PISTON LAKE CRUISER

Look at the pictures of the trucks again. They all appear to be heavy haul or off road trucks where the tare weight is not normally a primary concern.

Just part of the Trudopes legacy.

You can usually find independants willing to work on older bikes. My friend has grown his business to where he has 2 other techs working with him in the shop.

I don't know the answer to your questions but they all could be part of the reason.

Too bad about Rocky's. I bought my first bike at Rocky's original location on Wharncliffe Rd. in 1967. They were also a Honda dealer at that time and I bought a 450 Honda new for $1,000.00. I personally think the facination with Harley's is starting to fade not to mention effect of retalitory tariffs. A friend of mine runs a bike repair shop in London. For many years in the recent past Rocky's wouldn't work on bikes more than 5 years old. They referred those bike owner's to my buddies shop.

While myself and most others really appreciate your efforts, it is just WRONG that the OFSC (if they haven't already) has not gotten directly involved to supply mechanized machinery and operator(s) or at least the money required to clear all the affected trails. This is above and beyond what should be asked of the volunteers. Lord knows there is more than enough work to be done through a normal year. I sincerely hope I will be informed that the OFSC has been directly involved through the districts in dealing this unusual situation but unfortunately I will not be surprised if they haven't.

I guess so! Normalized net income down approx. 70% as compared to the same period last year.

The difference between your business and the OFSC is that for many years chicken farmers were making huge profits. I don't remember a time when the OFSC had that kind of profits at the end of a season.

The other major issue is that the OFSC does not control the permit cost. I believe the MTO still has the final say on what any increase will be. Don't ask me why!

YES!

In all the above proposals the day permit prices are at the bottom. Their 5 day prices are more than our early annual permits.

Here's the 3 proposals for 2025-2026 Permit pricing in Quebec. The top price is early permit price:

That was from a District 9 Manager speaking to District 9 club directors. "This just sounds like they wanted to be squeaky wheel without going thru whole process to get some funding/help equipment. " There is a process the clubs are supposed to follow to receive funds for any expenses. The first step is to approach your District office for the funds as the District pays for all applicable approved club and grooming expenses within the District.

There is no easy way of telling. With on phone and printed multi days it physically looks like a lot of sleds don't have permits. To my knowledge, the club checks by "trail ambassadors" has no enforcement power behind it so anyone who wants to can drive on. I believe it is paid duty but for the number of trail km's. it is very sparce. I bet you could count total yearly province wide trespass convictions on your fingers or add your toes at most. I've never heard of any of that money going to the OFSC.

If they really want to increase income they need to really increase permit enforcement. The way it currently is there is very minimal enforcement. Riders can ride with paperwork or phone proof so it is very hard to tell if passing sleds actually have a permit and that affords the freeloaders even more opportunity to ride unchecked. Permits are getting placed on sleds wherever the rider desires (we saw 2 Doo's near Mattawa this winter with the permits on back side of the left side A arm plastic tunnel cutouts). You see very few sleds without permits in Quebec because they have exceptional enforcement and stiff fines.