by Richard Sachs | Sep 22, 1995
CHESTER—Success is instinctive when you work in a town where acceptance doesn’t count on price, says Richard Sachs. “I knew all my life that I would make bikes like I am now,” Sachs said Thursday. Through the course of his 25-year career, Sachs has...
by Richard Sachs | Mar 24, 1991
In the late 1970s, Richard Sachs was making about 140 lightweight bicycle frames a year. This year he will make 80-90. To most businesspeople, such figures would be the sign of hard times. But to Sachs, they are a sign of progress on his journey to perfection. Sachs,...
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 | Jul 18, 1988
A damaged orange bicycle frame sits in the corner of Richard Sachs’ shop in Chester. Stripped of its wheels, handlebars, pedals and saddle what was once a proud new bike is now a confusing mass of orange tubes, twisted together like a giant Krazy Straw. The...
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...
