XTC500
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Lucky you! I have nothin but dandelions growing in my lawn!
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Monkton arena gives you easy trail access.
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22 minutes ago, cehyoopers said:
so much privilege going on here, if I was to ever leave the sport it would be because of conversations like this,,, I watched as trailer after trailer headed north under the lock down, then the problem was instead of staging outside of town, most stage in towns, unload and carry on like kids with no supervision, the general public has never understood sledding, ever, and we give them the fuel to hate us even more, and then gather in groups, then piss and moan at the government cause its all their fault, well peeps look in the f^&&king mirror, that is where the problem is,,, the world is bigger then your tiny minds,,,,, flames on, MFs,,,
Well said!
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1 hour ago, Strong Farmer said:
You want to fight cop who gives
you a ticket. A reason to stop you as well. Lots of tickets handed out in south over last few months. A real grey area if police force wants to apply law and give you ticket anyways. Bringing this letter up won’t get you any where I don’t think. On news allot lately and police force claims they were just following existing rules and busting drivers with out of date license stickers.
Hmmm. A grey area like depending on the officers mood does he enforce the 50k/h speed limit?
Share some links regarding the officers busting drivers with out of date stickers. I missed that on the news. Thanks
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2 hours ago, snowman said:
Stupid Question: Just noticed that i have not updated my license sticker on the side of the sled since 2020. Is this something that i have to go to the drivers license office to renew or is it something that can be done online?
I am assuming that the renewal was sent to my old address, so never thought anything about it...
Thanks in advance for any help...
I haven't moved and didn't receive my renewal notice. Is it because of this?
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11 minutes ago, soupkids said:
And a sore back I bet
I was a lot younger then.
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Watching those leaf sprung machines bash through the moguled bush trail @ 14:20 brings back memories.
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21 minutes ago, zoso said:
native reserves are all on land owned by the crown.
You need to do your homework before you post.
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4 minutes ago, volunteer2 said:
Gonna have to see what the northern hotels and resorts say. May be out of line here but can't see them getting a ton of business from the locals. Sorry to say. Six Nations down here did shut down the entire area so no one got in to buy their smokes.
I think the ones with a financial interest in you such as hotels, restaurant owners, will welcome you. But at gas stations, restaurants your likely to run into local patrons that are not as welcoming.
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51 minutes ago, stoney said:
Are you certain it was closed?
I only ask because my dad who has a cottage on Parry Island implemented a check point to get across the bridge this past spring/summer, only allowed people that had passes to enter, but all you had to do was have the pass given to you as being an owner/resident on the island and off you went, which could have been left for you at the check point or given to you before crossing, but they seem to also only enforce the policy on the weekend.
If in fact it was closed off 100%, I assume that also meant no one came and no one left as well seeing as that would only make sense.
I was referring to this:
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23 minutes ago, Strong Farmer said:
They won’t do that unless hospitals start filling up. No way they are going to spend resources guarding highways. First Nation had an Ice road, which they decided not to build to keep people out. Never know with these crazy politicians. If they do that may as well come up with a curfew too.
They may not do it, but it's clear, visitors from the south will not be welcome in the north. I'm not inclined to go where I'm not welcomed.
The natives closed the highway on Manitoulin last spring/summer.
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Large, This forum has turned into a soapbox for people to use to bitch about politics.
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Speaking of vintage I saw this beauty on kijiji.
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-snowmobile/stratford-on/mercury-rocket-lightening/1541846271
I was in my early teens when a neighboring farmer got one of those. Everyone on our road was aghast at the obscene 30 hp sled! Who needs that much power!
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2 hours ago, slomo said:
That is the fly in the ointment. In certain zones in Quebec everyone in a hotel room or cabin must live at the same residential address. Good possibility Ontario would follow. Good article (except for the dreadful choice of asparagus pictured next to ribs
) but assumes that group riding from place to place will be as it has been in the past. This season is going to take a whole lot of new thinking.
I think most overlooked by folks planning to ride together as a group is to how to determine if one of the group is not a carrier of the virus. Despite the use of masks, it wouldn't take much to have someone help change a belt or give a vehicle a pull or push, and have a nice gush of virus filled breath headed your way.
I think we're kidding ourselves to think we could maintain a safe distance and/or wear masks & not contaminate one another when spending a number of days on a sled trip with a group of friends/relatives. I don't think the masks would cut it for even the ride north in the confined space of a pickup truck with someone outside your home bubble.
Grilled asparagus is awesome!!
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1 hour ago, Big Pussy said:
Wrong brand of sled.
Campbell Soup = X brand
Keep your eye out for the next Johnnie Walker or Glenfiddich contest! The prize would be more to what your liking.
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31 minutes ago, PISTON LAKE CRUISER said:
What colour is it?
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1 minute ago, PISTON LAKE CRUISER said:
You can sure tell we are impatiently waiting when the #1 topic on OC is what the proper colour for a sled trailer should be.
Will somebody please start the SNOW DANCE!
It sure beats the ridiculousness usually going on in the "Rant of the Day" thread.
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28 minutes ago, signfan said:
I think the grey / charcoal is the happy medium. Can't see white in a snow storm. If the lights are off it's tough to see black at night. Charcoal doesn't show the dirt as bad either.
I agree on grey. I store my sled in the trailer over the summer & didn't want the heat that black would attract in the summer or white for visibility reasons in the snow.
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I've always kept track of the mileage of all my vehicles & check the dash reading vs the actual fuel used/100km driven. My 2016 Tacoma dash gauge is very accurate for day to day driving. Within 0.2L/100km. But pulling a trailer, the bigger the load & hilly, I find it's less accurate. Within 3.0L/100km. The dash gauge reads more L/100km than I'm actually using.
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I used something that worked just like the Biteharder Ambassador on the rear coil springs of my 1988 Plymouth Reliant. Purchased from CTC. We used to grossly overload that car with camping gear & those spacers in the rear coil springs kept the rear end from sagging.
https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/superior-18-1901-18907-spring-booster-0220018p.html
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Could be tough finding accommodation in or near Wawa. It's a busy area now.
https://www.saultstar.com/news/local-news/exceptionally-hard-to-find-a-home-in-wawa-official
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1 hour ago, Big Pussy said:
Xtc500, I was refering to the bridges on the Quebec end of trail. They were a lot shorter and not so high. I never seen the death bridge 1/2 our group went over. They had ties missing from the story. I will chech out your coordinates on Google Earth.
I think that was the 2014 trip. The outfitter on the north side of Lake Abitibi was Steel Mountain Outfitters .
I think this is one of the railway bridges your talking about.
I wish I had pics of the bridge we found by mistake.
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Anyone done the guided tours from Hearst to Moosonee?
in Main Clubhouse
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The Companion has the tours on their website.
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