Pissed off and tired of the ignorance/discrimination against trikes!!

[dougspcs]

So I live in Canada..home of the free, but strickly regulated with rules!!

I have been looking for places to ride my trikes..emailed all the ATV clubs in my area looking for answers to my questions. None answered..so finally picked up the phone to call some. Managed to reach someone at the Kent/Essex ATV club and asked if trikes were allowed. He started by telling me that trikes were banned and illegal to ride(ignorant azz). I politely corrected him and explained that I owned several and they are all licensed and insured for trail use. He then started to talk about the problems the club has had with 2 wheelers using their trails and tearing them up..I stated that mine was a 3 wheeler and I wasn't a 18 year old kid, but a 44 year old looking for a place to ride with my kids. He then changed his approach and started to explain about the insurance rider they must carry because their trails run over mostly private land..won't cover anything but 4 wheelers. Man was he trying to get rid of me!!

This whole conversation seemed to set the tone for the rest of the clubs I reached..some were more polite than others. But all the same cock and bull!!

So anyway I hear of this little private club just 25 miles south of me..an their having a 'fun ride' event. But get this..it's a 2 wheeler dirt bike club. So I call and ask if I can attend with a couple of machines for my kid and I. No!! Just 2 wheelers..he says..and also you do realize that those things are banned, right!!

Holy f*&k, here we go again..what is this? Public school..."we don't want the 'brown' kid on our team..he can't play"

Can't we all just get along and play together?

My rant for the day...

[Addicted]

Ya it's very annoying, I gave up trying to ask to get in places now I just go

[fabiodriven]

Addicted has just given the absolute right answer to the problem. Show up and see what they have to say face-to-face. If your machine is respectable they will more than likely change their tune. If it's a turd, don't just show up. It gives us all a bad name...

[Swinger]

Thats what Raffa did at the Beaverdale Hillclimb. He asked someone and they said it was ok but when he got there the president of the hillclimb saw the trike and had to inspect it for himself. Raffa let the guy help himself to his cooler and the ride was on.LOL!! Bribery works too!!!

[dougspcs]

Addicted has just given the absolute right answer to the problem. Show up and see what they have to say face-to-face. If your machine is respectable they will more than likely change their tune. If it's a turd, don't just show up. It gives us all a bad name...

I have done this in the past and had pretty good success..either they just don't pay attention or I talk my way thru. It's just that some of these places are an hour or more away. I don't want to drive this far to get turned away or kick off the trails..

I will try the beer tactic!!

Oh, no worries Fabio..my machines will do the triker brotherhood proud. I take pride in my machines..always in top form!!

[El Camexican]

Having fled Canada "Land of the free" (yea right) some 12 years ago I hear ya Bud. I was told that what Ontario has done is made it illegal to ride without insurance and that the insurance companies won’t insure trikes, so unless you are on private land you’re screwed. Where are you? Can you get onto the trans Canada snowmobile trail? That might be legal.

Otherwise I suggest you claim you are a Native aboriginal when you ride, that seems to scare everyone off from enforcing the “rules”. Good luck and feel free to PM me if you want to come to Mexico and ride the wheels off your trike without the hassle. Here's a clip of last weekend’s 400 mile bike enduro. Three wheelers welcome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-eM0P8oOr8

[dougspcs]

Having fled Canada "Land of the free" (yea right) some 12 years ago I hear ya Bud. I was told that what Ontario has done is made it illegal to ride without insurance and that the insurance companies won’t insure trikes, so unless you are on private land you’re screwed. Where are you? Can you get onto the trans Canada snowmobile trail? That might be legal.

Otherwise I suggest you claim you are a Native aboriginal when you ride, that seems to scare everyone off from enforcing the “rules”. Good luck and feel free to PM me if you want to come to Mexico and ride the wheels off your trike without the hassle. Here's a clip of last weekend’s 400 mile bike enduro. Three wheelers welcome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-eM0P8oOr8

I am in SW Ontario where there is not Crown land..the only land that is free to ride a trike!! The closest crown land is 3-4 hours away..but I do it cause I love it.

And you are correct you have to get insurance/license, but I have found a couple of companies that insure trikes!!

[El Camexican]

I am in SW Ontario where there is not Crown land..the only land that is free to ride a trike!! The closest crown land is 3-4 hours away..but I do it cause I love it.

And you are correct you have to get insurance/license, but I have found a couple of companies that insure trikes!!

Cool! Post them so people can not only insure their trikes with them, but cars and bikes too. We need to take care of those who take care of us.

Thanks!

[jadleybray]

Well why don't you share the info then?

[dougspcs]

This place for one..pretty cheap also.

Nicole McCann Insurance Agency
State Farm Insurance
17817 Leslie St., Unit 26
Newmarket, ONL3Y 8C6
Phone: 1-866-258-4130
www.nicolemccann.ca

[jsf600rr]

I am in SW ontario as well and have found that if you have a registered and insured most ontario counties have laws in place that allow off road vehicles to drive on road at reduced speeds. Now we all know trikes aren't banned , if they were we wouldn't have them registered and insured. They were only banned from manufacturing.

So i usually head down niagra region and hit the tracks and ride back roads, alot of these back road are crazy muddy and super fun. I call it the tim hortons parade, any direction you turn from tim hortons on a trail your going to hit another timmys after killing the dirt. This is friendliest region to ride!

I suggest creating a trike friendly club, this forum has tonnes of ontario people and all you need is people and somone to host, get the club registered with ontario and bang...you have access to the gold pass and those clubs can't turn us guys away! Just my opinion. If i had the facilities to host i would, but i live in the burbs.

[RIDE-RED 250r]

Well, I dont know if it would differ in Canada vs the States, but my machines are all insured through Progessive. Give them a try, I would be surprised if a big insurer like them dont have a presence in Canada.

FWIW: as long as Im registered and insured (which i am) I can legally ride my trikes anywhere its open to other ATV's.

[WilliamJ]

They were never ever banned over in the UK and yet we would go to the local Yamaha shop and try to buy a few bits for the Tri-z - the guy behind the counter says "trike? We are not allowed to sell bits for trikes cause they are BANNED and ILLEGAL". Woah, did he have an attitude problem - and maybe just a touch of envy too? Moron. That's when Slothminx started researching all the interchangeable parts with bikes and quads, just to save those stupid conversations.
Bill

[Vealmonkey]

Wow, It must really suck living in Canada. Down here in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States, I have trikes. I'm treated like a celebrity. The City Police hold the door open for me whenever possible. Neighborhood mothers want me to date their teenage daughters. And at my local bar, well, not only do I get free drinks, but almost as soon as I get in the door, women approach me, drop to their knees and orally satisfy me, right then and there. Maybe you should move to the States where money grows on trees and maybe you too can be a celebrity! I hope you realize that I'm not serious. Like there is such a thing as a money tree! LOL Deal with it like everybody else.

[El Camexican]

Wow, It must really suck living in Canada. Down here in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States, I have trikes. I'm treated like a celebrity. The City Police hold the door open for me whenever possible. Neighborhood mothers want me to date their teenage daughters. And at my local bar, well, not only do I get free drinks, but almost as soon as I get in the door, women approach me, drop to their knees and orally satisfy me, right then and there. Maybe you should move to the States where money grows on trees and maybe you too can be a celebrity! I hope you realize that I'm not serious. Like there is such a thing as a money tree! LOL Deal with it like everybody else.

Not serious??? WTF??? I already bought my ticket!!!!!