Richard Sachs Cycles

[e-RICHIE]

... time is measured in file strokes; bends are aligned visually and calibrated with muscle memory; radiant heat on
a cheek sets the brazing temperature; and alignment is part mechanical, part alchemy and mostly experience.

more here -

Richard Sachs: Celebrating a Five-Year Collaboration - House Industries

[e-RICHIE]

Waiting

There’s that window of time small as it may be if you really look at the watch but it’s there anyway. The moment that seems to last a lifetime when you’re waiting, waiting for your number and name to be called so you can take a spot in the grid, and you’ve already jettisoned the overwear whether it be a jacket or long sleeve jersey or whatever protection you’ve had on during the pre-ride and waiting around for your number and name to be called so you can take a spot in the grid. You’ve removed everything but the kit and you’re ready but they’re not. That moment lasts forever. You might tie your shoelaces one more time. Or take off your helmet and reposition it again, again. Or pee again. Or undo your wheel skewers to ensure they’re really as tightly fastened as you’d like them to be, the long wait. And you’re freezing even IF it’s not that cold out. Nerves play games. Everyone is looking at everyone else’s legs and tan lines and body fat while wondering how long before they turn on the heat in this room. And then the race starts and then you live in this small world that exists only for a moment. And in that world you pray to fucking God you clipped in, and that no one’s rear wheel starts coming back at you, and that – with hope and prayer and luck – a large amount of space is gifted so you can just sprint to your heart’s desire and get the start we all fantasize about. And then a moment after the moment just described, you wonder why it’s so fucking hot and why you’re wearing so many layers.

All This By Hand

[e-RICHIE]

Philly Bike Exposed

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November 4th & 5th

See You There

All This By Hand

[joosttx]

Narrow

There’s a wide line between the conceptual and the execution. A gap. That space between what you have in mind and the result you get. Once you touch pen to paper, or hand to metal, or – all bets are off. If a maker has a real job, not just a life of play as it may seem from the outside sill, it’s to take what’s on the bench, and the ideal he walks through the door with each time he begins again, and wed them. If years have given me any gift at all, it’s the curse of looking at all of it and wondering what it takes to tame the beast. And it is a curse. Because accepting less than what you dream about is a compromise. And the gift of the curse is that it feeds the hunger to try again, again.

All This By Hand

"Between thought and expression lives a lifetime" -Lou Reed

Enjoying your prose

[e-RICHIE]

Philly Bike Exposed

Tease

November 4th & 5th

See You There

All This By Hand

[e-RICHIE]

Philly Bike Exposed

Tease

November 4th & 5th

See You There

All This By Hand

[e-RICHIE]

Philly Bike Exposed

Tease

November 4th & 5th

See You There

All This By Hand

[e-RICHIE]

Philly Bike Exposed

Tease

November 4th & 5th

See You There

All This By Hand

[ron l edmiston]

Tease

November 4th & 5th

See You There

All This By Hand

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-- "never exhausted by the richie-issimo lug...,
the alpha through omega.."

ronnie with a smile

[e-RICHIE]

Philly Bike Exposed

Tease

November 4th & 5th

See You There

All This By Hand

[MarkC]

Nice bolts !

[RSCROSS]

Yes they are.....

Always good to have a few spares...can we purchase? if so where?

[e-RICHIE]

Philly Bike Exposed

Tease

November 4th & 5th

See You There

All This By Hand

[Bob Ross]

Cot day-um that battleship gray is hot! Next time...

[ron l edmiston]

Cot day-um that battleship gray is hot! Next time...

-- looks like "gray-diamond"

ronnie with a smile

[e-RICHIE]

I'll have these RS Seat Lug Survival Kits on my site very soon.

To bring Richard’s design to life and make something better than anything previously built; we used aerospace grade stainless steel and our best processes. Consistent with the work we do on fasteners for aircraft, rockets, and submarines; we precision machined both the nut blank and bolt blank complete from solid bar stock. The pitch diameter of the bolt was held to a tolerance of .0004 inch (10 microns) prior to cold forming the threads on our dedicated thread rolling equipment. Rolled threads result in a part that is 30% stronger and has a superior surface finish. Similar processes are used to manufacture our patented Cross Spikes™ product line. The care put into this one component demonstrates that whether you are making parts for airplanes, or for bicycles, the details matter.

Read more here -
Richard Sachs Seat Post Binder Bolt-A Collaboration Years in the Making - Horst Engineering

[RSCROSS]

Hey Richard_

I'll take two.......

Nice work as always!


Kirk Jackson

[e-RICHIE]

Richard Sachs, is, well, Richard Sachs.


You know him. You know what he’s capable of. You know what he builds, you know his flavor, and you know how consistent he is with everything he does.

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No Life Like This Life

[e-RICHIE]

The Way

So much going on here. No materials. The dark. The light. Shadows. Tubes and lugs and drill bits and bits of A.O. cloth and a design and a client for that design and a willingness to pay for that design come soon, and then there’s me arriving – when all of it shares the same personal space, who decides if each step in the process has enough value to continue on to the next one? We all have a way. We each have a different way. Some can knock these out in hours. Some take a full week. Others have no calendar. But there’s always a standard. The standard. And we have to meet it. To raise it. To be able to repeat it and then repeat it again again. And we all need a way to measure it. And we all need a way to measure ourselves.

All This By Hand

[ron l edmiston]

--- "the way.."
all our walks in/for life and we would be so much better...

ronnie with a smile