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Ruby, 27 bytes

->n{('%34b'%n).tr'01','ah'}

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('%34b'%n) Converts an integer into its binary representation, using ..1 to indicate a negative number (this is meant to represent an infinitely-long prefix of 1s), and left-pads this out to 34 characters using spaces. Then we replace the 0s with 'a' and the 1s with 'b' to create the Maniacal Base 2 Representation: strings like "haaahahahaaha" prepended with spaces and sometimes ... Since every step here is invertible this is 1:1.