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vooodooo last won the day on September 18 2021

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  • Location
    Hepworth Ont
  • Club
    Stoney Keppel Riders
  • Sled
    06 Mach Z, 05 550F Skandic Super Wide
  • Previous and/or Other Sleds
    too many to list lol
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    Male
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    www.thespaguy.ca

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  1. Yep to the above. Spectacle is really nice. Golf and ski is not as fancy but a great spot non the less. Started and finished at spectacle, they let us leave vehicles
  2. A phone call from him may be enough, but who knows how many calls dealers are getting from spring buyers looking for dates, scared they will not get what they ordered, when it is supposed to arrive? Be tough to distinguish the wheat from the chaff. Maybe call some dealers, see who may have, or think they may have some back outs, put down some real, refundable dollars. Money does talk, shows commitment. I drive by my local GM dealer, and it looks like they are getting ready to repave the parking lot. Same for the Deere dealer. Deer dealer used to have a nicely stocked corral of lawn type tractors. It's empty, like nothing there. Local Kubota dealer too had nothing on the lot, but it's getting better. I was worried they were shrinking their footprint, closing locations. Not the case thankfully. that would add an hour round trip to get parts. If my lawn tractor blew up tomorrow, I'd probably have to buy a goat. I called my dealer once, last month, just to order a windshield, now, in case they become unobtainium, as the supply chain breaks down. I'll make no more calls. Wait until they have something to tell me. What happens if and when a groomer breaks down, needs parts? Parts for grommers have always been tougher to get, mostly because of shipping and stocking issues. If unavailable, that will be worse.
  3. I had to check the date. 12:30 is a little early to be all shitty faced, but it is a Sunday and the rules of normal do not apply.
  4. Nothing better than an in person, hands on experience.
  5. The online system cuts out a bunch of paperwork. There is an option to allow the club you chose, to contact you via email for volunteering. Personally, I think that's better. If someone wants to help, and the club has a process to contact etc. One needs to want to get involved. Others just buy the permit and complain, not knowing the struggles. When I moved and went to the local dealer to buy a permit, there were 4 options of club. I asked the dealer which club I should contact to volunteer. One club's trail was across the road from my place, a different club at the back. The dealer told me who needed the most help and that sealed the deal. Guess that was a benefit to no online permits.
  6. Dumb question, but what's the market for something like that? I've seen people asking just marginally less (like %5) than I'll end up paying for a new 22. Is it like good used cars and trucks? Happy to get it, for almost new pricing, because new are unobtainium?
  7. Did I mention I was permit guy for the final few years? They'd get dropped off here, then I'd divvy them up between Ron's, Thomboys, Cindy's, Shallow lake, Mumma browns. Weekly pick up of money, hunting down bad checks, getting crapped on for depositing the cash in my bank and writing a check to GBST when it saved us a % 1 cash fee. Fudging the Dec 1 date as far as you could, getting crapped on when you couldn't. Paperwork, and you know my feelings and ability in that department. Worst part (or best) was that technically you could only put permits in a business within your catchment area. Sauble and GBE used to put permits at Ron's. GBE wasn't a problem because of GBST, but by rights we could have pushed the issue and had them removed, but that just makes for bad blood. I don't miss it, and it does make people think about which club the little bit of money goes to. I was with a Southern club for a while, that rarely got good snow, had limited trails but sold 800 permits....because that's the closest place to pick one up on the way North, or it's super convenient You know other clubs that got wealthy this way. No open trails for years but swimming in cash and a brand new groomer. My brother buys one from us, one from Bellwood or Conestoga. This is for the better.
  8. We need bridge builders, as do many clubs. Most can swing a hammer, run a saw, lay down boards. That's as easy as pounding in a stake, hanging a sign, even running a groomer. Grunt work. We need more of them. The tougher bridge work is the bridge between land owners, governments, municipalities, counties, those who would push back at organized sledding and "herding the cats" that are the groomer operators. I self identify as a feral cat. Anti social, avoid humans. That type of person is much harder to come by. Christy can do both FTW!!
  9. True, and sad. We all need to remember, once a trail or trail system is gone, in today's anti powersports, burning carbon for purely pleasure is bad environment, it's probably gone for good. If the trail system ever collapsed, I'd keep the Skandic. Most of us would have no use for even a utility sled, let alone a trail one.
  10. Till Doctor shaft smoker shuts you down you means. Sharpen the pitch forks, warm the tar and pluck the chickens.
  11. Never considered that trade in factor, because I've never done it. I sold mine in the summer because I can ride my brother's spare if needed. It's a Yamacat SR viper, but beggars can not be choosers. Questions for those that have, and general thoughts in what is already a fubar market. Does the dealer give you a value based on the sleds market, mileage and condition when it got parked in the spring? What happens if your new sled isn't ready and you add miles on it this coming season? What is delivery of the new one is mid to late season and you've added thousands of miles? What happens if the trade happens late season, as many others do the same, and all of a sudden dealers are flooded with used sleds at the end of the season?
  12. Well said. if an AGM brings new ideas and new blood, I’m all in. I don’t even think about the expenses I incur while doing anything organized snowmobiling related. I could elaborate, but it’s thousands of dollars a year, easily. This from a guy that maybe did 500km on a sled last year. I literally did at least twice that in the groomer, so I guess I got 1500 km in, on the trails last year lol. Many others do the same. Permit prices should be higher, but without l. enforcement, it’s the law of diminished returns
  13. Doubt they will. Don’t want it? Someone else will. It is sure to upset many if we get a good snow year, and you are sitting on a chair making bbrraaaapp noises.
  14. My sled was slated for a January delivery anyway
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