Wax

Not as well known outside of the high end Nordic ski racing world, Star from Italy makes top performing products while often being more affordable. Not surprising that with the growing popularity of skin skis that Star would develop great products for...

As the fluoro free ski wax world develops new products, also developing is application methods. Traditional iron in waxes still have their value as a base product, and what is in the base first will affect the performance of liquid or fleece applied...

Star C1 Cold is a hydrocarbon synthetic hardening powder with exceptional resistance to cold snow crystal abrasion. This micro-granular powder wax is easy to iron and scrape. Use this wax in very cold snow and lower relative air humidity to...

CLassic skiing on a klister wax day can be great. Applying klister can make you grate your teeth. And it can get worse if the klister scrapes off too soon. Make life easier and more fun on a klister ski day, use this spray-on base klister from Rode. ...

Rode Klisters have always been reliable, and when other wax companies try to equal them Rode will come up with something new and not surprisingly superior. If you have used and trusted Rode klisters before you will need to welcome TopLine KRS3 to the...

Skin skis are fun, until they're not. Often things turn into a drag because the skin insert has become contaminated. Be careful when cleaning, though, because using the wrong treatment can wreak havoc with the glue holding the skin onto the ski. Use...

The search for fluoro-free ski glide waxes with race level performance has led to an explosion of new ideas and formulations. And yet it is a decades old brand, Rode from Italy, that has come up with some new and remarkable – and of course...

Toko took awhile longer to bring race level non-fluoro ski paraffins to the market, as they wanted to continue testing before fully committing to products that would live up their high standards. Still the familiar Blue/Red/Yellow scheme, still reliably...

You know how your carpets get dirty and a good vacuum cleaning makes a difference? And then there's spring mud season, and you know you have to do more to get the carpet cleaned! The same thing happens to your skin skis. They're fine in new clean snow...

Skilled nordic ski waxers often use mixes of klisters to maximize performance. Klister mixes can have superior grip, or glide, or both, and frequently have extended range. Not surprising that Vauhti has made a pre-mix of two of their most useful klisters...

As klisters with fluorocarbons are being removed from the market it is surprising how many of the truly great klisters remain as they never had any fluoro. Of the handful of remarkable klisters with fluoro that are being missed, the old Vauhti KF Base...

In the race to replace fluorinated klisters with competitive non-fluoro race day level versions, Vauhti has come up with some top contenders to replace their great KF klisters. These new Vauhti Pure Race klisters seek to equal or surpass their...