Not to producing something. Not to making money by making something. Not even really to expressing themselves like artists would. But to the process of mastery itself. I kind of freaked out: This is exactly what I want! I want to be the framebuilder bicycle maker version of them. At one point in this period, you even hired your one and only assistant for this purpose. RS: That was in I hired a guy, and created this agenda and the idea was that he could do some of the prep work and I could take it from there and finish the bikes.
And we were making bikes a lot faster, making a lot more. But now that I was doing that, it became clear to me that faster and more was not as important—to me—as these certain ways or certain ideas I had about how to create a lug or a dropout or a transition.
How they should look, yes, but more how they should be created, and where the process of creating them should take me—and that the process of creating should take me somewhere at all, which is not, like, a business-plan kind of ideal. After three or four months, I knew I had to work alone. When I should have been focused on the exponential—growth in numbers—I would instead always get more excited about the epiphanal—growth in my experience. Every time I did something more beautifully on a frame, I felt like it was a gift that fate or time had given me.
And when that gift was given, that meant the next time I was doing the same thing I was a little more deliberate because I wanted to receive that gift again. I wanted to own it. I have no idea what subject was being talked about, who was being interviewed, in what context those words came to me. But when they did, the previous eight or 10 years of my life made sense. I understood that perfection was always going to be on the other side of that line I was trying to get to, and that meant I was never going to get there—because when you really start to approach it, when you really get close, the line moves.
I knew I was supposed to spend my life trying to get to the other side. BS: Before we get into that, can you explain what you mean by a perfect frame? You and I just talked for 40 minutes about extremely technical details and specific aspects of the build that are too extensive to fit into this article.
Your opinion of acceptability—let alone a bike that approaches perfection—is exacting beyond ordinary standards, but is there any way to summarize that? RS: Making a bicycle—making anything by hand—is a collaboration. You have the materials. You have your tools. The commission. You have your own skill set, and workroom, and mood.
On the average days, building to the standard is a gift unto itself. But when you get close, if you get close, savor the moment. Because you start from zero the next day. BS: To be clear here, the level of mistake that makes a bike imperfect in your view is nothing a rider would notice. You are talking about flaws so infinitesimal that they are imperceptible—beyond the capability of human sense to detect, right?
RS: The only way you would know what I know is if you could become me while I was making the frame. Once the frames are painted and they get the Richard Sachs labels and get built up, nobody will notice anything at all. And the imperfections are not even something other highly skilled builders notice easily or at all. RS: Yeah, the thing about it is RS: Well, when you start, every time you start, you have a chance.
Both things exist for you at that moment. And for some time as the heat and the metal and the human element interface, both possibilities stay alive, and that is BS: Sure. You can start to sound real ridiculous real quick when you talk about this. We probably already do. But the building of it is a thing, which is a stupid way of saying it.
Or that all of this is just really clever branding. I make a living. Richard Sachs , who recently split from girlfriend Ashley Olsen , joined the family at the beach that afternoon. He was even seen wearing the same board shorts that he wore on a trip to St. Make sure to also check out the photos of Cindy and Rande flaunting their fit bodies earlier in the week.
Ashley Olsen and her boyfriend, financier Richard Sachs , have reportedly split up. They spent the New Year on vacation together — you can see all those photos here if you missed them. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen sit at the table while their beaus give each other a hug hello at dinner on Thursday night January 5 in St.
Ashley Olsen is enjoying a romantic vacation with her boyfriend Richard Sachs in St. The year-old fashion designer was seen leaning up against a shirtless Richard while taking a break from their hike on Sunday January 1.
Close Lightbox. Hide Thumbnails. In Tullio Campagnolo, the founder of Campagnolo passed away at age The future happened. I wanted to deconstruct all of it so that only the logo was applied, and have no artsy devices cluttering it up.
These here are some renderings, most variations on the same two or three themes. Little by little. One element removed at a time. I listen to other things. All of it revolves around elegance.
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