There hasn't bee much action on this corner of the forum for a while, so I decided to share. I recently purchased a Big Boy 250 for use in ministry in Lesotho, Africa where we are missionaries. (Basically a Hawk 250 but with the balanced motor from a Bross 250 from what I can tell. More on that here:
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I saw in several posts that people in the Eastern USA struggle to find good places to ride. Lesotho isn't like that. Basically you can go ANYWHERE as long as you don't go through plowed fields or through a person's fenced yard. (The whole country is communal open grazing.)
Saturday I got an itchy foot (or something) and went for a ride up the donga (I guess that would be a eroded ravine, caused by over-grazing of the communal land!) that is below our house. I ran into a couple little waterfalls that were too steep for my riding skills so I had to find a way out and go along the top of the ravine some places. I didn't ride that far--I suppose 4 miles each way, but I had a lot of fun.
Here's a few pictures.
That's the little water falls that was too much for me to go up.
There isn't much perspective in this picture, but the slot it the rock is about 30 feet/10 meters below where I was standing. I want to go there and have a look after a cloud burst sometime!
This was a pretty spot, I thought.
The trail got too tough for me beyond the rocks, so I turned around here.