“Tropic Rush” Route Details (Makuri Islands)
Released in October 2025 to host Zwift Unlocked events, Tropic Rush is similar to Turf N Surf, but with a longer flat start and a spicy extra climb near the end! Read on for details…
Released in October 2025 to host Zwift Unlocked events, Tropic Rush is similar to Turf N Surf, but with a longer flat start and a spicy extra climb near the end! Read on for details…
Route Basics
Length: 41.2 km (25.6 miles)
Elevation: 328m (1,076′)
+1.6km (1.0 miles) lead-in with 6m (20′) elevation
Map: Makuri Islands
ZIMetrics
Rating: 21.0/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
lead-in + first lap
4 W/kg: 62 minutes
3 W/kg: 68 minutes
2 W/kg: 83 minutes
Start & Finish
Begins with a lead-in from the arcade pens to the Tower Sprint Reverse, which also serves as the finish line for the overall loop.
Format: Loop
Ride Achievement Badge: 825 XP
Run Achievement Badge: none
Strava Segments
Bike Selection
Aero is everything on this flat route. Grab the fastest wheels and frame you can afford, and get going!
Route Description
Begin at Neokyo’s arcade pens with a short lead-in to the Tower Sprint Reverse arch. You’ll make your way around Neokyo’s (mostly) flat roads, hitting the longer Alley and Railway Sprints before heading out of the urban permanight and down the Slot Canyon toward Urukazi.
Once you leave Neokyo, the next ~20km almost perfectly match the Turf N Surf route, winding down the Slot Canyon and heading up to the Shisa Sprint before descending and coming back toward Neokyo via the Pain Cavern and its figure-8 climb.
Returning to Neokyo, you’ll turn left and take on the twisty bricks of the Castle Park Sprint Reverse before heading up to the Rooftop KOM, our final climb of the day.
Catch your break as you descend from the rooftop, then ride once more to the Tower Sprint Reverse whose arch marks the official start/finish of this route. You did it!
Looking forward to this one. 👌🏻
Are TT bikes allowed? I assume not.
On the route? Sure. In events? Not for group rides are scratch races.
If this route is like others, TT bikes are allowed for group rides, although we warn people they will get no draft. Some people want to ride in a group and are strong enough to stick with the group even with no draft.
I for one would not do that. 😃
I checked the ZwiftHacks event page, and it says the no TT bikes option has been enabled for the group rides. But that does mean a person who’s trying to upgrade a TT bike can select it in the garage, join the event, and they’ll be placed on the Zwift Steel bike while still upgrading the TT bike they originally chose.
How about specialized venge s-works and the ses 7.8…(or the disc?) is there a better combo? I have the Tron available.
If you’re trying for your best time in one of the big Zwift Unlocked events, you should choose the bike that gives you the most help where you need it so you do not get dropped from a big group. If you have no problems hanging with the strongest people in the group on the climbs, go maximum aero. If you have concerns about getting dropped on climbs I would use an all-rounder setup like the S-Works SL8 and DT Swiss ARC 1100 DiCut 65. There are many other reasonable choices like that.
Maybe it is just me, but I can’t see the long rute in any way. Is it because my racingscore is too low? Or what can I be doing wrong
The long route is not used in the races. You have to do the group ride events to access Tropic Rush. It would have been awesome to have races on the long route.