You can make your stock skis into asphalt legal skis or buy aftermarket skis specifically for asphalt. The majority of sleds I've seen have purchased asphalt specific skis. My recommendation is to buy aftermarket skis. In the long run it'll be a lot less hassle. If you make your stock skis into asphalt skis, then you won't be able to use them on the snow anymore. Also, with the stock ski conversion most racers use stock idler wheels as the wheels in the skis. My observation on this is that the idler wheels do not stand up to much of a side load before the rubber starts coming off. If one of them blows the rubber you could have a handling problem. By my causal observation at the tracks that I've raced at, the most popular skis are the ones made by Whal Bros, followed by the USI skis. Both of these skis use a single wheel in front and rear of the spindle. Here you see sleds with 3 different kinds of skis

My personal choice was the Whal Bros ski.

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