How Its Made: Pole Electric Mountain Bike 

Thanks to Leo and team for having me! Amazing place 🇫🇮, amazing team and the bikes are truly stunning!

Thanks for investing your time to visit the pole facility and interviewed this genius guy behind this awesome bike. I wish all the best to Pole company.

Love this Rob, not just because it's Pole, that's just a bonus, but great video and insight into the manufacturing and business side of Pole. Fantastic! ❤

This was AMAZING. Thank you for sharing. I ride with a gentleman that has a Pole, and it's an incredible bike.

Great job on this video. Doesn't come across as a paid promotion at all. Fascinating content.

Rob, you did a great job of having Leo explain his process. This method of production is GENIUS. I am a manufacturing professional so I can appreciate every point that was made, and I also believe that the way the two of you presented everything creates a very understandable explanation that any bike enthusiast can appreciate as well. Great content!

Such a great video, I enjoyed every second of it! Pole is just an incredible company

Amazing! Thank you, Rob and Leo!

Superb job Rob. I have been sold on this bike manufacturing method since I first became aware of it. I will have one in my life one day. As an engineer myself, I am thrilled you dug deeper into this and what fantastic access you had. 10/10.

Pole are an amazing brand led by an amazing lad (looking at you Leo :) ). Would love to visit their neck of the woods someday. Thanks for bringing this out Rob.

I love this video because I’m a big fan of Finland and engineering and manufacturing being ex Nokia. They are also lovely people and passionate about innovation and sustainability. Superb video sir 👌

Unreal video, thanks Rob and thanks Leo! So cool to watch!

I am fortunate enough to own a Voima and speak highly enough about how it is finished, looks and rides, your video is an eye opener as to why the bike is so unique, my only hope now is that Leo and the Pole team go to Pinion for there drive system soon. The Bosch version is brilliant but the MGU will take this emtb to the next level level, great video Rob

I actually got chills from this video. Awesome video and awesome timing 😮😀Rob, you are the man and Leo is so cool to have you. It’s great to see this behind the scenes look at all of their innovation, thought process and manufacturing. Every time I hear more about Pole I am even more impressed! I like a proud father; hopefully I will be receiving my Voima soon.

I absolutely love my Voima . Such a ripper

Engineering at its finest, we need more people like this in the world

This is the most amazing tour. I dig the end to end personality of how they make these machines

That you for the interesting video, I brought a Voima with all the high end parts and am extremely happy with my purchase.

I don’t own a bike but if I’d get one would be this! Truly a masterpiece of manufacturing…Thanks Rob and Leo. 👌

Thanks, excellent video and beautiful product, I want one. Leo knows his stuff, wish him every success.

I have owned a Pole Machine, Stamina 180 and now the analog version of the Voima: Vikkelä! Had lots of other bikes in-between too, but always end up back on the Pole bikes. Probably gotta sell the all-mtn10 and get a Voima. They really are THAT good! Pole Pole Pole!!!

Thanks Rob , a really great insight into this company. It certainly makes you appreciate the passion and effort that goes into bikes like these.

love it !!! Love my Vikkela! Thanks for doing this!

Beautiful looking frame

The process is truly amazing, thanks brothers❤

That welded frame looks amazing.

Leo is a pioneer.. I really hope he grows in other sections of EV industry... I really wish I had am 1 hour conversation with him .. Keep it up

Amazing video. Such an indepth look. It's incredible that they do inside first. But makes sense when you think about it. Brilliant thanks

This is such a great story and a delight to watch 👍

Nice, that people are willing to pay for such a good stuff. That manufacturing is next level.

I’m not a fan of how that bike looks but thanks for uploading this video, was amazing to watch and I’m sure the bike is a shredder 👍

All the big brands need to take this same approach and not hide how they produce thete products

Really good video. Thanks for the insight.

Cool to see these fully machined bike frames. I noticed the design seems quite conventional; I imagine that with the full design freedom of machined parts you could move towards a lot more distinctive style. Even if the round tube is pretty hard to beat from a technical point of view, it could really help set the brand apart to go a little crazier.

No idea what people think. This bike is a piece of ART 🤟🚲🍻

In one word: Amazing. 👏

ABSOLUTELY LOVE MY VOIMA 😊

Pole seems perfectly aligned to move to the Pinion Motor/Gearbox due to their agility in manufacturing. Voima Pinion - sign me up!

Oooooooh how i wish i could afford a Voima. True dream bike!

Great video Rob.

How did you know I was shopping on the Pole sight yesterday lol. This video couldn't have come at a better time. Definitely ordering a Voima and selling my Levo this off season. Thank you for the insight

11:52 - "I LOVE GOOOLLLDDD...!!!" (best Mike Myers/Gold Member voice)

Very interesting and informative video. I agree a very fresh and innovative approach to everything from design, production and everything else I guess.

thanks for this!

I don't comment much but that was a great video. Amazing tech and insights. Keep it up Rob

Please make frame for electric Pinion. I would buy it straight away. Amazing frames, this is perfection

Very koool video, keep these coming 🇺🇸 got me a Gold Voima ID Bosch Race

it's great that pole are able to create their frames in house compared to other were they have them made in other countries, that must help with costs and as he stated time to

POLE is so NICE!

Damn this is so cool. I’m gonna need one of these.

Very good Video Rob👍. good Work from Leo. Megabike with perfect finish. But Guys High Precision is when the parts have a tolerance from 0.005 or less in that segment. 😅 0.1 is for normal CNC Parts, nothing Special in the CNC Industry.

Dude is nukin futs passionate ❤❤❤

Love the look, and made in my Birth Country, waiting for a'150 Travel Trail Bike from Pole 😉 that looks the same but Lighter 🤠

Very interesting. Thank you for this.

Amazing video! 👍

Amazing!!!

nice look

Amazing product, very, very tempting! Apart from the bike cost, there is a further 26% of duties/VAT to pay...........

Great entreprenur!

Very clever guy!!

So I noticed that poles website is back up and running. Are they still in business? Did they get the funding to stay open?

A technique for keeping the parts from vibrating as they’re being cut on the 2nd side seems like the magic ingredient in this type of frame manufacturing. Clearly Leo has it dialed, but we don’t get to see (understandably!)

Presumably they leave a reasonable flange (on the inside where you can't see it) so there is some area for the bonding between the two halves? If it was bonded then machined down to ~1mm wall thickness that would leave very little bond remaining. I am impressed that they can get this process to work without visible seams on the outside and with consistent wall thickness. As he emphasises this is _hard_ to get reliable. I wonder if there have been any instances of bond failure in the middle of a frame tub: (MTBs get a very hard time and epoxy is good but surely not as good as the solid metal of an extruded, welded or hydroformed tube?

Nice, thank you! (Secretly hoping for an e-Taiga :-) )

Very cool!

Awesome COOL 😮🤠🤟

Loved it

Love Leos Bikes! Maybe one day ....

rohloff would be a great addition... with 1000wh battery & double crown fork, instant buy

Good aluminum desin can be much better than carbon. Many designers create stupid shapes with huge tensions. It is possible to design light frame which will have 70MPa under 4G landing. But most of design has about 150 or even 200MPa in case like that. Frames are quenched and agged after welding (T6 treatment) but it isn't enough to prevent fatigue if design is bad. 7075 is old but very good alloy and after T6 tretment is more durable than most normal steel alloys. But aluminum is almost 3x lighter so can be much thicker which gives smaller tensions in frame. Welds even after T6 treatment are not perfect and design without it is very good idea. When I was younger I thoud to creat frame made by two forged pieces but I,ve never finish it. I stopt on repairing frames for people or designing and machining better links in case of repair. But thanks for bicycle engeniering I was designer in automotive and now I am mechanical designer in eletronic industry. Great to see someone who create so smart companie with smart design.

Those are 5 axis machines...serious money and absolutley unattainable not that long ago. Well, not financially feasible back then at least. Nice stuff.

Surely pole integrates pinion or effigear, gearbox drivetrains that would make them so much further above any bike company and wouldn’t be too hard to modify the vikkela for a acoustic gearbox and the voima for pinion’s new e-gearbox. It’s just if the market is there which I am sure there is

What engine use on Pole Voima? Bosch CX Race 🤔

how do they bond two sides together?

How do they 'bond' two pieces of aluminium together? 🤔

Ice Cold Cool ✨

Nurse, gimme a Pole Voima with the new Pinion MGU 9 speed! STAT!!

Nice😮

I love a polished aluminum bike 😍 i Have an Ebike i built tho highly different from yours.. with a 750w Bafang mid drive 52v batt.. and though it does weigh in at 57lb my top speed was 41.9mph on a flat street.. unfortunately it's WAAY to heavy for off road 😒 🤷

Where MTB'ing meets art.

Leo is like the elon musk of bike industry

So cool! I wish they made real Mountainbikes instead of e-bikes.

Interesting solution, but 0.1mm is not high precision CNC machine. Additive manufacturing is a better solution IMHO.

At 11:47 What chemical are so strong that it can instantly melt through muscle tissues and bones?

I can buy it dear

Myself being the last living caveman, find myself suspended in admiration for those who have unlocked the secrets of the Planet.

Would it fussy if I said 0.1mm is a lot

wish have one☺️🤗😍🥰❤️🙏

For me the 2 problems with poles bikes were 1. the size. the frame is just too big for smaller riders to ride confidently. 2. The price. The bikes were way too expensive for larger audience

Of course you don't see those tolerances in frame manufacturing, because its is completely unnecessary. Its serves no purpose other than to add expense. Its bad ass, though.

🚲

Please cycle price

I have the Yeti 303 rdh vibe.......

havent seen a fully cnc frame beein created, misleading :(

I like the attention on detail through the manufacturing process! I am really interested in the Voima, if only it were mullet...

Cast it.

Sadly they went bankrupt this year....hopefully they can sort it out in the future.

13:54 pressing in the bearings with no grease🙈

This is what hope technology have been doing for 20+ years

Rich people make fancy things possible. And make things advance. No one can afford this unless they make 5k $ a month. But someday the process will probably get cheaper and maybe affordable to us peasants. We could probably do it ourselves, just as good or better, but we just aren't rich. Cool vid, cool idea to make it, but the price... probably better to mold, then do cnc finish. But i guess those rich people just have to brag about paying so much for something that techincally isn't actually worth it. Just like clothing brands, LV pants, 1000$ trash quality. Levis 100$ 10/10 quality. But they just have to show that they can afford it. xD Funny world we live in, while being amazed by the advancements, you can still see how "stupid" it actually is. In theory.