Tourism Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communications has conducted a series of activities named as「2018 Taiwan bicycle festival」. There are 5 key topics and one of them is the series of「0K Taiwan.Taichung bicycle carnival」 which will be launched on 9th September with a series of events lasting until 7th October. The first event is「Giant carnival」to be conducted on 9th , 15th and 16th September, then followed by the event of 「0K Taiwan.Taichung bicycle carnival」 on 29th and 30th September. Later on 7th October, the event of「Times cycling festival」 will last for a whole month. People can either participate in the bicycle riding game or challenge themselves to join in the bicycle competition. All the competition registration will be started from now on.
The press conference of 0K Taiwan.Taichung bicycle carnival was conducted today (9th) and announced to be kicked off by Director Shen-shan Chen, Tourism and Traveling Bureau, Director Chin-tang Wang,, Sports Bureau, the City Government and General Manager Chiu-jui Cheng, Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd. together.
Director Chen of Tourism and Traveling Bureau said, Taichung bicycle carnival of this year will conduct the push bike activity for the children on 29th September at the professional cycling venue of「Iron Hill Cycling Sport Village」with high safety factor. On 30th September, everyone is welcome to take a ride on the Dong-Hou-Feng cycling path which is connected to the cycling paths linked to three exhibition area of Flora Expo so the people can play around these area by bike.
Director Wang of Sports Bureau pointed out that Taichung is a city of Bicycle industry and has cultivated a lot of excellent cyclists. The City Government has planned NT$200 million to renovate the Aofeng mountain bike park of Qingshui to hold the cycling related games from next year.
General Manager Cheng of Giant said, 「Giant carnival」has be held for 24 years and it’s a very and the most long-lasting cycling activity in Taiwan. The event period of this year will be extend to three days instead of the original two days of time. Also, as the population of woman riders is growing, Giant has arranged the「Liv 42K woman’s highway challenge」to be held at the hot sightseeing spot in Jiaanpu so the riders can be satisfied to have selfie, check and hanging around freely. And the final battle on Iron Hill is the most popular off road competition with the most participants, it’s divided into two different Cycle Scrambles, including forest path and all-terrain scrambles. The other events of Gianthlon and Gianthlon junior conducted in「Iron Hill Cycling Sport Village」are opened to all the people to join in.
The officer of Tourism and Traveling Bureau said, the first episode of「0K Taiwan.Taichung bicycle carnival 」 is「Giant carnival」, which has be held for 24 years and the one of this year is the very breakthrough one with 3 days of activities, including「Liv 42K woman’s highway challenge」,「interesting Push Bike walk」, 「forest path Cycle Scramble」, 「all-terrain Cycle Scramble」, 「Gianthlon junior」 and the exciting「Gianthlon」 games etc.
Later on, the event is followed by「0K Taiwan.Taichung bicycle carnival 」 which will be held on 29th and 30th September at Iron Hill Cycling Sport Village in Waipu and Hakka cultural park in Dongshi, respectively. The activities like「Flower Young children cycling day」 and the repeated「All flowers blooming of bike industry carnival」from last year are planned to roll out as well.
Moreover,「Flower Young children cycling day」launched at Iron Hill Cycling Sport Village in Waipu will provide the cycling lanes with high safety protection for 300 children to register so they can enjoy the speed and fun on the lanes of PushBike racing.
The other two activities, 「Bike industry carnival」 and「All flowers blooming of bike trip」, launched at Hakka cultural park in Dongshi will have the product exhibitions of Giant, A-PRO, Joy-tech,, TOPEAK, XERO and Decathlon Groupe etc., more than 40 companies of bike or the related accessories. Also, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan Excellence Award winner,「Hall of Taiwan NO.1 excellent products」, will exhibit all the excellent Taichung bike products.「All flowers blooming of bike trip」 will invite 1,000 people to ride the bikes on Dong-Feng green cycling path and Hou-Feng cycling path; thy will start from the Hakka cultural park in Dongshi and pass through Shigang Dam, Iron bridge over the Dajia river and No. 9 tunnel etc., all these points are famous sightseeing spots for checking and they will finish the rides at the Hall of dancing flowers of Flora Expo at Houli horse ranch.
The officers of Tourism and Traveling Bureau mentioned, the finale of cycling month is「Times cycling festival」 to be launched on 7th October which is conducted under the collaboration of OSEOUS and cycling times. The first one 100K challenge conducted last year in Taichung has attracted more than 5,000 registered participants and the special medals made of carbon fibers were highly recognized by the riders. The event of this year will start from the square in front of the Taichung City Government to connect with the classical 100K route and allow the participants to experience the cycling trip with the taste of 「mountain, ocean and, Taichung」from mountain to coastline.
「2018 0K Taiwan.Taichung bicycle carnival」series registration has started to accept the applications, for more information, please visit the event official website or Taichung Tourism and Traveling Bureau website.