Richard Sachs Cycles

[e-RICHIE]

I saw this on my Facebook feed. Funny - I began using Samson cast parts in 1982 and probably made 800 frames with them before I transitioned into OS dimensions by the mid 1990s. Now, Mr. Harada is using my cast parts on his frames. It's a nice feeling. His post had the words "SAMSON- illusion/atmo" accompanying this image of one of his latest builds. Click picture to enlarge. Life is good.




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[Gattonero]

Sloping TT with RS lugs? I didn't knew that.

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[Bob Ross]

Is that the Smutty Nose guys?

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[colker]

You said once: "things happenned".. You became what you are out of impulse.. You were never a strategist.
BUt this game called civilization is all about strategy; impulse is seen as a childish quality.. something that can and should be manipulated by those "mature enough".
You were a writer at start.. maybe we, attracted to your bicycles, are characters in your narrative. Characters made of flaws and impulses. Now that's interesting.. not being a customer but a character in a narrative. You took a certain way of building a bicycle so you didn't become another number in the industry> customer game. The fact you build an excellent bicycle and not only stand poetic made the whole thing a dense narrative full of fact. Writting needs fact. The more factual and the more alternative the pov the more powerfull is the writting.
Once the fact was you built an old fashioned bicycle made of steel and lugs. The current chapter says your way of making a bicycle became Strategy... for a generation of builders. It became a standard to copy and that includes the industry w/ the "versatile bicycle" capable of fitting 28 tires.
So.. when you look back would you say: impulse pays off? Strategy is BS?

[e-RICHIE]

You said once: "things happenned".. You became what you are out of impulse.. You were never a strategist.
BUt this game called civilization is all about strategy; impulse is seen as a childish quality.. something that can and should be manipulated by those "mature enough".
You were a writer at start.. maybe we, attracted to your bicycles, are characters in your narrative. Characters made of flaws and impulses. Now that's interesting.. not being a customer but a character in a narrative. You took a certain way of building a bicycle so you didn't become another number in the industry> customer game. The fact you build an excellent bicycle and not only stand poetic made the whole thing a dense narrative full of fact. Writting needs fact. The more factual and the more alternative the pov the more powerfull is the writting.
Once the fact was you built an old fashioned bicycle made of steel and lugs. The current chapter says your way of making a bicycle became Strategy... for a generation of builders. It became a standard to copy and that includes the industry w/ the "versatile bicycle" capable of fitting 28 tires.
So.. when you look back would you say: impulse pays off? Strategy is BS?

No. I never made an old fashioned bicycle made of steel and lugs. I make/I've always made a bicycle using a material that was part of an era whose baggage I inherited due to when I arrived. But I don't recreate that past.

If you're asking about advice, it would be listen to no one, and don't look around.

[colker]

No. I never made an old fashioned bicycle made of steel and lugs. I make/I've always made a bicycle using a material that was part of an era whose baggage I inherited due to when I arrived. But I don't recreate that past.

If you're asking about advice, it would be listen to no one, and don't look around.

I tried to reproduce how you were perceived by the sports industry mentality. I have been watching how your perspective was adopted and your influence grew despite the trend to bury steel/
I've been thinking about the impulse x strategy mentalities and wanted to hear your view.

[e-RICHIE]

I tried to reproduce how you were perceived by the sports industry mentality. I have been watching how your perspective was adopted and your influence grew despite the trend to bury steel/
I've been thinking about the impulse x strategy mentalities and wanted to hear your view.

I'd bury steel too if my livelihood depended upon the output of a 21st century production line atmo. Folks don't/can't do this type of work anymore. That's not my problem.

Framebuilders answer to a higher calling. And if that's too poetic for you, just consider it a different calling.

[colker]

I'd bury steel too if my livelihood depended upon the output of a 21st century production line atmo. Folks don't/can't do this type of work anymore. That's not my problem.

Framebuilders answer to a higher calling. And if that's too poetic for you, just consider it a different calling.

Nothing is ever too poetic... problem is when it's not poetic enough.

[e-RICHIE]

Nothing is ever too poetic... problem is when it's not poetic enough.

Great. I'll leave you at that then.
I'm about to take a few laps in the tub and distill for a bit.
Back later atmo.

[Bob Ross]

Nothing is ever too poetic... problem is when it's not poetic enough.

Coincidentally, I've often said the reason why I ordered a Richard Sachs frame is because, unlike all those numerous reviews of bicycles where the writer talks about "laterally stiff while vertically compliant blah blah blah", the first dozen or so reviews of a Sachs I saw all read like poetry.

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Click the image to view an online version of Nick Czerula's 2012 book, RICHARD SACHS :: Bicycle Maker