Best Bike Split

Best Bike Split is a premier race planning and analysis tool designed to help cyclists and triathletes achieve their peak performance on race day. It leverages a powerful math and physics engine, now enhanced with AI, to model race outcomes with incredible precision. By inputting detailed information about the athlete, their equipment, and the specific race course, the platform generates an optimal power-based pacing strategy. This strategy accounts for thousands of variables, including elevation changes, wind speed and direction, rolling resistance, and aerodynamic drag, ensuring that every watt of power is used effectively to achieve the fastest possible time.

How to use Best Bike Split

Using Best Bike Split is a structured process designed to deliver a highly accurate and actionable race plan:

1. Set Up Your Profile: Begin by creating a detailed athlete profile. This includes personal metrics like weight, height, Functional Threshold Power (FTP), and Max Heart Rate. You also create a bike profile, specifying the bike type, wheels, components, and even your riding position to accurately calculate drag.
2. Select or Create a Course: Choose from a vast library of existing race courses or upload your own course file (e.g., GPX or FIT from a GPS device). The platform allows you to customize courses, such as creating multi-lap routes or cropping sections.
3. Define Your Race Goal: Model your race plan based on different objectives. You can aim for a specific Normalized Power or Intensity Factor, target a certain finish time, or plan around a Training Stress Score (TSS) to ensure you have enough energy left for the run in a triathlon.
4. Generate and Analyze the Plan: The engine processes all the data, including advanced weather forecasts for the race day, and outputs a detailed power plan. You can analyze this plan through various charts and tools, including power distribution, gradient analysis, and yaw angle distribution to inform equipment choices. The BBS AI Assistant can help answer specific questions about your plan.
5. Execute on Race Day: Download your race plan in various formats. Sync it as a structured workout to your Garmin or Wahoo device for real-time, on-screen power targets. You can also use the printable "Cheat Sheet," which breaks the course into manageable segments with specific power goals for each.

Core Features of Best Bike Split

• BBS AI Assistant & Workout Builder: An AI chat assistant to help refine your race plan and an AI workout builder to create training sessions that specifically prepare you for the demands of your target race.
• Advanced Physics Engine: Calculates key performance metrics like aerodynamic drag (CdA), rolling resistance, and mechanical loss for precise predictions.
• Multiple Pacing Models: Create plans based on Power Targets, Goal Time, or Training Stress Score (TSS) to match your specific race strategy.
• Advanced Weather Integration: Incorporates forecasted or historical weather data, mapping wind speed and direction to multiple points along the course.
• Race Simulations: Pair with a Wahoo ELEMNT and KICKR smart trainer to pre-ride your race plan, feeling the effects of gradient, wind, and drag.
• Comprehensive Device & Platform Sync: Seamlessly upload race plans to devices from Garmin and Wahoo, and training platforms like TrainingPeaks and Zwift.
• In-depth Analytics and Comparison Tools: Analyze past performances to refine your drag profile (CdA) and compare different race plans or equipment setups to see the time impact.
• Fit Based Drag Calculator: Use bike fit measurements to refine your aerodynamic profile and understand the time savings from a better position.

Use Cases for Best Bike Split

Best Bike Split is invaluable for a wide range of cyclists. Competitive triathletes use it to perfect their bike leg pacing, ensuring they conserve enough energy for a strong run. Time trial specialists rely on it to eke out every possible second by maintaining an optimal, variable power output. Coaches use the platform to manage and create data-driven plans for multiple athletes. Amateur cyclists use it to set realistic goals for challenging events, such as finishing a gran fondo or making a cut-off time, and to train more effectively for specific course demands.

Advantages of Best Bike Split

The primary advantage of Best Bike Split is its scientific and data-driven approach to race strategy, moving beyond simple average power targets. It provides a massive strategic advantage by creating a pacing plan that is perfectly tailored to the individual, their equipment, and the specific race conditions. The integration with AI, smart trainers, and GPS devices makes the plan not just theoretical but highly actionable before and during the race. This level of detail helps athletes avoid common pitfalls like starting too hard or fading on climbs, leading to more consistent and faster performances.

Pricing and Plans

Best Bike Split operates on a freemium model:

• Athlete Free: A free plan to try basic features, limited to a single bike profile and a single race plan.
• Athlete Monthly: $19/month. Includes all premium features, such as the BBS AI Assistant, AI Workout Builder, unlimited race plans, advanced weather, and full sync capabilities. Ideal for focusing on a single event.
• Athlete Annual: $119/year (billed annually). The best value for athletes racing multiple events per year, offering all premium features at a discounted rate.
• Athlete Plus: $149/year (billed annually). Designed for athletes or coaches who work with other athletes, including all premium features plus tools for managing others.