- Joined: December 2007
- Location: The Bull City
- Post Count: 10,770
Those are some well calibrated poles up there!
Old poles are the best.
Smell that? Winter's coming!
- Joined: December 2007
- Location: The Bull City
- Post Count: 10,770
II gave an old pair of blue Scotts awwy with a pair of Olins two years ago. It the pole doesn't have leather straps it isn't worth a darn.
Smell that? Winter's coming!
- Joined: July 2008
- Location: just beyond reason
- Post Count: 606
Anybody know where to find Kerma baskets? One basket on my old 75 set went out last year. They are old friends that have shared many adventures, and they don't like staying home.
They are colored to go with the Rossie Stratos cocks and all. Named them Left and Right.
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.
- Joined: July 2008
- Location: just beyond reason
- Post Count: 606
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Originally Posted by
Philpug 
Old poles are fine but make sure they are properly calibrated.
Are you still offering calibration on vintage ski poles?
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.
- Joined: January 2007
- Location: Morrison, CO
- Post Count: 481
Odd, the first day back on skis after an 18 year layoff, I broke a circa 1974 Scott pole while pushing my way through the lift line. Just snapped off clean, about six inches above the basket; no kinking or bending.
Then I bent one of the replacement poles the following weekend. Still using those, unfortunately.
I also have a pair of Kerma poles, that say Countach on them, both bent, vintage unknown. One of my kids acquired them at a garage sale. Lastly, there is a pair of Barrecrafters steel poles, circa 1969, badly in need of baskets, but otherwise usable.
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Originally Posted by
Downhillin99
2nd that! Old poles are indestructible!!!!!
If you can't ski, do tricks!
- Joined: July 2008
- Location: just beyond reason
- Post Count: 606
MASTER RACER; very nice collection. Your 'white elephant' army poles are of course great, but the old Heads are truly a treat. Are those the silver ones? Very impressive, those were always fragile baskets even new.
How a bout the old Dual Taper, any of those survive? They would break at some very unusual locations, and they did have a different swing weight.
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.
- Joined: January 2007
- Location: Morrison, CO
- Post Count: 481
I have one set of yellow Scott grips, on a pair of Scott Aspect poles (one of which is slightly bent) and another pair of loose blue ones that I found in a mom-and-pop ski shop last year. I'm probably going to mate one of the blue ones to the remaining single vintage Scott pole that I have, along with a basket scrounged from one of my bent Kermas, so I can have two straight poles with Scott grips; one red anodized vintage pole with a blue grip, and one newer black pole with a yellow grip. I skied for five years with Frankenboots, I can probably make a pair of Frankenpoles work until I can get a job good enough to buy some new poles (which will receive one of the pairs of Scott grips.)
If you can't ski, do tricks!
Buddy Christ approves
