With current power meter solutions from companies such as Rotor and SRM costing $2000 or more, power training has generally been out of reach to the cycling masses, until now. Boulder based Stages Cycling has designed a more economical crank based power meter they hope will break down some of the barriers to using your power output as a measure of progress.
Power meters appear to be the Holy Grail of cycling, with the ultimate quest of creating a system that is not only accurate, but dead simple to use. Last week we profiled the new CycleOps heart rate based power meter, which is definitely simple, but the jury is still out on accuracy. Dublin based Brim Brothers believes they have the solution with their new cycling shoe based power meter.
