Unhappy with his Giant, Chris found a new mount on last weekend's ride.Last Sunday, I got out on the coast ride with Dave, Land, Chris, Curt, and Harry for a pre-North Coast Race practice spin. The discussion turned once more to designing a jersey for the Yangmingshan riders; Harry has some new ideas- more to come...
Wednesday's Bryson Ride again gathered ten riders for the 5 am start from TAS. We now have another Chris along to join the three Bills. This is a great ride. We're back in Tien Mu before 6:30- all are welcome.
Leon and I headed joined the Columbus Team for the www.bikemen.net hill climb Team Time Trial yesterday (I know, I had never head of one, either). The ten teams of nine departed every three minutes for the 25 km ride.
Team Time Trial profile.The team score came from the top six riders' times. The very powerful e-Ma team took out overall honors, but Columbus Team finished just behind. I would highly recommend this ride if it is held again. Photos, results and information (all in Chinese) are available here.
Leon powers the team in to the finish.
Team Columbus takes second overall.In other news, Craig has set up a website for information on triathlon, cycling and running events in Taiwan (and around the world). Visit the site at www.taiwanracing.com.
An event passed along by Victor is the Shuang-Qi Duathlon on March 10th (the day before the Jinshan Marathon). Registration closes March 1st. Check out the event description here on www.taiwanracing.com.
Looking for a challenge? Big Joe emailed to report that the Satellites have now successfully been ridden on a single speed. From what I hear, it wasn't pretty, but there was no stopping til the summit...
And finally, I'm putting together plans for Chinese New Year riding next week. I will be sending around emails this week to organize the longer rides, and I will post the results here. If you would like to be included in the email deliberations, drop a note to the disposable email address ycc@eml.cc.
See you out in the hills!
Bill
2 comments:
I'm interested in the Diathlon on 10 March if anyone else fancies it?
Chris
hello bill,
i have been reading your blogs lately to find more information regarding Team Columbus and Tour of East Taiwan 2009. Thanks so much for your entertaining posts with the fotos. Previously we didnt know that cycling for expats was a big thing in taiwan. Kaight Forgie is currently in MAnila and she was the one who pointed to me about your blog and about team columbus.
raymond see
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