This weekend’s picks include a kickoff ride for the ever-popular Tour de 4, three long rides of varying intensity, and your last chance to enjoy Zwift’s Big Spin for 2026! See all the details below…
🤝 Sir Chris Hoy’s Tour de 4
✅ Good Cause ✅ Popular ✅ Kit/Cap Unlock
Monthly Zwift rides for the Tour de 4 ride with Sir Chris Hoy begin this weekend, and the kickoff event already has over 500 riders signed up, including several special guests! The ride is open-paced and 45 minutes long, on Watopia’s Tempus Fugit.
Saturday, April 18 starting @ 9am UTC/5am ET/2am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/tourde4
🤝WOW – High Speed Ride on TT bikes with draft
✅ Fast Miles ✅ Upgrade Hack ✅ Unique Event
Want to accumulate lots of miles quickly? Join this newish and popular group ride, which puts everyone on the fastest TT bike in game (Cadex Tri) with drafting enabled. It’s 100km, but it’ll be a fast 100km!
Riders are on Triple Flat Loops this week. Four different pace groups are offered, released so the faster groups catch the slower groups over time.
Bike upgrading hack: on rides with forced bikes, whatever bike you’re on when you join the event is the bike that accumulates the distance/elevation/time. So, for example, you could accumulate lots of distance toward a road bike upgrade, while riding the Cadex Tri in this event.
Sunday, April 19 @ 12:45pm UTC/8:45am ET/5:45am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5550734
🤝 Vikings Valhalla Sunday Skaal Ride
✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Legacy Leaders
It’s been a while since we’ve featured this event, but it’s always well-attended and well-led at a pace that helps everyone stay together. Experienced leaders and sweepers do their best to keep the groups together so everyone can work together to knock out a long ride!
This week’s ride is offered at a D pace of 1.7-2.2 W/kg, and is on Watopia’s Southern Coast Cruise for a total length of 103km and ~587 meters of climbing.
Sunday, April 19 @ 7:05am UTC/3:05am ET/12:05am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5550635
🤝 JETT Endurance Ride 100km 2.5~3.3w/kg
✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Pace Options
Here’s a popular, spicy long 100km ride with two pace options: B group at 3-3.3 W/kg, or C at 2.5-2.9 W/kg. The B group will be on Three Little Sisters while the C group will be on Watts of the Wild. Both groups have optional efforts on some of the intermediate segments if you’d like.
Choose your desired pace, listen to the ride leader, and get that endurance work done! Both categories have a leader (yellow beacon) and sweepers.
Saturday, April 18 at 8:05pm UTC/4:05pm ET/1:05pm PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5549563
🤝 Zwift Big Spin Make-Up Stages
✅ Popular ✅ Prizes ✅ Dino Kit
Zwift’s annual Big Spin series winds down this weekend with make-up stages scheduled hourly. Still trying to unlock the cowboy hat or MX Riders? Here’s your last chance!
Learn all about the Zwift Big Spin >
These are group rides, but you can treat them like a race, a recovery ride, or anything in between.
Hourly events all weekend
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/the-zwift-big-spin
How We Make Our Picks
We choose each weekend’s Notable Events based on a variety of factors including:
- Is the event unique/innovative in some way?
- Are celebrities (pro riders, etc) attending/leading?
- Are signup counts already high, meaning the event is extra-popular?
- Does the ride include desirable unlocks or prizes?
- Does the event appeal to ladies on Zwift? (We like to support this under-represented group!)
- Is it for a good cause?
- Is it just plain crazy (extra long races, world record attempts, etc)?
- Is it a long-running, popular weekly event with a dedicated leader who deserves a shout out?
In the end, we want to call attention to events that are extra-special and therefore extra-appealing to Zwifters. If you think your event qualifies, comment below with a link/details and we may just include it in an upcoming post!
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