by Richard Sachs | Jan 19, 2011
The world’s best bicycles are American, and made of steel I didn’t know it at the time, but my first bicycle came in the waning years of a sort of revolution. Over the decade The Beatles played together – from 1960 to 1970 –the American bike market grew slowly from...
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 | Aug 20, 2010
“needing some air, he went into the garden. “ah, look at the afternoon light,” he said, for shadows were forming dark zones in the pasture recesses, as they do in his masterpiece, ‘the mountain.’ he went over to a small shed in the corner...
by Richard Sachs | Mar 2, 2007
Far removed from the buzz of technology and well below the belly of today’s much-hyped carbon fiber and titanium lies the soul of bicycle frames. Out of dusty shops filled with scraps of metal and well-used tools emerge some of the most beautiful, eclectic, yet...
