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Increase racingbike base speed to 28km/h - #3408

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@karussell karussell commented Sep 27, 2026 •

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Recently we increased the racingbike already in #3218 but I think we should go higher like proposed in this PR. A more appropriate base speed (on flat roads) is higher than 24km/h and so I picked 28km (160W). After playing with 200W (30km/h) the 160W seems more appropriate as it is not a value for professional riders and still reasonable for an averaged trained person in favor of a racingbike profile.
WDYT @ratrun?

Furthermore I removed the boost for good and excellent smoothness. Initially I removed it mainly because the encoded value is not sufficient for it (1.2*28=34), but now I think it is important in general as the speed increase because of good smoothness is not in the area of 10% (and especially not 20% faster), but more like 2%, i.e. a factor larger 1.02 is physically unsupported. But a small factor cannot make a difference for the encoded value (which has a granularity of 2km/h). So I would keep the factor for good and excellence at 1.0 for now, also for the other bike profiles. In general we could move the smoothness handling to the custom model (as also any small factors will work), but I think this would need a remake as I would not want introduce a boost again (factor>1.0) and only a degradations (factor<1.0).

@karussell karussell changed the title Increase racingbike base speed (again) Increase racingbike base speed to 28km/h Sep 27, 2026

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I'm fine with these changes.

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benchmarks — 625b1fff Deployed Sep 25, 2026 by karussell via trigger_measurement #2753
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