How to Complete Tour of Makuri Islands Stages: On-Demand, Meetups, Events

The Tour of Makuri Islands is currently underway, and for cyclists it’s a tour like we’ve never seen on Zwift: an on-demand tour. That means you can complete the tour on your own schedule if you’d like, by riding the Tour routes as a free ride, workout, Meetup, or Club Event.

New UI, Who Dis?

Zwift rolled out a brand-new tour UI for the Tour of Makuri Islands which makes managing your Tour activities in-game very simple. It’s accessible via the Tour of Makuri Islands block at the top of your homescreen… clicking this brings you to the Tour’s homescreen, which shows your progress and lets you click to begin working on your next Tour activity.

We’ve been getting some questions about how this actually works… so here are specific instructions. (Note: we’ve included specific instructions below, but you can complete the stages by following different sequences of steps than what we’ve outlined. The big idea is that all you have to do is find some way to complete one of the routes for each stage to get credit for completing the stage.)

Free Ride

Easy as 1-2-3!

1. Click the Tour of Makuri Islands block at the top of the homescreen.
2. Select the stage you want to complete (the currently scheduled stage will already be selected) and click the route you’d like to do
3. Click “Start Ride”

Once you finish the route, your stage will be marked as completed.

Pace Partners

There are always several Pace Partners active on Makuri Islands, and most of them are on routes that are also Tour of Makuri Islands stages:

Join a Pace Partner on any of the bolded routes above and you can complete a stage with the Pace Partner group. Here’s the challenge with this method, though: you must ride long enough to both pass both the start and finish line of the route! Depending on where the group is when you join, you could potentially have to ride nearly two laps in order to complete the route just once.

Workout

Like a free ride, but with an extra step and a caveat:

1. Click the Tour of Makuri Islands block at the top of the homescreen.
2. Select the stage you want to complete (the currently scheduled stage will already be selected) and click the route you’d like to do
3. Click “Start Ride”
4. Pick your workout (Menu>Workouts or “E” on your keyboard) and click to start the workout

The big caveat here is that you have to finish the route to get credit for the stage. Your workout may end before the route does, and if that happens, keep riding to the finish line!

Meetup

Want to ride a stage with a small group of friends? Organizing a Meetup is the way to go!

1. Figure out which route you want to ride (you can see stage routes by clicking the Tour of Makuri block at the top of the homescreen, or see the list here under “Stage Details and Schedule”)
2. Create a Meetup on that route (learn how to organize a Meetup here)
3. Join the Meetup and ride it!

Warning: you have to finish the entire route to get credit for that stage. If your Meetup was configured for a specific time length or too short of a distance, it’s possible you may finish your Meetup without actually finishing the route. If that happens, keep riding to the finish line!

Club Event

Finishing a stage as a Club event is very similar to finishing it in a Meetup.

1. Figure out which route you want to ride (you can see stage routes by clicking the Tour of Makuri block at the top of the homescreen, or see the list here under “Stage Details and Schedule”)
2. Create a Club event on that route (learn how to create Club events here)
3. Join the event and ride it!

Warning: you have to finish the entire route to get credit for that stage. If your event was configured for a specific time length or too short of a distance, it’s possible you may finish the event without actually finishing the route. If that happens, keep riding to the finish line!

Community Event

In an unexpected twist, many Zwifters have been completing these stages by riding in community-organized events on the stage routes. These may be social rides, races, or group workouts – but as long as you complete the stage route, you’ll get credit for it!

Finding these events can be a bit tricky, because Zwift doesn’t have a built-in way to search for upcoming events on a particular route. That’s where ZwiftHacks and ZwiftPower come in handy: both sites offer ways to search upcoming events by world or route.

Find your event, ride it, and just make sure you complete the route. Presto! You’ve completed the Tour stage.

Official Scheduled Tour Event

So far, this is how most people are completing the stages. And it’s the only way to complete the Tour of you’re a runner.

While you can sign up for stage events via zwift.com/tour-of-makuri-islands or the Companion app, Zwift has made it really easy by scheduling events at the top of the hour, every hour. Access those events by clicking the Tour of Makuri Islands block at the top of the homescreen:

1. Click the Tour of Makuri Islands block at the top of the homescreen.
2. The currently-underway stage will already be selected. Click the group ride tile on the left.
3. Select your desired category, which determines which route you’ll ride, then click “Start Ride”

Once you finish the event your stage will be marked as completed.

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