Richard Sachs Cycles

[ron l edmiston]

richie,

date of your first cx team bikes crafted & any pic's of bikes..

thank you..,

ronnie

[e-RICHIE]

richie,

date of your first cx team bikes crafted & any pic's of bikes..

thank you..,

ronnie

The first CX frame I made that was actually and really raced was this gem for team mate, Tom Smith atmo:
1977 RS 'Cross Frame - a set on Flickr
I got hooked on 'cross after my year in London and also going to the World Championships at Crystal Palace in 1973.

[e-RICHIE]

Signs of Richard Sachs

It was the day before the Providence Cyclocross Festival and Richard Sachs asked whether I was going. Richard Sachs is a bicycle framebuilder in central Massachusetts, maybe you've heard of him. He builds these nice lugged steel bikes for which there is a 10 year wait list. He also races cyclocross, with his team, on bikes that he makes (no wait list for those). They would all be racing in Providence that weekend, and if I went I would get to see them.

Read the rest here atmo -
Lovely Bicycle!: Signs of Richard Sachs

[Mike Marley]

Speaking of Signs of Richard Sachs, is there a discussion in this thread of your logo?
I see it as an R and S combining to make a lug point. It says to me "I put myself into this work" and "Lugs are part of me and my business" at the same time.
Did you create it? When did it come into use?
If you would point me towards a discussion of this, I'd appreciate it.

[e-RICHIE]

Speaking of Signs of Richard Sachs, is there a discussion in this thread of your logo?
I see it as an R and S combining to make a lug point. It says to me "I put myself into this work" and "Lugs are part of me and my business" at the same time.
Did you create it? When did it come into use?
If you would point me towards a discussion of this, I'd appreciate it.

logo development atmo - - a set on Flickr
and -
scan0001 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

The stylized RS logo was conceived in 1979 and launched by 1981 or so (maybe 1982). It replaced a generic marque that served me well since 1975. The font didn't catch up to it, revision-wise, until the mid 1990s. I had some piece-of-shit seraph outline letter form that followed me around since day one and we finally jettisoned in for the futura that I now have. The current font was developed for NBC and is called NBC Futura Bold. A former romance of mine did the logo, and then redid it several times in the 1980s. And she was involved in NBC's complete corporate identity standards overhaul in 1984 (or so...), revising the entire graphics and usage that the communications giant had at that time. I mined the font from the standards manual she created at the end of the two year project because I loved it (the font). But I didn't apply it to my bicycle art for at least another decade. NBC has since revised its look, and now I am the entity anywhere using their art.

Other details such as the seat tube wraps, scale of the logos and placement - these have all had a variation or three through the years.

[e-RICHIE]

PS I forgot this was on my Flickr page -

nbc atmo - - a set on Flickr

This standards manual ^^ had some 200 pages devoted to letting corporate know how to use all the new work they had spent several hundred thousand dollars for over the previous 2 years atmo. It was created after the work commissioned was complete. New Art For Dummies etc etc...

[ron l edmiston]

PS I forgot this was on my Flickr page -

nbc atmo - - a set on Flickr

This standards manual ^^ had some 200 pages devoted to letting corporate know how to use all the new work they had spent several hundred thousand dollars for over the previous 2 years atmo. It was created after the work commissioned was complete. New Art For Dummies etc etc...

what a 'piece' of work and graphic 'tail' for logo creation..

hey tammy, i am now exonerated when i mutter a former lady in my dreams --- if atmo can be creative from previous, so can ronnie..

with a smile,

ronnie

[Mike Marley]

Its a powerful image, thanks for the details.

... and now I am the entity anywhere using their art.
...

Seeing as you are one-of-a-kind this ONLY makes sense.

[e-RICHIE]

Fashion Passes, But Style Remains | RICHARD SACHS CYCLES

[e-RICHIE]

If The Hat Fits You Must Commit | RICHARD SACHS CYCLES

[Jayme]

^ Love that kid's attitude.

http://www.cyclingdirt.org/speaker/1...paid-CSI-Day-1

[e-RICHIE]

Even when the subject is an inanimate object, a length of tubing, a lug, a tool, this is an incredibly intimate collection of photographs; which charts from one page to the next the creation of a hand-made, hand-crafted bicycle.

More here atmo -

Review - Richard Sachs :: Bicycle Maker, by Nick Czerula

[e-RICHIE]

Pal Dale found No. 7605, the 760th (or so...) RS branded frame ever.
From my notes it appears to be a late 1982 build.
Dale has composed an extensive Flickr set around it.
It's been repainted.

Please click Richard Sachs #7605 - a set on Flickr to see more atmo.

[e-RICHIE]

Recently I had the honor of being on a panel discussion produced by the Designer & Books Fair and held at The Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. The seminar, Bikes and Books: a Celebration of Bicycle Design, included Antonio Columbo, Mike Spriggs, Charlie McCorkell, and Lodovico Pignatti Morano, and myself. What follows are some notes I read from during my ten minute introduction speech. Read the rest here -


I Became A Bicycle Maker | RICHARD SACHS CYCLES

[e-RICHIE]

Find The Dan In The Picture Atmo -

[RickM]

The Wristwatch stays in the picture.....

[e-RICHIE]

From my past atmo -

[e-RICHIE]

I Love A Man | RICHARD SACHS CYCLES

[ldamelio]

The bike wash shot above is vaguely religious given Dan's tonsorial style and the love with which he appears to be handling the bike. Would be surreal photoshopped into a stained glass look. Vaguely scary if you're the BB or hub bearings.

[e-RICHIE]

Coming soon atmo -