Christopher’s Tall Tale mountain bike with SRAM GX Transmission

Christopher’s Tall Tale mountain bike with SRAM GX Transmission

The latest build out of the shop is this super clean Tall Tale for Christopher. The frame is our Tall Tale hardtail designed around a 140mm fork and for the...
Greg's Tall Tale - steel Hardtail trail bike

Greg's Tall Tale - steel Hardtail trail bike

Greg's Tall Tale Mountain bike build is the very first Tall Tale build to leave the shop, let's check it out! A Ready-to-go Complete Build? We get this question a lot...
Dustin's SuperSomething steel gravel bike

Dustin's SuperSomething steel gravel bike

Dustin's SuperSomething gravel bike build is headed to New York where it is going to be a sweet rig for some East coast gravel. With components from White Industries, Paul...
A Straight forward SuperSomething steel gravel bike build for Stephen

A Straight forward SuperSomething steel gravel bike build for Stephen

Building bike frames in steel is just part of a design ethos in making simple things. Not simple as in limited, but simple in a way where as many of...
Shop visit with Calling in Sick Magazine

Shop visit with Calling in Sick Magazine

Adam from Calling in Sick came by the shop this winter and we had a fun time nerding out about bikes. Give it a watch and check out Calling in...
Adam's SuperSomething steel gravel bike

Adam's SuperSomething steel gravel bike

Adam here, I designed the 58cm SuperSomething more or less around my dimensions. I have mostly been riding a 60CM frame since I built one up last summer, which has...
David's 2x SuperSomething gravel bike build with Shimano GRX and White Industries

David's 2x SuperSomething gravel bike build with Shimano GRX and White Industries

Have you ever wondered if you can run 2x gearing on the SuperSomething gravel bike? The answer is YES. We have yet to find a 2x gearing setup that doesn't...
Tom's flat bar SuperSomething gravel bike

Tom's flat bar SuperSomething gravel bike

I just spent the afternoon helping my pal Tom building up his new SuperSomething gravel bike. After 6 or 7 years on an old Surly, Tom wanted something a little...
Introducing the Tall Tale Hardtail Mountain Bike

Introducing the Tall Tale Hardtail Mountain Bike

Introducing the Tall Tale Mountain bike from Sklar. My philosophy around mountain bike design is informed by 12 years of building custom mountain bikes. In that time I have designed and built...
Performance Basket Jammer - Not your 90's Mountain Bike

Performance Basket Jammer - Not your 90's Mountain Bike

Recently someone asked why the PBJ doesn't have a basket, and my answer was that the basket is metaphorical. The design of the PBJ has an interesting and somewhat surprising...
Old Zac - Riding the Old Cazadero route, some dreamy northern California Gravel

Old Zac - Riding the Old Cazadero route, some dreamy northern California Gravel

Last fall I moved to the bay area, something I have been wanting to do since before I started Sklar Bikes 10 years ago. Since arriving I have been having...
A spin to the hot springs in the snow

A spin to the hot springs in the snow

Keeping the pedals turning through the winter in Montana is always a bit of a challenge. For me winter riding is usually limited to tungsten studded commutes and strategically planned escapes...