PISTON LAKE CRUISER

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.

I do not believe we will see big dollar funding from the provincial governmant any time in the future. They don't seem to have enough money to keep our roads in decent condition and that should be a much higher priority than sled trails. It's time for us to pay a more realistic amount for permits if this sport is to continue to support the trails we have in Ontario. I'm sure there are a lot of riders who spent more in 24 hours this past winter snowmobiling than what their permit cost.

I read about one a couple of months ago for northern club trailupgredes that was I believe $550,000+ but I'm like you and not in the know. I really think the permit price has to go up and permit enforcement has to get tough.

I believe the grants the OFSC get from the Ontario Government directly or indirectly come partly from fuel and licensing fees.

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The most intelligent and successful investors that I know speak very little if at all about their investment wins/losses.

The better looking ones went first no doubt

I think Nunz hit the nail on the head saying it may have been hauled on an open trailer. The salt gets all through the undercarriage and if it's not wasked off when you get home you get rusting and often times premature bearing failures. For years back before the millenium we trailered 4 sleds on an open bed for 10-12 hours both ways. to start our yearly trip. We all had suspension bearing issues over the years that disappeared when we changed to an enclosed trailer. I don't think some suspension parts are paint protected as well as in the past. I wash metal suspension parts well & spray them with a light oil (not WD) each spring. It seems to help.

Kirkland Lake grooms to the north side of Matheson and Iriquois Falls grooms north from there.

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You might want to think about what you post on public forums. If you really are writing toys off this might catch up with you.

You never got into Super 8 off "that loop" and still get into it off L27 like always.