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Today Zwift announced the third edition of their popular Big Spin, a prize-filled group ride series kicking off March 16!
This year’s theme is “Adventure is Calling”, with each week’s ride and prize spinner themed after a different Watopian biome. Read on for details…
Mystery Spinners
Zwift has rolled out a fun new Easter egg this year: Mystery Spinners placed at the end of some Watopia segments! These spinners just went live today and will be in Watopia until the end of Big Spin 2026.
Mystery Spinners unlock Big Spin “vault” prizes – items from past Zwift Big Spins in 2024 and 2025. That’s a big list of prizes which includes the BMX Bandit from 2025, the Atomic Cruiser from 2024, various pieces of footwear and headwear, and eight different kits.
Learn more by reading our dedicated Mystery Spinners post: “Big Spin Mystery Spinners in Watopia: Locations and Prizes“.
Schedule + Routes
Big Spin events are scheduled hourly at the half-hour mark.
- Stage 1 (Desert Discovery): March 16-22
- Route: Flat Out Fast (22.3km, 49m)
- Stage 2 (Hidden Temple): March 23-29
- Route: Mayan San Remo (21.3km, 219m)
- Stage 3 (Lost Coast Adventure): March 30-April 5
- Route: Southern Coast Cruise (26.3km, 147m)
- Stage 4 (Titans Grove): April 6-12
- Route: Sand and Sequoias (22.4km, 181m)
- Make-Up Week: April 13-19
See upcoming events at zwift.com/the-zwift-big-spin >
On-Demand Stages
Need more spins so you can unlock that sweet MX Rider, or perhaps you’re looking to ride a different Big Spin route than Zwift has scheduled for the week? You can complete Big Spin stages on-demand, meaning you ride the route on your own schedule, not in the official Zwift events.
(You can also organize Meetups, Club Rides, or do the route during a workout. Just make sure you finish the route in order to get credit and a spin.)
Completing a stage on demand will still get you a prize spin, and you can complete the same stage as many times as you’d like, whenever you’d like.
Prize Spinner
The Big Spin prize spinner we’ve come to love will make an appearance at the end of each Big Spin route (here’s a shot from last year’s Big Spin):
Each time you complete a Zwift Big Spin route (in an event or on demand), the spinner will pop up to give you a prize. If it lands on a prize you’ve already won, you’ll get a healthy Drops bonus (landing on the MX Rider twice gives you a 40,000 Drops bonus, for example)!
The prize spinner has 6 slots, each with a different probability. One slot, the lowest probability, is reserved for the coveted MX Rider. Three more slots are for the Big Spin Tri-Spoke, Big Spin Limeade Helmet, and Jungle Phones.
The other two slots’ prizes change on each stage (see images below), giving us a total of 12 possible prizes throughout the series. These prizes won’t be available in the Drop Shop any time soon (probably never), so this may be your only known chance to unlock them.
Stage-Specific Unlocks
Fuego Flats (Stage 1)
Mayan Jungle (Stage 2)
Southern Coast (Stage 3)
Titans Grove (Stage 4)
Full Spinner Prize List:
- Stage 1
- Rhinestone Rider Kit
- Rhinestone Rider Hat
- Stage 2
- Mayan Camo Kit
- Paisley Bandana
- Stage 3
- Lumberjack Chic Kit
- Lumberjack Chic Beanie
- Stage 4
- Dino-mite Kit
- Dino-mite Hard Hat
- Always On
- MX Rider
- Big Spin Tri-Spoke
- Big Spin Limeade Helmet
- Jungle Phones
Are these races?
Officially, no. Zwift Big Spin events are group rides without a stated pace. That means some riders will treat them as races, and the front of these rides will certainly be “spicy.”
Others will just spin their legs for a prize-laden recovery effort. You do you… just have fun!
Questions or comments?
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Looks like I’ll be riding Fuego Flats until I get the cowboy hat, ye-haw!
I never did get it! I received the RhineStone kit Lol. Did you get the hat?
On the very last group ride I could do, I finally got the hat, which I added to my collection of 4 MX bikes, plus assorted other items multiple times. I never got the kit though
Why is Zwift piling up all the events with overlapping periods? And then nothing till October?
Zwift does their biggest events from September-March or so, because that’s when platform usage is highest.
That said, I’m sure there will be plenty of Zwift events before October. 🙂 They just haven’t announced them yet… they never do.
Ok, but why overlapping with other events?
Shouldn’t they be doing the most events when their platform usage is at the lowest… They’re essentially advertisements to encourage people to restart their subscription. It sounds counter productive to overload them at the times of year when they already have guaranteed userbase numbers.
I pause my subscription in the spring-summer when I can start to ride outside everyday again, no amount of event incentives will get all the very many people who do similarly back onto zwift until autumn
F L not sure why you’re being downvoted. This is the reality.
I was trying to remember how many people participated in Big Spin this year? It was listed in the banner but I can’t find my screenshot. I think it was 100,000. That’s higher than Zwift Games and the Camp workout series.
Great fun. Can’t wait to see how much I collect.
It’s really sh*# weather in UK, so will enjoy being in the garage doing these. 👍 👍 👍
Hopefully the kits are easier to unlock this year. No matter how hard I tried, getting the Jazz solo cup kit last year was impossible.
Oh man, I want that flannel jersey. Are all of these routes loops? One of the things I didn’t like in previous years is that some of the routes didn’t loop, so if you did them on demand as part of a workout, you only hit the wheel once.
First 2 stages are point-to-point, last 2 stages are loops.
I’ll be gunning this for the sweat drops.
Any insight about late joining events to trigger the spinner?
According to the Zwift website, late joining is indeed a thing – you should be able to use the plan most people use to get a plethora of spins lol
This is the way 🫡
Do we earn a mission badge for this? Or are mission badges a thing of the past?
Is it not possible to get the Atomic Cruiser?
The Mystery Spinners include the Atomic Cruiser as a prize. More info in our followup post on Monday…
I would like that cruiser and Marty’s outfit before this is over!
I got the Atomic Cruiser from the Epic KOM mystery spinner tonight.
Atomic Cruiser on tier 1 KOMs. Confirmed drop today on Epic KOM.
Can I ride through a mystery spinner multiple times on a ride or are there some restrictions on how often they spin?
No restrictions! Just gotta finish the segment that is tied to the spinner, in order to activate another spin. (More info coming in our post on Monday.)
It seems, Eric, that there’s a 20 times limit.
I tried drop farming on the Stoneway Sprint Reverse segment, and only the first 20 times gave me a reward 😉
I rode that same segment over 30x’s yesterday.. seems there maybe no limit
Just to be clear i got the spinner and an award every time. 4 prizes and almost 300k drops
Explain how you “drop farm” on a certain segment, like the sprint. Do you just turn around and go back to the sprint start and do over?
Finish the full segment, not just go through the banner. And they only work in one direction.
wait a sec…finish the segment or finish the route?
Mystery spinner for the old prizes finish the segment. Big Spin events for the new prizes finish the route.
Weekends are when I have bigger chunks of time…. If someone can post a loop I can ride for a spinner and not have to think about making turns or stopping and restarting for this weekend, I would appreciate it!
That depends what you want from the mystery spinners. Easiest are the Volcano Circuit and the The Classic route. Both being less than 5km so multiple laps are pretty doable.
However, The Classic route only gives out Jerseys while the Volcano Circuit only gives out headgear and glasses from the past years.
They have probably put the bikes on the more difficult KOM’s.
But for drops the Volcano Circuit and The Classic route are the best.
Already owned kit spin on Jarvis KOM gave me 15k drops
Already owned helmet spin on Volcano Circuit gave me 10k drops
So taking strictly the loop into account, Jarvis was at least for me slightly more profitable with 25.91 drops/sec vs 23.15 drops/sec for Volcano.
Try Watopia Hilly Route, 2Km from Downtown to just past KOM spin banner so that activity saves. Jersey prizes so far for me (London Punk and Funky Tile).
My God this gets worse every year…
the worst part is definitely that they make you read an article about it and then comment
My God the “I need to complain online about a video game in order to feel something/anything” comments gets worse every year…
^fixed that for you
Mystery spinners work in the middle of workouts?
Yup, just got 2 jerseys and a 105k(?) drops doing a TrainerRoad workout around Jarvis on The Classic route
Cant wait for the ‘racers’ to start complaining about coffee stops and late join.
I’m going straight for that cowboy hat
YEEEEE HAAAAWWW!
The Big Spin is stupid … I kinda like it. 😂
I love it – can’t wait to ride a route over 60 times, praying to get a flippin’ cowboy hat LOL (which, of course, I’m going to do!!)
I got one that I’ll trade! (Don’t we all wish that were possible?)😆
Jarvis KOM (anti-clockwise) is one segment, which seems to have a wheel where you can win different kits each time you go up.
Would the route be deca dash for this?
I just did “The Classic”. I think Deca Dash” just does 10 laps of the same route.
Starting “The Classic” as a free ride put me right next to the arch on Jarvis Island at the bottom of the KOM.
No, Deca goes the other way around. Just start The Classic route and you will be doing laps around Jarvis with a spin every time you finish the KOM segment.
💤
I usually don’t care about the prizes, but I have to say, I like the cowboy kit and hat, the Titans Grove kit, and the lumberjack kit.And the MX bike. Zwift did a good job this time!
Can you do routes on demand before 16th March and the spinner will appear?
I don’t think so. Only the segment mystery spinners
Will be riding that till I get the Dino-Kit! Looks amazing. 🙂
Is the 2024 Big Spin Kit (the one awarded for doing all 4 2024 stages) winnable from the Mystery Spinners?
I have finished about 50 times and unlock 7 kits, no this one
List of Mystery Spinner unlocks here: https://zwiftinsider.com/mystery-spinners/
Looks like it’s only stage-specific kits, no overall 2024 Big Spin Kit in the list.
No, it’s not.
Yet another lap around the same tired routes, with the same rusty prizes. Innovation? Groundbreaking ideas? Nah, let’s just keep recycling the same old routine until we all forget what excitement feels like. But hey, maybe one day someone will stumble across the radical concept of variety. Velodrome races, anyone? Or is that too futuristic for this century?
This could be viewed as delayed make-up rides for prizes people want but missed out on the first time around.
I’m open for velodrome races. Perhaps have a velodrome the size of the Large Hadron Collider (27k) as well…
Sweet! But does this mean no 250-1000XP possibility from the normal Alpe wheel till after Big Spin?
Correct.
These prizes are fantastic 😍
Do Big Spin events affect Zwift Racing score?
No
totally immaterial but any way to tell what prize we unlocked at the spinner when we already had the prize and got drops? thanks
Ok, maybe I missed someone saying so, but the Fuego Flats cowboy outfit looks like what Mary McFly wore in Back to the Future III when he first went back to 1885.
The kit didn’t unlock the cowboy hat, just the jersey. Am I missing something?
Sorry, newb here, I’m guessing a kit isn’t both hat and jersey. I’ll keep trying for the hat!
First soin i got the hat second the kit
Correct – the hat and the kit/jeresy are separate unlocks.
Last night I noticed that the position placings were absent in the group rides. I don’t race the events but I still like to know where I’m sitting as I like to ride from the back. Was this a bug on the first night or have positions been turned off this year?
This recent trend of having a banner for the current big event at the top of the Zwift Insider home page is absolutely brilliant!
do we get an XP bonus for completing all four stages?
No, my understanding is that there is no XP bonus. But you get a drop bonus if the spinner lands on the item you already have.
ZwiftxH2O headphone and 2024orangeheadphone are same kit?
I tried to climb 29times volcano but not find it.
Yes, they match (almost identically).
thanks,no more climing volcano to get 2024orange headphone?
in headgear category, both headphones aren’t displayed at the same time?
They’re the same item. I unlocked the orange headphones in the original big spin, and when zwift did that parnership with h2o a year later my copy got renamed to “zwift x h2o” in my garage.
ahhhhhhhhh,thanks to much😂
I won the MX Rider too, but it’s not showing up in my Garage. Has that happened to
anyone else?
Too bad no more mission badges.😕 Guess I’ll just be a late ride joiner. 😬
Is the new MX Rider a Zwift bike that counts for updating the Tron? And by the way, the Atomic Cruiser, and Zwift Safety bike? Thanks!
Yup! Those are all Zwift bikes.
If I ride the Grand Fondo Event this Weekend, will be the Myster Spinners active for the all the Segments, or because of the Fondo Event and Fix Route they are not ?
They’re active on all the segments listed above.
Just wondering….. Has anyone won the MX Rider after late joining a Big Spin event?
31 tries.
I did, on my second stage 1 late join. Last years BS was a dud for me so I wont expend any more effort than the late join.
If you look at the “Flat our Fast” route in the companion app, within this it says 13.3 miles. However, and I noticed this after, if you open it and look at the route it says 13.9. I say this because I did the 13.3 and it did not give it to me. My point, I think it’s messed up.
I just neeeed the lovely paisley bandana, have ridden Mayan San Remo six times now, got the bike twice, but no bandana so far… how do I do to get it, just keep pedalling? 😂
Yes, the only answer is keep pedaling until April 19. I tried for the cowboy hat 6 times and I still don’t have it, so you are not the only one…
I can’t be the only one totally frustrated after 14 helmets out of 20 spins!
I thought I’d mention, as a newbie, I can’t seem to create an event in a club that includes the Hot Laps route, which covers two mystery spinners. The route does not show in the Companion App on my Samsung phone.
Why is this?
Some event-only routes don’t show in Companion for event scheduling, either. You can typically contact the Zwift events team and they’ll create an event under your club using that route.
I now have a total of 30 Big Spin unlocks. That’s cumulative for 2024-25-26 and includes the 2024 Big Spin kit. I think I’ll try something else now. Thanks for all the useful intel on this site
Zwift really needs to implement a bad luck mechanism to increase your chances after repeated failures. I finished with 22 stages in a row without a prize. In total, I rode Stage 2 14 times and never got the bandana and Stage 4 12 times without getting the dino kit.
Eric
I rode this morning and noticed at least on the Volcano climb the mystery spinner tombstone is still showing – but there is no spinner at the top. (rode up 2x this morning).
Is there some delayed landscaping waiting to happen?
Has anyone else had the MX Rider disappear from their garage? Mine is gone, but now I have a trike.
Mine is still there as well as the Recumbent Trike 😕