All About the New Reserve 57|64 Wheelset in Zwift

Zwift’s latest release added two new wheelsets from Reserve – the first road wheelsets from the company to arrive in game. Their 57|64 wheelset (57mm front wheel, 64mm rear wheel) is optimized for aero performance in road races:

How good are these wheels IRL? You may have seen Jonas Vingegaard using these very hoops on his Cervelo S5 (also released in Zwift’s latest update) for flatter stages in last year’s Vuelta, which he won. So there’s that.

Here’s how the Reserve 57|64 wheelset is described in the Drop Shop:

When speed is the strategy, the Reserve 57|64 delivers. With deep aero profiles and race-ready stability, these wheels are made for high-speed breakaways, long pulls, and full-gas finishes. Developed with Turbulent Aero technology to stay composed in crosswinds, the 57|64 rewards riders who keep the power down and never look back.

The wheels are now available in the Drop Shop, accessible at level 29 and above, for 550,000 Drops. They are rated 4 stars for aero and 3 for weight, like other strong all-arounder wheelsets. But how do they compare? Since Zwift’s 4-star rating system isn’t precise enough for our tastes, we ran these wheels through our standard battery of tests to determine exactly how they perform in Zwift and stack up against other wheelsets.

Let’s dive in and learn all about the in-game performance of Reserve’s first aero road wheelset in Zwift!

Aero (Flat/Rolling) Performance

The Reserve 57|64 hoops turn in a strong aero performance on our flat tests, coming in with the fourth-fastest time compared to other non-disc wheelsets.

The 57|64 puts 41.8 seconds into our stock wheelset across an hour of flat road, which puts them just behind the new Miche Deva RD 62 at 43.1 seconds and just ahead of the ENVE SES 4.5 PRO at 40.2 seconds. In contrast, the fastest non-disc hoops (Swiss Side HADRON Ultimate 650) turn in a time savings of 46.8 seconds.

Climb Performance

The 57|64 wheelset from Reserve is heavier than the new wheelsets in its category, and its climb performance reflects it. In fact, it’s the slowest of the “aero all-arounder” wheelsets when the road gets steep.

The 57|64 puts 5 seconds into the stock wheelset, while other comparable wheelsets gain 7-12 seconds, and the best climbing wheels in game, the Princeton Carbonworks Alta 3532, gain 14.5 seconds.

Note: all test results above are from a 75kg, 183cm rider holding 300W steady using the Zwift Carbon frame.

Conclusions

On Zwift, Reserve’s 57|64 are strong aero performers with midpack climbing performance. Their tested performance puts them ~2 seconds behind the new Miche Deva RD 62 and even further behind the category’s strongest wheels, particularly the Swiss Side HADRON Ultimate 650 and Princeton Carbonworks Wake 6560.

So it’s hard to recommend them, especially priced at 550,000 Drops with a level 29 unlock, since they’re not much easier to unlock than other wheelsets with better performance. My guess is, you won’t see a lot of Zwifters rolling these new wheels, unless they’re big fans of Reserve and/or going for the nondescript (“reserved?”) look.

These wheels have been, or will soon be, added to the following posts:

• Master Zwift Wheels List (added)
• Zwift Speed Tests: Wheel Ranking Charts
• Zwift Shopping Guide: What To Buy from the Drop Shop at Each Level
• Zwift Speed Tests Public Data (Google Sheet) (added)

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