well, in some places there´re pretty good bike lanes for like 100kms or so, circling some specific sights or something, but not around the whole country. for touring i think most people would avoid the highway and just take the country roads. more pleasant that way. it´s more beautiful and quite the east than the west and there´re some really scenic roads in the mountains. there´re ridiculously few people that tour by bike, most are appalled by the idea.
for commuting, we don´t have bike lanes in general so you´ll have to be careful on the road with cars and scooters which are often reckless and sometimes rude and unreasonable. also we normally don´t have racks to lock your bikes to like those in europe, i think they also have that in the states. so i think the infrastructure is really bad, ironically we make bikes. i checked some cycling clubs and organizations and they seem to be focused mainly on mtbikng or road racing instead of commuting and touring which is a pity in my opinion. bikes become only toys. but nevertheless lots of people commute by bikes, students mostly, which aren´t allow to ride a scooter, once they reach the age they just ditch the bike and embrace the gas eating machine, which is also bad. it´s really rare to see people commuting with bikes in my university.
i´ve only cycled in spain, iceland, copenhagen and a small part of norway. and i think copenhagen and norway´re pretty good. iceland could get dangerous sometimes because you have to share the small 2 lane highway with all the gigantic cars flying past through, you have to stay really low especially when a big truck is coming towards you. and salamanca the city where i live in spain there´re no bike lanes so like in taiwan you just have to blend in and as to touring in spain i always did small country roads, i love the pueblos.
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