what road to take? #9 east coast?
~ how many hours non-stop?
provincial 3, along the west coast foothills, is nice for a while. the 9 can be a drag in the rain.
time? how long is a piece of string? how heavy is your throttle hand? it can take as little as 3 hours if you’re stupid, or 12 if you stop for lunch, or a week if you stop for an engine rebuild.
I’ve never come all the way from Taipei on #9 but if I did I think I would break it up over two days. It took me seven hours to come from Hualien and I was good and sick of sitting on a scooter by the time I got there. There is another thread about this somewhere.
I highly doubt anyone could make it in three hours. I doubt anyone could make it in five hours, for that matter. I’ve done Jiayi to Kending in three hours and it wasn’t a fun ride.
stupid = 250 km/h on a Hayabusa. like, really stupid, not to mention lethal on Taiwan’s roads.
take a day at least.
is the west coast #3 more scenic
or
east cost #9 / #11?
different scenery. the east coast is mostly a narrow road jammed between steep mountains and the sea, with the occasional narrow plain thrown in, which of course has a city covering it. some beaches, some hilly headlands, but that’s about it. the central road #3 (on the western side of the same mountains) goes up and down a bit, goes flat some, tries hard to avoid the bigger cities as it passes lots of rural stuff, shows you more of Taiwan as it really is, not that that’s especially what you might want to see. not as “scenic” as the east coast but has more variety and its own fair of scenery.
how about the 13?