This is our 12th April Fools’ Day on Zwift, and each year ZHQ has come up with something fun for the community.
A Quick Review
In 2025 we all got a Pocket Scotty, which became an ongoing feature the next day. In 2024 we ironically wore VR Goggles, and before that it was two years of special April Fools’ Day events. 2021 saw us big wheeling, 2020 saw us transported to 1989, and 2019 we smelled burning rubber. The year before that it was Paperboy. In 2017 we had big heads, 2016 gave us the old-timey effect, and in 2015 we rode big wheels on Jarvis.
This year Zwift has a new surprise – they’ve swapped out the supertuck rider position for the superman! (Apologies for the low-quality images… I’m traveling and trying to get shots from a low-powered laptop…)
How To Be Super(wo)man
To get into the new Superman position on Zwift, five conditions must be met:
- You must be on a road or gravel bike frame (no TT or MTB)
- You must be traveling at least ~36MPH (~58km/hr)
- The gradient’s decline must be at least -3%
- Your power output must be below 11 watts
- You must be out of the draft and not riding in a pack (safety first!)
- It has to be April 1st (local time)… or thereabouts
Zwift will automatically place your avatar in the superman position if all these conditions are true. You come back out of the superman once any of these conditions is not met – for example, if the road flattens out to a -2% decline.
While I can’t recommend attempting this position in real life, I can promise you it’s possible:
There’s even a tutorial video. But don’t blame me if you try this and it doesn’t go well for you:
Your Thoughts
Based on this April 1st fun and recent images from the Pas Racing Series, it appears Zwift has worked up some new avatar poses/positions. What other avatar postures would you like to see? (I want a victory wheelie.) Share your thoughts below!
I’m on a Tron bike, and also it is 1830 on March 31 Pacific Time, so I don’t think all of those requirements are absolutely necessary!
Forgot the image
Updated above, thanks!
Next time, I expect the avatar to take the bike under its arm and run with fast-moving legs
Only when going up the Ventoux
I actually think it’d be hilarous to have an option on the steep climbs to drop trainer difficulty to zero — but your avatar starts walking and pushing the bike. For those who want full realism most of the time but don’t want to have to put a wide-range cassette on their trainer bike.
Ha ha! I’d support that!
This should be permanent for high speeds! Like 58 – 87 km/h – Supertuck. 88 km/h or more – Superman.
That Youtube clip is hilarious. The other riders reactions lol!
Eric when do you think Zwift will expand the drop shop to include more fun stuff such as being able to buy and equip the superman supertuck?
No idea! I’m all for the “buying emotes” sort of idea though.
I want the “Remco Evenepoel”:
🤫
If I attempted that in real life, the attempt would end in the ER.
I won’t say that I attempted it in real life, but I did find myself in that position in real life. I was in a crit protecting a teammates wheel coming into the sprint. Somebody locked bars with me as he tried to push me off the wheel. He went left, I went right and somehow de-clipped into the superman position. Everybody stayed up and my teammate went on to win the sprint.
I tried it and… it’s funny
Is it working??
no 🐟
All good fun, but I have to admit I was a little bummed when I tried it the first time. Apparently, the Brompton is not considered a road bike…. 🇬🇧🤔
The Superman Super tuck was super surprise on the descents. Unfortunately I suffered from kryptonite ascending the Alpe as usual. Question? Have you noticed that now my Avatar doesn’t aero tuck at 56kph anymore? After coasting with no pedaling below 55kph, my Avatar starts to pedal at 56 kph, hmmn.