by Richard Sachs | May 28, 2011
Richard Sachs, the master bike builder, doesn’t do high-performance materials (just steel). But for a hand-built bike from him, you must wait years and pay top dollar. Here’s why. Len Janssen wanted a bike built just for him. So a few years ago he made the trip to...
by Richard Sachs | Oct 27, 2010
Throughout more than three decades as a builder, Richard Sachs has made primarily one kind of bicycle (for racing) in one kind of material (steel) painted in one color (red). And yet he sees nothing repetitive in this approach. An idealist who sets out to create the...
by Richard Sachs | Jul 10, 2008
Richard Sachs works and lives in a medium-sized yellow Colonial house on Main Street, at the far end of a quaint New England village. You can tell it’s his by the signature-red bike out front leaning, unlocked, against a white picket fence. And because above the front...
by Richard Sachs | Mar 21, 2007
There’s this guy I see racing around Chester always on a bicycle, often donning a funny red cap to keep his head warm in the colder months. He stops off at the post office and exchanges one armful of packages for another, gives his signature head nod greeting to...
by Richard Sachs | Apr 22, 2005
Few names if any ring more crystal clear through the legions of frame builders than that of Richard Sachs. He has carved-literally-more personality, elegance and lustful desire into his frames than nearly anyone else. Like Stradivarius before him, Sachs crafts...
