I’m almost home from my whirlwind tour of Taiwan. As of Sunday morning, Heather and I are the only ones who waited until Sunday to get home. Saam and Kate have a place to stay in the Los Angeles area, while Alicia and Mark both caught red eyes home. It’s been a fantastic trip and […]
The Taiwanese have bikes here that aren’t sold in the US market. Check out this hover bike with no wheels, for example.
Mark of Bike Hugger enjoys the bike porn in Giant Bicycle’s 2010 catalog for Taiwan.
Most of the bikes I see in Taipei are basic mountain style bikes from Giant or Merida with little in the way of personalization. Check out this marvelous rig with the Kirin Ichiban Beer customization, though. The bike itself looks like a junky Next “full suspension” “mountain” bike shaped object. The owner has obviously put […]
Coffee and bikes go together like Spock and Saavik during Pon Farr. We visited the Orbea Taipei Flagship Shop today. They have lots of really cool bikes from Orbea, Bianchi, Argon, Cannondale, Dahon, and Pacific Cycles. They also have an espresso machine — the old school kind where you grind the beans, tamp the grinds […]
Today we participated in a short ride to promote tourism in rural Taitung County. The countryside of eastern and central Taiwan is populated with indigenous peoples who lived in Taiwan prior to Han Chinese immigration. The economy is primarily agricultural and the people seem more relaxed than their cousins in the big cities of the […]