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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 4, 2000
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Pedal Shore to Shore
* Anyone for a bike ride--over water?
George Tatum, a middle school teacher from Roanoke, Virginia, has
been working on his WaveBike for five years. At first, the
combination of a long, thin rowboat and a bicycle kept tipping over
and was pretty slow.
But now the pedal-powered WaveBike can go faster than the average
sailboat. The WaveBike is on display at the National Museum of
American History through Sunday as part of the exhibit called
"Reinventing the Wheel."
Tatum's first WaveBike was an old bike frame on a plastic sewage
pipe. Now, with the bicycle frame mounted on a six-meter fiberglass
hull that was built to order, Tatum says riders rarely fall off.
Tatum hopes ...