by Richard Sachs | Apr 20, 2022
you want advice? to be mentored? a chance to get one toe into the trade? read this. reread this. then comprehend it. and then practice it. All This By Hand .
by Richard Sachs | Apr 14, 2022
In my 70th year I finally get the age thing. I haven’t accepted it yet, but the concept is beginning to make sense. What happened, and where did the time go? Please, don’t answer. Riding a bicycle and being around them for so long has pushed so many truths into the...
by Richard Sachs | Apr 9, 2022
I launched this today. 100 minutes on my private circuit in the park that serves as a cemetery while looking mostly like a cemetery unless I’m in the area with no tombstones. That loop is 80 seconds at most and flat enough that two cog combinations are plenty. There...
by Richard Sachs | Apr 3, 2022
One season ends another season begins. An imperfect moment to peel back the layers and find out what’s inside. (Until now) there have been too many constructs keeping me safe, and from seeing more than my own reflections. I’ve often mentioned the time between the...
by Richard Sachs | Mar 28, 2022
It took nearly three years before the concept became real, for the stylized RS logo (see the original late 1970s paper cut in the second image) to be on my bicycles. Here is the original board that went to the print shop. The two iterations that are pasted down are...
by Richard Sachs | Mar 23, 2022
Pride comes in many ways. Here’s an image of @yikaihuang. It’s a frame he’s made from materials I sell to framebuilders worldwide. This unit is assembled from Über Oversize tubing designed by me and @officinadariopegoretti along with my Sax Max lugs, bottom bracket...
