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very serendipitous indeed..... I have a place in Utopia, TX, not far from New Braunfels (by Texas reckoning) and I used to live in Taipei ('58-'61) and often traveled to Taichung and Tainan for Boy Scout outings including the incredible Silver Trail from Taichung over the mountains on foot to Hualien.
One of my favorite places, although I probably wouldn't recognize it now.
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I've only been here since '99 but it's changed considerable even since then. I used to be able to look out my window and see rice fields for a mile or so and now nothing but hi-rises.
I've ridden over Hehuan Shan to Hualien on a 150cc Kymco in the winter; lots of fun. There was ice and snow on top and a line of cars leading down the mountain trying to get up, slipping and sliding. I putted along on the side with no problems with my girlfriend at the time on the back.
Utopia is a nice part of Texas; New Braunfels is a traffic jam.
I only had an issue with wobble on a short frame /5 once and it was actually funny. Voni was riding her R65 and I was riding an R60/5 back in 1985. We were in Colorado on a two-lane highway that was following and intermittently crossing a small river. At most such crossings there was what was called a fishing access. At a stop I told Voni that the next time we got to one of those I wanted to stop and have a cup of coffee. So the next one I saw I turned downhill into the parking area among the trees on the river bank. I had just swung my leg over to get off when zoom - down the highway, past the fishing access she went.
At this point she thought I was ahead of her and was trying to catch me, and I was behind her trying to catch her. I had camping gear rather haphazardly strapped on the rear of the bike. Somewhere about 80 or 85 mph the /5 started to wobble. It wasn't really violent so backing off corrected things but I couldn't go fast enough to catch her while she was trying to catch me.
Eventually she just stopped, figuring I would eventually wake up and come back to find her. She was surprised when I came zooming up from behind her. After I got chewed out we had a good laugh.