Recent content by Malks

Your best bet is to find skis with bindings. As @GreyGhost advised, most shops won't touch bindings that are more than 10 years old. Sort of like a 5-year old helmet, it's still good, but there could be liability issues. If you do find more recent bindings the cost to install them would likely...

No, but theft from, and damage to, vehicles parked in driveways is a large problem here in Orangeville. If I have space in my garage to keep the car out of sight why would I leave it on the driveway?

Well I'm a one bike / car owner and have a 2-car garage so both fit nicely in there. I prefer to keep the car in the garage for the reasons mentioned and it also makes it easier to blow out the driveway if there's nothing parked on it. In addition, there's the security angle that you can't steal...

I keep everything in my garage. I really hate clearing snow off the car on winter mornings. In summer the interior of my black car is also not an oven when I need to use it.

Also not motorcycle related. I gifted myself new skis.

I've never bought a new bike in all my years of riding. My 1997 ST1100 was bought in 2007 and I will ride it as long as it keeps running. It is the most comfortable and reliable bike I've ever owned and like the Energizer Bunny it just keep on going. It has a little over 200K km on it now, and...

Define affordable. Lessons are expensive everywhere. Your best deal would be a "learn to ski" package at a participating hill. Those include rentals, a lesson (usually an hour or so) and a lift ticket to the bunny hill areas. Private lessons range from $70 per hour and up. Group lessons are a...

Not sure if you have replaced your skis since this post last year, but if not you should try eBay.ca. I just bought a new pair of Atomic Redster Q7.8 skis (173cm) from a shop in Quebec on Tuesday and they arrived on Thursday. Free shipping via UPS. They list at $1050, but I paid $640 including...

This is one of my major complaints with the licensing system. Orangeville is not exactly the middle of nowhere, but we're close enough to the GTA to be used as a testing alternative for GTA residents. The result is the vast majority of driver testing appointments are booked up months in advance...

I had fully expected some municipalities to put up large signs on all access roads advising the entire city / town was declared a "community safety zone". That would have allowed doubled fines everywhere and cameras on every street. Fortunately that never happened and now the cameras are about...

I took a last ride on Tuesday and backed my ST into its corner in the garage for winter hibernation. It's a bittersweet time of the year that signals the end of riding season for me and the approach of the next ski season. We're supposed to get up to 20cm of snow up here on Sunday and there was...

Yeah, not an option up here in Orangeville. We have a GO Bus, but it operates very few trips on weekdays and only once or twice a day on weekends. In order to get to a GO Train station I'd have to drive to Brampton or Georgetown, then park, wait for the train and pay for a ticket. Between the...

I'm long past the "good old days" of wanting to get to downtown Toronto. There is literally nothing that could be held in the downtown area that would compel me to try to travel there. The last time I tried was about 8 years ago and that experience cemented my option that the City has lost it's...

The previous Orangeville Council changed the default town speed limit to 40 kph. However, they left a few main streets at 50 kph. At the time one councillor was quoted as saying it should be painful to drive across town. These are the kind of people who get elected and then try to implement...

I get a virus warning that your link could be impersonating the real webpage so I won't open it. Resistance is futile because the Province holds all the cards regarding plate and owner details. They could just shut down access to plate information for any speed camera requests for information...