Feature request: support for racing / pacing strategy / best bike split

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Drew Ulricksen

• October 03, 2022 17:25

There's one thing that's making me reconsider my Karoo 2 and go back to Garmin/Wahoo, and that's support for real-time pacing during races, eg. distance based workouts eg. Best Bike Split.

For those unfamiliar: "What is Best Bike Split? Our math and physics engine takes your power data, course info, and race day conditions to predict your race performance and create the perfect power plan so you can hit your best bike split."

I've found it to be extremely accurate in modeling an expected time, and it's smart enough to let you put down less watts on descents and more on climbs, and tells you what watts to hit at each spot to average out to your goal time. I believe having this is a big advantage in a race and with SRAM's backing and their huge involvement in racing, not being able to support this is a huge competitive disadvantage for Hammerhead.

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  Brandon Dooley

  • April 10, 2023 03:14

  Totally agree. No support for Best Bike Split is a big disadvantage when using the Karoo2.

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  arvid mikkers

  • May 28, 2024 10:24

  Is there any update on pacing splits? Is there a way to get best bike split numbers support on karoo 2

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  Tobias Schlager

  • July 01, 2024 12:03

  so important, exclusively use the hammerhead for the ironman races, otherwise I go more by feel. sad the feature for pacing is not there... 

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  Paul Revere

  • August 28, 2024 21:21

  I also would really appreciate this feature

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  Christoph Walser

  • February 11, 2025 19:34

  I want Best Bike Split to work on the Karoo 2. Why do I have to switch to Garmin or to Wahoo for that to work? PLEASE Hammerhead make that happen, NOW.

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  Adam Pokowski

  • February 23, 2025 02:51

  Is there any a update on this topic? I've been a long time Karoo 2 fan, I've seen most of my previous gripes resolved in recent updates. I'm just realizing this distance based workout functionality is not available in the karoo and I really want to figure out a way to use a BBS pacing plan in my computer for my upcoming races. I have to imagine that integrating this is a pretty basic software update given the extensive structured workout integration they have already put in place.

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  Carsten Hahn

  • August 13, 2025 18:39

  ... that was why I switched back to wahoo and some friends are too garmin, even the smaller garmin devices have it. In the end it works be enough to read the file from bestbikesplit correctly, it's a .fit file (sent one to the support years ago), no need to build an api.
  Imo they will never do it and the karoo is not that much better than others for the price tag to live without it

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