Exel of Finland First Generation Replacement "Butterfly" Cross-Country Ski Basket - 1970sThese baskets were revolutionary! Half the basket = half the weight. Well it's not like people up until the mid 70s didn't think of smaller baskets, it's just that course grooming hadn't advanced far enough so that you didn't need a frisbee on the bottom of your pole to keep from sinking 3 feet in. Exel of Finland stormed onto the market at the 1976 winter Olympics in Innsbruck with fiberglass poles and these funny looking yellow baskets. But racers

from these metal-edgers to racing skis that carried Pål Tyldum to victory in the 50k in Sapporo in '72

update to some modern NNN bindings and use your "normal" ski boots

but they are stable

Remember the smell

it's not too much of a lift

which is slightly smaller and meant for ladies

Blå Skia was an early pioneer in wood racing skis

Distance between bottom screw holes: n/a

and also blessed the world with the invention of klister

Unique spiral-leather handle

Weight (pair): 500gm

These white fiberglass examples were an attempt to minimize weight and maximize stiffness