I found a treasure and I had NBD! The bike is fully refurbished Pole Taiga in my size (S). I have been searching this frame for about 4 years, but I haven't found any offers of this bike in my size. But now I did find, and I had to buy it right away. I threw my Manitou Gen 3 with 160 mm travel fork and 27,5" wheels on it.
After this test ride I realized that this fork with 160 mm travel does not work on this frame. The fork is 10 cm longer than the original rigid fork. When the head tube angle with original fork in this frame is 66°, I calculated that with this 10 cm longer fork it will be 61,3°. So it was really hard to do any slow technical climbs.
Otherwise the bike was really nice, but I really have to replace the original fork or buy shorter suspension fork with less travel.
By the way, today here in Central Finland the temperature was about -10°C but no snow.
Very cool bike. I’ve not seen a Pole in person yet but they look interesting
Is that a high end bike ? In the States and never heard of it. What made you chase it so hard ?
This is Pole, a Finnish bike. This is not produced anymore and the model year of this bike is 2016, but still it can be called high end. After these bikes, they switched to produce e-bikes and then CNC machined e-bikes, bankrupted and now they are starting business again. They have sold at least e-bikes also in States.
You don’t see those every day! Very cool. I think you can adjust the travel on those Manitous?
Yes, I can. I have even made a video of it: https://youtu.be/1IF-8qBrOWc But I have borrowed the fork from my E-bike, so if I decide to stay on suspension fork, I will buy another one, maybe used Gen2 when I find one in reasonable price.
Cool bike there - rare and awesome