Taiwan English Biking Club: 2007

2007年11月7日

2007-11-04- Tamshui trip

It's been several lazy week that no one likes to ride, and even this blog has not been updated. It was only William and me to go out to restart our biking again. William suggested to go to Tong-Ho becuase he liked to stand up right where he fell down so he can get rid of ghost in his mind. It was really a positve thought, unfortunately it was a bit rainning, so we changed our mind and take a TamShui trip again, and then take MRT back to Taipei.

My total riding time is around 1 hour and 40 min, Distance is around 30 km. It was good to have my bones refreshed in this trip.

2007-9-11 Fu-Shan trip

This was the last trip before Tony left, it was a bit sad but the weather was just right for biking. I wonder this was the best weather that we had ever experienced for our biking trip so far.

2007年7月11日

2007-7-8-Tamshuei trip

We rode along river:
Tony: XinDian -> DamshueiWilliam: drive to DamshueiCarol: XinDian -> DamshuiRegine: DaDaoChen -> DamSueiAdam: TienMu -> DamShuei -> TienMuNing: GuTing-> DamShuei -> DamShuei -> TienMu -> GuTing
I fell down today but luckily it is not serious, Adam took me to New DamShuei golf club (http://www.golf.net.tw/course/TAMSUI/index.asp) which is on top of the west side DaTun mountain next to JuWei MRT station. The route to the club is very steep (13%).
Ning

2007年6月30日

2007-6-30 WuLai to TonHo

Tony, William, Carol and Ning
Total Distance: 28Km
This is our third WuLai to TonHo trip. What I experienced today was still as touching as the first time. The bad thing was William fell down and surgery was required innevitable. I hope he can be recoverd as soon as possible and join biking activities as usual. Best wishes to him and may God bless him!!

2007年6月24日

2007-6-24 1) HsinDien-ZeTang, 2) HsinDien-ShiDing-Guting

Trip 1) HsinDien-ZeTang

Member: Tony, William, Carol and Ning

Ning's total riding time:37.67 km

Ning's total riding distance: 2 hr 14 min

I waked up at 5:30 AM and arrive XinDien MRT station at 6:15 AM, started to ride at 6:45 AM. Something wrong with Tony's bicycle break so he had to go back home to change bicycle. This was a hot and stuffy day. The weather was too unfriendly to ride bike, so we had to stop before noon to prevent from getting sunstroke. We met more than 100 bikers from Big Apple biking club. As for as I know, Big Apple is the biggest and well organized biking club in Taiwan. but it is hard for me to imagine how to manage a biking trip with more than 100 participants. We had lunch at a HuYuan restaurant (http://www.coupon.com.tw/go26665367.htm) even though William and I just had fruit and noodle, respectively. I forgot what Tony and Carol ate but they pretty loved their chiken combo.

The track recorded by GPS as shown in the photo is very crazy and ridiculous, becuae of limited GPS signal detected in this mountain.

Trip 2) HsinDien-ShiDing-Guting

Member: Ning

Total riding time: around 2.5 hours (something wrong with my cycle computer, so this is just estimated)

Total distance: 45 km

Eveybody had appointment in the afternoon, so I just kept riding from XinDien to ShiDing at 12:30 PM. I was actually planning to ride to PinXi but I gave up because of possible torrential rain after big thunders all round the mountain area.

I had BBQ Tofu with pickled vegetable, icecream spring roll with peanut powder and coriander leaves at ShenKeng. That taste pretty good, and thank to the boss of icecream spring roll for filling water for me.

Ning

2007年6月12日

Gear Shifting

Not sure if this is the best linkage between front and rear sprockets, but this is a good arrangement in my mind. I need everybody's opinion.

Ning

2007年6月3日

2007-6-3-ChinTienGang

William, Carol, Regine, Ning and Ali
Totol riding time: 1 hr 8 min
Total distance: 9 km (including off-road trail)
This was a very short ride at YangMingShan. It started to rain before we finish walking trail loop at top of ChinTienGang, so this trip has to be stopped unfortunately. We met a group people accidently, one lady was a professional bike rider who is gonna ride from BeiJing to XinJian on Jun. 5. It seems that she is a very serious rider. Here is her blog: http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~d95521009/index.html , her Beijing to XinJian trip will be recorded here: http://candice1117.blogspot.com/ ning

2007年5月30日

Routes around HsinChu area

obtained from: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/franklu&article_id=4678767

2007年5月27日

2007-5-26 Ah-Rou-Yang Road

Regine and Ning

Totol riding time: 1 hr 30 min

Total distance: 18 km

very unfriendly uphill for the first 8 km!!

2007年5月19日

2007-5-20-PinLin to JinGuaLiao

Altitude Chart from PinLin to JinGuaLiao

Altitude chart from JinGuaLiao to PinLin

Participant: Tony, William, Carol, Regine, Ning and cute Ali
Weather: little drizzle in the morning, partly cloudy in the afternoon
Ning's totol riding time: 2h 58min
Ning's total distance: 41.6 km

This was also a very amazing route comparable to Wulai - TonHo. We expereinced moutain, lake, uphill and downhill in this sophisticated but quiet and clean environment during a round trip (23 km). We had lunch (the must eat - free range chicken, fish, vegitable, mushroom, fried noodle) at the very final end of this route. It was prtty much like enjoying a deep forest bath where fresh air, gorgeous view and diversified envoronment are fufilled in this little paradise. After the perfect trip has been finished, "Tea dinner" with tea, tea rice, oily thin noodle, fried tofu was the final highlight which made the whole journey fully completed. We all have consensus to come back here again since there is still so much to discover at this little paradise. Another nice thing was we had a new participant-Regine who is an old friend of mine. Thank you for joining and wish her to become a regular member!

What I really wish to try next time is to carry back pack with gas, water, noodle, etc. so we can expand the flexibility and mobility of our trips with no need to worry about when and where to find restaurant. This less civilized and self-support meal will also bring up a new taste of highlight where important ideas of our green biking - enviornmental protection as well as resource saving can be fully associated to.

Ning

2007年5月15日

Bicycles

William's Giant Yukon

Tony's Giant Iguana

Tony's Giant OCR

Carol's Giant Jolli

Ning's Louis Garneau Casper Pro

2007年5月14日

Movie "Island Etude" at Warner Villege Cinemas

2007-5-14 8:20 PM

Tony, william, Carol and Ning

Enjoied a Taiwanese movie "Island Etude" at Warner Villege Cinemas

This is a movie talking about a guy riding around Taiwan for 7 days, a deeper and closer observation on Taiwan has been obtained and recorded by bike riding. the impressive sentence in this movie "You will regret if you don't get something done right away" has touched my heart and motivated myself a bit to ride around Taiwan. Sorry to William cuz there is no English caption even though we were told that it must be available.

2007年5月13日

2007-5-13-Keelung to RuiFang

Tony and Ning

Total riding time: 50 min

Distance: 18 km

We had lunch (steam rice with cured meat, rice with ma-po tofu, curry combo, hot milk tea, cold milk, tea) at a HongKong tea restaurant opposite to Public and Business Administration Center, NCCU.

Drove to KeeLung PiSha fishing port

Rode bike from Keelung PiSha fishing port-> RuiFang

Returned after 30 min riding becuase of heavy rain

Drove to JioFeng and had some food there (potato ball, stinky tofu, fish ball, meat ball, BBQ corn). It was a pity that we can not have dinner at PiSha fishing port but dinner at JioFeng was also not bad.

This biking trip was good but rain was too heavy at RuiFeng, so we had to stop this trip unfortunately. The atmosphere in JioFeng was quite good, it was fulfilled with classical Taiwanese local atmosphere with potato ball, fish ball or artifact shops. I was not sure if William had ever been here but there were very nice mountain and ocean views with "commercial" and garbage easily smelled anywhere. It will be nice if we can arrive here by bike instead of car someday. This trip may or maynot be a mistake because Taipei city and west side of Taiwan were sunny, we rode at this east (raining) part of Taiwan because of our bad luck or becuase God liked us to be challenged by falling rains?