Taipei bike show, complete with Engrish.

layover in LA, this guy has it figured out.



Cool BB I bought for $15. Tapered roller bearings for the win.









They still make these?



They have trained murderous pocket dogs to guard this park from people walking across it. No, really, they chased me off it one morning. I tested them the next day. Extending one foot over the grass will bring them running.






Obligatory Taipei 101 pics...


















Worst meal of the trip. Apparently "burger" means over-salted beef chum between two rice pucks.



Seatpost forgings, kinda cool.









Apparently this is a founding member of Orange. He's a good drinker, that's for sure.



Mothra



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Plastic everything...



Roller clutch!!! W00t.



I bought one of these too.

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Suddenly, scooters, thousands of them.
P.S. the air sucks in Taipei, mostly due to these turds.

aaand 3 more for the lulz.

Lol, nice HAB. The stem is branded as Affix. Wouldn't be surprised to see it as an Atomlab part in the future.

Quo Fan said:

I actually know someone named Dorcus.

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Last name maximus?

IH8Rice said:

what building was this in? its to prevent swaying right?

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Taipei 101, yeah, it's a giant steel ball sway damper.

Westy said:

WTF is the point? Took me a while to even figure out what was going on there.

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Same thing as the Kona DirtMMcG built, it's for attention seeking.

Forgot to mention, these are anti-lock brake pads. srslywtf

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TN said:

no lady boys?

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That was the other weekend at Sandwich's bachelor party.

wreckedrex said:

Lol, I was there a few months ago. The worst thing I ate by far was a burger... Mos burger wasn't bad tho. Neat city, is the scooter army pic by the huashan creative park?

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Ugh, Mouse Burger was terrrible. I tried to rid my mouth of the taste by digging into the juice that came with my meal. Turns out it was jellied grape innards. I almost lost what little I had eaten. Worst. Texture.

No idea what the park was, kind near Shandao Temple.

Westy said:

OMG braking is so difficult.

Brakes look stupid but I am digging the test stand. Is that a bicycle brake dynamometer?

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It is indeed. So much work for so little gain.

Sandwich said:

you're the one who got his/her/him/she/its/that's phone number AND email.

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The photographic evidence only caught the best man.

Edit: you forgot facebook

maddog17 said:

too bad i didn't know you were going. i would have had you pick me up some parts

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I had a bike in tow. Barely had the weight capacity to carry the 5 parts I did buy.