About

My name is Adam Sklar, and I’ve been building Sklar Bikes since 2014.

From those very first frames through the next several hundred, I lived and breathed custom, hand-built bicycles every day. I worked closely with customers, often spending weeks and months learning about their riding styles, the unique characteristics of where they rode, and understanding what made them desire specific features in a bike. In that time, I learned how to design truly exceptional bikes—not only because I could experiment with geometry on my own bikes, but also because I was translating customer requests into numbers on a drawing that ultimately became bikes they loved.

Throughout the years, I saw many trends come and go, but certain desires from riders always remained consistent. These lasting wants inspired me to transition from custom builds to offering built-to-order, non-custom models. These bikes are a distilled embodiment of the Sklar design philosophy, and they quickly became cult classics.

In 2019, I stopped taking orders for custom bikes. A multi-year waitlist just didn’t feel right, and I wanted to focus on a new project: building small-run production bikes that would be more accessible to a wider audience. These production bikes are crafted in California and Taiwan by the world’s best bicycle artisans. I still get to make them with the finest materials available and design them from the ground up with custom components that I design myself. They are fantastic bicycles, and I am incredibly proud of them.

Today, while the business primarily focuses on our production framesets, I remain a tinkerer and craftsperson at heart. I love experimenting with new ideas and testing the waters for potential new models through small batches of 3-5 bikes a few times a year. These small-batch bikes spare no expense—they are dream bikes in the truest sense. If the perfect tube or dropout doesn’t exist, I make it myself. I can explore creative details on this smaller scale that don’t make sense for a production line, and each one is handcrafted by me in my shop in Oakland, California.

That’s the story so far. At the end of the day, I’m simply making the best bikes I know how, hoping they bring joy and enrich people’s lives. If you ever have questions, feel free to reach out.

Cheers,
Adam