Cyclotourism in far east, past and present adventures.
2018-10-22 Start: 11:30 / 70 km / 740 hm First day of cycling – late start at 11:30 due to some GPS problems, but fixed them, with grinding teeth by logging my phone on to Google. Goodbye privacy. Met Spencer from Trek bicycles and had a nice small chat before heading of onto the bicycle speedway beside Tamsui river. Turned
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2018-10-21 Build the bicycle together in the heat and went for a test ride, everything is fine, no damage from the flight. Had a beef noodle soup for lunch with Sky and Kuan-You, afterwards went with them to a department store. It had a small but incredible selection of old taiwanese Psych and Funk records from the 60s/70s, so couldn’t
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2018-10-20 Arrived safely, too lazy for the train and took a taxi for 1150 NTD to the hostel. Then spent the day together with Kuan-You on the motorbike… Had taiwanese breakfast, went to temples, old streets with dried goods, a teahouse and a recordstore. Finally finished the day on his parents rooftop drinking beer and looking at the 101 tower.
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Preparing the bike. New wheelset, handbuild. Hope titan hubs from the 90s laced to h+son archetypes hipster thingies.
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