Take Me to Your Dealer: You Bet! Bicycle Sales and Service in Nevada City, California
We love bike shops! A good repair and retail hub is essential for any strong cycling community because they provide community support – that means inclusive group rides, events, and...
Brian's SuperSomething Steel Gravel bike with Carbon Fork
The SuperSomething: A Fast Gravel Bike That Does It All The SuperSomething is exactly what a great gravel bike should be. Something that does a lot of things really well...
Putting Together the Pieces: Sonoma Mountain on my SuperSomething
Sometimes the best kind of ride is when you leave the house with no route in mind and gradually a plan comes together as the wheels are turning. This past...
Thoughts on Complete Bikes and R's PBJ Rigid MTB ATB Build
We have been spending a lot of time on build kits lately. While so much of our engineering and design effort goes into crafting a beautiful frame and fork, those things are not rideable without parts. What parts to choose though? There are a lot of really good and really, really good options out there these days.
Touring the Orr Springs 600 Randonneuring Route
The Orr Springs 600k is a 380 mile loop from San Francisco north to Ukiah through some of Northern California’s most beautiful and remote roads. Creators of this route, San...
Sea Otter 2026 Recap
I just got back from a weekend at the Sea Otter Classic in beautiful Monterey, California. It was really nice. What is the Sea Otter Classic? To be honest I...
Gino's Silver PBJ Steel Hardtail MTB
Fresh out of the shop is this PBJ All Terrain Bike for Gino in Colorado. It is one of the first builds we have done on our new batch of...
How to Install a Lightweight Rear Rack
How to Install the Lightweight Rear Rack A rear rack is a bikepacking game changer. The Lightweight Rear Rack from Sklar Bikes is minimal, strong, nice-looking, versatile, and so easy...
A Large Tall Tale Steel Trail Bike for Chris
The Tall Tale is our trail bike. A bike designed for singletrack exploration or wherever your adventures might take you when you need a bike designed around a 140mm travel...
Ride Report: Oat Hill Overnighter
Last Saturday, I took my Sklar PBJ out on an overnighter in Napa County. I met with Curtis and Andrew at Wappo Park, next to the St. Helena police department, where we left our vehicles behind around noon and climbed our way up Old Howell Mountain Road into the weird little town of Angwin.
Cody's Steel Hardtail Tall Tale
The Tall Tale is our trail bike. Picture a mountain bike as capable as your full suspension with the low-maintenance lifestyle of a hardtail and that is what you get....
Alex's SuperSomething Steel Gravel Bike
We just finished up another XL SuperSomething here at our San Francisco workshop, and this one deserves a proper write-up. Alex came to us looking for a steel gravel bike...