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Sunday, July 31, 2011
Sanlinxi Century 台中--杉林溪--台中: Climbing A Mountain Of Tourists
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Caotun Loop and Randomness
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Cadels Before Schlecks: My Worst Pun To Date and Links
- Taiwanese racer poised to become the first Asian cyclist to win the International Cycling Classic. Feng Chun-kai maintained an insurmountable lead in the 43 year-old Pro-Am series after a week of victories and high placed finishes. Feng's dominance really highlights the still untapped potential for a country like Taiwan to cultivate athletic talent that can compete at the international level. The interest in cycling remains high as recreational riders are becoming more sophisticated and interested in the sport of cycling.
- A pair of cancer survivors tackle Taiwan by bike to raise funds and awareness for cancer research. Cycling has become a favorite activity for people dedicated to combating cancer, in part for Lance Armstrong's close association with cancer research and also for the fact that cycling can be an easy and accessible activity for lots of people.
- The Liberty Times reports on Bike Angels, a Taiwanese Lutheran group that will be riding around Taiwan to raise funds for a new orphanage in XiLuo and other projects. You can follow them on Facebook.
- Terry's got some great pics from Saturday's Giant Cup event. Terry placed a respectable 3rd.
- A North American look at 10 Great Places for City Cycling.
- Making Cycling More Inclusive: De-gendering the bicycle.
- When art and bicycles collide.
- Los Angeles carries a Big Stick for cyclists. Defending the defenseless.
- Revolutionary inventions for cycling?
- So you think you could be pro. How do you compare?
- Man cuts himself in two through cycling.
- Cadel me gently. Aussie wins Malliot Jaune in 20th stage ITT heroics. How did he do it?
- WSJ examines why the TdF captivated so many after becoming a bit of a bore in recent years.
- Andy Schleck's Stage 18 Pinache.
- Alberto Contador's fighting spirit wins fans and respect.
- Breaking the Color Barrier. 108 years later, first black man competes in worlds top bicycle race.
- So you think you should be sponsored... How do you stack up against the pros? Maybe that 32kph average over 50k inspires you to think about making a career of cycling. See what the big dogs averaged.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
2000 Meters Above Central Taiwan: Climbing The Four Peaks
Elevation Gain: 2000m/6500ft
Max Speed: 60kph
Max Temp: 40C/104F
Calories Burned: 4714cal
Thursday, July 21, 2011
As The World Terns: Dahon Files Suit
NEWS RELEASE
Dahon Files Lawsuit Against Former Officers
Lawsuit charges Joshua Hon and Florence Hon for breaching their fiduciary duties as officers of Dahon and unlawfully using company assets, resources and intellectual property to start a competing company
Duarte, California, July 21, 2011 - Dahon North America Inc. (“Dahon”), the world leader in folding bicycles, today announced it has filed a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against two former officers (Joshua Hon and Florence Hon) and their unlawfully competing businesses (Mobility Holdings, Ltd. and Tern Bicycles).
Dahon sued Joshua Hon and Florence Hon for wrongfully seizing control over Dahon’s Taiwan subsidiary (Dahon and Hon Industrial Labs, Ltd.) and related Dahon intellectual property, including the Biologic brand and the dahon.com website, and for using those assets and property to unfairly compete with Dahon. In addition, since Joshua Hon and Florence Hon started competing with Dahon while officers and employees of Dahon, they have acted in breach of their fiduciary duties owed to Dahon and to Dahon’s shareholders.
Dahon welcomes lawful competition in the marketplace. However, as alleged in Dahon’s complaint, the actions of these former officers are unlawful, and their refusal to cease their unlawful behavior has necessitated the instant lawsuit.
A number of false, misleading and self-incriminating comments regarding their departure from Dahon have been made public by Joshua Hon and Florence Hon. In particular, Dahon disputes allegations that any entity other than itself has ownership of intellectual property rights, copyrights, trademarks and patents relating to the Dahon brand and Dahon branded products. Also, statements by these former officers that they continue to represent Dahon either individually or through their fictitious company “Dahon Global” are simply untrue. “It is one thing to make unsubstantiated claims on the internet and through alternate channels, but it is another to provide documented evidence and make statements in a court of law under oath" said Dr. David Hon, CEO of Dahon.
Dahon pioneered the market for the modern folding bicycle more than 30 years ago and is the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of folding bicycles. Dahon’s technologies, which include over 220 patents, form part of the industry standard for folding bicycles the world over. Dahon remains a strong and successful company today, and boasts more than 1,000 employees internationally, including a team of over 70 engineers. Perpetual innovation and reinvention continue to be the guiding principles that customers have come to know and expect from the Dahon brand.
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Details regarding the lawsuit are available online at www.pacer.gov and at
http://vyew.com/502951/Dahon_
All inquiries regarding Dahon’s lawsuit should be directed to
Call & Jensen
610 Newport Center Drive, Suite 700
Newport Beach, California 92660
Tel: (949) 717-3000
Email: vchristenson@calljensen.com
All general press inquiries regarding Dahon should be directed to
International
Patrick Fischer
Tel: +49-6032-3459-18
Email: patrick.fischer@itms.com
USA
Steve Cuomo
Tel: +1-203-246-4470
Email: cuomo@snet.net
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Tour de France Stage 18: The Decider (My TdF Movie Ending)
- Contador has got a couple big victories already. I'd like to see him as the Sports Movie Bad Guy this time around. The Drago from Rocky IV... The "Shoot" from Vision Quest.... The Italian team in Breaking Away... the Cobra Khans in Karate Kid... the Russians in that Red Dawn on Ice about the American hockey victory. You get the picture. Contador can play that guy. He can be a threat to the very end, but I don't want him to win it. It'd make a bad ending for my TdF movie. Sanchez would make a great toady for AC. Scheming Spaniards stroking their long mustaches and contemplating the plunder of innocents on their galleons in their puffy shirts.
- The Schlecks have the brotherly love thing going on, but they way they are doing it is pissing me off. The only way to find redemption is for one brother to sacrifice himself for the other in a selfless act of pain or danger. It taps into the whole Jesus thing of self sacrifice that Americans dig on. Maybe a biblical parallel on the scale of The Grapes of Wrath.
- Voeckler can't win. He has held the yellow jersey for too long and if he went ahead an won, it would be anticlimactic. Besides, he has a name most English speakers can't pronounce and he is too... European.
- Basso would just be camera fodder and maybe the surprise friend at the end who enables the good guy, who isn't sure where Basso's loyalties lie, to pull out the win is a surprising act of cross-team cooperation. He is also tainted by doping and can only be the seemingly morally ambiguous Han Solo who has a little heart... not the pure-hearted Luke Skywalker.
- Danielson would be a dark horse only because he's an American. Go America, yeah! Whoo! Home of the free land of the brave.
- I think Cadel is the better hero with all the adversity he has faced amid so much promise. He is the mountain biker who overcomes switching to the road after being told he can't do it... rises, falls... and rises again. Besides, he's a native English speaker and the hero must speak English.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Sunday on the Route 130 in Miaoli
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Quick Morning over Bagua Shan.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
HTC Taiwan's Team of the Tour?
- New Tang Dynasty TV (The Falun Gong TV Station) ran a report on Jack Becker's trip to Taiwan. The report (in Chinese) takes some liberties with the facts and uses the visit to presume Taiwan's bicycle infrastructure is now considered to be "world class". Looking for the validation.
- Check out The Muse of Taichung and his incredible route to tour Taichung.