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Offline Red01

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Re: An American's View of Canada
« Reply #75 on: November 24, 2007, 02:24:58 PM »
...or get back on-topic.  :wink:

Canada - just a bigger version of Alaska, right?  :lol:
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Re: An American's View of Canada
« Reply #76 on: November 24, 2007, 04:03:10 PM »

Well, at $30 a pair and about 45mins to install (if you're more competent than me, which isn't hard electrically), it takes a lotta bikes to cost as much as the heated gear.  Besides, you still have to attach the wiring dongle to the battery for the gear, it's not like it's "no" install... :wink:

That's the two minute install I was talking about and its the first thing I put on a bike when I buy it...the pig tail for the electrics :grin:
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Re: An American's View of Canada
« Reply #77 on: November 24, 2007, 06:41:56 PM »
...or get back on-topic.  :wink:

Wha??

If we stayed on topic,... it would lose the flavor of the entire board!!  :stickpoke:
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Canada - just a bigger version of Alaska, right?  :lol:

Naw,.. we have way more polar bears, and less snow.... in fact, I have one in my backyard right now.
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Re: An American's View of Canada
« Reply #78 on: November 24, 2007, 06:45:11 PM »

Well, at $30 a pair and about 45mins to install (if you're more competent than me, which isn't hard electrically), it takes a lotta bikes to cost as much as the heated gear.  Besides, you still have to attach the wiring dongle to the battery for the gear, it's not like it's "no" install... :wink:

That's the two minute install I was talking about and its the first thing I put on a bike when I buy it...the pig tail for the electrics :grin:

Yeah,.. I've started that now,... I'm trying to figure out how to do it to my KTM next.  :monkeymoon:  Heated grips would be awesome on the dirtbike!

Hey,.. BTW,... what color is your B12 again?  r_outsider said he saw what he called "some nutter on a black b12" on Hwy 2, yesterday,.. not you, right?
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Re: An American's View of Canada
« Reply #79 on: November 24, 2007, 06:56:10 PM »
Currently its red...we'll see if it remains so :wink:
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Re: An American's View of Canada
« Reply #80 on: November 24, 2007, 07:13:01 PM »
AHhh! There's your avatar.  :wink:

So,.. you're not the nutter he saw then.  :motorsmile:
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Re: An American's View of Canada
« Reply #81 on: November 24, 2007, 07:23:52 PM »
Nope, I'm not that nutter anyway :wink:

Hey...were you thinking of becoming a Alberta Safety Council instructor?
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Re: An American's View of Canada
« Reply #82 on: November 24, 2007, 07:51:38 PM »
Nope, I'm not that nutter anyway :wink:

Hey...were you thinking of becoming a Alberta Safety Council instructor?

I was,.. why?
The main thing that stopped me is all of the politics and garbage that I've learned from previous instructors.
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Re: An American's View of Canada
« Reply #83 on: November 24, 2007, 08:31:41 PM »
Nope, I'm not that nutter anyway :wink:

Hey...were you thinking of becoming a Alberta Safety Council instructor?

I was,.. why?
The main thing that stopped me is all of the politics and garbage that I've learned from previous instructors.

Someone there described a person that sounded like you and said that you were going to be an instructor but backed out...I'm writing the provincial exam in Jan then just need the audit/buddy and I will be an instructor
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Re: An American's View of Canada
« Reply #84 on: November 24, 2007, 08:58:23 PM »
The Alaskan highway also belongs to us right? :lol:
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Canada - just a bigger version of Alaska, right?  :lol:
Naw,.. we have way more polar bears, and less snow.... in fact, I have one in my backyard right now.
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Re: An American's View of Canada
« Reply #85 on: November 30, 2007, 02:49:00 AM »
Someone there described a person that sounded like you and said that you were going to be an instructor but backed out...I'm writing the provincial exam in Jan then just need the audit/buddy and I will be an instructor

Someone that sounded like me? ;)  How so?  What was the topic that someone who'd been there once for the orientation would come up in conversation?

I ended up backing out because I'd gotten a "hinky feeling" about it, but also because that was the exact time that Gizmo and my grandmother passed.  I was in no shape whatsoever. 
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Re: An American's View of Canada
« Reply #86 on: April 10, 2008, 03:13:54 AM »
I can teach ya, buddy!  You already know the basics with the sofa (or couch), eating and TV but you have to throw in C.C. over ice as well!

The weather does suck and as you get older, you start to dream of Texas or some place where you can go out and ride or do whatever in the winter.

But then when spring does hit, the change in you and your lifestyle is really incredible.  I'm outside all the time doing tons of physical stuff.

I read something somewhere about people in Northern climes are healthier because they shut down over the winter and rest up.  Just gets pretty boring being inside all the time.

Just realized I pay nearly $1000 for bike insurance but that's just for a short six month season (and that's stretching it!).  What a friggin' rip!
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As I recall, about 1/2 that insurance $grand goes to pay for no fault hospital coverage for your self and rider. I believe that this was brought in in the Bob Rae NDP era of Ontario. If not, the Peterson Liberals did the deed.

Free health insurance, my Ass.
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