Need advice on my kioti

[k0ua]

Yes, you do have steep roads down there!

And a few dangerous one too. The road from Branson to Forsyth (county seat town). Is not a lot of fun in dry times. Let alone when wet or icy.

 

[MossRoad]

And a few dangerous one too. The road from Branson to Forsyth (county seat town). Is not a lot of fun in dry times. Let alone when wet or icy.

We took 76 to 160, then east to Poplar Bluff. My arms, legs and stomach hurt after that drive. Windy, twisty road. We were following two Mazda Miata's that were going anywhere from 40-70 and getting tired of it. A motorcycle was following us. We came around a sharp right-hand curve, and some old bag was mowing her lawn on her riding mower, and blew all of her very thick clippings into the road, covering the entire lane. First Miata slid a bit. Second one slid, too. I hit my horn and gave her the one finger salute as I slid a bit. Looked in my mirror and the bike slipped too. He held on, though. YIKES!

 

[k0ua]

We took 76 to 160, then east to Poplar Bluff. My arms, legs and stomach hurt after that drive. Windy, twisty road. We were following two Mazda Miata's that were going anywhere from 40-70 and getting tired of it. A motorcycle was following us. We came around a sharp right-hand curve, and some old bag was mowing her lawn on her riding mower, and blew all of her very thick clippings into the road, covering the entire lane. First Miata slid a bit. Second one slid, too. I hit my horn and gave her the one finger salute as I slid a bit. Looked in my mirror and the bike slipped too. He held on, though. YIKES!

Yep, 76 sucks. and Hwy F from 65 to Forsyth, REALLY sucks. You missed that one, and be glad you did.

Yes some people have zero brains about blowing grass clippings or gravel out at the passing cars.

 

[MossRoad]

The first 400 miles we drove, our 2013 Impala averaged 63mph @ 32mpg! That was less than 1 tank of gas. I was very happy. Overall, we drove 2020 miles, averaged 42mph and 29 mpg.

And we walked about 43 miles in the state parks. I averaged about 4mph and a liter of water per hour.

Kinda neat that once you hit the Ozarks, just BAM! No crops. Just grasslands. On the way home going across the boot heal of Missouri and BAM! crops again. Cotton and rice. Didn't know they grew that down there.

We saw a lot of older used tractors on our trip. Not too many newer ones. And a lot of dead ones in grass fields that looked like they've been there a while.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We took 76 to 160, then east to Poplar Bluff. My arms, legs and stomach hurt after that drive. Windy, twisty road. We were following two Mazda Miata's that were going anywhere from 40-70 and getting tired of it. A motorcycle was following us. We came around a sharp right-hand curve, and some old bag was mowing her lawn on her riding mower, and blew all of her very thick clippings into the road, covering the entire lane. First Miata slid a bit. Second one slid, too. I hit my horn and gave her the one finger salute as I slid a bit. Looked in my mirror and the bike slipped too. He held on, though. YIKES!

I HATE when people mow their grass on the road. A few near me do it. Not only is wet grass on a road dangerous, it just looks bad.

 

[CMV]

I HATE when people mow their grass on the road. A few near me do it. Not only is wet grass on a road dangerous, it just looks bad.

Yep - should be illegal (or if it is, should be enforced). Have a 2-lane, 50mph road that's very busy on my way to work. People on both sides with large tracts mowing with ZTR or MMM and discharging toward the road. So for a convenient mowing pattern or a few less clumps in their grass risking every 2 wheel vehicle's safety and slinging pebbles at passing vehicles. I would imagine if I stood at the edge of the road and threw rocks at their vehicles they'd be upset with me....

 

[Rock Crawler]

I stop as cars go past. I'm not that rude.

As to the folks on motorcycles.... make your choices. Dirt, sand, gravel, grass.... these are normally occurring contaminants on travel surfaces that one should expect when deciding to ride. Learn to ride on sand, gravel, grass and/or dirt. Or don't. Ride at speeds that allow you to ride on these less desirable surfaces with little to no danger.

I started riding in 1976. I fully earned the right to feel that a rider is responsible for himself or herself. I also feel that most riders for the most part suck and deserve to slide down a road. Most of my buddies who ride love the twisties. They love to dive into corners and feel the tires bite in, they love it. They want to push the bike in hard and feel that machine rip. And when they go down, they get damaged. Bones shatter, tendons rip, tangential fractures happen. I never have compassion for them. Choices. We all make them. If they push into a turn and encounter grass and wipe out.... that was a choice to assume that you would maintain that level of adhesion from beginning to end of a turn. Often you do. Not always.

 

[MossRoad]

You're joking, right?

 

[K man]

I HATE when people mow their grass on the road. A few near me do it. Not only is wet grass on a road dangerous, it just looks bad.

Can't understand why people blow their grass onto the roads. When I mow I always blow the trimmings back onto the lawn it is good natural fertilizer. People always ask me how I keep my grass so nice and green well I never pick up the trimmings I let them rot and feed my lawn. Just saying.

 

[GirlWhoWantsTractor]

No way I'm driving anything on that Canton road!