diff --git a/examples/confs/sen1floods11_vit.yaml b/examples/confs/sen1floods11_vit.yaml
index 806d5138..9e80b10f 100644
--- a/examples/confs/sen1floods11_vit.yaml
+++ b/examples/confs/sen1floods11_vit.yaml
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ model:
       decoder: FCNDecoder
       pretrained: true
       backbone: prithvi_vit_100
-      backbone_pretrain_img_size: 512
       decoder_channels: 256
       in_channels: 6
       bands:
diff --git a/examples/confs/sen1floods11_vit_local_ckpt.yaml b/examples/confs/sen1floods11_vit_local_ckpt.yaml
index 6cdcc3d9..62180b56 100644
--- a/examples/confs/sen1floods11_vit_local_ckpt.yaml
+++ b/examples/confs/sen1floods11_vit_local_ckpt.yaml
@@ -77,16 +77,6 @@ model:
       decoder: FCNDecoder
       pretrained: true
       backbone: prithvi_vit_100
-      backbone_pretrain_img_size: 512
-      backbone_embed_dim: 768
-      backbone_num_heads: 12 
-      backbone_decoder_depth: 8
-      backbone_decoder_num_heads: 16
-      backbone_decoder_embed_dim: 512
-      backbone_mlp_ratio: 4
-      backbone_patch_size: 16
-      backbone_in_chans: 6
-      backbone_num_frames: 1
       backbone_pretrained_cfg_overlay:
         file: examples/Prithvi_100M.pt
       decoder_channels: 256
diff --git a/src/terratorch/models/prithvi_model_factory.py b/src/terratorch/models/prithvi_model_factory.py
index ad424084..a84a35a8 100644
--- a/src/terratorch/models/prithvi_model_factory.py
+++ b/src/terratorch/models/prithvi_model_factory.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def build_model(
         backbone: str | nn.Module,
         decoder: str | nn.Module,
         bands: list[HLSBands | int],
-        in_channels: int = int | None,  # this should be removed, can be derived from bands. But it is a breaking change
+        in_channels: int | None = None,  # this should be removed, can be derived from bands. But it is a breaking change
         num_classes: int | None = None,
         pretrained: bool = True,  # noqa: FBT001, FBT002
         num_frames: int = 1,