Richard Sachs Cycles

06/19/2026

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dotframe
All This By Hand

06/18/2026

tease shirt
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OTHER Industries
House Industries
https://richardsachs.com/product/rsiiptease-shirt/

06/18/2026

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79 Richard Sachs Touring Bicycle
This is a rare touring frame by Richard Sachs. Only a small handful of touring frames have been produced by Richard. Seat height as shown in photos is 73cm. It is stamped as a 56cm frame. This unique build features a Campagnolo Rally rear derailleur, and Avocet headset and seatpost.
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A complete teardown was completed on this bike, with every component removed and cleaned before being greased and reassembled. The bike will come with original replacement yellow oval decals from Richard Sachs. Brake hoods and bartape were left in place, but reproduction hoods and new cloth bar tape will be included as well.
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This 1979 Sachs frame is a genuine piece of American cycling history, coming from the early years of his independent career as he established a reputation for constructing some of the best frames made anywhere.
Contact 3bbb Classic Bicycles & Parts for details.
All This By Hand

06/17/2026

Everything I do is measured. Distances accounted for. Design predictable. Somewhat. But where do numbers come from? Certainly not from the little box you’re reading this on. Numbers come from within. From experience. From within.

I was an early adapter of ignoring the scribes, the road tests, the technical articles. These were conversations I couldn’t grasp. And written in language used more to sell than to inform. My mentorship was served listening to riders. Racers really. To stories told at the dinner table after an event. On the drives home. From coaches. Or anyone who arrived before I did. Or whoever pinned on a number.

Everything has to be someplace. And the miles let you know where hands should go. Or how high the saddle is set. Or where to place the wheels under and around someone with a particular shape. Morphology, if you wanna sound educated.

It’s simple after a while. And easy too. Have an open mind. Ride. Or ride lots. Or ride to win. Or just get the app.
All This By Hand

06/17/2026

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vertical compliance
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Bruno Ratensperger📸

06/16/2026

My business model has been an inexact science since Day One. By dint of a prior life, I inherited clients and orders and started without really wanting for much at all. What I did crave had little – no, it had nothing – to do with commissions or a queue. It was about getting to the other side. It took a career at the bench to see it so clearly. The goal was never more, it was better. And I knew early on that better and practice were interrelated. So I became a practice zealot. It became the routine. My making wasn’t as much about finishing something as it was to place every step, and every step of every step, under a lens and pay attention. That’s where better comes from.
All This By Hand

06/16/2026

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“We asked Richard if he’d be willing to reverse four decades of racing momentum and allow us to strip the whole thing down for the sake of graphic integrity and aesthetics. He trusted us enough to take the leap of faith, and for the most part, the team’s sponsors drank the House Industries Kool-Aid and allowed our venerable Neutraface to signify their support.”
From House Industries’ book, The Process is The Inspiration.
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Repost ^ from 2017.

06/15/2026

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Dad Bikes™ for the cognoscenti and the patient.
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Bruno Ratensperger📸

06/14/2026

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Instant Messaging
An updated reissue of one of my ’80s era garments. The phrase itself became the title of Des Horsfield’s 2008 DVD documentary about my life at the workbench. In it I said the words, “Sometimes there’s a beauty in the disorganization of everything that we face.” That’s more true now than ever, for me at least.

An updated reissue of one of my '80s era garments. The phrase itself became the title of Des Horsfield's 2008 DVD documentary about my life at the workbench. In it I said the words, "Sometimes there's a beauty in the disorganization of everything that we face." That's more true now than ever, for me...

06/14/2026

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My Pegoretti still isn’t Pegoready.
All This By Hand
Dario Pegoretti custom frames
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Cristina Würdig
Princeton CarbonWorks