Any recommendations for dirt bike to bring to Gabon
Our family is moving to Gabon, Africa and I'd like to take this opportunity to get into some dirt biking and exploring so I'm thinking of bringing a couple of dirt bikes for my son (9.5 yrs) and I to use. We both will be learners on motorbikes. I think it also makes sense to pickup a dirt bike as I can use a bike to go to work on the dirt/mud roads as we will only have one car. I hear over there that in the rural areas, you don't need to have a street legal bike. I'm wondering which is a good bike to get for our few years in Gabon. I only want to buy used bikes as I want to minimize the import duty that I may have to pay and, since we are newbies, I don't want to worry about damaging new bikes. My employer will pay for the move of our goods so it makes sense to buy the bikes in our home country. One thing - the gasoline is leaded there. I don't think there are any implications but I'm not 100% positive. Does anyone out there have any suggestions? I looked at a Honda XR200 on the weekend that saw a few years of riding in Baja but when I sat on it, I found that I had trouble with my feet reaching the ground (I'm 5'7" and have a 30" inseam).
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