Welcome to Kansas

[20774]

I recently moved from CO to Lenexa, KS and I'm looking for information on the KC BMW club....anyone a member? I believe they have a monthly meeting on the 3rd or 4th Monday? I'd appreciate any information.

Looks like 4th Monday...info here:

http://www.kcbmwmc.com/

[THOMPSONR]

Welcome to Kansas ....Colorados just a days ride away a long day but a day nun the less.

[MLS2GO]

Welcome to the greater KC area. The local BMW Club does meet the 4th Monday of the month at Westport Flea Market. The meetings start at 7 PM and most come a little early to eat. We meet in the front room it should say reserved. Food is good, camaradarie is good and usually out by 8. Dues are a whopping $10.00 per year. Everyone introduces themselves each week and tells us what they ride. We have a mileage contest that starts December 15th, give out plaques at the Party which is every January. Next meeting is coming up next Monday the 23rd. Hope you can come. Pay now and it is good for next year too. We also have a rally the weekend after Memorial Day south of KC.

[Coloradoclc]

Everyone...thanks for the information. I will be attending the meeting this coming Monday, Nov 23rd. I look forward to participating.

Jeff

[THOMPSONR]

Winter has really shut us up.. But got my new rear tire today ..a glimmer of hope.

[k75s]

Yes, there are attractions nearby! Almost every time I've attended the "Husker", i've gone to "Pioneer Village" in Minden about 15 miles north of Franklin. Neat collection of old stuff in a 1950's type museum.
Link here:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2157

There is a great B&B just North of Minden I stayed at last September on my way out to the Black Hills.

http://www.nebraskabb.com/listings/b...-nebraska.html

The scenery is, well, Nebraska cornfields, but the family that runs it is great. The house is spotless and they have a very good restaurant in a separate building.

[Polarbear]

Many have said the plains are sooooo boring! Not me. I've enjoyed reading all these posts, of active riders in Kansas. I'm grown up in Virginia, lived in CA for 30+ years and find the prairies so refreshing to ride. I'm a long time GS/GSA rider and would love the opportunity to spend time there, riding all the dirt byways. Its not what what your mind see's on the horizon, so much as what your mind takes in as you go along. So many, too many miss the point!!! Back roads America is where life starts getting exciting. Randy

[shoeman]

This is the kind of summer I remember in Kansas. Moving back here from NC we have had mild summers. Makes it hard to ride.

[From MARS]

Ride early and ride fast. Sunday's ride in the cooler temps was really nice.

Tom

[shoeman]

There is a certain peace, droning along a two lane state road in western Kansas or eastern Colorado, where you can see the next town on the horizon by its grain elevator, even as you leave the town you are in. Old cars and trucks, abandoned buildings and old store signs, people living much as they have lived in my lifetime. The sameness and lack of change stop time and reassure you that you have a home.