"Ideal power" a New unusual data fields (low priority) - [FEATURE REQUEST]

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Steve Banham

• February 11, 2021 15:23

This could be a fun one for the develpers.

In general, in a velodrome, on a flat section of road, power and speed follow a linear relationship.

For a given power input measured by the power meter, you should acheve a given speed: for example 220W of power should get you 22mph. But what about in a head wind? or up hill? you might put in 220W, but only get 15mph out of the bike. Some cool data fields could be:

predicted speed: the ideal speed you should be getting for the power input

Speed lost: the diference between actual speed and the ideal speed

You could include a user definable K-value as a fudge factor to accound for rolling resistance and other things.

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  Steve Banham

  • February 11, 2021 15:26

  As soon as i hit send, i thought:
  Actually being able to run a user defined equasion would be a better way of doing this. That way, users could define their own equasions based on power/speed/hr values.

  I don't think i am explaining this particularly well here, but it could be really powerful stuff, which may result in some novel datafields

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  Hari Krishnan

  • February 11, 2021 17:37

  @Steve: I have to appreciate your thoughtfulness and I agree the ability to run a user-defined equation for displaying data on a Data field could be a good addition. Right now, this is not in our immediate plans but we will get this into discussion within the team

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