by Richard Sachs | Oct 6, 2010
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...
by Richard Sachs | Apr 16, 2008
Like Yoshiaki Nagasawa in Japan, Richard Sachs builds America’s best frames one at a time in his small workshop in Connecticut. From start to finish, Sachs crafts each frame with the care that is rare in the bike industry. It’s hard to even consider him as...
by Richard Sachs | Jun 8, 1992
Richard Sachs lives in Chester, Connecticut. He has been building bicycle frames under his own name since 1975. He started his business, Richard Sachs Cycles, following several years of framebuilding with both Witcomb Lightweight Cycles of London, England and Witcomb...
by Richard Sachs | May 27, 1986
Richard Sachs will ask the requisite questions, do the perfunctory measuring, and generally play-act the tailor-with-a-tape-measure shtick. But the truth be known, he doesn’t need any of it. He could size you up, take your order, and ship you out of his garage...
