Perfection From Racing

Connecticut craftsman Richard Sachs is a racer/framebuilder who, like an artist, lets his work speak for itself. Amid antique shops, country art galleries, and whitewashed New England clapboard houses that all seem to sit on their own little hills in Chester,...

From Would-Be Writer to Bicycle Framebuilder

A funny thing happened to Richard Sachs eight years ago while he was making plans to enter college to become a freelance writer. Somehow, he wound up in England where he began learning how to make bicycle frames instead. “I was supposed to enter Goddard College...

Building and Racing Bikes, His Life

For most people bicycling is only a hobby. For Richard Sachs it is a way of life. Sachs, formerly of Bayonne, has devoted full-time to cycles and cycling over the past three years, including spending nine months in England at his own expense, working for free,...