top of page
Search


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...
Jonathan Binnington
Oct 18, 20245 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...
Jonathan Binnington
Sep 23, 20243 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...
Jonathan Binnington
Sep 21, 20242 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...
Jonathan Binnington
Sep 3, 20244 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...
Jonathan Binnington
Jul 17, 20242 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....
Jonathan Binnington
Jul 5, 20244 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...
Jonathan Binnington
Jun 22, 20242 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...
Jonathan Binnington
Jun 13, 20242 min read


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
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


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


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


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
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


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


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
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
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


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


The suspense is killing me! The call is made!! April Madness is ON 26-28 April. Season ticket available at a discount….
The suspense is killing me.... the weather continues to be benign (unless you live in California). I am going stirr crazy - I suspect...
Jonathan Binnington
Feb 8, 20242 min read
bottom of page