It’s rare for a small but well-established custom bike builder to make the leap to overseas-built production bikes, but Adam Sklar has done just that. While it might be easy to romanticize the idea of a custom hand-built bike made by a single builder, Adam speaks very openly about the ways that running that version of Sklar had ceased to feel like the way he wanted to bring bikes into the world; the challenges (and high points) of building custom bikes; coming up with a production lineup after years of making such varied custom offerings; and a whole lot more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
Adam’s founding of Sklar (3:07)
Turning Sklar to a business from a hobby (5:22)
The custom era (6:34)
Surviving as a custom builder (7:58)
The custom bike-building process (9:33)
Evolution of Sklar’s custom business (19:22)
Adam’s North American Handmade Bike Show winning bike (21:28)
Material selection (22:33)
Working with titanium (25:26)
Moving to production bikes (28:06)
Sklar’s stock offerings (31:35)
Overseas production (34:40)
Lessons learned in production (39:18)
Dangle Supply (41:10)
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