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Spiderman

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  1. 2 hours ago, Blackstar said:

    Could be winter of 83/84 or 84/85 but I remember one winter being low on snow. We rode the sleds but not a lot. The next year it was cold but snow. Somewhere about 2nd or 3rd week of Jan we got 6 inches. Not enough to open trails but enough to scratch around. My uncle, cousin, my dad and myself rode our Yamaha Enticers (1-250, 2-300’s, 1-340) down to the river in Bridgeport and ran on the ice up the river to the Conestogo Dam and back.

    The next day my dad said “I’m done, sleds are for sale.” They both sold in a couple days for close to what we paid for them 5 years early. The second one didn’t leave for a week and by the time the guy came back to get it, the only snow on the lawn was where the sled was sitting. And we never had snow for the rest of the winter.

     

    My dad always referred to it as the best decision he ever made regarding sleds.

    Curious, what did your dad fill the void with?

     

    i don’t think I could just walk away from riding that easy

  2. My dad grew up skating on the Thames River, for weeks on end, you’d be lucky to get a day on it at all now.

     

    things have changed, but none of us were around in the 17 and 18 hundreds and anything from those times are just “stories” anyways, so nobody really “knows”

  3. 10 hours ago, Strong Farmer said:

    For now it is until temperatures and winds co-operate. Looks like a quiet, mild first week of January too. 

    It’s best when the lake is warm and the air is not, it’s not frozen, but it’s not warm now either, had too much time to naturally cool down.

     

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  4. 33 minutes ago, Strong Farmer said:


    did that all melt last year by middle of January up there? 
    50 percent of time we get a January thaw. So third week of January could wipe out whole season this year if it happens. 

    No, but we did not get a tonne after that either, if that major storm just around Christmas had not happened it would have been a tough go.

  5. The pool of people willing to drop 20 plus k on something that can be used so little is getting smaller by the day.

     

    tag on the costs of having to now chase snow all over the place, and it will only get worse.

     

    any dealer still doing sleds is doing it out of passion, they aren’t making money.

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  6. 1 hour ago, UsedtoSkidoo said:

    Same crap every year. I frankly could care less if I get one ride in only this year. It is what it is,

    Agreed, I think for me its just frustrating knowing where we always used to be and what is now becoming more "normal".

     

    These last 2 years are the only years I won't be out on the ice on the lake between Christmas and New Years - only 2 since 1988.

     

    I can't stress enough how much I hope by me paying carbon taxes that in 50 years - we'll be able to walk on the ice again at Christmas. 

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  7. 7 hours ago, stoney said:

    Just looked at Dorset forecast, not looking too bad just after Christmas. 

     

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    Am I missing any snow in that forecast?

    That looks for going for a walk with the dog - but that's about it :)

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  8. 3 hours ago, UsedtoSkidoo said:

    Make sure its a long track so he can put on a backpack, Helmet mohawk, shovel and ride standing up the whole time............

    You must have talked to him...............:)

    He's getting regular track - the deal was too good to let go by. 

     

    He can contribute to the next one and then can have more say.

     

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  9. 35 minutes ago, RAMSOMAIR said:

    Have you looked at another insurance company?  Perhaps they won't require a G.

    Working on that today.

    Once confirmed - moving everything we have with TD afterward

    Was a good run - but no longer suiting our needs. 

     

     

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  10. 20 minutes ago, Strong Farmer said:

    That blows time to have a seperate snowmobile license for all now. 

     

    What is unfortunate is it will just force us to have to got the facility market now and pay through the nose for our child to enjoy the trails.

     

    Insurance companies! 

  11. 41 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

     

    That sucks. TD never used to care.

     

    Did they contact you to tell you this?

     

     

    Actually no, they didn't found out when removing the Evo from the policy and adding the new sled.

     

     

     

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  12. 10 minutes ago, stoney said:

    Well that sucks - hopefully other options that are not a total rip off.

    Does the OFSC still have a insurance company that they endorse like they used to...I think it was sledder choice insurance at one point?

    No, 

    Started the search now - likely will end up in the facility pool and may have to restrict him to only his sled while on trails etc.  - we'll see how it goes.

    Its a bit of a bummer and now just making more work

     

     

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