I don’t mind people getting bonuses from doing good work, hard work at that. But to hear that the SAAQ will be giving hefty bonuses to some of their executives for doing extraordinary work is a big pile of croc crap. That’s right, crocs can crap.

A few years ago the SAAQ said they were in a deficit and were in danger of losing even more money. The solution for this was to jack up the prices of everything including drivers licenses and vehicle registration, especially motorcycle registrations. I’ve ranted on these quite a bit, you can check my past rants.
The president of the SAAQ said his people (his executives) worked real hard for their bonuses. Apparently, he told them that if they worked harder they would be rewarded (cha-ching!) and that is how he got them to work harder. Take a look at some of the bonus figures given by CJAD 800 radio. I’m not the only person upset, the Comité d’action politique motocycliste (CAPM) is upset too, you can read that here and here (must read and understand french for both).
It’s kind of coincidental that these people are getting bonuses while motorcyclists are paying higher registration fees, nah! I don’t think this is coincidence at all. Am I upset, you betcha and should I be, you betcha and you should too if you live in the province of Quebec. Am I upset because I ride a motorcycle and have to pay that much more to register my motorcycle, you betcha. I am more upset to hear that these people are getting bonuses for supposedly “working hard”, I wonder how many days and nights they spent “working hard”. I remember a good while back when I averaged 70 hours a week for about 7 months, no one ever gave me a bonus, maybe I should have worked for the SAAQ. nah!
So what to do with all this, well I don’t know, I’m hoping that Godzilla will come up from the ocean depths and squash these SAAQ rat b@stards. Or maybe they’ll be lucky enough to get hit by one of the many cyclists that ignore the rules of the road (read this).
Of course none of that matters because the SAAQ’s el presidente is apparently going to retire soon, I’d retire too if I “worked hard” like he did. I wonder what they’ll do if they should get into a deficit again, oh wait! They’ll jack up the motorcycle registration again.

Over the past couple of months there have been a series of peaceful protest rides by motorcycle owners. The ride would usually go at a snails pace of 60kph around the highways of Montreal, it caused enough of a slowdown that people started wondering what was going on. Those who hate motorcycles thought that it was just motorcycle owners causing trouble when in fact it’s motorcycle owners trying to get people aware of what the government is doing. You can browse through the blog and you’ll see a few things that I have posted in regards to this.

There was a ride to Mt Tremblant on June 24th, I was not sure if I should go or not but in the end I decided to head out and join my fellow bikers. Micheline and I got ready and headed out to meet a few friends that were also going on the ride. The meeting point was in St Jerome and I have to say that the day turned out to be gorgeous, albeit hot and humid. This was to be Micheline’s first long ride of the season and in a big group so it was quite an experience for her. It was quite the ride and the Quebec provincial police were helping out, stopping cars at some exits to keep the motorcycles in a big group and stopping cars at red lights to let the motorcycles through, it was organized and they did a good job of it.

Meeting in St. Jerome

Micheline (right) looking at all the bikers that showed up

A few more behind us

Finally arrived at Tremblant

A parking lot dedicated to us bikers