In Sklar Bikes‘ latest video, Adam fabricates a custom segmented steel bicycle fork. He talks elements of fork design, machine and brazes the crown and then tig welds it all together.
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Sklar Bikes Studio Tour
Check out this quick tour of the Sklar Bikes workspace where custom, one-off bike frames are fabricated. This is also where Adam designs and build prototypes for the production Sklar Bikes like the SuperSomething, Tall Tale and PBJ. In the latest video from the Sklar Bikes workshop, Adam says a quick hello to neighbors Piecemeal Vintage, Billings Cycle Works and Pass and Stow Racks…
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Building a Frame with Sklar Bikes
Sklar Bikes is ramping up its YouTube channel and Adam just posted this process video of him building a frame from start to finish on Friday. We thought it was so good that we had to share it on a Monday. Check it out and subscribe to Sklar Bikes if you dig this sort of content (we do!)
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Calling in Sick Magazine Visits Sklar Bikes in Oakland
Our buddy Adam from Sklar Bikes made the move from Bozeman to California and Calling in Sick Magazine swung through for a quick video visit of his new space.
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Sklar Bikes Titanium Bottle Cages
Sklar Bikes‘ component line is ramping up this year and the first new product are these nifty Sklar Bikes titanium bottle cages that feature 15 mm of vertical adjustment thanks to the long slotted mounting plates. That allows you to adjust them to make room on smaller frames or for a framebag. They’re bent from titanium which is our favorite material for a bottle cage, thanks to the springy nature of the material, ti cages grab your bottles tightly, avoiding them jettisoning on a rocky descent.
Sklar Bikes Titanium Bottle Cage Specs:
Price: $68 each/$100 pair
Weight: 32 g
Adjustability: 15mm
Made in: Taiwan
See more at Sklar Bikes, where they just got in more stock of their titanium seatpost too!
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Sklar Bikes Tall Tale MTB Frame Pre-Order
If you’re looking for a new 29er this spring, check out the Sklar Tall Tale, which is opening for pre-order ($1,199) this morning…
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A Familiar Feeling: A Review of the Sklar Bikes SuperSomething
Adam Sklar has been building custom bikes for close to a decade—and we’ve featured plenty of them on this site! But, in 2022 he decided to move production of a new model overseas to Taiwan. Dubbed the SuperSomething, this first production Sklar has road bike bones while still (subtly) paying homage to Adam’s mountain biking roots. Hailey Moore has been riding our signature Radavist edition SuperSomething all summer and, below, shares her review, along with insights into Adam’s design intent for this all-steel gravel bike.
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TPC’s Unpack This Video Feat. Radavist x Sklar Bikes Super Something
John swung by TPC HQ to talk with Bruce Lin about our recently launched Radavist Edition Super Something builds in collaboration with Sklar Bikes. Check out the Unpack This video here!
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Built with Sklar Bikes
Continuing their built series with videographer Justin Balog, Pearl Izumi just launched the latest video with Adam from Sklar Bikes.
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We Got to Hang Out: Adam Sklar of Sklar Bikes
One of our favorite podcasts, We Got to Hang out, just posted their discussion with Adam from Sklar Bikes. It’s worth the listen, so give it a spin!
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Sklar Bikes: Titanium Seatposts
Want a way to Sklarize your bike? In need of a new seatpost? Want a little more compliance on your ride? Well, hold your horsies. Adam Sklar just posted up a few titanium seatposts, with 0mm, 15mm, and 18mm setbacks, all at 310mm lengths, and featuring ENVE clamp mechanisms. The posts are made in Bozeman, Montana by Adam and are in stock now. Head to Sklar for more!
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Path Less Pedaled: Shop Visit with Sklar Bikes
What else can I say? Path Less Pedaled takes a look at what makes Sklar Bikes tick. Also, I’m stoked to be in Bozeman this week!
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2018 NAHBS: Behold the Sklar Bikes x Ultra Romance Nutmegger
Where do I even begin here? A bunch of awesome brands working together on a unique concept, featuring unique products and a lot of uniqueness. Is that even a word? Sklar and Benedict, aka Ultra Romance teamed up to build the ultimate bicycle. It’s so ultimate that I don’t even know what to call it. Is it a road bike? A touring bike? A mtb? Who knows. Right now, the consensus seems to be just “Nutmegger,” so that’s what I’ll call it. Before I go any further here, I’ll just say this bike begs for more than the brevity associated with copywriting of my NAHBS galleries and maybe one day we’ll dive in deeper, until then, I’ll give you the gist.
This is a part fillet, part tig welded steel frame in a nickel finish, with a custom stem by Hubert from Madrian Fabrication. It’s got a long wheelbase, mid-trail and a truss fork design, along with a double top tube to support the massive head tube. When you ride this thing, you’re really IN it, not on it.
The 66.6cm wide Crust bars are mated with a custom Swift Industries bag and nestled in that top tube space is an Andrew the Maker Bag. Those perty Paul and White Industries bits are custom annodized brown. There’s even a Connecticut State Coin as the top cap! It was assembled in Benedict’s mom’s kitchen and is still kinda sorta being built up as I’m writing this. Yes, the derailleur cable is long, there are no brake cable crimps and I had to stop Poppi from shallacing the tape as I was photographing it.
So what is the Nutmegger? I honestly have no idea. It’s a bicycle that embodies Benedict and that’s all it needs to be. Will Adam from Sklar make you one? Helllll nahhhhhh.
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Sklar Bikes Introduce Titanium Frames: Adam’s Own 29er MTB is Shreddy!
Sklar Doggy has made some damn beautiful bicycles over the few years he’s been building in Bozeman, Montana. Yet, in recent months, he’s been jonesin’ to work with a new material. Steel is indeed, real, but Adam really wanted to work with titanium. A lot of builders have been making this transition as of late. In short, it offers their clients with a superior frame material and perhaps another draw is more profit for the builders. Or at least that’s what people think is the motivation.
After talking and shredding with Adam in the Angeles National Forest, where he got #ANFAF, Adam wax poetic’d all afternoon about how difficult titanium is to work with, stating it took him almost four times as long per frame. Right now, he’s got two frames under his belt, one for himself, and one for Colin, which is replacing Colin’s steel hardtail – consequently, he’s selling that frameset now. I was surprised to hear titanium was that much more difficult to work with, because I always assumed that the draw of the material was profit margins. Turns out, the experience of working with the material takes time and yeah, time is money…
For Adam, once he made a frame, he needed parts. Unfortunately, that meant scavenging parts from his NAHBS bike this year. You might notice the tight squeeze on the fork – all he had was a 27.5+ fork, not a 29+ fork. Run what you brung, indeed! For what it’s worth, these frames are designed to run a 27.5+ tire, or a 29 x 2.6″ – so it’s not exactly a “+” 29er.
While he’s already taken a few more orders on titanium frames, Adam is eager to master this material, resulting in a faster process and ultimately, making the best frame he can. I can’t wait to see where this new material takes Sklar Bikes and hopefully, I’ll get to ride one at some point. Thanks for hangin’, Adam! If you’d like a ti Sklar, holler at Adam!
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Take a Look Inside Sklar Bikes
Adam is the best and his bikes are even better. Check out this video, showcasing his shop in Bozeman, Montana.
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Sklar Bikes Factory Team Does The ColoRADo Trail
Sklar Bikes Factory Team Does The Colorado Trail
Photos by Adam Sklar, words by Sam Atkins
A particular genre of plans are hatched in the depths of cold, dark Montana winters. Call it cabin fever, call it seasonal affective, call it whatever you like, but after months of cloud-choked skies, icy winds, and trails buried under feet of snow a cerebral switch flips. Dreams of green and blue flicker, illusory echoes of hoots and laughter brought by the thrill of wheels rolling over dirt ring in the subconscious. So when a group of old friends reached out last January to suggest we reunite to bikepack the Colorado Trail, I couldn’t say no.
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Sklar Bikes: Rigid 29+ MTB
Adam Sklar builds some darn pretty bikes and his latest is no exception. This rigid 29+ mountain bike features a segmented fork, clearance for a massive tire, swoopy stays and a dropper post for when things get even rowdier. While Adam didn’t take many detail shots of this bike, I couldn’t let it slip past the Radar…
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Sklar Bikes: He’s Got Curves – Morgan Taylor
Words and photos by Morgan Taylor.
Last year when we visited Scott at Porcelain Rocket, we were doing the usual: shooting the shit about the industry, and Instagram, and all of the opinionated yammering that goes along with that. The topic of Sklar’s top tubes came up. Yes, those top tubes that curve upward, reducing standover while making for an instantly recognizable silhouette. I was suspicious.