Pole Voima swing arm CRACKED

[Onetime]

I mean, he has decades of experience now, and should know exactly what works and what doesn't. The swingarm issue he says happened because of poor workmanship, and not from poor design. The Voima swingarm had a 20% failure rate. Sonni 0%, meaning they sorted out the problems, but too late.
Still riding my Voima on original swingarms, and it is really, really a great bike. I use it with Öhlins TTX22M.2 250x75mm, and Fox 40 and 2.6 x 27.5 tires on carbon wheels with Shimano Linkglide 11 speed mechanical, 36t and 11-50t, 220mm Oneup V3 dropper and Hope Tech 4 V4 brakes.

I still have mine and I’m still loving it! Also on 11 speed, Sram XX 10-42 x 32, also have a v3 one up dropper and hope brakes and a 40 but with 27.5 x2.8 DHRII’s on carbon wheels with Berd spokes.

 

[BigG]

Still have K4 Voima. But due to knee injury it’s not ridden as hard as before though, but I’m tall and heavy and break stuff every once in a while for no apparent reason.

Did the carbon rod thing both on sides (I didn’t have cracks, just preventative measures) -
30 carbon rods per side, and a full cup of T88 epoxy gotta help lol. So far no problems, stiffened rear a bit too, it was soft even with race axles for me.

It’s coil front and rear (smashpot does 190mm zeb coil kits nowadays) - I’m going to ride this one to death and probably get an MGU Nicolai or something like that later. External transmission on full e-bike doesn’t make sense to me, but is fine on light ones I guess.

I still have Pole Machine, one of like 30 made XLs, and it’s still holding up since 2018 too.

 

[Bollox]

I am >2000km post repairing my RH swingarm with 2.0mm carbon rods + resin, and touch-wood, still going strong.

Using 2.0mm rods instead of 2.5mm means that you don't have to dremel out the cable apertures, you just add a few more rods, due to the extra space.

 

[Blownoutrides]

FYI I’ve got a set of black billet replacement swingarms I bought from Pole as a backup. Let me know if anyone’s interested.