195cm Lampinen FINLAND "Kilpa 5" Wood Cross-Country Racing Skis - Great Shape!All right. Let's be honest despite all the hoo ha about Norwegian skis, it's really the Finns who made the best skis back in the day. They may have sucked at marketing, which is why not a lot of their skis left the country, but the Finns made skis that were sought by racers worldwide (unless you were Norwegian or Swedish!). I heard firsthand the tale of a top US racer who loved his Finnish skis so much that when the US Ski Team signed a deal with a

Thor Tangvald was a Norwegian Nordic skier who competed in the 1920s

Shafts have a couple of splits

or even for self-defence

75mm width

but Skifabrikk techs have used time-honored techniques to restore the bases to racing condition

with poles and baskets still intact

so naturally we cleaned and smoothed the hickory/ligno and put on a fresh coat of Swix burn-in pine tar

Original price sticker still affixed - NOK60 is about USD$6 these days

he doesn't remember)

and 75mm wide bindings started being a pain in the ass because they would rub against the side of the tracks and slow the skier down

Material: bamboo

White leather straps/handles and plastic/leather ring baskets