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True. I drive a truck in my spare/spare time. I can't remember the actual rule but there is a distance behind the trailer you are "supposed to" be able to see. It's mostly about emergency vehicles, so you can see them from a distance. My camera easily passes this test, from experience.

LOL. I use the groomer now to groom the trail from my place to the OFSC trail that is next to my property. It's kinda nice not having to road run....not that I had to before, it's only 1000 feet through my back "40". Now with that aside, the groomer lives here, as of this year. Fuel tank, oil, parts etc. etc. It comes in my shop at least weekly to get thawed out, serviced and repaired. Small stuff like wiper blades, bolts, grease etc, I just order and install and it's absorbed as if used for my business I don't take anything for the heat required ( in floor Natural Gas), laying down the rubber belting I got free from work for the concrete or the clean up of the mess. Don't even really clock in when the actual work on it happens. I think of that as doing my part. Everyone I know just does it, My wife doesn't give me much grief either that her service van has to stay outside because the groomer is taking her spot in the shop. This year was a strange one. We shared a groomer. For weeks, operators came and went at all hours. All good guys, but imagine the dog barking at random times of the night, camera's warnings going off, motion lights activating as guys come and go at all hours of the day. No biggie. Groomer needs to move. Anyone who complains about groomer operations needs to be educated.

Just a tip for the wider trailers that you can't see behind. I have a Triton, 12 foot clamshell and even with the pull out truck mirrors it sucks. I wanted to tow it with my full size vans and there was no real good option for mirrors. Bought and installed this on the back of the trailer, powered by the running lights. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07H2GMM48/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 1000 miles on multiple vehicles, works very well. Likely get me past the MTO rule that you have to be able to see behind you, but that has yet to be confirmed lol.

Lol. I've had sleds that I should have left on the side of the trail and collected the insurance money....but they were such turds no sledder with a brain would take it. For example, no one with a 900 fusion ever needed theft insurance.

Lol, delivered!!

Lol I'd fear any type of fiscal teaching, by ETFO members etc in Ontario public schools. I'd would be based on unicorns and money tree's.

3 years I think. Immaterial to my situation. The money is sitting there to pay for it outright, if that becomes necessary. As Scotty said, not everyone is in that position, but at %.99 it's not a big interest cost, and with the used market as hot as it is, the 2022 900 Turbo R has a significant value above the previous models. If someone ran into trouble paying for it, it would likely be easy to sell and not take a massive hit. I know the wording in the offer states it's based on credit worthiness. Like, how credit worthy, what score? I know mine, it's beyond reproach. It only suffers because I don't make any monthly installment payment of any kind. That is part of a credit score that makes little sense. I am very interested in how that plays out, and will post once the deal starts to go down. Banks and financing companies are in the business of making money. My wife has run a tight ship for 25 years, All her lol, I was a credit disaster in the 90's. If I don't deserve the %.99 interest rate, no one gets it. It's a BRP bait and switch.

%100 agree. Financing of toys is a non starter for me.....however, if they are willing to finance it at %.99, I can leave the money in my hand's and make more with it somewhere else. I can afford to buy the sled without the financing, and will if that %.99 is a bait and switch.

Didn't see anything about that. I know as much as anyone reading the above cut and paste from BRP. I imagine it's setup once the sled is ready for delivery. If they try to squirm out of the %.99 somehow, I guess I'd take the grand in accessories and just pay for it outright, maybe even with a credit card to show my displeasure.

My dealer asked for $500, no biggie. They did ask what promotion you want for the spring order. I chose the %.99 financing rate. That's $550 over 5 years. Hard to argue with that. Might as well keep my money, gain interest on it and pay for the sled over 5 years. Question is, is that for everyone, seems so? What if you are maybe not credit worthy? BRP has always been back stopped by government so it's probably meaningless.

Never been an issue for us. We sometimes need heavy equipment type companies to build and maintain trails. Preference is given, to landowners, volunteers, etc, but it's still done as an RFQ. Operators, machines and material are not always free. Sometimes we get lucky though. We get treated very well when we must hire the above. As much as we can, volunteers with volunteered equipment is used, free of charge, including even fuel. Our books are open to any club member, the district and the OFSC. An audit would find nothing untoward.

I can agree with that...however I don't think it's really an issue. Groomer operators in my district have had static pay for as long as I can remember. $17/hr during the day, $19/hr at night. Most of the operators I know have heavy equipment jobs and background, and/or are small business owners. I make quite a bit more at my other endeavors. None I know do it for the money, we usually take a financial hit, not to mention the missed family and riding opportunities, so riders can enjoy the sport we all love.

Yep, Add on. I think it's worth the 500 bucks. List was $650. Dealer dropped it %20 and threw in the heated shield option port no charge. Without me asking for such. Friends around me go to this dealer with nothing but good reviews. I see why.

Ordered a Renegade XRS with the 900T R, heated seat. Brother has a yamaha with a heated seat. It's kinda nice. Decades ago I thought who in the heck needs heated grips and throttle? Was converted in the 90's. Heat is good. First new sled for me, first 4 stroke, in 40 years of buying used. Not sure what to do with the 1000 sdi Mach Z? This sled is it's equal in power, albeit delivered differently. Hope it's as much fun, but for anyone who has ridden the 1000 sdi that's a big hill to climb. When the servo opens up the exhaust valves at full throttle, it's like a kick in the pants and it just keeps kicking. No comparison in suspension. The RT chassis was meant for speed, even the cheapest Rev platform was more forgiving in the bumps.

Ontario used to max out our supply of power. Think it was around 27 or 28 GW. The only realistic way to beef up the grid for electric cars is small modular nuclear reactors, in the location of demand. That ain't gonna happen. Plan B is removable, standardized battery configurations. Charged off site, brought to a "filling station" You'd lease the battery, swap it out at now what are changing stations. That's doable, and in the works, but years away. Many factors are involved in that. Batteries and the power to drive a vehicle. The laws of electrical design haven't changed. Voltages required and the cables etc. are quite complex. It ain't like swapping out the starter battery on the F150.

Impossible for a snowmobile IMO. To put it in perspective, there is about 33 kwh in a gallon of gas, but much of that goes out the exhaust or to waste heat. A tesla 85kwh battery weighs 1200 lbs. 10 gallons of gas weighs 70 lbs, so even at %10 efficiency, that is 33 kwh @ 70 lbs. Fact is a car rolls, sleds need the power applied much of the time to keep it moving. That 1200 lb battery would be depleted in a matter of hours. Sorry to burst the bubble.

Pricks! Had a local land owner last week, family watched his pick up truck leave his place. Neighbors knew the truck, saw it on their road, tracked it down a block or so away. Got the truck back, but not his wallet. Wife now has me taking all the keys out of everything, where I used to not do that. Are we able to shoot these mother buggers, with at least some rock salt?

The toy/trailer market is looney hot. My brother bought a 2015 7x12 single axle steel enclosed in 2017 for $4500. Sold it Sunday for $5500. He did do some upgrades, annual Krown spray and it was in near new shape. Sold his 2004 Kodiak 450 Yamaha, again, great shape with new plastics .. for $5500 as well same day, after a day or so on Kijiji. He ordered a new 7x14 aluminum 2 axle...delivery maybe some time in June. I thought the market was going to be flooded with cheap toys and trailers after covid. I could not have been more wrong, but I didn't forsee Trudope was going to rain money down on the masses. I needed a 5x8 aluminum enclosed middle of last year. Called around until I found a dealer that had one in the production stream, late October delivery. Not quite the color and other small things I wanted, but it would have been now before I'd have the exact one I wanted. Happy I said put my name on it.

Think I mentioned rock star status earlier. Had the opportunity a year or so ago to do some work on a land owners hot tub. Eby Farms on HWY 21 in Allenford. Got us off a road run when the town started plowing the road after decades of not doing that. Made a point to thank them before I started to fix their tub. Dairy farmers that have been nothing but awesome letting us use their land. Don't think they even own snowmobiles. Sometimes a small thank you can go a long way.

Now, if we can only get the townships on board with us pushing back the snowbank and smoothing the normally untraveled portion, we'd have less road scratching. I was doing that, well I thought. So well, cars and even a snow plow got off the road and sucked into the ditch. We got advised to no longer do such. IMO it keeps snowmobiles off the road. No interaction between cars and snowmobiles. Saves lives. Talk to your town people. We should not be punished for bad drivers. Don't mention me or my township lol.

Lol, didn’t want to call you out by name etc. You do that for me... My deeds can get posted, but not my face or name, lol... You have done wonders for the club, grooming, land owner relations, funds and everything else... We”d be friged without your leadership That’s a young chick here old boys. Gets the job done way better that us old boys did... Just sayin”

Groomed our rail line today, hard as concrete but slow and steady cut some up into a flatish fine powder and small nuggets. It will reopen, it's survived well. Still a foot of rock solid base in most spots. Bush trails and farm fields not so much. Couldn't do much but scratch up enough so you might not smell sliders and coolant.

We may survive. Frozen solid base now, but all the snow we are getting is just blowing away. Could be a tough scratch......

Gotta chime in for the D9 peeps as well. None of this happens without district/ofsc support, or permit money. Had an issue with our shared groomer. Didn't turn left worth a crap. Emailed the district, they got the Shop Industrial guys down and worked on our groomer, fixed the issue. That ain't free. Don't ride with jerks who didn't buy a permit.

They may be trying to save a decent frozen snow base. If the base gets torn up by sleds and exposes the ground to the sun, it's game over, even if it snows at this time of year. Especially on winter wheat. That's a hard stop for us. We can not afford to destroy land owners crops and wreck that relationship. It's warm and sunny where I am. Our groomer went out and did 18 hours straight, yesterday/today. The temperatures dictated the best time to go. Two operators, two different grooming areas as our next door club's groomer has been down for over a week. We've been sharing one groomer, and it's been used to the max for this past week by both groomer coordinators. think it's been out over 100 hrs in 7 days. One club takes it out for a run, comes back here for fuel, maybe a short stop, and back out it goes. This is only possible thanks to the volunteers, and that we both have almost identical Prinoth Huskys and mogul master drags. No one needed to be brought up to speed on the setup. We've even been doing each others trails when an operator had extra time and it made sense. Been doing that all year. My club's president and groomer coordinator is a champ. Brought all of the operators on a group text chain. A first for us. It works way better than phone calls. We all know the status of the machine, where it's at, what it's doing, who is in it next and what we can/should be doing so someone can step up. She is a rock star. The old boy's club is now the young woman's club and we are much better for it.