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Biking Taiwan: Morning Rides Into and Above Bali-八里

Tuesday morning, I rode down 108 from Linkou-林口 and up 53 to Gueishan-龜山 Visitor Center, about 22 kilometers. Thursday morning, I rode down 105 from Linkou-林口 to Bali-八里. As I wanted to get at least 20 kilometers in, I continued a little bit longer onto Taipei Port where I sat down to snack and write [...]

Biking Taiwan: Hualian-花蓮 train station to Taitong-台東 train station

I took a few days to go bike riding down Taiwan’s East coast with Jeff Miller and Michael Turton’s familiy. We all meet up in Hualian-花蓮 Saturday night for dinner and hostel stay. Sunday morning around 5 AM we pulled out till coming into Shihtipeng about 3 PM. Monday we rode to Dulan and Tuesday [...]

There was a ride to Yongan Harbor

There was a ride to Yongan Harbor. Four riders went, 1 dropped back for work, 3 carried on. 2 were too slow, so, 1 went on to wait. Arrive in time for lunch, they all did. On the way back, the wind was a pain a head. Up 3 kilometers of long, slow hills stopped [...]

Biking Taiwan: Linkou-林口 to Yongan Harbor-永安漁港

This morning, I headed out with three local friends at 8 AM for the Saturday Linkou-林口 Giant shop bike ride to Yongan Harbor-永安漁港, 49 kilometers away. We went cruising quickly down road 106, topping 50 kph, and then turned onto highway 15 south past Taoyuan International Airport and then onto Yongan Harbor-永安漁港. With the tailwind, [...]