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We're planning a trip to Utah in a few weeks and I'd like to ride through Southern Kansas. My wifes mom has told her horror stories of grasshoppers in Kansas.... Any time of the year we need to avoid the place??  |
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Gunslinger
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« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2010, 05:00:58 PM » |
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I don't think the grasshoppers get big enough to carry away small children till July/August.
Seriously though, I don't have many problems with them on either the Tourer or the I/S
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« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2010, 05:59:48 PM » |
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Take a book to read.  The roads are zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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Gunslinger
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« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2010, 06:02:50 PM » |
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Take a book to read. The roads are zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Well, we certainly don't have "the Tail of The Dragon" here, but don't believe everything Hoser tries to tell you. Come on over sometime and we'll show you some good riding. Just have to stay off the Interstate |
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« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2010, 06:16:32 PM » |
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Take a book to read. The roads are zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Well, we certainly don't have "the Tail of The Dragon" here, but don't believe everything Hoser tries to tell you. Come on over sometime and we'll show you some good riding. Just have to stay off the Interstate I've ridden across KS 3 times. I saw the bend and I saw the sidewind signs. You mean there's more  |
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« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2010, 07:59:38 PM » |
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Take a book to read. The roads are zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Well, we certainly don't have "the Tail of The Dragon" here, but don't believe everything Hoser tries to tell you. Come on over sometime and we'll show you some good riding. Just have to stay off the Interstate I've ridden across KS 3 times. I saw the bend and I saw the sidewind signs. You mean there's more Stop in some time and we'll show ya the good roads and give you some pointers on dodging cattle and white tail deer ! If that aint excitement,what is?  |
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« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2010, 08:15:17 PM » |
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We're planning a trip to Utah in a few weeks and I'd like to ride through Southern Kansas. My wifes mom has told her horror stories of grasshoppers in Kansas.... Any time of the year we need to avoid the place?? I think I killed most of the grasshoppers last year when I returned from Inzane. Clint |
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« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2010, 08:28:29 PM » |
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What route are you taking through NM? You might consider going through Cimmaron and Eagle's Nest, down through Taos and West from there.
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Jabba
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« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2010, 04:35:02 AM » |
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I thought that's what Kansas riders did... got together and rode around looking for the curve. I have a theory too. The curve ONLY apprears in the HEAT of the summer. As the road heats up, it ewxpands and eventually, buckles thus creating the curve. When it cools off in the fall... the road shrinks and the curve disappears. Not that Indiana is any better. Jabba |
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« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2010, 05:20:33 AM » |
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Contraire>>> southern Kansas is beautiful this time of the year, you can actually see something.lol , enjoy the ride and southern jawhawk |
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« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2010, 05:20:57 AM » |
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I thought that's what Kansas riders did... got together and rode around looking for the curve. I have a theory too. The curve ONLY apprears in the HEAT of the summer. As the road heats up, it ewxpands and eventually, buckles thus creating the curve. When it cools off in the fall... the road shrinks and the curve disappears. Not that Indiana is any better. Jabba C'mon Jabba, you might be able to say that about NE Indiana up here but you have some nice curvy riding in the Hoosier Forest just south of you. Nothing like the Snake or the Dragon but still nice. |
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« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2010, 06:05:24 AM » |
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Get you one of those beekeeper hats when you ride through there.
Don't tell her about the Mormon Crickets. THey can make the road slick, and I am not joking.
Take the tire chains.
DW
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Jabba
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« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2010, 06:10:45 AM » |
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Get you one of those beekeeper hats when you ride through there.
Don't tell her about the Mormon Crickets. THey can make the road slick, and I am not joking.
Take the tire chains.
DW
Oh... I was just kidding. There are some pretty good roads south of me. I am essentially in Indy, and you gotta go south a ways to find anything that's A LOT of fun. There is some decent roads though. I was just teasing our Kansas Brothers and Sisters. Jabba |
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« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2010, 06:23:03 AM » |
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Take a book to read. The roads are zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Well, we certainly don't have "the Tail of The Dragon" here, but don't believe everything Hoser tries to tell you. Come on over sometime and we'll show you some good riding. Just have to stay off the Interstate Aw come on Slinger, you know where K-4 is, from Toepicker to 177 south of Manhattan and on west is a purdy good road! Too bad for Don T, it's in Northern Kansas, there really ain't much down south east to west. And he's gonna miss the Flint hills completely! The grasshoppers are overated, though. I't ain't all like this. hoser  |
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« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2010, 06:54:42 AM » |
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We're planning a trip to Utah in a few weeks and I'd like to ride through Southern Kansas. My wifes mom has told her horror stories of grasshoppers in Kansas.... Any time of the year we need to avoid the place?? Yes, September, that's when you may hit more than a dozen grasshoppers in one day. Most folks around here aren't afraid of bugs. I guess things are different in Tennessee.  Raymond |
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« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2010, 07:39:10 AM » |
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« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2010, 08:05:40 AM » |
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« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2010, 09:34:08 AM » |
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I don't think the grasshoppers get big enough to carry away small children till July/August.
Seriously though, I don't have many problems with them on either the Tourer or the I/S
I got me a bloody, fat lip from a big one. They can hurt at 60+ mph in Sept. psssssst: Born and raised in Ks. (but don't tell anyone) |
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« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2010, 01:11:00 PM » |
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We're planning a trip to Utah in a few weeks and I'd like to ride through Southern Kansas.
Why? ??? Redline  |
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« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2010, 02:09:27 PM » |
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I thought that's what Kansas riders did... got together and rode around looking for the curve. I have a theory too. The curve ONLY apprears in the HEAT of the summer. As the road heats up, it ewxpands and eventually, buckles thus creating the curve. When it cools off in the fall... the road shrinks and the curve disappears. Not that Indiana is any better. Jabba We have a curve here in Kansas?!?! I have lived here all my life and been almost everywhere in Kansas and have never seen the curve. |
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« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2010, 03:37:50 PM » |
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Come on up to NE Ks, Bob, we'll show you plenty of curves. Up around the Lewis and Clark trail along the Missouri river comes to mind. Hoser |
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Don07tncav
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« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2010, 05:40:09 PM » |
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Bugs in Tennessee?? We have a few here but nothing like we got during Love Bug season in south Louisiana.  I guess between her mom and the movie Wild Hogs she is grasshopperified. Thanks for all the comments and info!! Outside of the Texas Hill Country, those roads were flat, straight, long and smooth! Sure beat the Interstates. |
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« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2010, 06:05:09 PM » |
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« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2010, 06:22:17 PM » |
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« Reply #25 on: May 22, 2010, 04:23:41 AM » |
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