Rebel Route: The Full Makuri

Today, we’re releasing the first of three special “full map” Rebel Routes. Unlike the very small Summit City Velodrome, the last Rebel Route we released, these routes are very long, covering every single road on their respective maps.

But first, credit where credit is due: Zwifter Ole Eichhorn gets the kudos for putting in the work to come up with this route. And it was no small job! Finding the shortest route covering all roads on a complex map is known as “the postman problem”, and Ole wrote a program to solve it, telling me that “the Internet knows a lot of tricks.”

Ole went on to say, “The program uses Hierholtzer’s algorithm to find a Eulerian path, the Floyd-Warshall algorithm to pair odd nodes, and Djikstra’s algorithm to find minimum node pairings. (Yeah, just typing that makes my head hurt.)”

Not only did Ole find the shortest route – he went and rode it! Fine work, sir.

Second: I’m releasing these three Rebel Routes in hopes that Zwift will adopt them as new fondo routes. It’s been way too long since we’ve had new fondo routes, and there are so many great new roads that fondos could use! (All three routes are from Ole, and all three are “full map” routes.)

This route in particular would make a great Medio Fondo route, and the next two routes released will make good Bambino and Gran routes, respectively. Stay tuned for those.

About Rebel Routes

“Rebel Routes” are Zwift rides not available on Zwift’s routes list, thus requiring manual navigation.

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The reward for your rebel ride? Exploring a new route, knowing you’ve gone where few Zwifters have gone before. And a Strava segment rank in the tens or hundreds instead of the thousands! Rebel Routes are also included as a separate category on our Veloviewer Route Hunter leaderboard.

Route Description

A complete turn-by-turn tour of this route would take much too much space. So I’ll summarize it instead.

The route begins in the Yumezi countryside, which is fitting since this is where it all began! When the Makuri Islands map launched in May of 2021, these were the only roads it had.

You’ll cover nearly all the Yumezi roads in the first 26km of your ride, but will return at the end to cover a final bit in the Castle area.

From Yumezi, we make our way over to urban Neokyo, which was the next section of Makuri Islands to launch, in November 2021. Neokyo is all bright lights and city streets, and the lights feel especially bright because it’s always night time in Neokyo. We’ll cover all of Neokyo roads here, before heading descending down Pain Cavern to Urukazi.

Urukazi is the tropical island portion of the Makuri Islands, and we’ll ride around it clockwise, doing two loops to cover all the roads. The first loop covers the inner roads, while the second loop covers the outer roads.

Then it’s up the Slot Canyon and back into Yumezi for the last bit of the route. You’ll ride through the lap banner once again and into the Castle area, covering a few internal roads. We finish our last bit of unridden pavement here as we ride through the Village Sprint, but we might as well carry on downhill for another 1.5km to finish up at the lap banner where we began.

Turn By Turn Directions

Be warned: this route has a lot of turns. Way more than any other Rebel Route we’ve ever done. You may want to print out a cue sheet.

Begin by choosing the Two Village Loop route, which starts you near the Yumezi lap banner, heading in the right direction for the first few turns.

1. Right to Farmlands
2. Left to Village Onsen
3. Right to Village Onsen
4. Straight to Village Onsen
5. Right to Village Gardens
6. Straight to Village Shops
7. Left to Fishing Village
8. Right to Castle Path
9. Right to Castle Path
10. Straight (Left) to Marketplace
11. Straight (Left) to Marketplace
12. Left to Forest Climb
13. Left to Fishing Village
14. Left to Fishing Village
15. Left to Castle Path
16. Right to Village Onsen
17. Right (to Fishing Village)
18. Left to Forest Climb
19. Straight (Left) to Forest Climb
20. Straight (Left) to Castle Path
21. Straight (Left) to Marketplace
22. Left to Castle Outskirts
23. Right to Forest Road
24. Straight (Left) to Forest Road
25. Straight (Right) to Village Onsen
26. Left to Rice Paddies
27. Right to Neo Tower
28. Left to Neokyo
29. Straight (Right) to Tower
30. Straight (Right) to Tower
31. Right to Harbor
32. Left to Downtown
33. Left to Downtown
34. Right to Sky Lane
35. Straight (Left) to Harbor
36. Straight (Right) to Downtown
37. Left to Arcade
38. Straight (Right) to Arcade
39. Left to Tower
40. Right to Rice Paddies
41. Right to Arcade
42. Left to Downtown
43. Left to Railway
44. Left to Railway East
45. Right to Rooftop
46. Right to Railway East
47. Left to Downtown
48. Left to Downtown
49. Straight (Right) to Castle Park
50. Straight (Left) to Castle Park
51. Right to Harbor
52. Straight (Left) to Urukazi
53. Straight (Left) to Mangroze Maze
54. Right to Mangrove Maze North
55. Right to Festival Harbor
56. Right to Festival Harbor North
57. Right to Mech Isle
58. Right to Mech Isle South
59. Right to Hidden Reefs
60. Right to Hidden Reefs
61. Right to Mangrove Maze
62. Left to Mangroze Maze South
63. Left to Festival Harbor
64. Left to Festival Harbor South
65. Left to Mech Isle
66. Left to Mech Isle North
67. Left to Hidden Reefs
68. Left to Yumezi
69. Left to Yumezi
70. Right to Farmland
71. Straight (Right) to Castle Path
72. Straight (Left) to Forest Road
73. Right to Castle Path
74. Right to Marketplace
75. Right to Castle Outskirts
76. Straight (Right) to Castle Outskirts
77. Straight (Left) to Farmlands

Route details:
Distance: 80.9km (50.3 miles)
Elevation Gain: 650m (2132′)
Strava Segment

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