Yamaha used to make skis...

[SIKSKIER]

My sister had a bright canary yellow pair in the 70's.I just bought a new Yamaha 165 hp 4-stroke PWC last summer.Sweet!

 

[marcski]

I grew up with a pair of old Yamaha racing skis in my basement. My dad's old ones. They were very big and very stiff. I think 215's or 225's. My brother and I always wanted to mount a pair of bindings and let those big puppies rip but we never did. The bindings were removed by the time I remember them. He also had a pair of head standards, with I think spademan bindings.

 

[dswalston]

I actually own a pair of bright yellow Yamaha skis with really old bindings. These have sat in my garage since the early 80s (bought used sometime in the 70s). I would really like to give them to a collector or someone who would have use for them.

 

[2Planker]

I had a pair. They would wooden, had Tyrolia bindinga and weighted a ton. They were also a straight as an arrow.

Me too Then went to a pair of Hexcel's circa 1975ish

 

[drjeff]

Just read a kind of cool stroy on a FB skiing page today about Yamaha skis. Apparently in 1994, Yamaha was trying to get Alberto Tomba to leave Rossignol and ski out his career on Yamaha skis. They brought him 2 pairs of custom built for him SL race skis to the Lillehammer Olympic Games in 94 and gave them to him at the chalet he was staying. He had no interest in leaving Rossi and left the skis in the chalet. The guy who still owns the chalet, just gifted one of the 2 pairs to a big time ski racing historian, who now has the never mounted, still in the plastic wrap they were shipped in, made for Tomba custom Yamaha race skis!