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.