Proposed event dates for 2025 - seeking early indications of interest…
You might think me a little premature to be thinking about next summer when winter hasn’t yet started, but there are many things that...
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Jonathan Binnington
Oct 185 min read
Navigation Trial, Classic Enduro or Regularity Raid…?
Sport takes many forms. Motorsport more than most. You’ve seen it on the telly, on social media, on YouTube, try to deny it, you...
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Jonathan Binnington
Sep 233 min read
Sayward September Showcase - day 2. Results and season round-up
Day 2 was the day of the autumn equinox in the northern hemisphere. The day when, anecdotally the weather flips from a summer pattern to...
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Jonathan Binnington
Sep 212 min read
Sayward September Showcase - day one…
The end of school party…. Trophies for the winner of this weekend’s event and the three event series. Winner is defined by a/ the...
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Jonathan Binnington
Sep 34 min read
Sayward September Showcase (20-22 Sept) is ready to go!
Yes! It really is that stunning….. Hkusam Mountain, 1645m Monday 2 September was the day that five of us went up to Sayward Junction to...
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Jonathan Binnington
Aug 82 min read
Tee shirts and trophies…. Sayward September Showcase
After a quiet six weeks following on from the GoldRiver400, I am cranking the VIME machinery back into action and revving up for the...
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Jonathan Binnington
Jul 172 min read
Sayward September Showcase. Fri 20-Sun22 September 2024. Two day season finale and season overall winner.
The third weekend of September will see the third and final VIME backcountry navigation trial event for 2024. There will be two sets of...
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Jonathan Binnington
Jul 54 min read
The GoldRiver400 - Les Chemins Sauvages. The write up….
Four days of roadbook navigation trials in the Gold River - Sayward Junction - Woss triangle As wide a range of terrain as I could find....
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Jonathan Binnington
Jul 42 min read
Duncan motorcycle Show&Shine demonstration Roadbook route.
So you want to try a Vancouver Island Motosports Events navigation trial and don’t know where to start…..? In order to get here ^ you...
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Jonathan Binnington
Jun 222 min read
GoldRiver400 - control points, opening and closing times.
In order to keep the event running to a reasonable time schedule it will be necessary to have event riders observe strict daily...
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Jonathan Binnington
Jun 201 min read
Next bit! Richta proving route for Thurs evening
Someone asked me if there is going to be a Richta proving route so riders can verify their Richta Competitor apps are working… Way back...
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Jonathan Binnington
Jun 132 min read
Standard Operating Procedure for dealing with FSR traffic
GoldRiver 400. Standard Operating Procedure for dealing with Forest Service Road traffic. 1/ This advice/instruction is written in...
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Jonathan Binnington
Jun 121 min read
GoldRiver400 - Les Chemins Sauvages, set and ready to go!
Are you coming? Yes, this is on one of the routes…..
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Jonathan Binnington
Jun 53 min read
GoldRiver400 event schedule
Entries are still open It is now three weeks to go before the start of the GoldRiver400 (Les Chemins Sauvages) backcountry navigation...
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Jonathan Binnington
May 274 min read
Route setting weekend - days 1&2. 700km and counting.
This weekend past I have mostly been sitting on the bike…. I went up to Gold River with the intention of test riding the roadbooks for...
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Jonathan Binnington
May 156 min read
GoldRiver 400 - Les Chemins Sauvages
It’s now six weeks - or it was at the time of writing this - to the GoldRiver 400. I would like to offer these words of...
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Jonathan Binnington
May 51 min read
GoldRiver 400 - Les Chemins Sauvage.
Last weekend we were doing the Sayward event, this weekend we have moved onto the GoldRiver event. On Friday, the two properly employed...
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Jonathan Binnington
May 11 min read
Sayward April Madness from the seat - a YouTube video by Peter Francis.
Peter Francis shot this YouTube video of his trip around the Sayward April Madness course and he has just finished editing and producing...
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Jonathan Binnington
Apr 271 min read
Sayward April Madness
0930. All riders away. Morning Glory is a trifling matter of 70km, although overnight rain will make every stony climb and descent...
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Jonathan Binnington
Apr 231 min read
Stickerz!
We got stickers! They are semi-permanent adhesive stickers, they will stay on for the year and can be peeled off. They cannot be...
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