diff --git a/src/k_kart.c b/src/k_kart.c
index 8d1e9373..d8028f08 100644
--- a/src/k_kart.c
+++ b/src/k_kart.c
@@ -8291,7 +8291,7 @@ static void K_drawKartFirstPerson(void)
 	}
 
 	{
-		if (stplyr->speed < FixedMul(stplyr->runspeed, stplyr->mo->scale) && (leveltime & 1) && !splitscreen)
+		if (stplyr->speed < (20*stplyr->mo->scale) && (leveltime & 1) && !splitscreen)
 			y++;
 		// the following isn't EXPLICITLY right, it just gets the result we want, but i'm too lazy to look up the right way to do it
 		if (stplyr->mo->flags2 & MF2_SHADOW)