…but who is that Masked Man? The Winners - Rudyard Kipling What is the moral? Who rides may read. When the night is thick and the tracks are blind, A friend at a pinch is a friend indeed; But a fool to wait for the laggard behind Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. White hands cling to the tightened rein, Slipping the spur from the booted heel, Tenderest voices cry, "Turn again," Red lips tarnish the scabbarded steel, High

VIME Event Regulations - 2025.   The GoldRiver Rules. Draft: 2/10/2025 Acknowledgement: I, Jonathan Binnington, as proprietor of Vancouver Island Motosports Events formally and respectfully acknowledge the fact that the lands through which my events pass, the oceans, mountains, rivers and lakes form part of the traditional unceded and never surrendered territories of Canadian First Nations. I am grateful for our opportunity to travel these roads. The First Nations are the Mow

Detail planning work for a 24 Heures du GoldRiver continues. To back up a little if you haven’t been following this particularly...

Work continues productively on the VI Motosports Events for next year. The Great Canadian (motorcycle) Roadbook Rally has three...

Endurance motorsports have a special place in the psyche of Motorsport enthusiasts. Not for the faint-of-heart, not for the “instant...

Today something positive popped up on my social media, an advance advert for a 24hr gravel rally in Greece…. I am a fan of endurance...

Introduction. Geo-Positioning Systems and information technology are a ubiquitous part of modern human existence. Rallysport, along...

It has been suggested that a summary of the results of previous events might be informative. I have trawled the blog to see what I...

I Owen in his natural habitat - a motorsport paddock wearing an anorak VIME: Owen Partaik, thank you very much for having this...

Regular readers of this blog will recall that I have written about a number of experimental developments I have tried with my DR650’s,...

Typical spatial sensitivity plot of a smartphone GPS receiver chip. This technical essay discusses and seeks to address the two known issues that limit the accuracy and precision of GPS devices when used in motorcycle backcountry navigation and rally timing. These issues are the discrepancies observed measuring distance travelled and the occasional non-detection of virtual timing gates by GPS location. These two issues are related but not direct dependent on each other. Met

Neil Barbisan - GoldRiver XXV third place VIME: Neil Barbisan, thank you for agreeing to contribute your rider profile for the GoldRiver...

The following ideas are presented as proposals for discussion and I would like to state at the outset that they are not entirely my own. ...

Paul Higginbotham. VIME: Paul Higginbotham, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Can you tell us a little about your motorcycling...

Road legal regularity rally motorcycles This post is intended to outline and explain the important similarities and differences between...

not lost in the outback Ambitions continue to fuel visions of what further kinds of motorcycle motorsports could be responsibly included...

Peter Francis - enthusiastic supporter of the GoldRiver Rally has a YouTube channel, https://youtube.com/@retiredadventurerider?si=qbFhJ-...

VIME Event Regulations - 2025.   The GoldRiver Rules. Acknowledgement: I, Jonathan Binnington, as proprietor of Vancouver Island...

Results from 2025. L to R me, Christian Pelletier 2nd, Owen Partaik 1st, Neil Barbisan 3rd Building on the success and wholly positive...

A flat slide accelerator pump carburetor - there are others Much opinion has been passed about the fuelling of Suzuki’s DR650. As it...