My wife wants me to sell my 2 bikes.
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sell the wife 
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spotted this Honda Dio tonight… 超乾净. Old 90s 2-stroke 50cc scootscoot.
Dude’s done a decent amount of restoration on it, and a bit of modification. The exhaust is a tad loud, but not disrespectfully so. Tastefully done. But he gets the real points for that expansion chamber.
Got to take it for a test ride. Pretty peppy!
Feel all the power of that 50cc inline single 
Mirror is the peace sign. Don’t think that’s road legal, don’t care. He doesn’t take it out often anyhow, given all the mods.
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Good news if you ride a big bike in New Taipei’s Banqiao and Xindian. Starting August 1st they will trial allowing big bikes to park in regular motorcycle/scooter roadside parking spots across their entire district. Will be NT$30 for parking for 4hrs. You can park in one spot, but if you’re motorcycle is bigger you can use two spots. Just have to make sure your bike actually fits inside the one or two spaces you park in.
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Just quick question, how much is a reasonable offer for new scooter tire? Round about 1000 NTD ?
I’ve been thinking lately of getting a high vis vest, or maybe kitting out my bike with a flagpole and some LED blinkers. Probably won’t get a louder exhaust than stock, but better safe than sorry 
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So starting July 1st New Taipei is expanding on this and is going to open up all paid roadside motorcycle parking spaces to heavy motorcycles after this trial they started last year.
Before fully opening up across the entire city some districts will open up roadside motorcycle parking spaces to “heavy” bikes in March and May as part of a “trial” ahead of the expected July 1st opening of the parking spaces for the whole city.
Also New Taipei wants to start addressing the issue of private parking facilities banning heavy motorcycles and will start requiring car park facilities to have heavy bike parking spaces. However, since many were built years ago and some other considerations, the city will handle things on a case-by-case basis. Sounds like going forward new car park facilities will have to have some heavy bike parking spaces.
Also local politician, Jimmy Chen, brought up the issue of some of the motorcycle parking spaces being painted smaller than the minimum size and should be addressed.
Here’s one of the social media posts from him. He was one of the councilors who has been pushing for this change.
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There is an issue that Taiwan likes to use cameras that point at the front license plates, which motorcycles don’t have. In Kaohsiung the generally accepted solution is that big bikes can drive around the gates, no payments or machines necessary. I wouldn’t usually go into a paid parking lot in a busy area for free, but businesses like carrefour or Costco or a shopping mall yeah just go around the gate like it isn’t even there
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English article now up on Taiwan News: [New Taipei to open paid scooter spaces to large motorcycles]
@cdn1234 I think this will be good news for you.
Looks like Taichung is going be following suit too. Taichung already opened up some motorcycle parking lots to orange/red plate bikes before.
Taichung will trial allowing orange/red plate bikes to legally park in regular motorcycle roadside parking. Planned to start in the 2nd half of the year.
The caveat being that right now it’s just planned to allow them to park in the motorcycle/slow vehicle parking area (機慢車停放區) as opposed to the road side parking spaces with the one box per motorcycle/scooter (機車停車格). In some areas in the past half a year or so it seems that Taichung has been switching to more of the general roadside parking area instead of the individual parking spaces.
What’s nicer about the planned trial is that “heavy” bikes will be charged the same as white/green plates for parking, so NT$20 per stop (per day). Cheaper than New Taipei’s NT$30 for 4hrs.
Per the Taichung Parking management office: Park in a motorcycle/scooter area area you will be charged the motorcycle/scooter rate. Park in a car space you will be charged a car rate.
Example of the typical motorcycle parking area design in Taichung:
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I’m not sure why they limited it as such given that the 機車停車格 are by far the most common ones.
But, step in the right direction I suppose.