This weekend has a lot of high-attendance events, which is always fun! Raise funds for Buffalo bikes, join a big ride series… or try steering in a race for the first time. It’s all good!
Special thanks to Jesper at ZwiftHacks with his Events app which provides powerful event filtering tools that help us create this list each week.
Ride Like King 12
This weekend the popular Ride Like King celebration is back in Zwift-land, and it includes pro rides, Buffalo Bike donations through WBR, a kit unlock, and prize giveaways! Read all the details here >
This is a 4-stage event. The more stages Zwifters ride, the more Buffalo bikes will be donated!
- Stage 1 – Friday at 11am BST/6am EDT/3am PDT: 2 laps of the Tick Tock route.
- Stage 2 – Friday at 11pm BST/6pm EDT/3pm PDT: 2 laps of the Tempus Fugit route.
- Stage 3 – Saturday at 9am BST/4am EDT/1am PDT: 3 laps of the Greater London Flat route.
- Stage 4 – Sunday at 5pm BST/12pm EDT/9am PDT: 4 laps of the Gotham Grind route.
Sign up at zwift.com/events/series/ride-like-king-12
Steering Races!
Last week’s Zwift update included the ability to steer on all Zwift roads, if you have an Elite Sterzo Smart steering block. Those Sterzos are now arriving at Zwifters’ doorsteps, so it’s time to try steering in a race! Zwift automatically disabled steering in all scheduled races, since it provides an advantage. But they’ve created two special events where steering will be allowed (they are currently set to “no steering” as we write this, but certainly that will be fixed by race day).
Racers without steering abilities are encouraged to attend as well, to see what it’s like to race against steering riders. Anti-sandbagging (the green cone of shame) is also enabled for these events. Let’s have some fun!
Saturday 4pm BST/11am EDT/8am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/1010962
Sunday 8am BST/3am EDT/12am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/1010967
7 Days of Tarmac SL7
We’re at the end of this three-stage series celebrating the new Specialized Tarmac S7 bike (read all about the series here). This weekend is stage 3, inspired by Julian Alaphilippe and held on the France map. Choose from the long ride which takes you up the challenging La Reine route to Mont Ven-Top’s Chalet Reynard, or do the shorter ride on the flatter Casse-Pattes route.
Multiple event times, see zwift.com/events/series/7-days-of-tarmac-sl7 for details
Off the MAAP Tour
This big 2-week tour kicks off this weekend with Stage 1 (there are 4 stages total). Each stage includes group rides, races, and a pro-am invitational event. Complete all stages to unlock the exclusive kit!
Multiple event times, see https://www.zwift.com/otm2020 for details
ZZRC Sunday Club Ride – 2.5 to 2.7 w/kg
Looking for a long group ride with friendly support and some hills? Try ZZRC’s weekly Sunday club ride. This week it’s a long one – 167.7km as you cover 3 laps of the London Pretzel route.
Sunday 9:30am BST/4:30am EDT/1:30am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/1007535
Your Thoughts
Got other events that stand out this weekend? Share below in the comments!
Will you piss off and stop sending emails etc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get a grip, Terry. YOU need to unsubscribe on YOUR end.
I signed up to get emails and never receive any from Zwift. You must me getting all mine haha
I don’t send these out as emails, Terry. If you’re subscribed to browser notifications, you need to unsubscribe – I can’t do that.
You can follow these instructions for Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3220216?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en
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Hi Eric, I am seeing Off the MAAP as a 4-stage tour, not 6. Am I missing something?
4 is correct. Fixed!
Zwift claims the Tarmac Tour will have a makeup day Sunday, but no makeup stages are on ZC. Any idea what’s up with this? Thanks!
I see lots of makeup events on Sunday: https://zwifthacks.com/app/events/?key=5f36b094a55f7
Thanks. They literally showed up within an hour of my comment. Maybe they see my comment. 🙂
Love this platform!So much to offer and lots of space to keep building, Thank You Zwift!!
Why so many awesome events all cramp up in one weekend? I can only do so much in one day.
Thanks for plugging the ZZRC ride.
As a bit of background to that, 16th August would have been the Prudential Ride London ride, 100 miles out of London out to the Surrey Hills, the back into town.
The IRL ride has sadly been cancelled, but to allow riders to still participate and raise money for all the charities that rely on these events, the organisers are arranging MyRideLondon. That give people a bunch of options to ride on Sunday.
I booked the ZZRC ride as one of those. I was tempted to book the “PRL Full” but the PRL Full Route was created before a couple of the London World expansions, so is quite a short, repetitive route. It’s also way more climbing than the real life PRL.
3x laps of London Pretzel is far closer to the actual Prudential Ride elevation profile and with some decent Flat Bits, is also a more group ride friendly route.
Thanks again Eric. AJ