Introduction

Group F
Number：12, 30, 38
Oct, 31, 2010

Introduction

Have you ever had experience riding bicycles? Can you have a wonderful feeling when you ride bicycles? There may be some pleasant feeling. There is a story about cycling. One day, Jack, who twenty-five year old, was chatting with his co-worker. Jack shared his experience of cycling on his way with Leo. After heard Jack’s words, he seemed to enjoy the cycling. After that, Jack and Leo were cycling together. Then, both Jack and Leo had themselves wife, but they didn’t have babies yet. Although they had families, they still rode bicycles for a long distance, even their wives accompanied them. After few years, they had babies. They didn’t lose their contact because of their families. They dated each other having cycling around the parts of Taiwan. On their journey, they had their wives and babies staying their side. Also, their friendship maintain for a long time by cycling. Thus, so far, their children grew up, and they still often ride bicycles together and cycle the place they didn’t take. They have impress experience riding bicycles. They can bring their family to travel some beautiful places, encounter different cultural people, and touch nature closely. Riding bicycle really brings good memories for some of people in the world.

In early times, bicycles are necessary transportation from here to there. Nevertheless, the advanced technological time is coming, so the bicycles are increasingly replaced by motorcycles or cars. After years, there still is a problem we need to resolve. The motorcycles and cars needs to have lots of oil. Besides, the oil is a limited resource for cars and motorcycles. Then again, in recent years, bicycles have become fashionable for transportation because of the change of concept.

Nowadays, a great number of people ride bicycles. Riding bicycles has many advantages. For instance, it can relax human’s pressure, strengthen people’s vigor, comfort men’s spirit to approach the nature, connect with friendship for good, etc. Also, people want to pursue a sense of freedom by recycling on their way. In addition, more and more people exchange their cycling experience. They write the experience on blog, or publish books about bicycles. When they exchange their experience, they may encounter some friends which interest in cycling. They would like to break their record, giving themselves many harsh challenges. Eventually, they not only have good companies joining the recycling, but also they can maintain their friendship for a long time, or even forever.

What are meanings of cycling? What is the historical development of bicycle-riding in Taiwan? What cycling functions are different from Western and Eastern? Since most of the people consider cycling sport and entertainment, what kinds of people go cycling? What steps do they prepare for their cycling? Where do they usually go cycling? What challenges do they overcome and when they encounter problem, how do they resolve? These questions are that we want to research. We will research these questions by internet, library, and newspaper. We will also do questionnaire to ask public and cyclers. If we ask people whether they ride bicycles, or even go cycling, the result may some of teenagers and adults enjoy the cycling or may be not limited by age deviations. Also, we will make a list of the top 10 pleases that cyclers favorite. Besides, we assume that cyclers in a group encounter problems better than cyclers by themselves. When people lose their way, they may corporately resolve the problem. In contrast, as cyclers by themselves face challenges, they only ask passers-by or someone else for help. In the research, we expect that cycling is not a fashion which appear suddenly and disappear quickly and that cycling can be promoted in our society for a long time. We look forward to people have a variety of life in cycling. Also, we hope cycling is a recreational sport not a kind of normal transportation.

Alice's Introduction

Name: Alice
Number: 73612

Introduction

Why the bicycles become so popular? Nowadays, we can see many bicycles everywhere on the street. And there are many people traveling or cycling by the bicycle. The government also began to construct many bike trails. Have you ever ride bicycle in your whole life and even have long-distance riding or cycling by bicycle? And why you want to have long-distance tiding or cycling by bicycle rather than other ways? Will not feel tired to do that by a bicycle? Does it have special meaning behind that? Is it because sense of speed and accomplishment, challenge your limits to chart record or jest to pursue a sense of freedom? Whether it because to break own record or someone else, to pursue a sense of achievement, ate that to extend the length of the ride. Even then gradually evolve into recycling and long-distance traveling. The above questions are all our curious and also want to understand.
We search the information from interviews, questionnaires, newspapers, internet, digital sources, journals, ate. There are someone said that because a movie “Island Etude” a film by en chen, the traveling or cycling by bicycling become general for people from young to old. The movie was said that a man who need for hearing aids to communicate with the people, carrying a broken guitar string, and starting from Kaosiung to counterclockwise around the Taiwan. The reason of man is “something are not doing now, you will never do.” What is your reason to traveling or cycling by bicycle?
We hope we can make more people to understand why there are some people like traveling or cycling by bicycle not by motorcycle, car, or train. And we really hope the more people will like traveling or cycling by bicycle, and also let people enjoy the process in the traveling or cycling and find the means to you behind that. Maybe we will be a group to traveling or cycling by bicycle even go all over the world.

Name: Eva

Number: 73638
Introduction

Have you ever ridden bicycle? The answer may be yes because bikes have been popular from late 19 century to now. In 1903, Japanese Occupation, bicycles saluted into Taiwan from Japan. In that time, bikes had to cost 30 dollars which correspond to noble Benz in nowadays. Only, Japanese in Taiwan and nobles could buy bikes. In 1940s, some bikes which produced from Japan were imported in Taiwan. Some people such as formers and businessmen began to ride bikes to move goods or to substitute walking. After restoration of Taiwan, people in Taiwan began to produce bikes. Nevertheless, the technique in Taiwan was not better than Japan, so the prize was cheaper than Japan. In addition, the government fostered the domestic industry of bike so that they prohibited the import of bike. With the government protection in 1950s, the cheap bikes became civilian, general and daily transportation. However, in1968, the 50c.c motorcycle import in Taiwan from Japan. Taiwanese gradually substituted motorcycles for bikes.

And yet, have you ever cycled around island or around the world? The exciting sport has begun in 1980s. A man named Hu Jung-hua started his plans which travel around the world by cycling. His plans always take years to accomplish. He kept journals that recorded what happened in the trip and how his feeling was. After him, more and more people travel around the world by cycling. Cycling around the world or island seems to represent the spirit of adventure, freedom, or the sense of achievement. Then, in 2007, the bikes were popular again. In this time, they were popular because of fashion, environmental pollution, or the change of concept, etc.

Why do people want to travel around the world or the island by cycling? When traveling by cycling, what problems do they encounter? What the spirit do they have in cycling? When cycling, what are they thinking? Our group wants to ask these questions to the cyclers. We will do a lot of survey and research about the cycling from internet, books, library, and magazine and so on. We also will do questionnaires to ask public’s advice. We want to know how people are thinking about cycling. In the project, we expect that cycling is not a fashion which appear suddenly and disappear quickly and that cycling can be promoted in our society for long time. We hope cycling is a recreational sport not a kind of normal transportation.

Lina Project Learning Introduction

Group F

73630Lina

Oct, 10, 2010

Introduction

Now, the traffic is disorder and many traffic accidents happen every day, but riding a bicycle is very popular. In early time, the bicycles are necessary transportation from here to there. Even the bicycles are also a working tool. Nevertheless, the advanced technological time is coming, so the bicycles are increasingly replaced by motorcycles or cars. The motorcycles and cars are transportation which needs to have lots of oil. Besides, the oil is a limited resource for cars and motorcycles. Once we use up the essential resource, we won’t take cars and motorcycles to everywhere and to working. Hence, in recent years, the bicycles are well-known for the transportation again. The bicycles are tools which can’t be worried about the problem of the lack of oil. Most of all, the bicycles don’t destroy the environment on the earth.

Nowadays, a great number of people enjoy riding a bicycle. When riding a bike, people can relax their pressure in the hustle and bustle of city life. It is not an advantage which releases the stress to ride a bike but becomes a training sport. It can strengthen people’s vigor, comfort men’s spirit to approach the nature, connect with friendship for good, etc. Riding a bicycle gets much benefit to people, so more and more people love the sports. To begin with, people ride the bike sometimes is very lonely, and also considering that the recycling belongs to the little lonesome world. By contrast, now the recycling turns into a group activity. Even, it can have three to seven people in a group or team to traveling around the island. They also would like to break their record, giving themselves many harsh challenges. Eventually, they not only have good companies joining the recycling, but also they can maintain their friendship for a long time, or even forever.

Why do people want to travel around the island by bicycle? When do people start to form a cycling team? After people break their record in cycling, how do they feel and what do they have an antique memory? During the recycling, what challenges do they overcome and when they encounter problem, how do they resolve? Above are our research questions. We propose to do a questionnaire to survey people who are interested in recycling. Maybe we can interview some people are cycling for a long time and ask them about their experience. We hope that we can help people know further that the cycling can make people have a variety of life. Most important of all, the cycling can give people another method to enjoy the life.