wood ski brands
Ron Bott
to wooden skis. We were trying to recall all of the older brands, and
our favorite skis. Here is what we came up with:
Asnes
Bonna
Sundens
Bla Skis
Epoke
Landsem
Jarvinen
Splitkein
Madshus
Karhu
Anyone care to add to the list? Which ones did we miss?
Ron Bott
George Cleveland
Lampinen (sp?)
Normark
Skan
Norge-Ski (Just saw them on eBay)
Geo.C.
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earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by
mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
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Jeff Potter
contrasting lams. I think they have GREAT stiff camber, too, for woodies.
George Cleveland wrote:
> Lampinen (sp?)
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> >While rollerskiing with the group today, the topic of discussion turned
> >to wooden skis. We were trying to recall all of the older brands, and
> >our favorite skis. Here is what we came up with:
> >
> >Asnes
> >Bonna
> >Sundens
> >Bla Skis
> >Epoke
> >Landsem
> >Jarvinen
> >Splitkein
> >Madshus
> >Karhu
> >
> Lampinen (sp?)
> Normark
> Skan
> Norge-Ski (Just saw them on eBay)
Peltonen made some very fast wood skis, I'm told.
-Ken
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David Dermott
My first wood skis (1972) have the label "Sigmund Ruud".
The lignostone edges have come off
I keep a pair of "Gresshoppa Finse" wood skis (bought early 1980s)
for skiing in perfect conditions.
Another brand sold in the 1970's here was "Trysil Knut". I finally
found out who Trysil Knut was, I saw a monument to him (Knut Knutsen) at
Linnes in Ljørdalen, Trysil Kommune this summer.
There were also the "Skilom" and "Toppen" labels.
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Scott Elliot
50's. They are sold ash and made by the Peterborough Canoe Company.
Scott Elliot
http://www3.telus.net/selliot/
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phof...@math.uwaterloo.ca
broke her leg badly back in '41 the last time she skiied. My mischievous
brother-in-law calculated backwards and claims she got pregnant with me
while one leg was in a very large cast from that break. The superstitious
claim that is related to my skiing "career"!
Our ski club uses one of those pairs in a display at the library to contrast
the old stuff with the newest equipment.
Best, Peter phof...@math.uwaterloo.ca
Leland Yee
skis. The latter were very soft and cost me $9.95!
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Steinar Kjærnsrød
after the famous brothers and Olympiers Gjermund Eggen and Jo Eggen. I used
them myself back ~20 years ago or so, until I bought my first pair of
"plastic" skis - a horrible construction from "Blåskia" with some strange
laminated mix of plastic and wood.
By the way, in Norway there are still people buying wooden skis for special
use, or probably for nostalgic reasons. I have one such pair from "Rønning"
myself which I occasionally still enjoy using in the mountains in deep snow.
Take a look here:
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Jeff Kalember
bamboo poles and 75mm binding set. I think I might try them out this
winter..... oops, where do I get 75mm boots any more? Maybe swap the
bindings and use the bumblebee salomon boots with wood skis... how would
that be for contrast in technology?
JK
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David Dermott
> There were also the "Skilom" and "Toppen" labels.
>
I read on the Madshus ski site <http://www.madshus.com>
that the "Skilom" label was a Madshus product.
I remember that most of the Norwegian-made touring skis were painted
brown (or a natural wood color), and the racing skis were blue. The
touring skis had hickory soles with "lignostone" (compressed beech) edges.
With our local snow conditions - ice, rocks etc - the edges of a wood ski
quickly wore down, so lignostone was a neccessity.
Racing skis had birch soles and were rather fragile. Birch is lighter,
cheaper than hickory and it was reported to hold wax better.
Erik Brooks
"where do I get 75mm boots any more?"
I see that Marmot mountain is selling 2 or 3 Alpina 75mm boots.
See http://www.marmotmountain.com/welcome.htm
Select XC ski, then backcountry boots.
HTH,
Erik
Dave Jackson
Ron Bott <ron...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have a pair of Normark wood skiis. Bought em used in late 70's.
Dave in Minnesota
Mark
about 8 single wood skis from the 60's and 70's in storage, including
a Toppen Fjell Blond, Bonna 1800 and 2000's, Asnes, and more.
I hadn't heard too much about Eggen skis in the last 30 years. My
first pair of skis was a pair of Eggen Green's. Broke 'em in a race in
1975, and just about cried.
I still remember the days of having to carry a spare ski tip in the
pack. That must really make me an old codger.
Mark
levi
> ... oops, where do I get 75mm boots any more?
In Minneapolis we have a number of shops called "Play It Again
Sports" and if you haunt them, you might find a pair that
would work for you. Cheap!
I've mounted my old wood Madshus Birkebeiner (still their top of
the line model designator) with Salomon BC bindings and have a pair
of big, full leather, Salomon BC9 boots to go with. I try to ski on
them once a year, but mostly, the skis adorn my living room (they are
very "pretty"!) but if some one makes me an offer I couldn't refuse...
- Lee
Gary Jacobson
DJ
My first skis were "Arvids", really poor quality and I gladly got rid of
them in the late 70s. The boots (same brand) were even worse. Even now, in
terms of nostalgia, I never wish I still had them because they were butt
ugly and crummy quality. But I have very good memories of beating around in
the woods with them. I now have a couple of pair of like new wooden skis
from the same era - Greshoppa (sp?) and Skilom - from my parents who used
them a couple of times in the mid 70s craze and not since.
Dan
Ralph
Country Skier back in the 70s. One ad I particularly remember touted how
tough the Silva ski were and had a skier crouching on a ski with only
the tips and tails supported on a chair. Silva was a sponsor in the
American Birkebeiner race too way back when. I think the skis were made
in Canada.
Ralph Thornton
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Tim Dudley
> "Ron Bott" <ron...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:3de0000a$0$1398$272e...@news.execpc.com...
> While rollerskiing with the group today, the topic of discussion turned
> to wooden skis. We were trying to recall all of the older brands, and
> our favorite skis. Here is what we came up with:
>
> Asnes
> Bonna
> Sundens
> Bla Skis
> Epoke
> Landsem
> Jarvinen
> Splitkein
> Madshus
> Karhu
>
> Anyone care to add to the list? Which ones did we miss?
>
> Ron Bott
Today I talked with a young woman from Quebec who had just finished a ski,
and was carrying some nice-looking wood skis with almost-new-looking
Rottafella 3-pin bindings. I asked her where she had gotten them; she said
"my mother's basement". They were light blonde color, with the name
"CanSport" between the tip and the binding (with a little maple leaf between
the "Can" and "Sport"), and on the tail it said "Ligno" in fancy black
italic script. She said they got them from Canadian Tire over 20 years ago.
I don't know who made them for Canadian Tire, but they looked like fairly
decent skis for just punting around (and were in gorgeous condition)..
There were probably a fair amount of those types of skis, sold by hardware
stores, that were made for them by someone else
Also, Madshus made a light touring ski in addition to the Birkebeiners -
can't remember the name, but they were also a very nice ski. They were
wider and heavier than the Birkebeiners, and looked very similar to the
Åsnes touring ski, except they were dark brown.
Tim
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Terje Mathisen
> On Saturday, November 23, 2002 5:25:07 PM UTC-5, Ron Bott wrote:
>> While rollerskiing with the group today, the topic of discussion turned
>> to wooden skis. We were trying to recall all of the older brands, and
>> our favorite skis. Here is what we came up with:
>>
>> Asnes
>> Bonna
>> Sundens
>> Bla Skis
Blå Skia
>> Epoke
>> Landsem
>> Jarvinen
>> Splitkein
>> Madshus
>> Karhu
>>
>> Anyone care to add to the list? Which ones did we miss?
>>
>> Ron Bott
>
> Normark
Afair I have had at least Åsnes, Blå Skia, Epoke, Landsem and Madshus
skis from that list, probably Splitkein and possibly Karhu. :-)
Terje
>
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> While rollerskiing with the group today, the topic of discussion turned
> to wooden skis. We were trying to recall all of the older brands, and
> our favorite skis. Here is what we came up with:
VANDEL is famous in France for introducing plastic sole in the Seventies and popularizing cross-country practice. There are based in Bois d'Amont in French Jura (home of Jason Lamy-Chappuis & other top athletes); and now have a very limited but top quality production.
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Cheers
Bryant