La La La, Fa La Fa, It’s the Holiday Time of Year!
La La La, Fa La Fa, It’s the Holiday Time of Year!

Hooray! Hooray!


Welcome to the 2004 Holiday Newsletter! All of us at NYCEwheels wish you and yours the very best this Holiday Season. Here’s to a New Year and may it bring peace and good fortune to all.

In this edition of NYCEwheels News:
1. Year in Review: our picks for best products of 2004 plus a look back at the year.
2. A Christmas Long Song.
3. A Quick Blurb on Bert’s Visit to Wavecrest Labs

Year in Review

With the holiday season the year draws to a close and gives us a chance to look back and count our blessings. 2004 brought many changes to NYCEwheels, its employees and the electric bike industry in general. The best products of 2004 are easy to name. In electric bicycles the Tidalforce M750 was clearly the leader for 2004 with its awesome motor power and design. Anyone who ever rode it would agree hands down that this was a pick for the year. The best electric scooter of 2004 was also the only one manufactured right here in the US of A – the Go Ped ESR. Its advanced computerized variable speed and programmable controller makes the difference there, not to mention power and sleek design. The year’s best kick scooter is easily the Xootr MG, the trusted Xootr design with a new, solid magnesium deck. The super light weight deck makes this the most advanced kick scooter out there. And when thinking about people powered bicycles for the year 2004, the Brompton folding bicycle is still, in our estimation, numero uno, number one, cream of the crop, el duke, the cat’s meow, or, simply the best.

Speaking of the best, lets review the goings on at the NYCEwheels shop while we’re at it, shall we? For starters, the year brought with it a number of hands – we had Nick, our bike messenger guy, then Nathan from Virginia, and finally Mike. The only one who hasn’t changed is Joe, reliable Joe. He tried to leave during his cross country trip but he came back. The others, well, they’ll be back. Once you’ve had NYCEwheels you can’t ever go back . . . somehow that doesn’t work but you get the idea. Take me for instance. I’ve left to be a full time mommy, yet here I am, not really gone am I? And Bert, well he checks out from time to time but he is never really gone either. In fact, even when he is not here, he is here remotely so we can never be truly free of him, I mean, he never truly has any free time. Well, that’s our Year in Review. Hope you enjoyed and remember – once you’ve gone NYCE you can never go back.


Moving right along . . . . A Christmas Long Song.

On the first day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
A charger and a spare key

On the second day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Two racing gloves
And a charger and a spare key

On the third day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Three LaFree bikes that really aren’t French but I’m putting them in here anyway
Two Racing Gloves
And a Charger and a spare key

On the fourth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Four stalling no-more motors (ok, work with me)
Three LaFrees
Two Racing Gloves
And a Charger and a spare key

On the fifth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Five Lashout Bikes!
Four stalling no-more motors
Three LaFrees
Two Racing Gloves
And a Charger and a Spare Key

On the sixth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Six Dahons a-folding
Five Lashout Bikes!
Four stalling no-more motors
Three LaFrees
Two Racing Gloves
And a Charger and a Spare Key

On the seventh day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Seven Pacelites a-rolling
Six Dahons a-folding
Five Lashout Bikes!
Four stalling no-more motors
Three LaFrees
Two Racing Gloves
And a Charger and a Spare Key

On the eighth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Eight maids a-milking (has new meaning to me so I’m leaving it in)
Seven Pacelites a-rolling
Six Dahons a-folding
Five Lashout Bikes!
Four stalling no-more motors
Three LaFrees
Two Racing Gloves
And a Charger and a Spare Key

On the ninth day of Christmas (we’re almost done)
My true love gave to me
Nine cyclists spinning
Eight maids a-milking
Seven Pacelites a-rolling
Six Dahons a-folding
Five Lashout Bikes!
Four stalling no-more motors
Three LaFrees
Two Racing Gloves
And a Charger and a Spare Key

On the Tenth day of Christmas (you still with me?)
My true love gave to me
Ten hordes of sheeplings (whatever!)
Nine cyclists spinning
Eight maids a-milking
Seven Pacelites a-rolling
Six Dahons a-folding
Five Lashout Bikes!
Four stalling no-more motors
Three LaFrees
Two Racing Gloves
And a Charger and a Spare Key

On the eleventh day of Christmas (one more left!)
Mt true love gave to me
Eleven Xootrs Xooting
Ten hordes of sheeplings
Nine cyclists spinning
Eight maids a-milking
Seven Pacelites a-rolling
Six Dahons a-folding
Five Lashout Bikes!
Four stalling no-more motors
Three LaFrees
Two Racing Gloves
And a Charger and a Spare Key

On the twelfth day of Christmas (this is it! Woo Hoo!)
My true love gave to me
12 drum motors drum motoring
Eleven Xootrs Xooting
Ten hordes of sheeplings
Nine cyclists spinning
Eight maids a-milking
Seven Pacelites a-rolling
Six Dahons a-folding
Five Lashout Bikes!
Four stalling no-more motors
Three LaFrees
Two Racing Gloves
And a Charger and a Spare Key!

Wow. I was going to incorporate another whole article about why holidays are like recharging batteries but after that marathon song I think we’ll just wrap it up. But first, a quick blurb on Bert’s recent trip to the Wavecrest Technologies facility in Virginia.


A Quick Blurb on Bert’s Visit to Wavecrest Labs

Wavecrest as you may or may not know but will either way after reading this, is the fine maker of the amazing and super powerful Tidalforce bicycle. Bert got to visit the factory and headquarters last week in a whirlwind day and a half of travel. While he was very impressed with the place, especially the R&D sector which he described as, “coolest most expensive playground,” complete with “those guys in white suits,” what we’d like to focus on was the actual traveling part of the trip. Wavecrest is located just 254 miles away from NYCEwheels, which would roughly be a 4 and a half hour drive with light traffic. Still, Bert flew down for the day because the idea was to go down and return inside a business day. Unfortunately, due to high winds, Bert was delayed several hours coming home and had to detour south to Atlanta before being able to fly back up north to New York. The delay put him back into our home area during the morning rush (that’s right, the next day) which added an additional hour and forty five minutes to the overall return trip time of 17 hours. So, we thought about it and realized Bert would have gotten home faster if he’d ridden an electric bike! Not just any bike, but a Tidalforce M-750 traveling at 20 mph, say, for approximately twelve hours and forty minutes. OK, so that doesn’t include recharge time for either Bert or the bike . . . but let’s pretend Bert pedaled the whole way to extend battery life and just used the power as an assist – he would have made it home in under 12 hours. Now isn’t that something.

Happy Holidays, everyone and Have a very Merry New Year! -The gang at NYCEwheels