Quebec FJR Qwners

[Mike-H]

According to CMG online it looks as if the Quebec government is going to follow through on an act of stupidity once more & are getting very greedy as far as motorcycle insurance goes..... they are stating a bunch of ******** statistics without being able to back it up (especially if you crunch the numbers)....if any of our Quebec brethren want to insure their FJR's through Ontario so as not to get screwed....let me know....I will make my address available for insurance & licencing purposes.... :***: them & their Quebec motorcyclists aren't paying their far share attitude crap...if they want to be like that, then don't pay at all....insure your bike out of province

 

[vdoguy]

If you want to help the casue come to the protest Rally in Montreal on May 21 2006. They are going to close decarie BLVD and more than 30,000 bikes are expected!

A few more won't hurt.

 

[Mike-H]

vdoguy....You promise we won't get stoned if we roll in with Ont license plates?

 

[Reg# 43897]

Been following these developments. What a pile of garbage. I would imagine that the the industry is up in arms as well as motorcyclists. They created a ****** system & now want motorcycle policies to bail 'em out? Fight the power! :vinsent:

John.

 

[bramfrank]

I was one of the formal presenters of comments about the proposals to the 'panel of experts' that was convened to assess the 'options'.

What REALLY sucks is that after all the public outcry, the commission only received a grand total of 29 formal comments - only about half of those about motorcycles. They DID say that they received a large number of e-mails containing a lot of profanity. They were disappointed.

Back in 1978 when the Quebec Government instituted the SAAQ with it's government operated bodily injury insurance and requirement that insurance companies operate under the principles of 'no-fault' I for one decided that I didn't want to pay the usurious ($265) fee for tags for my car and registered it in Ontario at a relative's home.

All was well and good until I went to a doctor and discovered that Medicare had cancelled my card and coverage because I had "left the province". I 'moved back' to Quebec after that and have been taking my lumps ever since.

So moving your machine holus to another jurisdiction is NOT the answer. And, by the way, our FJRs have been spared the 'Sport Bike" rating that will push tags to $1400 (with plate) in 2008. We will 'only' pay about $600 (all in).

What I have been discussing informally with a couple of dealers is the possibility of establishming a co-operative that might be located in Cornwall or Hawkesbury. The co-op would exist solely to own our machines. The cost of entry and ownership would be the transfer of the machine to the co-op and the payment of the member's share of insurance and administration. The members would have the right to recouperate their machines at any time without penalty if they chose to leave the group.

The bike you'd ride would be registered to the co-op and plated in Ontario ($20 per year for plates is it?) and we could all benefit from a huge group insurance package. I suspect that rates might be low enough that the co-op might attract Ontario riders as well - after all, with a couple of thousand machines we'd have the purchasing clout to make a heck of a deal on insurance.

Because the owners are a corporation in Ontario, from what I've been told there would be no 90 day limit on continuous presence of the machines in Quebec.

 

[Reg# 43897]

With the increases being so sudden and so huge, you will likely get that off the ground. I would do so in a heartbeat if I lived there. That the FJR is "spared", so to speak, is nice but the whole principal being applied here can work out to a slippery slope for any and all. You will surely hang seperately if you don't hang together. Reminds me of the BS regulations surrounding firearms issues in our country where one 'class' of owner is pitted against another (but that's another rant for another place and time). And perhaps a group that large could contribute twenty or so shillings towards some court action!

John.