Yesterday, Zwift added a set of new New York City routes to the Companion app’s route browser. The new routes are marked as “event only” and include route length, total elevation, and a list of included leaderboard segments. The routes also include maps showing the new roads… here are a few examples:
New Routes
Here’s a complete list of the routes that showed up in Companion yesterday. (Click a route for details, which are pretty sparse right now. We’ll be filling in these route pages next week after we’re able to ride the routes, take cool photos, launch Strava segments, etc.)
- Avon Flyer (5.1km, 30m)
- Double Parked (42.2km, 330m)
- Double Span Spin (12.6km, 120m)
- Fuhgeddaboudit (79km, 838m)
- Green to Screen (28.4km, 207m)
- Issendorf Express (7.3km, 53m)
- Prospect Park Loop (5.5km, 37m)
- Spinfinity (19.3km, 155m)
- Spinfinity Ultra (35km, 291m)
- Stay Puft Pursuit (31.2km, 416m)
- The Double Borough (17.9km, 147m)
- The Greenway (36.8km, 292m)
- Toefield Tornado (10.3km, 53m)
- Watts the Limit (31km, 219m)
New Sprint, KOM, and Other Segments
Since the Companion app lists which leaderboard segments are included in each route, we can figure out the names of new segments being added to the NYC map. (Again, click for details, which are currently sparse and will be filled in next week.)
- Center Sprint (200 meters, -2.2%)
- Center Sprint Reverse (200 meters, 2.4%)
- The Peristyle Sprint (400 meters, 0.6%)
- The Peristyle Sprint Reverse (400 meters, 0.1%)
- Manhattan Sprint (250 meters, 1.3%)
- Manhattan Sprint Reverse (250 meters, 0.3%)
- The Hill KOM (500 meters, 3.7%)
- The Hill KOM Reverse (unknown)
- Brooklyn Bridge KOM (2km, 1.7%)
There are also new lap segments for “Prospect Park Lap” and “Times Square Circuit” which will probably award orange jerseys like other in-game lap segments.
This expansion includes a new feature called “Power Segments” which are time-based (5 seconds, 20 seconds, etc) instead of distance-based like current sprint and KOM segments throughout the game. The leaderboards, in turn, rank results based on power output, not finishing time. I don’t see any mention of Power Segments in Companion, but it seems sensible that we would eventually be able to browse our power KOMs on these segments.
When can we ride the new roads?
Some of the routes (The Greenway, Spinfinity, and Prospect Park Loop Run) added to Companion yesterday will be released on Monday, October 27, as they are the routes used in next week’s stage 4 of Zwift Unlocked.
Additional NYC routes will be featured for the final Unlocked stage the following week: Stay Puft Pursuit, The Double Borough, and Times Square Circuit Run.
It’s unclear when the other routes on the list will be available for free rides, club events, Meetups, etc. I’m guessing some or all of them will be available for free riding beginning this Monday, but we won’t know for sure until then.
Your Thoughts
This is the first time Zwift has “teased” an expansion via the Companion app. Are you looking forward to new roads next week? Share your thoughts below…
I can’t see where the new roads meet the old roads but I saw someone ride from new road onto high line. It looks great. I lost my colored glass roads. Will the old grey roads program still work on the glass roads?
Here’s an updated map with new roads on it
Hmm, ok, image isn’t attaching
Andrew – do the new roads connect to the old roads around the Skyline KOM?
Yes, new roads connect on the ground level, southern end of Central Park. Beneath the KOM glass roads!
When I look at my missing badges I see 16 NYC routes badges I miss. You only mention 14.
Do you have any info about the missing two ?
The Greenway
Spinfinity
Stay Puft Pursuit
The Double Borough
Watts The Limit
Times Square Circuit
Double Span Spin
Prospect Park Loop
Green to Screen
No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Double Parked
Fuhgeddaboudit
Spinfinity Ultra
Toefield Tornado
Avon Flyer
Issendorf Express
Those are the one I see in the my achievements missing badges list.
Subways, malls … not my thing. NYC is already my least favorite map and this wont change. WIll ride them once for the badge and after that avoid NYC as much as possible again.
Good Timing! I have Ridden all the Routes I care to Ride… There are a few that I don’t see me ever doing (The Mega distance Ones like Uber Pretzel etc.)… So a batch of what I call, Hour/Hour 1/2 are perfect ! … While on the subject of the Companion App. when you go to the Events Menu. All you can see is the Up and Coming Rides/Races. When on the Computer when you go to the Events menu, you can see things like, the Group Rides that have already started, and say 15/20mins etc. ago. so if you want you can still jump in. Is there a way of seeing these type of things on the Companion App? Sometimes I’ll be on a Bot Ride, or just Riding, and it would be nice when you go to the Events Menu on the App. to see things that have already Started that you could Join if you wanted too without having to end your Ride, and go back to the Main Menu on your Computer?
Looks like a great job on the NYC expansion. I see they have included both the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge, and creating routes that loop over the East River on both bridges. Not sure yet which avenue connects Central Park to downtown, but the idea of Prospect Park in Brooklyn looks interesting. Wonder if they include the Prospect Park Zoo.
The zoo is in game! (And, in fact, more visible than it is IRL…)
You can see the zoo as you pass by IRL but can’t really see anything inside.
Still doesn’t list the running routes in Companion ☹️
I think I like the selection of routes they added. Fuhgeddaboudit looks like a really nice length for a new “pretzel” route: challenging enough to be worthy but short enough to be approachable.
I hope the new roads have an interesting flow to them. That will really make or break the expansion for me, and I can’t judge it until I’ve ridden it.
Issendorf like the nod to there by Zwift! Often see him on the ZRacing rides
Yeah, I’m sure that’ll make Charlie’s day!
Toefield Tornado is a nod to Al Toefield, as well. And Avon Flyer might be a nod to a local rider… I’m asking around to see if that’s the case.
Description of route
Where are you getting that info from? Looks handy!
Looks like a decent sized update and addition of routes, fingers crossed they turn out to be fun to race 🤞
Hey Eric, any idea why the Zwift Unlocked Stage 4 debut race that should be at 8:10am pacific is missing this week? I’d say it’s related to European daylight savings or something like that, except that it isn’t just everything pushed back 1 hour – the 9:00am Zwift Unlocked debut ride is there as you’d expect (typically, the first race happens 50 mins before the first ride).
Given that, would you expect us to be able to select the new routes to ride at 8:10am still like in previous weeks, even if none of the actual events have gone live? When does Zwift “unlock” the new Unlocked stage for a given day?
Hmmm… yeah, not sure on that one. Seems like that race is indeed missing.
Do we have to pay tolls for the tunnels?
Nope. It’s future NY, and apparently it’s much more bike friendly 100 years from now! 😜
It looks like the new expansion is a little flatter than the existing routes, this might get a few more people using these courses than before.
Definitely flatter!
I noticed as I was looking at the data closer that Stay Puft Pursuit in your routes list in the article says 41.6m of elevation gain when it should be 416m.
Fixed, thanks!
There are 16 NYC new route badges in total in above overview is missing: Times Square Circuit and No Sleep till Brooklyn. There not in the events section Companion yet still. Think Zwift has other plans with it?
Here is the full stitched image from Eric’s post (if the website will allow me to include an image which it has not at times in the past)…
When they initially announced the expansion, I believe they said there would be 16 new cycling routes. However, I only see 14 listed. Any word on the other two?
Nvm, I see Rein touched on the additional two in comments above. Curious when we’ll get details on those. Excited for all these new routes!
Is it cheating to use the escalators for Everesting?