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Wahoo
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 Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:11 am Post subject: Taiwan without wheels |
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| A question. I'm going to work in Taiwan. I don't drive. I have no licence. I want to go to the beach every weekend. Would that pose any kind of problem? |
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markholmes
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
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Location: Wengehua
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:21 am Post subject: |
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Get a scooter. Pass your scooter test. Good to go.
Very few foreigners drive cars in Taiwan, most ride 50 to 125cc scooters that will set you back somewhere between 8,000 and 25,000NT$. My last one was 12,000NT$ and a fantastic ride.
Riding a scooter is one of the great pleasures in life. |
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Wahoo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:23 am Post subject: |
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| Hey, you mean you can take a scooter test in Taiwan? |
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Wahoo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:32 am Post subject: |
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Ah, yes, I see from a quick search of the other posts that you can indeed get a scooter licence in Taiwan. Great!!
One more question...how about 3-wheeler scooters, or scooters with trailers, for carrying a lot of stuff around? (surfboards etc.) Do they have them, and can foreigners use them? |
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markholmes
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| Of that, I have no idea. |
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MomCat
Joined: 02 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| Wahoo wrote: |
| One more question...how about 3-wheeler scooters, or scooters with trailers, for carrying a lot of stuff around? (surfboards etc.) Do they have them, and can foreigners use them? |
It might not be quite what you have in mind but, yes, there are three wheeled scooters. They're used by handicapped persons. A far cry from a BMW with a side car. I don't believe they have a special plate. But honestly don't know what, if any, special rules exist for them.
As for pulling a trailer. That's usually done with a real motorcycle, usually by a recycling person who uses the trailer for piles of cardboard or plastic bottles. Again, no idea of the rules.
Until recently scooters were not allowed on the freeway, but that's changed and now larger bikes can use them.
I don't know how up to date these pages are but they have the scooter license regulations.
http://www.thb.gov.tw/new_english/ap_licences.htm
http://www.thb.gov.tw/new_english/examine.htm
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BigWally
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
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Location: Ottawa, CAN (prev. Kaohsiung "the Dirty South")
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| I know of some surfers who have a special attachment on the side of their scooters, and basically its 2 U shaped metal bars (one on the front, one on the back) of one side of the scooter, and when they want to go surfing they just drop the board into the grooves and drive off towards the gnar |
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forest1979
Joined: 10 Jun 2007
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Location: SE Asia
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:33 am Post subject: |
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| If you live in the northern suburbs of Taipei it's easy to take the MRT to Danshui, and from there a bus up to the northern coast. |
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trukesehammer
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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Location: The Vatican
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| Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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 In all my 7+ years of living & working in Taiwan, I have seen plenty of 3-wheeled motorcycles in a variety of shapes and sizes, ranging from eensy-weensy to truly mammoth. But I have never seen one with a license plate.
What's up with that?
Anyhow, I wonder if you could get one of those and drive it illegally.  |
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