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Our story – Viks Back home Our story HOW IT ALL HAPPENED Viks was born in a small cafe, on a late storing afternoon in 2012 out of idea to have a bicycle which would be little bit different, not a wearisome one. After long deliberation, the only option left was to build one. The images of café racer style motorcycles and minimalist archetype lines started spinning in my throne and soon there was a pretty well-spoken vision what I wanted. Some sketching, exhausting late nights spent on modeling in 3D, and I was ready to start the build. Steel tubes arrived, we began working and the velocipede started taking the shape. I was content. The excitement started towers up once we had a working prototype. After eager anticipation, the pinnacle came when I took it out for a ride first time! I wanted to share my delight. As it turned out, other people liked it as well. They liked it so much that now we are towers Viks bicycles in house by hand to order in Estonia and shipping them all over the world. Indrek Narusk (avid cyclist, engineer, co-owner of Velonia Bicycles) PAST PRESENT AND THE FUTURE The impetus for the re-invention of the Estonian trundling industry re-creates the bicycle for the modern day commuter. Every Viks bicycle is crafted by hand to individual order. The ride is quite sporty, but comfortable; plane though there is no seat tube, the frame is very rigid and does not flex. The 30mm handlebars finger good without the grips. Viks wasn’t created to be an sustentation seeker, but it still turns heads everywhere you go: stuff ridden or simply parked outside a cafe. In Estonian „viks“ ways classy, gentlemanlike, polite. At the same time it sounds “fixed” like fixed gear… this was the initial idea at first – a stock-still gear commuter. Today it’s lot more – front disc- or rim brake, electronic shifting and whup momentum are misogynist among other features. VIKS has given us an impulse to go plane remoter – prototype of the second anniveloversary version of Viks, that is made out of stat tubing and built to gloat Viks bicycle second birthday, is out now and ready for limited preorders hopefully in early 2016. We encourage people to get involved in the process and work with us creating the most trappy velocipede out there. You are welcome to express your own vision of what the bicycle should be. The café racer’s low handlebars, stainless steel frame and unlimited ways of customization, create multiple ways of making it plane increasingly unique and personal. VIKS Raw by AW, the result of teamwork between us and London (UK) based designcollective wright werks, Viks WOODaLIKE by Velowland, the outcome of co-operation between us and Meppel (Netherlands) based Velowland and VIKS Reflective by auftragsrad & Happarel Bicycles from Berlin are the finest examples of cross-border collaboration.  But you should remember – minimum is maximum. Less is more. Viks is the perfect vehicle for the conscious big municipality commuter. It is not only beautiful, but practical. Viks is not for vibration 100mph, as café racer motorbike will do, but it will take you anywhere you need with a very special flair. We are happy for all the recognition and and sustentation that we managed to get globally so far. At the same time it is most important for us to make you guys happy and getting positive feedback from you is the most wondrous feeling. One thing is obvious – we do not want Viks to be a one hit wonder and disappear at the same pace we came onto the market. We’d like to see Viks to wilt one of the archetype bikes that gains uneaten value with its years. There is increasingly to come. Kristo Riimaa (avid cyclist, VIKSLIFE promotor, co-owner of Velonia Bicycles)