005
Nestled in the small hamlet of Chester, Connecticut, among artists’ studios, restaurants, and Colonial era homes, is a bicycle factory. This factory is operated by Richard Sachs, a craftsman bicycle frame builder. Sachs has been building bicycle frames since...
by Richard Sachs | Jul 1, 2004
At the heart of a great wristwatch is a handcrafted mechanical caliber and at the heart of a great bicycle is a handmade frame. Richard Sachs is on the cognoscenti’s short list as the best framebuilder in the history of the craft. No doubt about it, Lance...
by Richard Sachs | Jun 1, 2004
In the small, riverside town of Chester, Connecticut, a man named Richard Sachs works alone, as he has since 1975, making bicycle frames the way they used to be made — by hand — joining the steel tubes with little metal sleeves called lugs, then brazing the joints. If...
by Richard Sachs | Nov 10, 2003
From a distance you might get the wrong impression of Richard Sachs and his bicycle company. If your only interaction with Sachs is seeing his team van at Northeast cyclo-cross races you might think he was a big builder trying to raise his profile in the ‘cross...
