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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.
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Philpug 
Old poles are fine but make sure they are properly calibrated.
Are you still offering calibration on vintage ski poles?
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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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Downhillin99
2nd that! Old poles are indestructible!!!!!
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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.
You have my most sincere condolences.
Baskets are the bane of collectors. Especially those with the rubber spokes holding the metal 'wheel'. Just look at them and they crumble.
MR
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Philpug 
I just noticed: Ummmmm Beeeeeer!
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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.
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Thanks Stranger (sounds like a western movie),
I damaged the white elephants when running a DH at Ski Cooper on my woodies, leathers and 10th Mt. outfit. Head poles? You know more than I do. There are four pairs of Scotts, the rest are un-marked (or I need to take a closer look).
MR
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I took a close look at the baskets on the tallest, steel poles and they are in fact Head baskets! It isn't really clear if they were original to the poles or not. Thanks for helping me ID my gear, Stranger!
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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.)
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