LEISURE SPORTS
Waterbiking takes off at resorts
Creator Judah Schiller wants his bicycle-catamaran hybrid offered at every water resort as a leisure sport, writes Adam Erace
The life-jacket snaps lock with a reassuring click, and Eddie, an amused associate at the Viceroy Sugar Beach resort, on the Caribbean’s St Lucia, smiles. "It’s just like getting on a bicycle," he says, encouragingly. In the clear shallows of the southwestern coast of the island, one of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean Sea, I’m about to try the next great watersport: waterbiking. Floating on the water is the Schiller S1, a $4,500 contraption that is part bicycle, part catamaran — with a promise that you can pedal it across any body of water. If creator Judah Schiller has his way, it will soon be on the amenity list at every great resort. "We’re at the start of new industry, category and sport," he says. "In five years, I think there will be Schiller Bikes on every hotel beach around the world." Eddie gives the back of the bike a light push, and I’m pedalling into the Caribbean, away from the powdery shores of Sugar Beach and St Lucia’s majestic green Piton mountains. Riding out...
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