Tidal Force E-bike on Maui
Feb 23, 2008 · 05:14 PM · permalink
I was riding in Maui, near Napili when this bike zoomed out, across the highway and ahead of me. I wouldn’t have caught it if she hadn’t stopped to get her mail. Later, she wrote us and said
“It was fun meeting you yesterday here on Maui.I just started riding my electric bike to my business, West Maui Wellness Center, and I have to be so careful. The issue here on the island is the lack of bike lanes. The lower road here on West Maui not only is sketchy, there aren’t sidewalks for the pedestrians and the bike lanes come and go. Everyone drives over the speed limit here, too.
Laura”
The bike is a Tidal Force with a Wavecrest Lab’s electric motor hubs. Googling the bike resulted in news that it’s no longer imported into the USA, but from talking with Laura it sounded like it was new.
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New old stock?
In the US the big bicycle hub motor name is BionX. They’re a Canadian company but they export to the USA. One of my co-workers is “BionX boy” who has a BionX equipped Specialized; I occassionally mention him at my blog.
Right, but is that the same as the Wavecrest Lab? The Bionix was loved during the Dirt Demo at Interbike last year.
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