Believe it or not our origins are in curtain rods. Two brothers had a company that made window products. After the Graber brothers sold their company they needed something to do. They experimented in their garage and came up with a bike rack. That was sometime back in 1973.

They sold lots of racks under the Graber name and then sold the company. Chris and Sara Fortune purchased the company in 1989 when it was selling 80,000 bike racks a year. In 1990 and 1991 Sara and Chris introduced a high end brand of bike rack, renaming them “Saris.” Today Saris is a leading supplier to the bicycle industry in 30 countries. The company expanded in 1999 by acquiring the Cycleops brand of bike trainer. As usual we set out to improve on the design and by 2001 we created a new trainer frame and in 2002 we debuted the world's first progressive resistance magnetic trainer.

It was in 2001 that we heard about a hub that could measure power output and we jumped at the chance to bring this product to cyclists. We bought the company that invented Powertap and started a new round of innovations Dede Demet won the gold medal at the 2002 Montreal World Cup on her
powertap. It was only a matter of time before we figured out a way to marry power measurement technology with resistance technology in an indoor cycle. In 2004 we launched the Pro 300 PT.

Floyd Landis, a top Tour de France rider signs on as a Cycleops sponsored athlete. The first Floyd Landis Training camp was held in January 2005 Our products not only meet Tour de
France athlete needs, but the
White House too.

 

Extract taken from http://www.cycleops.com/