We didn't find the right bike. So we built the factory.
Pole started in a bakery basement with a geometry the industry called wrong. On the trail, it turned out to be right.
One engineer. Every build personal.
Leo Kokkonen started Pole because no production bike offered the geometry he wanted to ride: slacker and longer, and more stable at speed. The numbers he drew were wrong by every standard of the time. On the trail, they were right.
The industry optimizes for volume. We optimize for the rider in front of us, one frame at a time, measured and built to a single person's dimensions.
Every Hiisi carries what we learned.
The mule
Pole starts in a bakery basement in Jyväskylä. The numbers were wrong by every standard of the time, and right on the trail.
Evolink
64.5° head angle, 77.5° seat tube. The geometry that changed the conversation, years before the industry followed.
Machine & the carbon decision
After years of rejecting carbon fibre, Leo figured out how to machine and bond a hollow aluminium frame. The process had to be invented.
Stamina
A gravity-enduro platform designed from scratch in under six weeks. Two race-proven CNC platforms, and a factory team to prove them.
World stage
Leigh Johnson finishes 9th overall in the Enduro World Series on a Stamina, a Finnish factory brand against the best-funded teams.
Voima
Our first e-MTB, launched during a global component shortage. It sold more in two weeks than the entire previous year.
Voima & Vikkelä
Over 400 Voimas delivered. Leigh Johnson finishes 3rd overall in EWS-E.
Onni & Sonni
Modular frame architecture: one platform, four configurations. Onni Rainio races the World Cup downhill circuit on the bike named after him.
Reset
The industry downturn hit. We restructured and refocused on one question: how to make the right bike for each rider.
Hiisi
Everything we learned, in one bespoke platform. Built to order, every dimension tailored.
Designed where conditions don't forgive shortcuts.
Directness
No marketing fog. We tell you the geometry, the weight, the tolerances. Whether you like them is your call.
Sisu
The stubbornness to finish what you started, at the standard you meant it to have.
Substance
If we claim a number, it's on the drawings. If we claim a result, someone rode it.
One person. From pivot to wall thickness.
One person designs the geometry, the kinematics and the frame structure. No committee. Leo draws every Hiisi from pivot placement to wall thickness, runs the FEA, validates the kinematics and tunes the final bike on the trail. The Evolink geometry that changed the industry, the Machine that proved CNC frames, the Onni that raced World Cup. All the same engineer.
“I built the first one because I couldn't buy it. I'm still building because the best frame is the one built for the person who rides it.”
— Leo Kokkonen, Founder & lead engineer
This is Pole.
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