COMPANY

We didn't find the right bike. So we built the factory.

50 frames a year. One engineer. Every build personal.

2013

ORIGIN

It started with a bike that didn't exist. So we built it.

Jyväskylä, September 2013. Leo Kokkonen started Pole in the basement of an old bakery — not as a business plan, but as a problem to solve. No production bike offered the geometry he wanted to ride: slacker, longer, more stable at speed.

The numbers he drew were wrong by every standard of the time. On the trail, they turned out to be right. That mule became the proof that the industry had drifted from what riders actually needed.

PHILOSOPHY

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

That's not a marketing line. It's the reason the company exists. 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.

MILESTONES

2013

The mule

A modified K9 DH001-S in the basement of an old bakery in Jyväskylä. The numbers were wrong by every standard of the time. On the trail, they turned out to be right.

2016

Evolink

64.5° head angle. 77.5° seat tube. The geometry that changed the conversation — years before the industry moved the same direction. Pinkbike called it a bike ahead of its time.

2017

Machine & the carbon decision

After years rejecting carbon fibre — toxic process, ocean-dumped offcuts, handwork disguised as craft — Leo figured out how to machine and bond a hollow aluminium frame. No one had done it. The process had to be invented. Black Friday 2017.

2018

Stamina

A gravity-enduro platform designed from scratch in under six weeks. Machine and Stamina gave us two race-proven CNC platforms — and a factory team to prove them.

2019

World stage

Leigh Johnson finished 9th overall in the Enduro World Series on a Stamina. A Finnish factory brand, competing against the world's best-funded teams — and beating most of them.

2020

Restructure

COVID changed everything. We sold all stock, restructured the company, and Leo took on the role of CEO. The question became: what kind of company do we want to be?

2021

Voima

Our first electric platform. Launched during a global component shortage — and sold more in two weeks than the entire previous year combined.

2022

Voima & Vikkelä

Over 400 Voimas delivered. Vikkelä followed as the motorless counterpart — same platform, pure pedal power. Leigh Johnson finished 3rd overall in EWS-E.

2023

Onni & Sonni

Modular frame architecture: one platform, four configurations from DH to enduro. Onni Rainio raced the World Cup downhill circuit on the bike named after him. Then the industry downturn hit.

2024

Reset

We stopped. Machines broke. A nationwide logistics strike paralysed shipping. We filed, restructured, and asked the only question that mattered: how to make the right bike for each rider.

2025

New beginning

A clean start. Pole's IP and product lines continue under renewed ownership — same vision, refined and focused. The Pole Bicycles name carries on.

2026

Bespoke

50 frames. 50 individual builds. Every dimension tailored. Every component chosen. No catalogue. No stock. Only yours.

HERITAGE

Every Hiisi carries a decade of lessons.

22 models. Four platform generations. Each one solved a problem, proved a principle, or changed the industry's assumptions. This is the lineage behind the Hiisi.

First deliveries from a bakery basement. Welded aluminium, radical geometry. 2014 brought the first four models; by 2016 the Evolink had rewritten the rules.

Evolink 140

Trail — the game changer

64.5° head angle, 77.5° seat tube. The first mass-production bike with new-school geometry. The industry followed years later.

GEOMETRY REVOLUTION

Evolink 150

27.5" Trail

The trail monster. 150mm felt long back then.

Evolink 176 "Vaara"

Mini DH

Built for Finnish downhills. Named after danger.

Evolink 130

27.5+ Trail

3" tyres when the industry was still experimenting with width.

Evolink 110

29" Trail

Our first 29er experiment. Brought new riders to Pole.

Rinne

DH

Featured on Pinkbike in 2015. Where the media story started.

Laki

Enduro

Tested in Malaga, 2014. One of the first four delivered.

Polku

Trail

Part of the original lineup.

Taival

Adventure

The explorer of the family.

Taiga

Fat Bike

Pole geometry for Finnish winter. Beloved, cancelled by COVID.

Tomu

Dirt Jump

The rowdy one.

Sarvi

Urban

A hell of a ride for urban riders.

Kulku Lähi

Commuter

Daily transport, Pole philosophy.

Kulku Peli

Commuter

The sporty commuter.

Kolmi

Trike

Three wheels. Still Pole.

Carbon rejected. Solid 7075 aluminium chosen. Two platforms that proved CNC-machining belongs in mountain biking — and took Pole to the Enduro World Series.

Machine

Enduro — first CNC hollow frame

CNC-machined 7075 aluminium, hollow structure bonded with Pole's own method. 180mm front, 160mm rear. Every surface shaped with intent, not inherited from tube stock. Announced Black Friday 2017.

CNC MACHINED

Stamina

Gravity Enduro — EWS proven

Designed from scratch in under six weeks. Available in 180mm and 140mm. Leigh Johnson rode the 180 to 9th overall in the 2019 Enduro World Series.

EWS 9TH OVERALL

One architecture, many configurations. Electric and motorless. From trail riding to World Cup downhill — proven modular design.

Onni

DH / Enduro — modular architecture

Four configurations from one frame: DH (200/200), Downduro (190/200), Enduro (170/170), Trail (160/170). Named after Onni Rainio. Raced at World Cup DH level in 2023.

WORLD CUP DH

Voima

Electric Enduro

First e-MTB. 190mm travel. Sold more in two weeks than the entire previous year. 400+ delivered.

Vikkelä

Enduro

Voima's motorless counterpart. Same platform, pure pedal power. 190mm.

Sonni

Electric DH / Enduro

Onni's electric sibling. Bosch CX Smart System, 750Wh. Three configurations.

Hiisi

Bespoke platform — everything we learned, distilled

One platform. Your dimensions. Your components. 50 frames per year. Built to order in Jyväskylä. No catalogue. No stock. Only yours.

22 models built between 2014 and 2023. Every one a lesson. The Hiisi is the answer.

FINLAND

Designed where conditions don't forgive shortcuts.

Finnish engineering culture is defined by a simple principle: if it works here, it works anywhere. Our climate, terrain, and temperament demand products that are honest in their construction.

That culture doesn't just influence how we build — it's the reason we exist. Keeping everything in Finland keeps us honest.

Directness

No marketing fog. We tell you the geometry, the weight, the tolerances. Whether you like them is your call.

Sisu

There's no Finnish word for 'good enough'. There's 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 process, it's in the shop. If we claim a result, someone rode it.

COMMUNITY

Pole riders aren't customers. They're co-conspirators.

Every frame we ship starts a relationship. Our riders test, feedback, and push the boundaries of what we build. They're not buying a product — they're joining a process that never stops improving.