Jackson continues Mongolia journey

Added on Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 by Carole Nash Editor | No Comments

Anthony Jackson of Sinnis motorcycles has passed the 7,000 mile mark on his charity ride to Mongolia, as he looks to make it from Goodwood to Mongolia, unsupported, on a Chinese built Sinnis Apache 125.

Currently, Anthony and the Apache have made it to Barnaul, his last city in Russia before reaching the Mongolian border. The ride so far has taken in France, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine and Russia. Jackson’s journey has seen him ride as much as 14 hours in a day, covering as much as 2,500 miles in just four days.

So far on his ride, Anthony has been chased away from campsites and forced to wait at borders for days as he chose not to pay the $1,000 to $2,000 fines for apparent ‘invalid paperwork’, but he’s kept his nerve and made it through with just the delay.

The only issues he has had with the bike, apart from the school boy error of running out of fuel in Germany, has been with a fork leg. Anthony managed to damage it when servicing the bike in a car park but was fortunate enough to get a replacement part from a local dealer in the Ukraine.

Describing the current leg of the Mongolia Rally Anthony says “Russia has been tough, hot, dirty, smoggy & literally thousands of trucks trying to push you out of the way! Police everywhere, there’s nowhere to buy food, just filling stations. I’m coughing up black dirt!

“I’ve covered most of southern Russia in a few days, am very tired but bike’s been great!”

Anthony says the quality of the roads has been degenerating throughout the journey and they actually disappeared when he crossed the last border to Mongolia. “Unfortunately the border I’m registered with has very bad roads, i.e; none, so this is when the challenge steps up a gear!” he added.

You can follow Anthony’s journey via his page www.facebook.com/anthonysadventure or support his cause at www.justgiving.com/antjack55 to help raise money for Leukaemia Research.

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