The Long Way Home 4

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By Padraig 0

In this week’s episode we have a feature of Patrick’s that ran at Peloton Magazine, New England Genesis. It concerns how a kid from New Jersey got turned down for a job in a bike shop and how his disappointment resulted in him learning how to build frames in England and how the company he worked for when he returned helped to spawn many of the best-respected names in frame building in the Northeast. That kid from New Jersey? None other than Richard Sachs.

Patrick says he worked on this feature for more than 10 years, chasing the many threads and interviewing the many personalities included.

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Padraig

When playing drums in a rock and roll band didn't turn at to be as lucrative as he'd hoped, Padraig left his hometown of Memphis to pursue an MFA in poetry at UMASS Amherst. Writing about his other love, bicycles, seemed a natural progression; certainly it paid better than either poetry or rock music. His work has appeared everywhere from Bicycling Magazine to the LA Times. His feature, "My Day With Ilya," won a Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing. These days he lives in Sonoma County, California, where he attempts to inspire his two demitasse ninja with the wonder of bikes. Favorites: flavor: maple; wine: Boheme Pinot Noir; beer: Russian River Pliny the Elder; neurochemical: dopamine; poetry: Andrew Hudgins; fiction: Thomas Pynchon; music: David Sylvian; comedy: Firesign Theater; event: 8-Hours of Wente.

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