Mongolia – ultimate tiny bike adventure
50cc vs the Steppe
On the entire planet we inhabit there is no more perfect a stage for a monkey bike adventure than Mongolia.
Mountains, dirt tracks, no tracks, desert, rivers, swamps and wolves await as you try to get your diminutive two-wheeled turd across thousands of miles of steppe. Mongolia calls to the soul of the monkey bike like a fly to a shit.
Riding across it on a 50cc motorbike designed for children is quite simply resplendent.
The un-route stretches from the mountains of the north to the Gobi desert in the south. You’ll carry your bike across rivers and meet nomadic herders. Then you’ll dodge yaks, ride past herds of wild horses and get stuck in mud during a random rainstorm.
As well as all that glorious chaos you’ll be camping out and probably staying with nomads as you wobble across the world’s biggest wilderness.
In short: the Monkey Run Mongolia has gigantic-hairy-monkey-adventure nuts and registration is open now.
The Nuts and Bolts
The Monkey Run Mongolia is 11 days of blessing your buttocks with the joy of a 50cc monkey bike. It runs in July and September every year.
We pick you up from Ulaanbaatar and take you to the remote start camp. Test driving, adventure prep, mechanical briefings and a big old shindig come before the launch ceremony. You’ll thunder off the start line with 50 other brave and noble fools to tackle a proper old school feral-flavoured adventure.
You choose your own route and where you sleep. When you get lost and stuck, you get yourself un-lost and un-stuck. You’ll ride somewhere between 800km and 900km, ish. The distance you ride depends on your skills with a compass and getting directions from nomadic herders.
Then you thunder across the finish line at another remote camp in a suitably wild spot. Once the finish party has finished off your remaining brain cells you’ll stay overnight at the camp and we take you back to Ulaanbaatar the next morning. That’s the point you realise all future holidays you had planned are officially ruined and you start making new plans for more stupid adventures.
