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About manotickmike

  • Birthday 12/05/1960

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    Manotick
  • Club
    Missing Link
  • Sled
    07 Apex Attak GT 10 Nytro XTX
  • Previous and/or Other Sleds
    Last sled: 99 Ski-Doo Grand Touring 700 GT SE (Don't ask...)
    Previous life: 72 440 TNT 74 340 TNT F/A
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    My 4 enduro bikes...
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  1. Anyone have the definitive answer on attempting to stabilize crap-e fuel? Happily, my sleds run 87, so the least amount of corn crap, but I've seen what it can do to an injector. Maybe run it as dry as the pickup will allow and add the canned E-free stuff from CTC with stabilzer? When I siphon, I'm still at 2 bars on my (Japanese) Yamahas. I always ran a tank of E-free in at the end of the season and added Sta-bil with zero issues 2 sleds, 8 years.
  2. Hi! Couldn't log in, or get my password re-set last year. 😬 So I tried again this year. Bazinga! For better or worse.. I'm back. South Ottawa people, let's ride!
  3. So, where's the dead end? Is our association doing all it can to save it's self? Or just watching Rome burn? Seems to me this is more than a grooming service, although some feel that's it's only purpose.
  4. Not to tread on Gobills post, (Thanks!)n but I tripped over this again on my laptop, and it's a challenging read for me with my abilities, so here it is in one bite. I know there's 2 sides to this story, but the other side is less than a model of transparency. No wonder there's accusations of politics.... Anyhoo... Year after year, and it’s becoming worse. So, unfortunately it’s come to the point where we would like to inform the public that we have been doing our best efforts to help the clubs in any and every way we possibly can, to get the loop open and returned to the green outline that we all already saw and want to see again. You’d be surprised to know that both clubs seem to present the images of the “best snowmobile destinations” mean while here is the truth... we realize there are unforeseen events and obstacles that need to be addressed of course. But really.... and then say to people we don’t provide accommodation so they can’t groom. Straight up, bs. Here’s the facts. Cochrane, we done above and beyond that the club has never considered making reality. And Smoothrock, well..... joke. Come on eh. You don’t want sledding in your community. The town sign says “the worlds best snowmobile destination”..... don’t blame hydro cause hydro works every year and wil have to do service every year because it’s accessible during the winter cause it’s a swamp in the summer. Stop telling the public it’s cause of us the trail isn’t open. We are a private business. Not a club and not a warm up shack. We have done our best to turn this into a 5 star premium experience with as much class we can, given the circumstances. We had a vision snd we are achieving it. Before you hear or listen to the “telephone game” about the trail being red (closed) I want to explain what skin we put into the game regarding grooming. We have bent over backwards trying to accommodate groomers. We realize that grooming is one of the most important parts of you guys leaving us with a good experience. Very simple ... Happy groomer = good trails = happy riders. To make the 12 hour trip eassier for the groomer we bought (donated) for a new brushed attachment straight up, 3000$ as a gold or platinum meneber donation thing, provided a 5000L diesel tank on site, and CARRY the fuel bill for the season. I stay up to countless hours and trips back and forth at hours at a shot to go to and from camp cause the decision to groom is last min in the day and I find out at 7,8,9pm the day of to be told that he will be there at 3 am. The coffee and food is on us, the coffee is always always ready..... I make sure cause I have good values and morals. I would never be rude like that. I make sure there is a fresh sheets and pillows on the modified container that houses them ... a warm bathroom that’s heated that costs the generators to run, and not to mention.. We paid the groomers everytime they came up 100$ to make the trip a genuine incentive. This is not to boast, this is not to get anyone’s back up but we are hearing and starting to hear rumors and this is the facts. The demands and sabotage efforts and lack of communications with what are supposed to be the best clubs, is not cool. The reputation to build over the last few years was hard to build and the choice of personalized signs saying no gas is not right. Why say no gas? Instead of using one of the 10 signs we purchased that instead should say trail closed and we have never even seen the signs. We are open and we have gas. Groom the trails fully and stop with the games. It was open at Christmas time. The lack of communication and ignorance from northern corridor and both clubs is rediculous. We have reached out for the opportunities to better the tourism industry and sport itself and current and future insites. Let’s continue building the worlds best snowmobile destination and let’s all be on the same page so the rumors stop! If anyone thinks we have not met the demands then please let us know. We do everything and go so far for everyone and it’s alwayyysssss issues and problems and headache from the people that SHOULD BE supporting US. Not pushing us to consider closing shop.
  5. Interesting FB post from the proprietors of the Canyon enterprise yesterday, if anyone cares to hear their point of view.
  6. It really doesn't matter what model they follow without any viable enforcement. Next time you meet one of the nice guys actually mounted on sleds, ask just how many of them are out. I had an OPP officer tell me in confidence last year that there was one patrol from Renfrew/Kingston/Cornwall. He may have been s#itting me, but that's basically D1. 2 sleds. 2 guys. Not much of a deterrent.
  7. And it's happening on our watch. Because we let it.
  8. Hence my comment. Thanks, Spiderman. Parking lots terrify me. I drove field service for 25 years. You can pretty much get away with murder in a parking lot. Trusting someone to apply road rules there will get you in big trouble. The stop signs are meaningless. I was T-boned in a company vehicle by an idiot in a parking lot, despite my heightened alertness. It took our lawyers and insurance companies well over a year to get it sorted, all the while someone or other was giving me the stink-eye. Commercial insurance is expensive. One good claim can get your whole fleet policy cancelled. I had to hire my own lawyer just to get my own head-office A-holes off my case. They wanted to dismiss me, and I refused to drive until they got their collective s#it together.
  9. Highway traffic act does not apply in a parking lot. Private. I'm sure someone could explain how this is different. Or why this private property is patrolled, when it seems it's sadly lacking elsewhere.
  10. Pardon my absence.. Is Kris back?
  11. If no trail patrol will be provided by those we pay to provide it... Let's not tolerate the bullshit where they won't allow us to patrol things ourselves. I cannot imagine asking/expecting people to invest vast quantities of volunteer time into something that has no protection. That's a sand castle. If you enjoy building something to watch it get washed away have at it. Don't ask me to help. I volunteer a LOT of time into our single track dirt bike trails. Nobody is going to stand in my way of defending them against idiots that contribute nothing except getting us closer to losing our privileges. The alternative is to sit home when yet another area gets shut down, and kicking yourself for doing nothing to prevent it.
  12. So far I'm impressed. No, I don't own a Bombi... This app highlights much of what I've mentioned about the PQ app, and how much better ours could be. Because examples! How about that map background. It's an actual map! With a trail superimposed. Instead of a trail, with approximate map suggestions behind it. I know what will be on my electronics this season, should we ever get one.
  13. No enforcement, no consequences, and everyone knows it. Not a recipe for longevity. Sorry for the negativity, but as a somewhat new return to sledding, I just can't understand this.
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