by Richard Sachs | Aug 18, 1993
Creating a bicycle frame is not just a job for Richard Sachs. It’s a labor of love. “You don’t look at it as just a bicycle. You look at it as a well-made product, like a fly rod or a well-strung instrument,” Sachs said. Sachs works alone on...
by Richard Sachs | Apr 29, 1992
Some people like the finest in restaurants and others the finest in jewelry. For them, there is Tavern on the Green and Rolex. And then there are others who like the finest in bicycles. For them, there is Richard Sachs—a craftsman builder of lightweight bicycle...
by Richard Sachs | Nov 8, 1990
On one side of the small basement shop on Main Street there lies short pieces of steel tubing. On the other side, shiney new two-wheeled racing machines. In the middle are a lathe, torch, and other tools of master craftsman Richard Sachs. Using a technique called...
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 | Jul 28, 1985
When Richard Sachs graduated from a New Jersey high school in the early 1970s, his love of bicycle racing propelled him to a small shop in England where he did odd jobs for eight months just to learn the craft of bicycle building. While on the job a Witcomb Cycles, a...
