Running, not biking
Not a biking post, but maybe something almost as good. Received an e-mail from the Scientist Runner this morning alerting me to his report from the Tainan ROC Centennial marathon, or, officially, the...
View ArticleTaiwan distance calculator
Here is fairly a useful page that someone pointed me to yesterday: a distance calculator for Taiwan. Powered by Google, it works like the Get Directions function in Google maps, but it feels as if it...
View Articlebikingintaiwan.com
I bought the domain name bikingintaiwan.net a few months ago. I wanted bikingintaiwan.com, of course, but that was taken. Then in early January, I started receiving a long series of e-mails from the...
View Articlebikingintaiwan.com
I am now posting to this address: www.bikingintaiwan.com. It’ll take some time to get some kind of design up and going, because I have also changed software from MovableType to WordPress, but I’ll get...
View ArticleLook but not touch
There’s a new new bike shop in town (Taipei, that is) that looks really cool if you’re rich enough. Well, it looks cool whether you’re rich or not, but look is probably all I’ll ever do. It’s very...
View ArticleSidebars
I don’t know what happened to the sidebars, they just disappeared. Probably something to do with an update to the theme that I am basing this design on. Busy with work for the next few days, so I won’t...
View ArticleLance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong may be considering to admit to doping “because he wants to persuade antidoping officials to restore his eligibility so he can resume his athletic career.” I don’t get it. Admitting to...
View ArticleMore Armstrong
So, by his own admission, Armstrong did it. He wasn’t such a legendary cyclist after all. Since he did dope, he must also be compared to all the other big cyclists of the past who may well have been...
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Ride maps
I finally got around to doing something about all those maps of the different rides I wanted to put up on the site. I’ve only put up day-trips around Taipei, 10 of them so far, but now that I finally...
View ArticleYoubike apps
Here are a couple of Android apps that provide info on the Youbike rentals in Taipei and Kaohsiung. Bikefriend is in English and provides a map with rental sites in Taipei and Kaohsiung that includes...
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