With Le Tour now underway, we’re in a racing mood, so this week’s event picks lean toward the racing side of Zwift a bit more than usual. See below for two unique races we’ve never featured before, plus a popular and established stage race.
We’ve also included two popular group rides. See our picks below…
🥇 Mini Little Tour Ghost Team (3 Races)
✅ Unique Event ✅ Punchy Race
Think of the Ghost Team’s “Mini Little Tour” as a sort of slightly longer Tiny Races. Held just twice a month, this is a series of three back-to-back races, each 15-20 minutes long. Courses this week are The Classic, Electric Loop, and Mountain Mash.
First race is Saturday, July 12 @ 8:20am UTC/4:20am ET/1:20am PT
See upcoming Ghost Team events at zwift.com/events/tag/ghost
🤝 Sir Chris Hoy’s | Tour de 4
✅ Good Cause ✅ Popular ✅ Special Guests ✅ Kit Unlock
Once again, one of the most popular rides this weekend is the open-paced Tour de 4 ride with Sir Chris Hoy (11x world champion and 6x Olympic champion). Tour de 4 is an initiative to change the perception of people living with stage 4 cancer and raise vital funds for cancer charities across the UK.
Read all about Tour de 4 series >
Rides are 45 minutes long and held once a month on Saturdays. This week’s ride is on Watopia’s Waistband.
Saturday, July 12 @ 9am UTC/5am ET/2am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4818038
🥇 2025 SISU Tour – Stage 3
✅ Popular Race ✅ Unique Event ✅ Endurance Challenge
The 7-stage SISU Tour is now underway, and lots of racers are taking part in the competitive series. This weekend is stage 3, which takes place on one lap of Knights of the Roundabout (54.4km, 359m elevation).
Read all about SISU Tour 2025 >
15 timeslots on Saturday, July 12
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/sisutour
🥇 Sprinters GC – p/b Good Time Riders
✅ Unique Event ✅ Sprint Efforts
We picked this race event because of its unique structure, which will surely lead to some strategic racing! This is a points race, and you earn FAL points based on your position across the sprint line on each lap. With 7 LaGuardia Loop laps total (plus a lead-in) that means you’ll have 8 sprints in this race… and the final sprint counts for double points.
All categories start together, but are scored separately on ZwiftPower. This is gonna be wild!
Sunday, July 13 @ 4:50pm UTC/12:50pm ET/9:50am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5044476
🤝 Shimano Super Cycling Sunday
✅ Route Badge ✅ Popular ✅ Guest Leader ✅ Kit Unlock
This series from Shimano is proving popular! These are open-paced group rides on newer Zwift routes that include a #SuperCyclingSunday kit unlock, special guest riders, and more.
Read all about the Shimano Super Cycling Sunday series >
This week’s ride is on France’s newish Hell of the North (20.2km, 241m).
Sunday, July 13 @ 2pm UTC/10am EDT/7am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/4998846
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!
Just a note regarding Tour De 4. Sir Chris drops everyone within the first minute and rides 3 minutes ahead of everyone else. Its not a banded ride, so nobody actually rides with Sir Chris.
Are you SURE he rides ahead of everyone else?
My guess is, the ride has more than 100 participants. But Zwift only renders the beacons plus the closest 100 riders in a group ride.
So when Sir Chris rides away from you, the game keeps rendering his location for you, as well as the 100 riders closest to you. But it doesn’t render all the riders near Sir Chris, a few minutes up the road.
Does that make sense?
(It’s not an ideal group ride experience, of course. Zwift should improve it. It gets really ugly in events with, say, 1000 riders all there to see a pro!)
AHH good point I hadn’t thought of that. As a cat D, he’s always about 5 minutes ahead of me. And yes, I realise you only see 100 riders in your group I still think it should be a banded ride though, if zwift software can handle that with the numbers
Bonjour,
Un grand merci pour le partage de notre événement Ghost Team sur le site numéro 1 de Zwift !
Nous sommes ravis de pouvoir proposer sans cesse de nouvelles opportunités pour rouler fort et vivre des moments intenses sur la plateforme.
On se réjouit de voir un maximum de monde au rendez-vous ! 🚴♂️💥
Sportivement,
L’équipe Ghost Team
Hello,
Thank you so much for sharing our Ghost Team event on the number one Zwift event site!
We’re thrilled to keep offering new opportunities to ride hard and enjoy exciting moments on the platform.
We can’t wait to see as many of you as possible join us! 🚴♀️🔥
Best regards,
The Ghost Team
Ghost’s team events are really great !