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VIKS COMMUTER TURNED 5! – ViksWhenhome VIKS COMMUTER TURNED 5! 09/05/2018 Archive The only thing that can stop you, is your imagination… To mark the occasion Kristo wrote a subjective retrospect on 10 facts well-nigh the velocipede and people virtually it. Let’s go! No 1Well-nighthat mystique sideboard that was so inspirational… You probably once know the story that goes like this – “Viks was born in a small sideboard on a late storing afternoon in 2012 out of idea to have a bicycle which would be little bit different, not a wearisome one….” Well, that coffee shop really does exists, locating in Tallinn, our home town on a tropical proximity of Presidential Palace and Park Kadriorg. It’s tabbed Gourmet Coffee and we truly suggest to visit the place that is known for the weightier coffee and fine menu. During first years of Viks, we used the place as our office while Indrek’s suite was our workshop. And the velocipede was heavy – 1/3 or increasingly compared to today’s Viks archetype version in stainless steel. That was due to thicker frame tubing and selection of parts. Here’s the first Viks velocipede overly made. Known as Viks Classic. No 2 Word-of-mouth… There was a plan to make that one velocipede that looks variegated from others. “Unfortunately” it turned out as an sustentation magnet 😊. Probably one of the first internationally known magazines who picked us up was GIZMAG, now known as NEW ATLAS. When you like to read the first story that tells pretty much everything well-nigh the start of the Viks bike, please squint here. And then others came. Designboom was phenomenal of course. They chose Viks to their list of top 10 velocipede designs in 3 subsequent years: 2013, 2014 and 2015. #viksrider Ilmar Kurvits organized these 3 bikes from Designboom top 2013-2015 into one. No 3 Developing the velocipede hand in hand with fans and partners…Minutiaeand moving forward has unchangingly been the thing for us. Otherwise we would not have disc brakes, whup momentum gears and plane some frame modifications. As we encourage fans to get involved in the process and work with us to create the most trappy velocipede out there, it’s you favor as well dear Viks owners. What you demanded, we mostly executed. And the weight… What’s the weight of the bike? That is a question we can hear pretty much every day. By switching from stainless steel to stat or aluminum alloy, the weight issue is really not there. If 13-14 kilos for stainless steel Viks is too much, you can hands have Viks GT from aluminum transfuse that weights 11 kilos and has both coaster restriction and front rim brake.Pearlyenough? Both transfuse and stat frames we are making have made it possible to have a Viks velocipede that weights 9 kilos. Happy days 😊 While talking well-nigh minutiae you might ask what’s next? It might be Viks GT in carbon… A ViksStatwith all wedding and whistles to Frank Peter Mäder’s collection. No 4 Distributorship turns into friendship… Nico, Oscar and Sjoerd – it’s mostly well-nigh you. From time to time we’ll get inquiries with a wish to became a Viks distributor. For most times these stories are misfortune stories. Relatively successful have been these guys who were worldly-wise to see Viks frameset as a canvas and used it to create their own versions of Viks bikes that were reflecting their taste and local cycling scene. A result of Auftragsrad’s collaboration with RieselDiamondfor Eurobike 2015. Another collaboration between Auftragsrad and RieselDiamondboys for the same event. Patience is one of the key factors here too. It’s you Nico. We met in London when in 2014. You were successful car salesman but you were into bikes as well and you loved Viks. You wanted to make a change. We were standing on the street while inside it was an Estonian party and you introduced me your plans from your iPad. What I was thinking well-nigh in this very moment was your passion and worthiness to sell French automobiles to German clients. We said “yes” to each other. From left: Kristo, Indrek and Nico during grand opening of Auftragsrad’s first shop. Now you have Auftragsrad, you’ve created a velocipede trademark of your own and you’re going to unshut a new Bicycle Shop in Berlin this month. You have made quite a name for yourself in Berlin scene. And yes – Germany is the first country in the world by the number of Viks bikes riding around. Viks GT Berlin Launch version – 9.3 kilos of riding pleasure. It’s well-nigh you Linde bros from Velowland. You were school teachers and velocipede enthusiasts who really appreciated diamond in wider scale. You had a plan to turn a Viks archetype velocipede into wooden looking one. You succeeded and the velocipede turned out a masterpiece – VIKS WOODaLIKE. We’re really happy to have it at our office 😊. First time we met eye to eye was at Spin London in 2015. You owned the show and it was a perfect match and it still is. From left: Sjoerd, Kristo and Oscar without successful day in Spin London 2015. It’s tomfool that you still have time to teach these kids in your home town Meppel, Netherlands while having to take good superintendency of BEASTYBIKE web store, a coolest velocipede shop in Holland L’HirondelleVelocipedeShop Meppel that just opened its doors and your growing dealer network. Would be unconfined to have our bilateral Lithuanian friend in London when on workbench as well considering the only thing that can stop you, is your imagination 😊 Viks GT Merc Edition in Düsseldorf. No 5 People starting to act weird… 2 years when we launched Viks GT Edition bike. You can read the long story here. It was well-nigh material nomination (by switching from stainless steel to transfuse we saved 40% of the weight of the frame kit) and sharper curves that reverted the looks of the frameset. To be honest – there was a third speciality as well. Inspiration to create that velocipede came from Lamborghini super cars – that is something we are not plane supposed to say out loud today. That was basically written in the letter (actual letter on the paper) from Lamborghini HQ. In their opinion, we can’t be inspired by that Italian supercar, as well it’s not okay to put the velocipede and that car to one photo. We’re have to respect that but cannot stop others to do so… Lamborghini Avendator and Viks GT stainless steel prototype in Netherlands. It might be alright though, if you own both… Roni from Finland is travelling like this. It all happened like year and a half without the launch. During the towers process we remained tropical contact with Lamborghini dealer in our hometown. I’m sure they did send all the details to Lamborghini HQ as well. They plane gave us the yellow Lamborghini Huracan for photoshoot…By the way, the idea and first sketches of Viks GT were once there like 3 years surpassing the very launch, that is right without archetype version of the velocipede was ready. No 6 6 quick and short ones… • One of the first guys who noticed the velocipede and became the owner, was engineer and developer of Eddy Merckx bikes Dave Luyckx. •Scrutinizinglyevery Viks velocipede is unique considering of uncounted ways for customization. We are unescapable to number 400 soon. See the video of the process of Viks making. •Scrutinizinglyevery Viks velocipede is unique and normally ordered one by one until a fitness visitor from Germany Flexx Fitness ordered 32 identical Viks GT bikes for their team members. Identical by looks of course. Frames were built equal to riders measurements. #vikslife people • You once know the country that has most Viks bikes rolling around. Yes, it’s Germany. Followed by Estonia, Benelux countries, Italy, France, USA, UK and Australia. When talking well-nigh our homeland Estonia – we have some 30 unique Viks owners here. There are at least 3 couples who can share their riding experience. As well we have some riders who have 3 or increasingly Viks bikes at their possession. Viks meetup 2016 in Tallinn, Estonia. • Geography of Viks bikes is wide and goes vastitude markets we think are standard for a small workshop as we are. Viks riders can be noticed in Brazil, Argentina, Bermuda, Mexico, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, South-Korea and Hong-Kong and Taiwan. Big in Japan (no photoshop have been used). • There is scrutinizingly half a meter between shortest (classic XXS 26’’) and tallest (GT XL 28’’) Viks rider. You can trammels it out from here, how Viks XXS 26’’ was born. ViksArchetypein size XXS with 26” wheels No 7 Bikeshows turning into useful contacts and lot of fun… We’ve been travelling. All over Europe. Us or our dealers – Eurobike, Spin London, Berliner Fahrradschau, Bikemotion Benelux, Cyclingworld Düsseldorf, EXPO Milano and so on. When Berlin show unchangingly has the greatest urban vibe (read increasingly well-nigh our vita here), Düsseldorf has been unconfined success for us (read increasingly well-nigh how we did last year here), world pearly EXPO Milano was the most honorable for us (read increasingly well-nigh our participation here),  Eurobike 2015 was our first and probably most memorable one (read what happened here). That show in Friedrichshafen, Germany was quite a preparation (we had our own diner to build and fill) and 5000-km long road trip. We had a unconfined team of Auftragsrad, Happarel Bicycles, RieselDiamondand Bellitanner Bikes. Our diner was filled with innovation, trappy diamond and one villainous electric chopper bike, grabbing a lot of sustentation and interest. We worked hard, listened a lot of Estonian Tommy Cash and communicated. Making contacts: on the left side Ailar, on right Kristo who has Jure Berk from Berk Composites next to him (Jure is the mastermind overdue stat tubing for ViksStatbikes). And the story? Well, one magazine we wanted to be in straight from the whence was Monocle. Normally we are not pushing our bikes like this. But that one time we did. Unsuccessfully. 2 years later there he was, standing in our diner in Eurobike stared at the ViksStat– Henry Rees-Sheridan, a researcher from Monocle. We had a endangerment to pitch our bikes and every third phrase from him was “mudzjo blaadz” ?!?!?!?! Our level of English didn’t help there either. Later I figured out that it was “much obliged”. We got ViksStatin. To the Monocle. Cool. What’s next? That will be Miami, Florida of course. With TheArsenale and Pat Meignan. Estonian cyclist leaning on Viks in world pearly EXPO Milano 2015. No 8 Being a #viksrider… What can we do without you, dear viksriders? You are the inspiration. Some of you turned into real ambassadors. Much oblige 😊 Petri from Finland. Brought testing Viks velocipede to next level by participating on 24-hour race on it last summer. See increasingly well-nigh Petri here. Petri, owner of orange Viks Classic. Aivaras from Denmark. His red velocipede is probably the most publicly photographed Viks velocipede in the world. See increasingly well-nigh Aivaras here. Aivaras, owner of ViksArchetypein red and ViksArchetypein British Racing Green. Ilmar from Estonia. The guy overdue our postcards, stickers, posters and merchandise design. A café racer connoisseur. What if we’ll imbricate your story next? Ilmar, owner of ViksArchetypein brushed and ViksArchetypein RAW. No 9 Name dropping is not polite but…this one time… Sir Paul Andre Garrett Prince Bernhard Tommy Lucas Felix No 10 Viks is a velocipede model… Viks is a velocipede model. In Estonian Viks ways swish and gentleman like, as well it sounds like stock-still gear. This was the initial idea at first – a stock-still gear commuter. Designed sideboard racer motorcycles in mind. Viks has been plane tabbed a pedal powered version of it. Viks x BMW k75s by Renard Speed Shop. We are Velonia Bicycles. A visitor that is overdue Viks bikes. The story of Velonia goes when to 2008 when Indrek Narusk, an engineer, a passionate cyclist and an ventriloquist road racer thought that it’s time for Estonian velocipede riders to have their own velocipede brand. Velonia Bicycles was founded. Small Workshop with a wide geography. From the left: Indrek, Kristo and Tarmo. In the whence it was all well-nigh designing stat Velonia velocipede frames and Speedynamics components in Tallinn, Estonia, in partnership with Asian manufacturers. The company’s wish to build custom bikes for riders initiated a short ‘Italian’ period when Velonia cooperated with one renowned Italian manufacturing brand. The desire for perfection and full tenancy of the whole towers process, together with the wits of towers Viks passenger bikes, has given a lot of ideas and self-rule to experiment with radical velocipede diamond and disrupt the municipality cycling scene. XCR ROAD DISC, made from scratch by Indrek. It’s all in house now. *** When interested in Viks commuter: http://viks.cc/order-custom/ See increasingly well-nigh Velonia Bicycles: http://velonia.com/ Follow us on Instagram: @viksbike