Taiwan English Biking Club: 2007.05

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?