Category: 2023 Taiwan

2023-11-05 Start: 12:15 / Arrival: 17:15 Distance: 42 km / Gained height 780 hm A day of climbing in the heat – after some Taiwanese breakfast we went up to Sun Moon Lake. It’s just 40km, but the relevant part up to ~800hm happens in the last 10km. So we had some relaxed climbing (allthough in 30 degrees in the heat)

2023-11-04 Start: 15:30 / Arrival: 18:15 Distance: 20km / Gained height 180 hm Had quick breakfast from the convenience store and brought my bought records to the 7-11 to mail them to my friend Kuan-You in Taipei, as I don’t want to carry them in the heat on the bicycle 😉 Postal service in the convenience stores is a super

2023-11-03 Distance: approx 20km, from record store to record store As I knew, that the day would be spent long time in record shops, we went each one alone to explore the city. I went to the shop I knew from last time and took quite a deep research on each record it had. Took me about 2 hours to

2023-11-02 Start: 10:30 / Arrival: 17:45 Distance: 65km / Gained height 280hm Left Kaohsiung for the Tiger and Dragon pagoda. Checked a couple of bicycle repair shops on the way, as I had tightened my headset a little bit too much. One shop was unfortunately quite unfriendly. In my world, you help cyclotourist as a shop – if you don’t help,

2023-11-01 Slept again again a little bit longer and went for a walk through Kaohsiung today – goals: two record shops. First one was an old one. Google said, the owner could be a little bit special. From outside it looked fabulous, I entered shy. The owner showed me the categories and it seemed, it puzzled him, that I went

2023-10-31 Start: 10:45 Distance: 45km / Gained height 280hm Half a rest day today, but actually that’s not really true. Slept a bit longer, had quick breakfast at the convenience store around the corner and packed the bicycles lightly for a daytrip. Rode to Fo Guang Shan park, first bit was interesting. Due to the lights being optimised for scooter

2023-10-30 Start: 11:00 / Arrival: 17:00 Distance: 80km / Gained height 310 hm Left Kenting after some very again nice breakfast from the restaurant we had choosen yesterday. Riding along the west coast is completely different, initially we still had some longer harmless ramps, but then it got flat with tailwinds. First riding along the crowded #26, we took some

2023-10-29 Arriving at the most southern tip of Taiwan, we gave us a rest day in Kenting. Legs were a little bit tired, so went slowly in the heat through Kenting main street to get breakfast and fetch some cleaning utensils for bicycles. This was as well needed for readjusting Bettinas bicycle – and also because we don’t want to

2023-10-28 Start: 10:00 / Arrival: 18:30 Distance: 98km / Gained height 1150hm Had breakfast at a local breakfast restaurant around the corner and started directly, as todays route is quite a bit. Advantage: we are of the highway #9 – disadvantage: it involves quite a bit of climbing 😉 So went for 6 km along the #9, stocked up on

2023-10-27 Start: 11:00 / Arrival: 17:00 Distance: 64km / Gained height 480hm Went for a traditional Taiwanese breakfast again with tasty omelette. Checked out, went to a convenience store to get some glue to fix my Gilles Berthoud handlebar tape (in contrast to the saddles, I’m not yet really convinced, feels great – but quite sensible). Went for a bit