Category: Trips

2024-07-17 Start: 10:45 / Arrival: 18:30 Distance: 65km / Gained height 300 hm Today it turned out slightly, that my plan of going to the east valley to get cooler temperatures didn’t work out. More on this later. Started with visiting a nice temple I had already seen last year, then continued my way through the rice fields and silent

2024-07-16 Start: 9:00 / Arrival: 19:00 Distance: 40km (with transfer in Taipei) / Gained height 200 hm (map is the part only between Guanshan and Chishang) Temperature in the morning….of course already super hot, esp. in Taipei – so I hoped it would be cooler on the east coast. Quickly rode to Songshan station to catch the train to Guanshang.

2024-06-30 Start: 15:30 / Arrival: 20:00 Distance: 51km / Gained height 122 hm On this weekend I wanted to go to Keelung, but strangely all hotels were booked out. So I stayed in Taipei for a concert in the Par Store on Saturday and just went for a small ride on Sunday to the Tamsui fisherman’s wharf. Way to Tamsui

2024-06-23 Start: 11:45 / Arrival: 15:15 Distance: 50km / Gained height 100 hm Started around noon from Yilan. Today it even seemed hotter than yesterday, so rode slowly. Redid some exploring of Yilan, I had done last year. After just a couple of kilometers, I thought “wow, that car there needs some service, sounds awful with its screeching”…then…I noticed…no, it

2024-06-22 Start: 11:15 / Arrival: 19:45 Distance: 90km / Gained height 400 hm On the day before we went playing badminton with the company – this plus immense heat where a great start 😉 Cycled to Songshan station, as you cannot take your bicycle on the train on the main station. Took ages due to the traffic lights. Heat was

2024-06-15 Start: 12:15 / Arrival: 21:00 Distance: 74km / Gained height 380 hm During the week I had a strange flu/cold from the ACs, so when starting – I was still a little bit low on energy, couldn’t breathe so well – and the heat was also very high. After the first bridge I thought about just returning to my

2024-06-08 Start: 14:00 / Arrival: 20:00 Distance: 81km / Gained height 370 hm Started a little bit late in the strong heat. Was a little bit cloudy, but still stable and nevertheless hot. I had underestimated the heat and needed to buy some sunscreen after 20km – expensive, from Japan…and it included some skin coloring – leaving me a little

2024-06-01 Start: 15:45 / Arrival: 19:00 Distance: 55km / Gained height 400 hm Strange start for a day. Had some neck pain, weather was not constant with a high possibility of rain. So with the first rain starting, I decided to skip todays cycling trip and go for a massage instead. Went to a very nice salon around the corner

2024-05-19 Start: 12:00 / Arrival: 19:30 Distance: 95km / Gained height 550 hm Again another hot day. Started on the bicycle path beside the Tamsui river. Then rode through Xinzhuang. Saw some garden, where the owner was collecting parrots, all of them sitting outside and making incredible noises. Was quite irritated in the beginning, where this was coming from. Then

I made two small trips exploring the near area around Taipei. Both trips are covered here. Sanchong District and Lazhou (1/2) 2024-05-14 Start: 15:45 / Arrival: 18:30 Distance: 36km / Gained height 165 hm Due to the wonderful Reona Tap concert yesterday at Senko Ishha I started quite late. So this was just a quick round circling around Sanchong District