ROUTE BUILDING: 3 Days & A Whole Lotta Love

We've just finished doing the recon rides for our upcoming tours, and what a great ride that was!

Perfect weather and good legs - bonus! - meant we didn’t want to stop. No matter how much we ride here, Taiwan continues to shock us with its natural beauty…

Over the three days we rode from Taipei to Yilan over Route 9 on Day 1, climbed from Taroko to Wuling, and dropped down through Aowanda towards Sun Moon Lake, all on Day 2, and then we climbed from Sun Moon Lake to Alishan over the glorious 65km of Tataka (known as ‘the Small Big One’ here) and finished it all off with a very meandering 2400m descent that features the famous 36 Bends to Meishan in the west.

In total that came to 470km and 15,750m of climbing.

We do this for all our tours, not just for the first ever tour in a location, but every time we have a tour, anywhere.. Riding every kilometre ourselves is how we know where the best views, the toughest sections and the best food stops are, and it means we know the exact conditions our guests face on the upcoming tour. We pride ourselves on the relationships we build with our guests, and this is one of the ways that we can show then how much we care for them.

It's a lot of work, but it comes from our love and passion of cycling, and days like we had on this trip are indescribably rewarding - if you know, you know sort of thing!

And we are sure you do, or you wouldn’t be reading this..!

Taiwan… the scenery is some of the most beautiful in Asia, and it startles us every time we get on the saddle. The man-made architecture here may not win many prizes, but the mountains, gorges and coastline more than make up for it - and soon we will be showing 25 guests around on these three upcoming tours.

Two of the tours are coming up you will foind on our Tours page:

Taiwan KOM Challenge Tour, 28 October to 4 November: ride the legendary climb from the sea to Wuling. Tour details
Mountain Goats Tour, 14 to 22 November: our first ever, made for climbers. Tour details

The other is a private custom tour, a 4 day adventure from Taipei to the east, then up Taroko to Wuling, finishing with an 80km descent from Wuling to Yilan.

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