Just got back from a tour of Taiwan and snapped a few pics of bikes when walking the streets... The traffic is quite orderly and much better than mainland China. There are marked areas for scooters to wait in front of the cars at the traffic lights seen in one of the last pics. *Scooters make up 95% of two wheeled transport, 4% are pictured below and the other 1% were either jap sport bikes going too fast for my iphone fingers or fancy bikes locked in rich garages. Most bikes below are Taiwanese brands: SYM, KYMCO and CPI (CPI manufacture on China mainland) Also a Yamaha scooter, Suzuki with pink footrests and some funky monkey in there too. Enjoy. *Data was accurately sourced from my brain and may vary from scientifically collaborated information.
You're in my neck of the woods where a radiator is not in sight .. I just posted a link on a Kymco bike ...They are made In Tawain (as stated above) and one of the pics above is probably a Kymco bike ... http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/kymco.52404/#post-465758 -- This points to some of the weirdness in life that I just can't quite get my head wrapped around. How and why do these countries ride bikes the USA left behind ~40 yrs ago? There seems to be economics (maybe society\cultures) at play here also and again I can't quite wrap my head around that also.
Anything maybe to do with Taiwan being about one half the size of West Virginia but nearly thirteen times the population? Also, from the pics, the Taiwanese need to visit America to be trained in the art of proper littering. :-)
Land size does dictate alot of things .... Nothing here is really ~big in size except the trucks for moving goods as space is so limited .... Bikers here usually go to the front of the line but we have no marked-blocks here usually ... Looks clean and modern ...
