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Photos by MJ Klein

By the looks of things, this will probably be the last article on the recent makeover in our neighborhood.  If anything else happens I’ll write another article about it and amend it to the series for your convenience.

The way these cars are parked illustrates how much easier it is to park your car for lunch at our local food outlets.  Notice the road has been patched and all traces of the transformers that were in the road have now been cleared.  This was done over the weekend but rain in our area prevented me from going out and getting photos.

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Photos by MJ Klein

This weekend, Hui-chen and I were in Kaohsiung for a few days.  I had the opportunity to ride the new KRT system and I noticed something that had escaped me before.  I didn’t cover this in our 2 articles about the KRT during it’s testing period, either.  I was surprised that I missed something as fundamental as this issue.

I’m going to present 3 photos taken previously.  I would like you to click on them and take a look at the large sizes for each one.

This is a photo of one of the maps in a station.  Typical of station maps, it has numbered designations for stations, as well as the station name, both in English and Chinese.

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When I bought my Artifice recumbent trike, it came with a rack that was installed by the factory.  I wanted to install a Topeak rack like I had on my MTB but I wasn’t sure if the Artifice rack was too custom to replace with a consumer rack.  After some investigation, I was able to install the rack that I wanted on the Artifice.  Here’s what I did:

This is the rack that came with the Artifice and my Giant saddle bags.  One thing that I didn’t like is how the saddle bags look, and the fact that they hide the beautiful alloy wheel.

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As some of you may recall, when I visited the Taipei Cycle Show, my friend Kevin Kao showed me a new bracket for the headrest on the Artifice recumbent trike.  I asked Kevin to send me a bracket so I could install one on my own Artifice.

This photo illustrates the issue.  There is a quick release (QR) lever in the center of this photograph.  This QR is for unlocking the seat back for folding down.  There is a rectangular hole in the aluminum mounting bracket for clearance for the QR.  The hole isn’t large enough, and the headrest mounting bracket isn’t adjustable.

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Photos by MJ Klein & Hui-chen

On Wednesday of this week, Hui-chen and I went up to Taipei for the bicycle show.  Our company produces (among other things) bike parts and we like to see new things at this yearly trade show.

Before I get to the bike show itself, I wanted to show you one of the new glass shelters on the THSR platform.  Here in Hsinchu, we are famous for a lot of wind and quite frankly, the elevated track platform can get terribly windy.  They now have shelters from the wind and that makes for a much more pleasant experience when taking the high-speed rail.

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I updated some of the equipment on the trike in the last few days, so I wanted to do an article about the updates.

I installed a Air Zound air horn on the right accessories bar.  I needed a really loud horn for 2 reasons: 1: I’m low to the ground and in some traffic situations I need to make my presence known in an authoritative manner. 2: I need to give a blast on a loud horn to discourage dogs from giving chase.

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Last Tuesday was a very nice day, sunny, bright and with an almost warm wind.  So I decided to take the trike out for a spin and to a park for some new photos.

I’m going to give you a really good look at it, and explain the details.  The model is called the Artifice and is made in Taiwan by TW-Bents.

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Hui-chen and I had a few opportunities to check out the new KRT while we were in Kaohsiung.  We also took a look at the “Dome Of Light” in Formosa Boulevard station.

Approaching the station, we saw these bikes in the rack:

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This is the last article in our 2008 US Trip series.  I hope you’ve enjoyed reading this series as much as we’ve enjoying sharing it with you.

In Part Two we showed you the famous Kansai airport in Osaka Japan.  Now, on the return flight we’re going to show you a little of what Detroit’s airport is like.

This is of course, my lovely wife Hui-chen standing on one of the moving walkways.  Detroit is a large airport and it’s a good thing they have these moving walkways, otherwise we would have been completely wiped out getting from one terminal to the other to catch our connecting flight!  We took the same exact route back as we did getting to North Carolina from Taiwan, just in reverse order of course.

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For years I’ve been reading about this mysterious place in northern Taiwan, where there are abandoned homes that resemble UFOs.  I’ve always wanted to go there and check it out, and thanks to our good friend Andres, we were able to do so recently.

This Google Earth image shows an overview of the complex.

This is the first view of the pods from the road.  Yes, those are chickens that some people are keeping inside the fence.

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