135cm Finnish Bamboo Cross-Country Ski Poles - early 1960s - PATRIOTIC COLOURS!!!These "no name" Finnish cross country ski poles will fill you with American pride with their red, white, and blue leather baskets. No, I'm sure that has nothing to do with why the baskets are those colours, but it's pretty neat. The poles are in good shape, given their age they likely hail from the late 1950s or early 1960s based on the materials used and how the handles and baskets are constructed. Normally Finnish poles of that era would have a

Shiny shiny shiny

Us here at Skifabrikk don't actually hate Sweden or Swedish ski stuff

PLUS the heel has the groove for Kandahar and Tempo bindings (cable-style)

Weight (pair): 536gm

A great time piece from the period right before plastic and composite materials took over Nordic equipment

Skifabrikk has restored these poles to close to their "out the factory door" condition

Size large/XL

the weighty clamp

The bases are a gorgeous hickory

We haven't done a heavy-duty refresh on these - just a scrub down with some Murphy's and a dusting of the Gresvig Kandahar bindings

The leather H-style bindings are in fantastic condition

who won the gold in the individual race that year