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My customer comes to me for what I do. I don’t do specialty. [more]
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All along I knew I wanted to build bikes. [more]
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I enjoy working with my hands and trying to make the best bike I can. [more]
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I am more known for making fillet brazed and TIG welded bike. [more]
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I take what has worked and what hasn't and distill it into my design. [more]
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I mostly fillet braze, which is a lugless construction method. [more]
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I describe my bikes as “individually tailored” [more]
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I work exclusively with steel, including stainless steel. [more]
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My bikes are all business. [more]
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I’m best known for TIG steel and titanium. [more]
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I feel very strongly about forks and every Kirk frame goes out the door with it’s made to match Kirk fork [more]
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I started working as a full time professional framebuilder in 1989 at Serotta in Saratoga Springs, NY. [more]
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I love doing this and it’s fun to see the variety [more]
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We’ve been doing Hampsten Cycles since 1999 – and we party accordingly. [more]
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"I am a big fan of a lower bottom bracket and longer chainstays". [more]
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"This is what I offer and I think there’s a value to it." [more]
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I do all my fittings by an interactive, visual process. Static, linear fittings are never as reliable. [more]
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Here’s the thing: All beginning frame builders are bad. The stubborn ones don’t realize how bad they are and stick with it. [more]
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I always had an interest in bicycles made for transportation all the way back to my high school days [more]
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I just liked the name ANT and came up with a full name to fit the acronym. [more]
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The way I go about designing a lug, the first thing I try to do is not to do the thing I did before. [more]
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"I think brazing is the easiest part of frame building." [more]
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The second installment of our conversation with Richard Sachs [more]
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We begin our weekly look into the art of building bikes [more]
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