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manotickmike

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  1. It shouldn't be a challenge. Even I figured it out!

    First year I neglected to cash the cheque, called the# and it was re-issued.

    This year I found the link, and got my rebate check before my trail pass.

    Intact is very accommodating. At least as far as trail insurance is concerned.

  2. It's typically the LAST guy in a train that is trying way too hard to keep up. 

    I always say to leave yourself an "out" but that means going left when they come at you in your lane. 

    Could lead to bigger troubles than leaving the trail. 

    It's going to come to dash cams.

    I've already seen guys giving someone a "tune up" after a close call.

    I ride fast when I can see. 

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  3. Somebody in "risk management" drew attention to existing agreements apparently. HO blames the clubs, and vice versa. 

    One trail here wanted OFSC to provide year round insurance to gain access that had been granted for YEARS. Why not? Nobody else pay for access, or does anything to maintain things. :roll:

     

    Volunteers with tons of hours in and other people treated like mushrooms are venting. 

     

     

  4. Name and shame.

    NOT pictured, was where, on his 3rd and final backwards trip onto private property, he was within inches of my RV, drive wheels spinning, rig knifed. 

    The cone you see is where he put it back after moving it out of my driveway.

    It was there because, get this, the road was closed a mile South, closed with a 6x12' sign, 1/2 the road barricaded. My driveway was an attractive place to drive into and turn around.

    I came home to ruts everywhere, the cone helped.  After the truck incident, and a call to the police and city yielded nothing, in went the angle iron.  It was fun to see them bent with paint on them.  

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  5. Just the beginning. Some say, of the end.

    It's REALLY hitting the fan in D1.

    Lots of finger pointing, apparently a club or 2 isn't going to do jack until the issues are resolved. 

    Sad point, is that this was known to some before a pass was sold.

    And pass buyers are calling shenanigans.

    It's going to get ugly.

  6. I feel your pain, zoso. My "insider" friends are disgusted,angry, and ashamed... Nobody on the outside or in charge seems to be the least bit concerned. I won't drive within a mile of a truck these days. When I called the police and the trucking company about the F-wit stuck in my residential driveway, nobody gave a damn. Yes, I had LOTS of pics and evidence. 

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  7. Lots of cowboys this weekend. 

    Can't wait for the more southern trails to open so the wanna be snow-X crowd doesn't have to travel so far.

    Blaming the sled doesn't work. 

    If it won't stay on your side, slow the F down.

    Your lack of common sense shouldn't have to be MY problem.

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  8. No excuse for this. Literally 1000s of trucks navigate that road in those conditions on a regular basis. 

    If you spent any time along that road, you'd have a better understanding than most. It's the ONLY road.

    ALL traffic goes through there. Everything that moves. The train is gone.

    Thinking the government or the trucking companies are going to remedy this is defective thinking. 

    You need to protect yourself. 

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  9. 6 hours ago, revrnd said:

    We've stayed at Mattawa GolfNSki on a RAP tour.

     

    Followed 2 sleds earlier in the day that turned off to go to Morning Mist or Pine Valley. They are adjacent to each other across the highway from TOP A.

    Word is, they're now a joint operation. Amazing people. Can't say enough about such a community minded couple. 

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  10. I see enforcement EVERY ride in PQ. Be it club members wearing vests FULLY empowered to stop and check riders, or SQ officers strategically placed. They know what they're doing, what to look for, and don't waste their time. Or mine.

    75% of the time we're waved through. 

    I'm not in Mt Laurier or equivalent usually, I tend to avoid the tourist areas and popular drop points if I can. I like to ride. 

    I cut the numbers off my Ontario "plate" and stuck them on the sled. I'm not about style or fashion. That said, I've never had one of our groups hassled about numbers.

    If I had a complaint here, it's about locally sledding for 3 years, evenings and the odd weekend, and never seeing visible enforcement. It makes everyone nervous.

     

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