Vancouver Island Motosports Events - VIME

06/06/2026

Would anyone like to join me on a ride from Sayward Junction on Sunday, setting out a route? 230km, I’ll fill your bike with petrol and your belly with a dinner at the crossroads…

Leave Sayward Junction petrol station by 0930.

06/05/2026

For Sale. Yamaha TY trials type, Jurassic Park edition.

Light resto project - engine and suspension possibly needs attention.

Ran when parked.

Carb needs cleaning.

No papers.

Buyer collects.

Sold as seen.

Bike has seen better days.

Estate sale. Last owner past caring. Seller will not respond to “Is this still available?”

Old model, now rare.

Will suit experienced single enthusiast or motorcyclist seeking divorce/separation/estrangement with cause.

Bring a trailer (and a broom and shovel) possibly a boat as well.

Needs polishing (if you can polish a turd).

It’s still on its original Yokohama trials tyres. Still on the original air.

Location- beyond the back of beyond, West Coast Trail, Vancouver Island.

Serious enquiries only…

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

(Photo credits to Stuart O)

06/03/2026

Now that the Great Canadian (motorcycle) Roadbook Rally is drawing closer, it is a good time to explain a little about the routes and some measures to keep things moving along.

The Prologue will run on Thursday evening 2 July for the participants in the competition class. The route is about 70km long and the results will set the start order for Day1. The winner of the prologue will choose their start position for the following day. Then the start order will be the reverse of the prologue finishing order.

Day1 start will be at Sayward Junction, as will the finish. The start order will be competition class first at two minute intervals from 0900. Then non-competition solo riders riding Roadbook or Gaia, then group riders.

The lunchtime halt will be at Woss with a cutoff at 2pm. Riders who have not started the second half of the day by 1400 will be deemed Out Of Time and will be directed to return to Sayward Junction by way of Highway 19.

The finish cutoff will be at 1730, ie at least 7hrs 30 mins after the start. Riders arriving at the finish after 1730 will be deemed to be Out Of Time.

Out Of Time riders will be scored maximum Time Penalties for each leg on the day’s route.

Day 2. As per day 1. Lunchtime halt at Campbell River. Start and Cutoff times as per Day 1. Start order determined by finish order of Day 1.

Day 3. As per Day 1&2. Lunchtime halt at Woss. Start order determined by aggregated finish order of Day 1&2.

Any questions?

06/01/2026

NEWS FROM THE TRENCHES….

Do you remember that i passed on news that the bridge over the river Sebalhall Creek at the north end of Vernon Lake, between Gold River and Woss was closed due to road erosion…?

Well, brother-in-arms Arne Glavind has passed the news on to me that the gate is now open, presumably because the road has been repaired.

It is worth noting the stretch of road immediately to the west of the bridge is as rough as it ever was as it forms part of a creek flood plain, but the rough patch is only about 200m long and you don’t need to be too determined to wrestle your way through it. Than might not hold for four wheel vehicles…

The road is called “Back Road” and it is the back road that leads back to Wonderful Woss Vegas on the way back from Vernon Lake.

Tell your friends the road is open and there are puns aplenty on www.gr200.com

06/01/2026

Where we will be going on one of the Great Canadian rally routes, and one way that we won’t!

Yesterday (Sunday) Gary and myself set out from Sayward Junction to lay out another rally route.

230km later, lunch and petrol in Wonderful Woss Vegas, one minor reroute to avoid a jungle passage, 30 GPS timing gates, dinner in the Campbell River Spice Hut curry house and no speeding tickets later the job was a good ‘un!

The route will be available as a GPX/Gaia route for the non-competition riders and as a pre-ridden (yesterday) Roadbook for the competition riders.

This route, and the others for this event, are “Grand Tour” rides rather than verging on enduro - and are suitable for adventure bike riders as well as DS riders. The roads encompass everything from Highway 19 liaison sections to the usual quiet, sleepy FSRs that haven’t seen a four wheel vehicle for many summers. All can be ridden “two wheels down”.

Expect stunning scenery, seen only by loggers, bears and elk, locations you didn’t know you didn’t know about and environments your bike was built and sold for.

Entries at www.gr200.com/shop Prices go up this evening.

Jonathan

05/28/2026

What goes around, comes around…

05/28/2026

Ask “why?” seven times to get to the real reason for this. There was a rule change recently….? What changed? Intake restrictor plates? What were the knock-on consequences? How did rider crew behaviour change? Why?…

The Sidecar class has been axed from the remainder of the 2026 Isle of Man TT schedule.

05/27/2026

The Great Canadian (motorcycle) Roadbook Rally, British Columbia’s moto Time Speed Distance (m-TSD) event is now a little over five weeks away, winter is a fast fading memory and warmer, longer, drier days beckon.

In preparation for the event, I would like to republish these posts from the VIME blog in order to get everyone onto page one.

First, the training route which will give riders unfamiliar with the Sayward/Newcastle region a grasp of the terrain and a roadbook to perceive with.
This route does not have any timing data that goes along with it…

https://www.gr200.com/post/the-great-canadian-motorcycle-roadbook-rally-thursday-loosener

Second, the event schedule with camping details, start times and what-have-you…

https://www.gr200.com/post/the-great-canadian-motorcycle-roadbook-rally-1-6-july-2026-the-programm

Third, the GoldRiver Rules and the Sign-on waiver, the event organisational framework.

https://www.gr200.com/post/vancouver-island-motosports-events-participant-liability-release-and-waiver-2026-and-2027

https://www.gr200.com/post/goldriver-rules-2026-draft-comments-invited

Fourth, entries can be found at https://www.gr200.com/shop

Finally, I would like to emphasise that while VIME moto-TSD is not a race or speed event (how could you possible have a race event over open public roads?), it is a competitive motorcycle motorsport open to Class 6 licenced riders of plated and insured dualsport and adventure bikes.
VIME events are conceived and produced as accessible and affordable motorsport exploring the mountain gravel road network of the north of Vancouver Island.

I hope to meet you in Sayward Junction!
Jonathan Binnington. Proprietor VIME

05/25/2026

VIME event progress report

https://www.gr200.com/post/season-26-and-27-progress-update-vime-moto-tsd-in-flagrante-delecto-non

Please note, the early event entry discount for the Great Canadian (motorcycle) Roadbook Rally ends on Sunday 31 May 2026.

Event entries can be found at www.gr200.com/shop

05/24/2026

Remote GPS receiver report from field testing.

If you are bluetoothing the XGPS160 to a number of devices (I was connecting this to three) the internal battery life is short.

You need to run it hooked up to a USB charger.

If it dies on you, provided you have your other devices on continuing charge, you will not be stuck as smartphones have their own GPS receivers (albeit of lesser specification).