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This weekend features a bit of everything. We start off with a popular annual charity ride, follow it up with two popular race series, then finish with two group rides that couldn't be more different. Enjoy, and Ride On!

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This week's routes each have a bit of extra trickiness to them. When do you use your powerup? When do you surf the wheels, and when do you attack?

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While some Zwifters may not pay any attention to all the different routes, badges, and XP bonuses, you, dear reader, are different. You love a good challenge, and the dopamine hit of achievement.

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As you progress through Zwift's levels, you'll unlock access to items in the Drop Shop which can be purchased with your hard-earned Drops. This inevitably leads to questions... and this guide gives you some answers! Learn which frames and wheels we recommend purchasing:

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In the “race of truth”, where there is no hiding in the draft, every bit of savings counts! So we’ve put together tables listing the fastest TT frame and wheelset available at each Zwift level.

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Looking to take on some big climbs in Zwift, but aren't sure which frame and wheels you should use? Here's a table listing the best climbing frame and wheelset available at every Zwift level. Plus some helpful tips!

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If you're racing on Zwift, using the fastest frame and wheels available can cut some significant time off your efforts. But figuring out where to spend your hard-earned Drops can be confusing! We're here to help...

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Based on our speed tests, we've chosen the 10 best overall road bike frames in Zwift today. This isn't just a stack rank of the most aero bikes in the game - we took into account how each frame performs across a variety of routes, and how they perform in their un-upgraded vs fully-upgraded states...

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While not the shortest route in Zwift, Macaron has the distinction of being the shortest point-to-point route in the game and the shortest route in France. It's an event-only route, presumably created by Zwift to host very short races...

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A nice mix of featured events this weekend, beginning with two beginner-friendly group rides, moving on to the first races of two new series, and finishing with Sir Chris Hoy's charity ride. See our picks:

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Every 500km ridden by the Zwift community means one more Buffalo bike donated to World Bicycle Relief - up to 700 bikes. Get the details:

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This week we're taking on four newer Tiny Race courses, using some of the Watopia routes released with The Grade expansion. See Saturday's race route details:

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Unlocked at level 8+, with strong performance on flats and climbs, the new Langma outperforms all other frames available to level 15 and below Zwifters, apart from the Canyon Aeroad 2024. Learn about this new frame:

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The newest version of Giant's popular TCR Advanced SL road race frame is now available in the Drop Shop, and it turns in a strong all-arounder performance that will appeal to newer Zwifters and Giant fans alike. Details:

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Looking for more XP? Yesterday, Zwift quietly rolled out a new "Route of the Week" Challenge. It's simple: ride the Route of the Week and earn 500XP. Double "XP Express" events are also on the calendar... Learn more:

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Zwift version 1.89 begins its phased rollout today. While a minor release, it does include two new bikes! Read on for details...

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The team at SISU Racing has just announced its first Grand Tour of 2025. Held on Saturdays and Tuesdays, it's a 7-stage tour across the three weeks of the Men's Giro d'Italia. Get all the details:

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Knights of the Roundabout is unique in that it covers all of France's "flatter" roads, avoiding only the Ventoux climb. Seen on an overhead map, this route covers four connected circuits. Learn all about it:

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What happens if someone earns all 14 segment jerseys? Will it break the game? We'll probably never know, since this route is too long to hit all 14 within an hour... Learn all about this route:

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This week has two 1-lappers to start off the hour, then two custom-length routes to finish. Learn about Saturday's Tiny Race routes:

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“Gentil 8” Route Details A mostly flat figure 8...

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Zwift's "ZRacing" is the platform's most popular ongoing race series, and for May we're staying in the Makuri Islands. Learn about May's race routes and get links to the GC leaderboard and event signups as well:

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With 11 sprint or KOM segments scattered across less than 36km, this is a segment-heavy route! True Zwift nerds will recognize that this route is simply the first half of Sacre Bleu. Get route details:

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Zwift's Women's Racing Series has always been popular, and they've just announced the first such series for 2025, running across 4 races in the month of May. It's somewhat experimental, too, because for the first time ever, these races will be age-based! Get the details:

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Zwift has been busy adding new routes and climb portals to the game, with ~20 new routes added since January and several climb portals as well. As of today, our lists are all caught up to what's in game....

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We're featuring a well-rounded mix of community-hosted events this weekend, including a super-short race in France, a very long group ride in London, two ladies-only events, and a beginner-friendly banded ride on a new France route. See our picks:

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On April 24, 2015, Zwift launched Watopia. Learn some fun facts about Zwift's growth since those early beta days...

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This week features four new routes from Zwift's latest France expansion. Flat and fast, this is a week for the sprinters. Allez allez! See route details:

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Essentially the little brother (half-brother?) of the big Ven-Top route, Ven-10 just does the first half of the Ventoux KOM while Ven-Top covers it completely. Learn about this new France route:

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This seems to be a route tailor-made for racing! It's simply three laps of the Croissant circuit followed by a finishing spur that ends on the Pavé Sprint Reverse. See route details:

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These tools expand the activity data Zwift consumes, allowing us to feed our outdoor rides into the platform for the first time ever. This, in turn, enables Zwift to build a more accurate profile of our current fitness to help us train smarter. Learn all about it:

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Zwift recently launched a 6-week workout series featuring one fresh workout each week to help us "lock in consistency and keep up with your friends." Dubbed Zwift Camp: Inside Out, this is effectively an updated version of the Spring Training series Zwift ran in 2024 and 2023. See details:

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First introduced in December 2023, Week Streaks is a game feature designed to encourage consistency in training. Riders build up their streak by logging at least one ride per week, and as your streak grows, you unlock some in-game rewards. Learn how it all works:

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A nice mix of featured events this weekend, including two group rides on new France routes, some short races, and a popular ride with a cause. See our picks:

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This weekend's routes feature progressively steeper finishing climbs. See route details and last week's Tiny winners:

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Liège-Bastogne-Liège director Christian Prudhomme once described this, the race's most famous climb, as “a Monument within a Monument." Learn about Zwift's newest Climb Portal:

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This week Zwift launched their next "mini Challenge", celebrating new routes on France's fresh tarmac/cobbles. Complete five of the new French routes to earn lots of XP!

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Released in April 2025, this route is the first to let Zwifters do hill repeats on The Grade. (It may not a hugely popular feature request on Zwift, but you could turn this into a solid route-based workout for sweet spot or threshold intervals!)

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Featuring interviews with a number of Zwift community members in Mallorca, including Sir Mark Cavendish. Plus, we discuss Zwift outdoors, new roads in France, and much more!

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Zwift version 1.88 begins its phased rollout today. It's a minor release, containing mostly visual tweaks and bug fixes. Read on for details...

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This quick, flat loop is the "shortest" of France's new routes and covers all the new roads. (Yes, Macaron is shorter - but it's event-only. And while Ven-10 is actually shorter in length, you're climbing Ventoux the whole time, so...)

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While often associated with the Amstel Gold Race, this climb has also featured in multiple World Championships: 1938, 1948, 1979, and most recently in 2012. This is the shortest climb portal in Zwift, making it very handy if you're looking to bank lots of XP. And it's featured this week!

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Learn all about Matthew Lefthand and his next ultracycling undertaking: a 24-hour virtual WR attempt on Zwift this Saturday! (Zwifters are invited to join him, or just watch the livestream... details in the post.)

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Why ride the new roads in Zwift's France when you can race them? The team at SISU Racing is holding the next edition of their popular SISU Reissu series. It's the France Reissu, and it happens April 14-20!

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This week's races alternate between climby and flat. Two of each... which do you prefer? See route details and last week's Tiny winners:

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This route is named after the famed Paris-Roubaix race which inspired its Zwifty cobbled roads. It begins with the tricky Les Intestines and settles into a flat, sprint-filled loop on France's newer cobbled roads before finishing up the Petit KOM. See route details:

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Day 3 highlights include a big ride featuring the legendary Sa Calobra climb, plus an evening chat with Sirs Chris Hoy and Mark Cavendish.

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"I decided to try something I'd never done before. I would simply treat the first 4 minutes of each race as a VO2 interval, shooting to average 350W during that time. Then I would ease and recover as I finished the race. Then do it again, and again. And again. Four VO2 intervals..."

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After covering the speedy SuperSix Evo LAB71, today we discuss the more budget-friendly CAAD13, which Cannondale calls "the speediest, smoothest, best handling, finest performing aluminum race bike on the planet."

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Zwift, like many cyclists, has a bit of a sock problem. A healthy fascination, perhaps? First came Fire Socks. Then Confetti Socks. And now: Lightning Socks. Learn all about Zwift's newest special socks:

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