Richard Sachs

Pink bikes are cool.
Sachs actually builds them himself.
The direct connection to a real live human being is a very rare thing these days.
I have a real Supercorsa from the old Cinelli place. It’s bent and rusty and unusable but it’s a treasure of happier times. An off the peg Giant won’t give me that.
I walked into the shop where the guys made them, a guy with greasy thick fingers measured me, another guy said he’d make it. The place reeked of grinders on steel and smoke, there was dirt on the floor. That was a nice person to person interaction.
Now who knows who makes them?
De Rosa still makes steel bikes, Ugo’s grandson makes some of them. But Doriano builds under the Bixxis name. If he was good enough for Merckx eh.
Pegoretti, I don’t think he did any work after his cancer. He just signed the chainstay.