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Month: January 2025

#060 – Western Taoyuan Loop

  • Posted onJanuary 26, 2025January 26, 2025
  • The Top 100 Climbs in Taiwan

Location: Taoyuan Distance: 95km Elevation Gain: 1,400m Moving into the second half of the Top 100, we’d like to include a route that passes through every county, starting from a train station. Taiwan’s railway system makes it easy to hop off a train; whether it’s…

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#059 – North Coast – Provincial Highway No.2

  • Posted onJanuary 19, 2025January 26, 2025
  • The Top 100 Climbs in Taiwan

Location: Yilan/Keelung/New Taipei City Distance: 145km Elevation Gain: 850m There are 3 sections of Taiwan’s coastline that I would regard as excellent – the Su-Hua Highway covered in #027 and Kenting covered in #041. The third, but by no means least, would be the northern…

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#058 – Kenting MTB Part 2 – Coming Soon

  • Posted onJanuary 19, 2025January 19, 2025
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#057 – Kenting MTB Part 1

  • Posted onJanuary 12, 2025January 12, 2025
  • The Top 100 Climbs in Taiwan

Location: Pingtung Distance: 60km Elevation Gain: 1,500km In our series, we have covered two road bike routes in Pingtung which can be seen in #041 and #042 -both great rides. These two will act as a reference for the access points for our coverage of…

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#056 – The Rift Valley – County Road No. 197

  • Posted onJanuary 5, 2025January 5, 2025
  • The Top 100 Climbs in Taiwan

Location: Taitung (road/gravel) Distance: 59km Elevation Gain: 1,200m When asked to choose their favorite part of Taiwan it was no surprise that Taiwanese picked the Rift Valley. In this post, we cover County Road No. 197 in Taitung. The road itself is exactly 59km from…

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Current AI Art workflow notes and ideas.

  • Posted onJanuary 4, 2025
  • AI Art

I’ve been working on this set of AI-generated images for a while. First off, let me say that I didn’t draw any of these—it’s all SDXL, a model I’ve grown to like quite a bit. While a lot of people are rushing to use Flux…

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