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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....
Jonathan Binnington
Jul 5, 20244 min read
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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...
Jonathan Binnington
Jul 4, 20242 min read
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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...
Jonathan Binnington
Jun 22, 20242 min read
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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...
Jonathan Binnington
Jun 20, 20241 min read
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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...
Jonathan Binnington
Jun 13, 20242 min read
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GoldRiver400 - Les Chemins Sauvages, set and ready to go!
Are you coming? Yes, this is on one of the routes…..
Jonathan Binnington
Jun 12, 20241 min read
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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...
Jonathan Binnington
Jun 5, 20243 min read
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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...
Jonathan Binnington
May 27, 20244 min read
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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...
Jonathan Binnington
May 15, 20246 min read
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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...
Jonathan Binnington
May 5, 20241 min read
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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...
Jonathan Binnington
May 1, 20241 min read
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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...
Jonathan Binnington
Apr 27, 20241 min read
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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...
Jonathan Binnington
Apr 23, 20241 min read
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Mid-month catch up. April Madness, Chemins Sauvages and beyond.
Sayward April Madness The first event of the season is nearly here and the weather forecast is promising dry warm sunny (sssh!) days...
Jonathan Binnington
Apr 17, 20244 min read
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April newsletter - The Sayward April Madness event, New Readers Join Here, the other events of the season, event sponsors, other musings…..
We made it! Spring is here..... It feels like it has been a long winter, for some further east and north it probably still is and...
Jonathan Binnington
Apr 1, 20246 min read
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Vancouver Island Motosports Events, Release of Liability, Indemnity Agreement and Signing-on document.
This document isn't greatly different to Liability Release documents we have used previously, just tidied up a little. Each event...
Jonathan Binnington
Mar 13, 20245 min read
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Kove Canada to sponsor the GoldRiver 400 and the Sayward September Showcase
I am chuffed to bits (British English vernacular for “stoked”) to be able to announce that Kove Canada https://www.kovemotocanada.com...
Jonathan Binnington
Mar 11, 20241 min read
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Peter Francis: “How to use [Rally Navigator] Roadbook Reader app in a time and distance adventure motorcycle rally”
I would like to thank Peter greatly for putting this video together explain how to use the roadbook reader app that goes with Rally...
Jonathan Binnington
Mar 11, 20241 min read
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Would you like to be involved in any of this year’s events? As a participant, volunteer or business partner?
There is still snow on the ground but the promise of the weather forecast is for spring to start on the third weekend of March... I'm...
Jonathan Binnington
Mar 5, 20241 min read
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How to do a VIME Backcountry Navigation Trial….
If you have already participated in a VIME event this update will probably not tell you anything new (perhaps it will), but if you are...
Jonathan Binnington
Mar 1, 202410 min read
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