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Litpro vs crossbox
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The app makes it super easy to find the fastest lines around the corners and also places where you can gain the most time. Most of the time I feel like I'm going super fast on outside line, but then found out from the data that going slower on tight inside was 0,2 - 0,4 seconds faster. The "Gatedrop" feature is great tool to get those starts dialled in.
The latest update on the software allows to use the LIVE feature (you can hear the segment and lap times through bluetooth ear buds while riding) with Apple Watch (so no need to attach the phone to the bike). Using it I was able to drop my lap times at Pala 16 seconds in five weeks when preparing for Loretta Lynn regional qualifier (of course track prep has something to do with it, but the layout and jumps were the same).
I'm surprised that not every aspiring racer is using it.
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Amazing software and connectivity
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It's definitely the cheapest option. Not sure why they haven't done any media promotion yet, but they've been doing a grass roots tour here in the South
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1. As someone pointed out already, most of our product by weight/volume is a ceramic GPS antenna. It's huge compared to other products and the single most expensive internal component to LITPro
2. Our GPS operates at 20hz. Compared to other products we are at least 2x the resolution and in many cases 20x the resolution. And our GPS engine is designed for vehicles that change directions quickly as opposed to straight-line (like you would use in your car). This is a huge differentiator because if you are going 30mph and you track at 1hz (1 time per second) then your data points are 13 meters apart and with that it is impossible to describe a corner.
3. We do sensor fusion and combine a bunch of internal sensor data like gyro and accelerometer to give us a ton of data about what you are doing (in the air, on a start, in a corner, in a crash, etc). Our sensors and algorithms are calibrated and designed for MX and no-other product we know of can claim this.
Regarding the comment about seeing some strange accuracy stuff from Supercross data. We do struggle a little (like all GPS products will) inside of a stadium with the stadium walls blocking satellites on the horizon. The GPS satellites on the horizon are the most important ones because they provide the best geometry. In normal riding conditions like where the Supercross teams train and where public motocross tracks are typically the GPS accuracy will be much higher - like in the screenshot above. Under normal conditions (not in a stadium or on the side of a mountain) we can confidently distinguish between riding two different ruts that are 6 inches to a foot apart (more about this below).
Relative accuracy vs absolute accuracy...
For the fellow nerds out there
With LITPro we benefit a ton from the relative accuracy of our GPS technology. In great GPS environments (like Pala raceway here in so-cal) our data looks so good it seems like we are using a smoothing algorithm to cheat (we don't... it's raw data always). In difficult GPS environments, like a track on the side of a steep mountain, our data can have a 3-meter error to it. But because of what we do to control the error, and because we know what's going on inside the GPS engine, we can still typically distinguish between which rut you took in the corner, and thanks to the super-high relative accuracy of LITPro what you will see is an entire session of 20 laps or whatever where the entire session is shifted by 3-meters in the same direction. So when this happens you can still see which rut you were in, even when the ruts are only a foot apart, and what it looks like happened is the image of the track is what shifted. And our LITPro apps allow you to easily shift the image back underneath the route lines so that everything lines up again.
Here's an easy test for anyone with a LITPro already to see how this all works. Turn on your LITPro and find a spot outdoors, turn on tracking, and just stand in the same place for 1 minute, or maybe even just walk around for a minute and sync the data and look how ugly it is. It will probably jump around and look kinda jagged and wiggly. It is important for this test to stay below 5mph. Now do a test where you are moving at around 8mph or faster and look how smooth the data becomes. This is part of the beauty of our design and us taking advantage of the relative accuracy of our GPS engine to make a great motocross product. In the second test your data will smooth out a ton and start to look really clean. The more you move like a motocross bike does, the more our system stops guessing about changes in directions and we just pin it to your movement.
Finally, we of course wish we could make LITPro a lot less expensive so more people could try it out - and we are working on doing that. We love motocross and built a product we love using because we ride too. Hopefully you guys can give it a shot some time soon.
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