Daniel Carruthers is a hearing impaired New Zealand cyclist who is currently based in Austin, Texas preparing for the Deaf Olympics in Taiwan. He is 80% deaf in both ears and requires powerful behind-the-ear instruments made by Hansaton Hearing Systems to hear. This is the second year that CycleOps has sponsored Daniel. He has been using the CycleOps PowerTap for several years now and reports that since he added the “scientific dimension” to his training program, his riding ability in terms of power and time trialing skills has improved dramatically.

The University of Wisconsin – La Crosse in La Crosse, Wisconsin was the host to the annual USA Cycling North Central Regional Development Camp during the week of June 21-26, 2009. 27 male and female campers, ranging in age from 14-20 years old, made La Crosse home for 6 days while partaking in a multitude of activities including group training rides, standardized field testing, and evening lectures presented by camp staff.

On Friday October 17th, 2008, Saris Cycling Group held its fifth annual fundraiser to benefit the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin. A record $100,000 was raised for the Bike Fed this year, to support bicycle advocacy in Wisconsin.

The event featured both silent and live auctions, a raffle drawing and appearances by Tour de France rider Christian VandeVelde and former US Postal Service rider and Versus Television Commentator Robbie Ventura. The event drew more than 400 guests from across Wisconsin, including a motor coach full of bicycling enthusiasts from Milwaukee. Madison’s WMMM radio voice Pat Gallagher acted as the emcee for the evening, and Gayle Stallings of Austin Texas based FUNAuctions was the auctioneer.

The first conference for training with Power took place on September 19th, coinciding with the weekend of Festibike and the end of the Vuelta a Espana. All thanks to the organizing effort of the Tamalpais, distributor of CycleOps Power in Spain.

This summer, 10 cyclists each travelled almost 2,000 miles to take part in a study to determine how sustained fatigue affects the human body. Normally, experiments of this type are performed in a laboratory to provide a controlled environment for studying the results of the stimuli applied to the test subjects. However, thanks to the help of the PowerTap and a 25-foot Airstream trailer, Professor Brent Ruby, Dustin Slivka, John Cuddy, and Walter Hailes of the University of Montana were able to take their study to the streets, literally.

Triathlon transition areas can be challenging to navigate. The pressure to switch gears while catching a breath makes for an intense scene, and in the scramble to change clothing, it’s not uncommon to misplace a shoe, a helmet, an energy bar. But a leg?

During this year's Tour de France, CycleOps Power is doing something new. We've asked our experts to give an inside look on how the top athletes train and how everyday athletes can use these strategies to get fitter and faster.

CycleOps Power is proudly supporting the Madison, Wisconsin chapter of Team In Training (TNT) for 2007. One dedicated Team in Training athlete set out to do her first century and brought PowerTap with her every step of the way. Her training started in April and culminated this June with a century ride around Lake Tahoe in Nevada.

Anyone who has seen pictures of the dust bowl days, or read Grapes of Wrath might imagine Tulsa Oklahoma to be a dusty, ex-oil boom, ghost town. They couldn’t be more wrong. Tulsa is a lush green, hilly, modern and diverse city that is now making its mark in the world of professional cycling. On the weekend of June 1st, 2nd, and 3rd the city of Tulsa hosted the second annual Tulsa Tough Criterium Stage Race and The Saris Cycling Group was there.