Stamina 180 was an eyeopener for Pole even though all of our bikes have been very successful, we learned that even now starting from a clean desk is worth the effort. Stamina 140 was named and on our roadmap before Stamina 180. The idea was to create a shorter travel trail bike after we launched the Machine. Our Founder and head engineer Leo’s insight was to create a more playful, shorter travel trail bike with Pole DNA. Just before the project had started Leo got an idea that we should make a mule “Stamina” to test if we could push the limits of the bikes yet further. So instead of creating one bike, he wanted to create two! When we had done first laps with Stamina 180, we knew right away that we have made a breakthrough. We learned that a 180mm travel 29″ still pedals like a trail bike and it is also fast. Then we decided to release Stamina 180 as well.