place One round of Taiwan by bicycle Day 2 Taipei ⇒ Miaoli
Date and time 11/2
Today's move Taipei ⇒ Miaoli
weather fine
distance 106km






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I brought easily packed bicycles to the outside of the hotel and assembled it.
This work ended quickly.

I bought simple food etc in the 7-Eleven next to the hotel and left for Miaoli.
A cashier at a convenience store surely asks two things. The first question is (as I imagine) that it means "Do you need a bag?"
The next question is "Want me to heat this up?"
Even vegetable sandwiches ask "Do you warm this?"
So, I decide to show the bags on hand before they ask the first question.
The next question decided to answer "no".
0720
Today, I do not know whether I can go to Hsinchu or Miaoli, how far I can go.

Either good way, I picked up hotels of Hsinchu and Miaoli and put it in the navigation bookmark.
I was worried about Right-side -run traffic system, but I soon got accustomed.
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I do not know how to cross Danshui River.
I do not know if I can go by bike.
I saw it in Street View beforehand, but I had to run during my commuting time.
Somehow I crossed the Xindian River and came here.
Another, cross over Dahan Creek, I have to join line 1.
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I will move along the river for a long time and look for a bridge that can cross.
It is a great number of motorbikes.
They ride on the sidewalk without refraining from anyone, and then go up there.
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Finally I got to the pedestrian, bicycle bridge, Crescent Bridge.
I cross this bridge. As a result, this may be the shortest way.

There is one concern.
The tire pressure is insufficient.
After all, the air pressure that I have is not enough pressure.
I want to find a bicycle store and borrow inflator on the way.
I thought of various things.
Taiwan is a motorbike kingdom. There should be a lot of motorcycle shops.
Let's get the air in at that motorbike shop.
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Taiwan has many motorcycles, many shops.
In this store,I pump air into a tire and run at a high pressure of the tire.

I found out later that there are many shops in Taiwan with this name.

光陽機車 is the largest motorcycle manufacturer in Taiwan as of 2016.

It is over 40% of new vehicle sales share in Taiwan.
In English it is KYMCO, Kimko.
KYMCO had received technology from Honda,
but now, Tie-up has been eliminated.
I read it on wikipedia.
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I got used to traffic on the right side run.
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When I am running slowly, like this, I will be surrounded by motorcycles soon.
That is also almost a female rider. And everyone is masking.
Because the air is bad. I also brought a mask for 14 days.
I brought 14 pieces with 1 piece a day. White mask in the morning changes to black in the evening.
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Where I go, where I will go It looks like a motorcycle shop, but it is not. It's just a bike that is stopped in front of the shop.

This is Taoyuan city.
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I will go past Taoyuan towards Hsinchu
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The city of Hsinchu is now visible.
1352
I will go past Hsinchu city.
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1550
I reached the town of Miaoli.
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Arrive at hotel
I heard "whether the room is available". I listened while showing the Chinese sentence of the smartphone.
"The room is available," the hotel owner said.
However, said that only 900 yuan room is available.
Indeed, the hotel was full of young people like high school students.



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