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The Official "Post Pictures of your Custom Ski Poles" thread

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rareison
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I will post pics of mine tomorrow. Go!
Feb 27 2012 12:01AM
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Blake.P
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Dude, they're poles. Does it matter what they look like?
Feb 27 2012 12:04AM
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rareison
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Not really, I just wanna see what everyone else did with their poles!
Feb 27 2012 12:05AM
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why
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mine are mad ghetto. no baskets, racing grips with the hand cover thingy cut off, really short
Feb 27 2012 1:26AM
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Midwestoverdose
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Feb 27 2012 7:53AM
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skiRay
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I break too many poles to make custom ones anymore :(
Feb 27 2012 9:54AM
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rareison
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here are mine!

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Feb 27 2012 10:07PM
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rareison
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stole some rental poles, hammered the grips off, cut them down, hammered the grips back on, and spray painted them.
Feb 27 2012 10:08PM
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Rockhound
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made these from bike grips and neon $2 goodwill poles
Feb 27 2012 10:15PM
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rareison
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Sick! I tried to put BMX grips on mine, but they were too big.
Feb 27 2012 10:17PM
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DrZoidberg
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They're those black composite good ones, never broken them. I put these slightly thinner grips on them a while ago. Straps look ghetto but they have never fallen out or been any trouble.

Anybody ever cut these with a finer toothed hacksaw? They could do with a few inches less.
Feb 27 2012 10:26PM
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rareison
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yeah, I used a pretty tiny hack saw, the teeth were like 2 mm high maybe. Took about 5 mins for each pole. Anyone know if there are any type of bike grips that are thinner than bmx grips? Cause I really wanna put bike grips on, but my bmx grips were too big.
Feb 27 2012 10:32PM
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Rockhound
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me too, but i put a ton of duct tape on the end so they fit snug. the rope also helped make it snugger, then you just have to force the grips down onto the pole
Feb 27 2012 10:44PM
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rareison
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bump. Let's see some others!
Mar 4 2012 10:59AM
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Whaddup
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Zombie bump




Joysticks, cut 10cm off the bottom section so they adjust like 90-130cm, added some bike tape and grips
Dec 27 2022 11:24AM
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Whaddup
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Here's some joysticks I just did


Remove grips by placing them in hot water for a few


Since I wanted to shorten these poles, I heated and removed the plastic piece at the end of the bottom section as well


Duct taped at the length I wanted and cut with a hacksaw, glued plastic piece back in


Oury pyramid BMX grips have a narrower grip diameter and a large, soft rubber flange. Since I'm using them upside-down for a 'grab tab' effect, I used a dime to trace a circle with a silver sharpie, and cut a hole with an x-acto knife


Measured and cut duct tape sections for a good fit


This specific kind of lizard skins handlebar plug wasn't included with the bar tape and I found them separately. Hammered in to top of pole.









Wrap bike tape from bottom to top, cut and tape down the end. Boom



Dec 27 2022 1:10PM
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Whaddup
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Alright so the duct tape/epoxy situation gave out.

So I folded the grips inside out and sanded em up with some heavy low grit sandpaper, replaced the duct tape with cloth climbing tape, and the epoxy with superglue. We'll see how it does. Superglue worked on my last ones.
Jan 18 2023 5:44AM
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