Taiwan Cycling Trip | Taipei Riverside Bike Path to Tamsui (台北~淡水)

[@drewlucero3916]

Another AWESOME adventure 📸 🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴📸🙏

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Thanks! It was a great day :)

[@HarleyBreakoutGuy]

First time i been to this city through your video :) thanks for the trip

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Haha, glad to help ;)

[@christill]

Totally agree about the bike paths being the best part of Taipei. Any time you see people riding bikes freely and enjoying themselves in a stress-free environment it makes you feel good.

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Exactly! :)

[@kuyagian]

Those cycling paths are just heavenly... I wanna ride them someday. Thanks for sharing this. Great content as always.

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Thanks! And agreed, these bike paths are soooo great!

[@robinlin5093]

Thanks for sharing the beauty of Taipei and Taiwan. Hope to see you and your lovely wife back to Taiwan again to explore other bike paths soon. Best wishes to your family and career both in teaching and youtube.

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Thanks! Hope to come back soon! :)

[@harsdensus88]

Beautiful bridges, good food, smooth road for cyclist and happy wife. Nice video Cruise!

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Thanks! It was a great day!

[@jazzfan7491]

When I was in Taiwan 10 years ago Giant was so big that you could do with bikes there what you can do with rental cars in other places, meaning, rent the bike in one city and drop it off in another city. Amazingly convenient. I rented in Hualien and rode a zig zag route to Tainan. Maybe this service, if it still exists, is worth a video for your fans. It was a great way to take a vacation and see Taiwan.

[@sheniferous]

Tamsui is the romanization of the place name that is more closely representative of the pronunciation in the Taiwanese Hokkien dialect. Danshui is the Mandarin romanization using Pinyin of the same name. There's also an older Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin that was used until the 2000s when most of Taiwan switched over to Hanyu/Tongyong Pinyin. A lot of places are still officially romanized in Wade-Giles (e.g. Kaohsiung ["Gaoxiong" in Hanyu Pinyin], Taipei ["Taibei" in Hanyu Pinyin], Keelung ["Jilong" in Hanyu Pinyin] etc).

[@maidbloke]

Great to see so many dedicated cycle lanes! So different to the UK where I am from. Thanks for another nice video.

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Thanks! Yeah, the bike lanes here are great!

[@Kosmonooit]

Greet video, added incentive to visit Taipei again :)

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Thanks! Taipei is worth multiple visits :)

[@Kosmonooit]

Certainly! Last time I was there Taipei was full of sweat shops cranking out PC hardware, the Metro was WIP and it was all about Chaing KS

[@mannyf1441]

First of all, love your content. With that being said, your dislike of people using umbrellas without rain cracks me up. 10:31 made me lol... 😂😂😂

[@TwoWheelCruise]

It really really irritates me in crowded places.. 🤣🤣🤣

[@frankyu4967]

Cruise, you should be on the Taipei Tourism board. How many videos do you think this trip will yield? Keep up with all the great content. Cheers!

[@TwoWheelCruise]

That would be a dream job! Maybe they can help sponsor the next trip haha. We've got one more main big cycling video, and a few other food/travel videos. Also, will maybe do some separate videos talking about Taiwan/Japan.

[@smiggee]

Pretty cool ride. I've been on some parts of that bike path and hope to do the full ride on the next visit. Good stuff!

[@TwoWheelCruise]

the river path network here is huge, and lots of well built side paths as well :)

[@tiojaime9126]

Thanks for sharing, I just love the bike paths in Taipei. It looks a lot safer on those tracks then cycling on the main road.

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Agreed!

[@joefenech6839]

Thanks...that was a great video 👍 I was in that area about 10 years ago and never knew about that bike path. Back then I did some hiking in yami mountains among a lot of steam vents and visited a restaurant/bath house in the mountain that was really nice. Hope I get back there soon, and with your help, I should have better time on a bike. Would you mind saying what a nice road bike rents for there? Thanks again!

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Thanks! I don't think these paths were around 10 years ago, but not exactly sure. We rented road bikes from Giant for touring, and regular road bikes from a local in the area. The giant bikes were solid, though they are a flat style handle bar. I'm sure you can find some rental road bikes around though..

[@ianmatlock1]

​@@TwoWheelCruise I found this place that came well recommended that rents proper steel touring bikes for a reasonable rate - mathewbike.com/en/rental/

[@kiarax2387]

I've Been Silently watching your videos sir . i am very shy to comment lol.but this is some nice content love it keep it up sir!

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Thanks for commenting and I'm glad to hear you like these videos! :)

[@Seiti]

Now I want to see Taiwan, along Japan... Trip start: no smile. Cycling, drinking, eating, meeting new people. Big smile. :)

[@TwoWheelCruise]

haha, sounds like most days with my wife! :)

[@kurimawhermusilla2411]

More power twc go,go,go,go upload more video (cycling) enjoy watching love it so much

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Thanks! Have a lot filmed.. but a lot needs to be edited..

[@卡特阿爾]

台北 淡水 真美 😍😍😍

[@peterpp306]

安安😀騎起來😄😋😋😊😉😊😋😋

[@DanielPhua]

The ferry there actually can take you all the way to the lover's bridge/fisherman's wharf. :)

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Good to know, thanks!

[@卡特阿爾]

台北市河濱公園很美 是個騎自行車的好地方 🚲🚴🚵

[@TwoWheelCruise]

我同意。 我喜欢这条道路

[@卡特阿爾]

Two Wheel Cruise 😀😁😉👍👍👍

[@adeirawanz]

Nice place for cycling and nice suit 😊 I hope someday i wear suit like u 😁 Keep posting another video 🙏

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Thanks!

[@MsKukuh21]

I watch this video before doing my over time work, very refreshing :D good video

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Thanks! Hope it gave you a bit of a refresher!

[@georgecarlson3143]

Great video, reminds me of cycling here in Seoul and, yes, we have those darn “sunbrellas” too.

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Yes, I was impressed with some of the bike paths in Seoul as well!

[@ianmatlock1]

Great video. My daughter and family live in Danshui. Felt very familiar your trip to Jiufen and then to Danshui. Hoping to go again next year- if allowed!. Will hire a bike for a couple of weeks and cycle around the island as part of my visit. Was going to take my bike but hire cost seem really reasonable.

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Thanks! It's a lovely area!

[@NAOKIGOFFIGIRODELMONDO]

I been there without bicycle! Food was amazing and even the nature!

[@TwoWheelCruise]

My first time I was there without a bike and had a blast. Vowed to go back and bring my bike the next time :)

[@Membrillo81]

I live in Tamsui, it seems that you missed a very nice beach just in the northernmost part of your Strava route. You would have loved it.

[@mikelees5093]

Nice vlog, I wish there were nice places to ride my bike where I live. Does your wife speak any English?

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Thanks! And not really, no

[@mauricioacuna3746]

Awesome kit me up effect thanks made me laugh!

[@TwoWheelCruise]

😁

[@readysetsleep]

12:30 Taiwan designs some crazy slope angles for their pedestrian bridges. This bridge reminds me of Xiying Rainbow Bridge in Magong City out in Penghu Island, in Taiwan... Ankle buster climbs!

[@TwoWheelCruise]

better than nothing, and a good workout!

[@EpicAdventuresPH]

Baobing, very similar to "halo-halo" in the Philippines, "kakigori" in Japan, "cendol" in Indonesia/Malaysia and "patbingsu" in South Korea.

[@-t-h8560]

2:32 oh~~~~~ now i know where that path leads to~~ thanks! XD

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Yeah, I was surprised when I exited there.. I was like I know where I am now!

[@-t-h8560]

yea~~~~~~~~ there's just so many unknown exit. XD

[@Michaelmaggimee]

I hope to rent a bike for route no. 1. Plan some stop stations. However, if i dont complete the route, how to return the bike. Also, is it expensive if i want to rent a good bike as there may be some upslopes. Also, when they say peak season, how peak is it. Is good to see some cyclists but i scared too crowded.

[@dumaramutsi]

Fried Chicken should be the secret to the WORLD'S smile :D

[@TwoWheelCruise]

it is in Asia :)

[@jonasf.5453]

nice video... however, u missed soooo much good food there..

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Gotta go again!

[@diaokim]

You should ride on the river side at night. Many Taiwanese ride at night, especially in summer, or because of working on daytime.

[@TwoWheelCruise]

we did! it was just too dark to take any video..

[@matthiasn2374]

淡水河: "T" is most likely derived from Cantonese (my mother tongue hehe). And "D" is most likely derived from Mandarin.

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Interesting... thanks for the info!

[@floridanatindim1615]

wow where did you rent your bike? do you have any contact on how to rent one thanks :)

[@TwoWheelCruise]

we rented these road bikes from a local rider for this part of our trip, but rented with Giant for other parts of our trip.

[@aboysarchives]

Could you make a mamachari challenge?

[@TwoWheelCruise]

What do you have in mind?

[@TwoWheelCruise]

What do you have in mind?

[@kuyagian]

KOM hunting on a Mamachari bike! Hehehe!

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Lol, could be fun..

[@aboysarchives]

Mamachari challenge and hunting

[@yamaa8]

日本と違って、ジョガー&ランナーが湧いてこない所と車とのエリア断絶してるから歩行者横断が少ないのが良いね。

[@TwoWheelCruise]

そうですね。日本でもこういう道をもっと作ってほしいです。健康的にも経済的にも安全的にも色んなメリットがあると思います。

[@jacquesconnard]

First thing I notice is... other cyclist actually following the proper direction of travel, and slower riders staying to the side of the path. Definitely not Japan!

[@TwoWheelCruise]

Haha yeah.. I think a big part of it is infrastructure.. if Japan built more roads for cyclists/bikes, I think more people would follow the rules, but now it's just kind of a free for all 😑