I like to ride my bicycle

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Only Japanese can design these detailed bikes for the urban lifestyle. Think again, the bikes are products of the Pacific Cycles from Taiwan.

and guess where we are going on Day 4 of my trip in Taiwan? (Bikes on the cover are BD-1 and Carry Me series)

Pacific Cycles, a proud company owned by Jim's grand uncle. We had the privilege to visit the inside production process of each bike that are now out being ridden by people.

After about 1.5 hours of drive down south, we've arrived.

The 1st thing displayed is the electrical bike prototype(on the right) and the classical bike. (Oh, do I miss Davis. sike.)

Pacific Cycles is a family owned business, here we have Jim's aunt giving us demonstrations on their foldable bikes.

We got to test ride all the bikes.

This one's real cool. It's meant for disabled persons who can still ride with their arms. The navigation is directed by the shifting of thee butt.

All the color ways of BD-1 a.k.a. Birdy. (The ones from magazine cover)

Jim's just posing. As for me, the bike on my left is a limited color way, 1 of 1, made for a creative exhibition.

This one's my favorite- If Mode.

Let alone the slick design, the bike is chain-less, meaning there's no more dirty re-chaining jobs halfway during a pleasure ride with the girlfriend. It's also foldable sideways with a compressible lock to hold the skeleton in place(a break through).

here's a look on how easily it is to fold it.
It takes some times to get used to it. (Yen, Jim, and I spent a good amount of time and still couldn't fold it in 5 minutes..)

After checking out all the bikes, it was time for us to check the making of the bikes.

First step is to carve out all the necessary shaped metal for production.

Then bending into the perfect curve.

Heat set for durability.

Pant job and sticker pasting.

Assemble. Parts by parts.

Then putting them all together.

BAM.

Pacific Cycles provide bikes that aim for specific purpose. They focus on niche markets.
Each bike range up to $2000 to $3000.

There it is, take a good hard look at what we can do.

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