Zwift just released their latest “This Season on Zwift” announcement detailing key game features, Companion app updates, events, and hardware news coming in the next few months. We’ve posted the complete press release below, and in the coming days, we’ll dive into some of the announcements in more detail.
There’s some fun stuff here, so let’s get on with it…
Personalized Recommendations, New Zwift Click Controllers and Much More Promise To Make It Easier To Level Up Your Fitness
Plus Many More Updates Landing This Season on Zwift, Including New Roads, Events and Racing Improvements
Zwift, the global online fitness platform for cyclists, today announces a series of updates and content experiences that promise to make it easier than ever before to level up your fitness. From AI-driven personalized recommendations designed to help Zwifters hit their goals to updated Zwift Click Controllers that unlock the full Zwift experience to new roads that encourage Zwifters to explore more, there is something new for every rider This Season On Zwift.
Zwift Ready & New Zwift Click Controllers
Launched in 2024, the Zwift Ready program makes getting started on Zwift easier and more affordable. Zwift Ready trainers come with the Zwift Cog pre-installed, providing compatibility with virtually any bike, and with Zwift Click included, riders have everything they need to begin their journey in Watopia. In 2025, the Zwift Ready program is expanding with more variety than ever before, and with costs starting from as little as €250 // £279.99 // $299.99. Zwift Ready trainers will be available from Wahoo, Elite, Van Rysel, JetBlack, and Garmin-Tacx (USA only).
Shipping from September 9th, the new Zwift Click controllers unlock the full Zwift experience thanks to integrated navigation and shortcut buttons, similar to those seen on Zwift Ride, and previously Zwift Play controllers. The new Zwift Click retains the ability for riders to mount the controllers in almost any location and they are compatible with all handlebar types. To ensure it can be placed in almost any location, the new Zwift Click allows you to customise the button configuration to orient your Zwift Click however you like.
Zwift Cog and Click upgrade kits for all Zwift Cog-compatible trainers are available to pre-order from Zwift.com now (£49.99 / €49.99 / USD$49.99), and will ship from September 9th.
Levelling Up Your Fitness – Personalized Recommendations, Auto-Adjusting Goals & Improved Onboarding
Building on the success of Fitness Trends, which rolled out earlier this summer, Zwift will make it easier for Zwifters to level up their fitness with the introduction of Auto-Adjusted Goals and Personalized recommendations.
From September, an improved onboarding experience will make it easier for Zwifters to set up connections with their outdoor head units from Wahoo, Garmin and Hammerhead. Zwifters connecting their outdoor accounts will not only benefit from additional XP for their outdoor rides, but they will also be able to track their Fitness Trends in Zwift Companion and set goals based on their past activities. Now, when Zwifters set goals, they will have the ability to set these to Auto-Adjust. Using the last several weeks of indoor and outdoor data, Zwift will adjust your upcoming weekly target goal, helping to support your continual development.
From November, Zwift promises to take things to the next level with Personalized Recommendations. Powered by AI, Personalized Recommendations will serve content tailored to help each Zwifter hit their goals. Recommendations served will account for recent training load, based on both indoor and outdoor (when connected) activity, riding preferences, including activity types, and much more, meaning Zwifters can jump in with one click, allowing them to spend more time riding and less time choosing.
Using the ‘Tune button’ Zwifters will have the ability to choose from a mix of content types, including workouts, routes, events and Robo Pacer rides, helping preserve variety. However, with each recommendation accounting for recent ride history and personal goals, Zwifters can be assured that whatever activity they choose, it will be both productive and fun. Further, Zwifters will also have the option to adjust the duration of content – because sometimes life gets in the way.
For those who have connections in place with external coaching apps like TrainerRoad, these will take preference on the Home Screen. Zwifters will still have the option to ‘tune’ these activities should they wish to mix things up.
Personalized Recommendations will display both in the home screen in the main Zwift App and also in Zwift Companion.
Progress Report Screen
Upon completion of an activity, Zwifters will now be taken to an updated Progress Report Screen. Here, Zwift will display a summary of all key information, including fitness score progression, training status, goal progression, current streak, bike upgrade progression, level progress, racing score improvements, and much more. This display will show at the end of any activity before returning to the home screen. Post-activity, Zwifters will have the ability to go deeper into these metrics using Fitness Trends in the Zwift Companion app.
Zwift Unlocked – An Entirely New Tour
Running October 6th to November 16th, Zwift Unlocked is an entirely new Zwift Tour, replacing the Tour of Watopia. Like its predecessor, Zwift Unlocked offers double XP but brings with it 10 entirely new routes across multiple Zwift Worlds. Zwifters will have the ability to ride or race each stage, with long and short options on offer throughout.
The Big Apple Just Got Bigger – New York Expansion
The final two stages of Zwift Unlocked will take place on a freshly expanded New York map. This expansion will be Zwift’s largest map expansion in years, adding 31km of new roads to New York, including 20 new routes (16 bike and 4 run).
The expansion will take Zwifters out of Zwift’s futuristic Central Park, into the city and out to Prospect Park via New York’s subway network.
Power Segments
Within the subways of New York, Zwifters will also find a new segment feature, Power Segments, launching with this expansion. Power Segments are a new take on Zwift’s timed Sprint Segments, where pure wattage is all that matters. Hit the start arch and hammer until the timer hits zero to try and average the highest watts possible. Upon completion of a segment, Zwifters will see their personal result and how it compares with their efforts over the previous 90 days – this is primarily a challenge of personal achievement. Zwifters will also see how they rank against the global community, with the overall leaderboard displayed shortly after the personal results screen. Power Segments will eventually roll out to other Zwift Worlds over time.
Zwift Racing
The Home of Community Racing is geared up to deliver the best season of competition to date. Whether it’s Zwift Racing League, starting on September 16th, zRacing, Zwift Games, any one of the 1000’s of community-run race events, or if lycra isn’t your thing, there’s even the Virtual Brompton World Championships in November – there really is something for everyone!
Helping make community racing fairer and more competitive, there are numerous improvements coming to the racing scene, beginning this September. Zwift Racing Score is now established as the default racing categorisation system, and the 11 categories now used for Zwift events have made racing even more competitive by keeping the competition more closely matched.
The latest changes to Zwift Racing Score have seen ‘score decay’ introduced for racers who haven’t competed in the last 30 days, updated seed scores based on your most recent personal bests (inside or outside of races), and a new option for event organisers to categorise riders by their 30-day best score, not just their current score. These changes ensure your score reflects your current peak fitness, instantly rewards strong performances, keeps matchmaking dynamic, and makes races feel fairer and more competitive for everyone on the start line.
To help keep racing fairer, Zwift is also rolling out new anti-botting detection. This is live and has been actively identifying suspicious activity. Accounts flagged by this technology are moving through our standard enforcement pipeline, helping us clean up racing, protect leaderboard integrity, and stop unfair XP farming. The same system is laying the groundwork for a new generation of anti-cheating technology designed to detect and eliminate unrealistic performances and make racing on Zwift even more authentic over time.
Brompton World Championship
“Tweed Is Speed.” The world’s most dapper race has arrived on Zwift. A week-long Virtual Brompton World Championship race series event is set to be held in Zwift’s London. Races will be held on custom routes (short and long options) and all entrants will be able to unlock the very special Tweed Kit! Of course, the Brompton will be available to purchase in the Drop Shop from November as well.
Event Cooldown
The fun shouldn’t stop when you cross the finish line. Now, when Zwifters complete a Zwift group event they will have the option to stay in the event world to cool down. This update aims to improve event experience by extending the opportunity to continue the conversation, reminisce about the epic battle that went down, share a funny moment, connect on Zwift Companion, or discuss plans for your next activity much like you would after completing an outdoor event. One extra loop, anyone?
Zwift Camp: Baseline
Zwift Camp: Baseline proved to be Zwift’s most popular workout series of all time, and returns bigger and better for 2025. Zwift Camp will consist of three distinct camps throughout the year: Baseline, Build, and Breakthrough. Designed to follow the structure of winter training, Zwift Camp has been designed to allow Zwifters to complete one or multiple camps. Beginning September 15th, Zwift Camp: Baseline is your launchpad for the season ahead. The four workouts are a chance to set your baseline fitness and lock in your best season yet.
Head over to your personalized Zwift Camp: Baseline dashboard here – zwift.com/zwift-camp/dashboard
The Drop
MyCanyon colorways are landing in the Drop Shop on September 25th. This will be the first time Zwifters can purchase bikes with distinct colorways in the Drop Shop. From launch, Zwifters can choose from four designs from the Opus Collection, the Fabrio Collection, and the Mano Collection. Stay tuned for more Drops coming to the Drop Shop this season!
Watopia Essentials Collection
On Sale September 16
Born from a partnership with Pedal Mafia, the Watopia Essentials Collection is an investment in your cycling journey, bringing the highest quality cycling apparel to Zwifters indoors and outdoors. On and off-bike apparel will be available to purchase in the US, UK and EU from Zwift.com. Zwifters located in Australia will also be able to access the collection from pedalmafia.cc.
To find out more about This Season on Zwift, visit zwift.com/this-season-on-zwift
Your Thoughts
What do you think of Zwift’s plans for the next few months? Share below!
I thought the “Tune” button was going to be a Spotify integration to allow control of music from in game – now that would be a partnership!!
Or iTunes/Apple Music! That would be a winner for me. (Or control the Apple TV app, or podcasts, YouTube, Books, etc)
About Zwift Racing …
The ZRS is an excellent scoring system for establishing starting grids. But why use this categorization for the final rankings? In addition to an overall ranking, a second ranking based on the Masters categories would be much more valuable.
This is just my humble opinion.
Thank you for your support.
16 New cycling routes in New York is great news
Agreed! New York expansion was often suggested, including by me, but I thought at this point it was a lost cause. Clearly New York roads are “expensive” (rendering, design, etc) since the environment is so rich. But I’m really happy to see them add it, a nice alternative to Neokyo.
It seems MyWhoosh has pushed hard on generating a lot of rich environments, so maybe Zwift is feeling pressure there. Although IMHO Zwift is clearly superior in every way.
Do the new clicks allow for steering?
Some interesting stuff here. Biggest road expansion in a few years.
Article on Bike Radar suggests they have steering – but don’t have braking!
Not sure how/where the steering is; certainly doesn’t look to have any paddle.
Confirmed on GP Lama video. So the navigation buttons are the steering, but the navigation now need an additional button press.
Yes they do, and they look like a massive improvement over the old Zwift Play controllers which were hard to position on the handlebars without affecting hand position, plus compatible with a lot more types of bars now
I agree with the positioning issue, just bought a Wahoo Core on sale with the free play controllers and had a hell of time getting them on my handle bars because I use thicker than standard bar wrap.
My Zwift play controllers fit fine on my drop handlebars on my Shimano 600 old steel bike 🙂 now on my turbo. love the virtual gears, and steering just where I want it
Are they still being given “free” at level 80 ?
Zwift stopped giving away Play controllers in the last month or so, because they’ve run out of inventory.
I want the clickers with out the cog… Zwitft, please!
I was wondering that especially if they are replacing the old clickers, that I never could get to work right.
Agreed, they need to sell the new Clicks on their own!
I second / third ? that request, but I hope they do incorporate steering and braking in some fashion. I actually use braking a lot during pacer rides, either doing sprints along the route or when I accidently bomb off the front of the pack on a downhill.
Hopefully they will give us full control over button customization including short and long / double taps.
Then I wouldn’t need drops on the flat bar bike I use on Zwift. Freedom!
I feel Zwift is focusing on the wrong things trying to be good at everything like fitness trends etc. if you looking for that there are several good alternatives. I feel Zwift should focus on making the best riding and racing experience. Now they try to be Strava, training peaks, interval.icu etc but not good at anything.
Agree
I’ve found that their implementation of TSS (Training Stress Score) has been really good, and they include outdoor rides too. Beats having to pay for a subscription to Strava imo. We will see how helpful these AI powered suggestions are though
I agree, until Zwift allows all sports activities to be figured into their fitness functionality it will be useless. I will never understand why they are spending Dev cycles chasing Training Peaks, Intervals.icu and other developed fitness apps.
I get what you’re saying, Bryan, but I think from Zwift’s perspective, they’re seeing a LOT of users who don’t want to faff around with other apps. Not everyone is well-versed in the cycling app ecosystem!
In talking internally with ZwiftHQ folks, they want Zwift to provide info and recommendations so people can train smart using on Zwift without needing add-on apps. But if people want to use add-on apps for more info, they can do that as well…
@Eric Schlange , I can see that point, but even if they just want a “Fitness App for Zwift”, they should support running.
Currently my fitness on ZCA is “Fresh”, but I promise you that if they considered my Zwift running miles it would not be that, and if they imported my running miles from Strava they’d warn me that I am approaching over-training. So, if this new feature was available tomorrow, the AI would tell me to ride a lot harder than my body needs.
I do hope that their implementation is better than Fourth Frontier, who’s suggestions are always the same HR bands, just varying the time in effort.
Zwift has said they’ll include running in their fitness metrics, eventually. I wonder what percentage of Zwifters run regularly, along with their riding?
That is information that Zwift can at least get some insight into, at least the ones that run on a treadmill. I know of a few Zwift riders who only run outdoors though (not many, I’d be one but I need incline living in the flatlands).
Not sure about running, but when I have a look at the Strava “activity feed” of my friends, teammates or other connections, there’s plenty (more than 80% of them) doing other things in addition to cycling during a regular week. What activities those are depends on the time of the year. E.g., there’s lots of running, hiking, kayaking, and swimming during summer, and all sorts of skiing during winter. In a different country it would be something else, I suspect.
After all, cycling is represented by about 8 of the ~180 activity profiles on a regular Garmin watch. In Strava, I believe cycling is 5-6 out of the 48 available activity types (but lots of activities there are logged under a false flag since the actual activity type is missing).
Since new year’s eve I’ve logged 336 hours of activities, and out of these, 167 hours are on a bike or trainer… In early April I had a week of 35 hours of skiing; a mixture of cross-country skiing and backcountry skiing, including 3 interval sessions. Zwift told me I was detraining, since I had only been on the trainer for 7 minutes 😅 Meanwhile, intervals.icu told me I was entering the “High risk” domain due to an overload and WKO5 told me I had “collected” a TSS of about 1500 that week.
To become useful for people who do anything else in addition to cycling, they’ll either have to include all activity types in their fitness metrics (that would probably be a massive workload…) or probably more easily, facilitate a connection to 3rd party services like intervals.icu, trainingpeaks/WKO, or whatever people tend to use. Otherwise, Zwift’s recommendations are misleading.
Fully agree with this. Anyone who doesn’t just ride the bike is left out of this feature. I would at least need a way to enter non-bike efforts manually so Zwift won’t suggest sprint training or racing the day after I’ve done plyometrics or HIIT in the gym.
Or at least get together with Polar for those of use who’re in that heart rate ecosystem.
Good to know they will include running into fitness metrics, as until then, for me fitness metric is meaningless. The problem is the ‘eventually’ part, this could mean years in Zwift Speak ??
if running is included, devices such as the Apple Watch need to be included.
( I also use Apple Watch for (non race) social cycle riding.
because I don’t use power meters irl Zwift told me I was well rested all summer. That was not the case.
Respectfully, there are many of us out there that don’t want the extra hassle and cost of maintaining multiple subscriptions, so a centralized, all-in-one app has it’s appeal.
I get your concern that Zwift could become a jack of all trades / master of none. Hopefully they will not dilute their core game development efforts too much. And if these new features bring in more subscribers, it allows them to hire more coders, which gives them more development bandwidth. So, may be a good thing in the long run .
Although I personally don’t care for Zwift spending money on this feature set I agree with what you are saying.
For a lot of people having just one subscription will be a huge benefit. This also benefits Zwift because this these people will be paying all year around to Zwift when maybe they would freeze their subscription.
In my mind Zwift are desperate for as many people as possible to may as many months as they can because they aren’t increasing their revenue through new sign ups and overall membership which has been basically static for years. This is fine and I have no issue here.
Whatever Zwift does, there is always more it could have done. So, lets give it some credit 👍. For those concerned IRL activities other than riding are not recorded on its fitness metrics, I suggest they record these activities as rides on their Garmin/Wahoo/Hammerhead and only change the activity type on these devices once they’ve been uploaded to Zwift. On the other hand, Zwift could diffuse the situation by changing the name from ‘Fitness Trends’ to “Cycling Fitness Trends”🤔
@Eric Schlange Will the new Click replace the Zwift Play or will there be a V2? i have read that they are out of stock pretty much everywhere
Zwift Play is going away… won’t be sold anymore. Click v2 replaces them. (Zwift Play will keep functioning, of course.)
Does this mean that the brake functionality is going away as well? In races that allow it, I really like braking for positioning in a pack before a sprint for FTS and for coming to a hard stop before doing a bike swap. Would hate to lose that, but, if they’re no longer selling new devices that can brake, I can see them taking it away.
I doubt it, since Zwift Ride still supports braking, and that certainly isn’t going away.
Ah good point. Forgot about that product with braking that they’re still actually making. Good. Will hold onto my spare Play controllers then. As a Campagnolo user, I don’t really like the positioning (less of a problem now that my trainer has virtual shifting, but still an issue), but I really like the braking in certain, specific use cases.
So, I see two possibilities:
(1) Somebody has a huge amount of spare time to design and sell a hardware kit that simulates a Zwift Play controller and lets you configure a button that represents the brake button.
(2) Zwift adds a trivially easy feature (a keyboard shortcut for the brake button) that lets anyone trivially add their own brake interface from generic USB buttons to complex devices like the Elagato Stream Deck.
My initial reaction is this shows the clear community focussed direction that Zwift is heading. There are limited (to no) actual developments around racing or dedicated training mentioned here, with much more of a focus and allocated resources around ‘onboarding’ and general fitness.
The AI recommendations and improved Progress screen will only be useful to those that ride exclusively on Zwift — and I bet there will be no option to turn these off.
Power segments is an interesting one. New York expansion does look promising. Looking forward to exploring that.
It still amazes me how little love the workout mode is getting… it would be great to see all of the recent features like customisable HUD fields and splits actually be usable in workout mode 😕
I want the Fondo back this year. That was my favorite Zwift event.
Agreed! Monthly fondo weekends are super fun.
Just heard from Zwift internally that the Fondo series will return! Watch Zwift Insider for details…
(Zwift told me they had other stuff coming besides what was included in TSOZ… they just didn’t want to overwhelm people with all the info. That’s always a good problem to have!)
Any new racing features in the works? 🙂
Great to hear! Thanks for asking about this Eric!
please let it be integrated dual recording and a way for community organizers to actually maintain a list of banned riders that will be barred from signups… a few little things would help the community racing scene a ton
This looks very nice. The Zwift Camp is something I’m looking forward to learn more about since I’m currently building my own training plans using AI and TrainingPeaks. I hope this will expand the few training plans.
But a lot of great news 😀
Excited for the new routes and NY expansion. Very much like the Event Cooldown.
what I really need though are more drops, not XP. or a way to sell back superseded bikes/wheels I don’t ride anymore.
“The same system is laying the groundwork for a new generation of anti-cheating technology designed to detect and eliminate unrealistic performances and make racing on Zwift even more authentic over time.”
That sounds good and all but do the people at Zwift even know what a realistic versus unrealistic performance is? 😂
And still no ability for race organizers to exclude/kick out frauds/cheaters/spin bikes from their races to prevent them from being ruined. 👎
Very awesome to see what’s coming to Zwift. I’m also very happy to see that Zwift is continuing to create cycling jerseys and also partnered with Pedal Mafia. I actually really liked the 10th anniversary kit.
That’s a sweet kit! One of my favorites to wear IRL.
How do Zwift STILL not realize how bad their post-event “cooldown” function is? It is NOT good for cooling down at all since it takes gradients into account, and so you get dumped onto whatever roads or route happens to be up, which can be as extreme as dumping you out onto Ventoux to “cool down” when you finish a race atop Petit Kom for example.
They really have no idea when it comes to cycling, yet the run a cycling platform, so clueless about reality! 😩
You missed the point. The idea is you stay with the riders in the event so you can do post-event chat while you cool down. If you are on an uphill during your cool down and don’t want to be, just U-turn and soft pedal downhill. Just like outdoors.
Except that you CAN’T just do a u-turn and soft pedal downhill, the “cooldown” function doesn’t let you u-turn. You have to leave it to then change route or do a u-turn…which removes the ability to then stay with the riders you were in the event with and chat about the event which, yes, people do want to do, myself included, but NOT while being forced to “cool down” on whatever hill or ups and downs etc may be up after the end of an event. The “cooldown” function only works for its intended aim (of allowing you to ‘cool down’ while chatting with the other event riders) if it acts like a Zwift Workout and ignores gradient – and if it did that then it would be excellent, but it doesn’t.
Converting you to ERG mode for the cooldown seems smart.
I’d say Zwift is still open to tweaking this function… they only just rolled it out to all events a couple weeks ago, and shortened it to 5 minutes.
Personally, I’ve found it to work really well for the VAST majority of events, because so few end with a climb just up the road. On the other hand, I agree… the race that ended atop the Petit KOM in France, then continued on up Ventoux for the “cool-down”… that was no bueno.
I’ve heard if you just pedal easier regardless of gradient, you’ll be cooling down. And you can still chat. Doesn’t matter if your avatar is nowhere near people the goal is just to have a little dedicated chatroom in my mind where you can congratulate folks, discuss what happened etc, without spamming race-chatter onto the main message list ?
Hopefully Zwift don’t just stop at the New York expansion, it’d be nice to see London or Yorkshire get a bit more added as well. Even if they shorten the distances between areas a bit there’s some entertaining riding to be had in the Dales & North York Moors.
A proper Brompton race starts with a short run to your folded Brompton bike. Then you have to unfold it as fast as you can to start cycling afterwards. I guess we won’t see that on Zwift.😎
Perhaps using the button controller thingy:
Enter A-B-A-B-UP-DOWN-X-Y-Y-X
More routes on existing roads, this is just what we need. Zwift seem to know they messed up the Level Upgrade process and keep making it easier to level up by throwing XP at people.
I like the fact we are getting new roads which obviously include new routes but I wonder if expanding any world other than Watopia and Makuri Islands is a mistake as the roads probably won’t get used that much after people get the route badges.
I’m not sure I like the idea of the leaderboards for the new sprints being based on pure power as it removes the people using tactics like drafting, powerups and steering to get a higher ranking.
At least the Strava leaderboards will be based on time so the tactics can be used.
The whole point is to push for a personal power PR, instead of a time PR. It’s a different way to challenge yourself.
finally those of us heaver and bigger than “average” get an advantage ? Watts not Watts/Kg 😉
Score Decay turned back on again ? When did that happen ?
Not live yet.
I have done over 30 races since mid-May, the last time I did a zRace. They were all in series that didn’t report to ZRS (5v5 Ladder Races, HSRL, ZRL, etc.) so none of them have affected my ZRS.
Since I haven’t done any ZRS-reporting races in that time, I would have expected it to go down.
Since I have been racing, I don’t think it should have gone down, but not having a decay for people (not me) who are not racing due to injury or time off or whatever seems dumb.
Allowing some races to not report to ZRS also seems dumb. ZRS really only works if it takes all races into account.
That’s the main piece that bugs me. My vELO score has jumped a fair bit in that time because I’ve beaten folks who are stronger than me. I would have liked to have seen my ZRS do that as well.
Garage access in companion.
Hopefully these new click perform better than the old controllers. I use ATV and had to bridge with companion app and always found that while the response to/from controllers was instant, there was a long lag to/from trainer which was so annoying I never used controllers. On rare occasions I tried, if I turned off controllers mid ride the trainer response became instant again. Seemed like app was prioritising controllers to detriment of the trainer.
Still no new climbs in Watopia or France. In the real world Huez is surrounded by other much bigger climbs….
Hi Eric!,
Any word on Pretzel Fest this year?
No PretzelFest this year, just confirmed by ZHQ. RIP lederhosen unlocks!
To bad, that was the best event.
love the lederhosen and hat.
been using it seens 2023
Ooh. Coin cell batteries in the new clocks…will the zwift UI gives us a low battery warning?
Yup, the pairing screen shows battery levels.
Ooh will that work for other devices too like HRMs?
polar hrm device and my Garmin power pedals please 😉
I want a VELODROME!! :/
You and me both!
That would be so cool. London 2012 velodrome would be a great addition
Assuming those of us who want a velodrome are part of a vocal minority?
Or would it be a lot more work than normal tarmac?
The hard part would be programming all the event types and getting elimination races, live points calculations, etc. going. But it would benefit races elsewhere to a huge degree. Maybe we’ll get all that Next Season On Zwift.
Yes race types as is going to be the bigger part of the implementation. Though I would be happy if only points races and elimination races where added. We need those anyways. The next thing that would need quite a bit of work is the start and rider caps. Cant really have 100s of riders in a single race on a velodrome. So either a cap or a sharding system would be required.
Madison Square Garden was the center of Velodrome racing and would enhance New York World.
I’m glad I got a second set of Play controllers for when one set inevitably breaks. Not a massive fan of the new Click on first glance. I think the Play is more intuitive for drop handlebars and I don’t have to move my hand, or look, when using power ups in races. The brake function is also handy when playing cat and mouse in the last few km!
I really hope we don’t lose the brake functionality as their newest device doesn’t have it.
I think the steering on the Play is more intuitive than what they’ll have on the new device, but I appreciate the ability to put the new device more places (I use Campagnolo Ergos and the Play interferes with the thumb button – less of a problem for me now that my Elite trainer got virtual shifting, but still not great).
Like you, I’m glad that I have my “free” set of Play controllers set aside for a rainy day.
Again no Performance for the Club – Function. More/ all of the workouts for the Clubs….grrrr
The release of these new Click controllers explains why they were/are dumping their existing supply of Play controllers. They’ve been on sale for a while, I think, and I got one (for just the shipping cost) as a ‘reward’ for completing a survey about the TdF Climb Portal Challenge. I just hope they don’t phase out support for the Play controllers to force everyone into the new Click.
Why? Oh why they are trying to expand the worst map in the game? Why NYC? Why spending on that expansion. That one really angered me
Ok but where is Mt Fuji?
Been a user many years, I don’t race, don’t use workouts I just ride, typically a similar amount of time a day around 1.6 w/kg. When I ride I will often watch TV or listen to a pod cast. New roads, great. New controllers as people say should be available separately, as I already have the cog. I ride a single speed so only change virtual gears. What do I want? the ability to pre-plan my route, there should be portals into other worlds. More activities like tour of Italy, to customise the controller buttons to include eg waving, thumbs up (I don’t need the brakes). Portal climbs are so dull nothing to watch. Used Tacx videos, enjoyed those (lovely scenery) but missed the ride on’s and others wizzing by in zwift. So we use zwift in different ways. Exciting time for me level 99…..
Any word if the Zwift Fondo series is coming back this year? That getting cancelled last year for the 10th anniversary celebration was really disappointing.
I’ll miss the Tour of Watopia, because as the name suggests, it stays inside of Watopia. Hopefully that’s back in the spring and Tour du Zwift gets the axe.
Fondo series is returning. Watch Zwift Insider for details (I’m getting those from ZHQ soon, hopefully…)
some interesting stuff. What about Zwift academy this year?
No Zwift Academy this year. Zwift says it will return in 2026.
Apparently Clubs are so dead, that nobody even mentions that there is nothing mentioned about Clubs.
Such a shame :-((
I had 4 Zwift clubs, one even tied to a popular IRL bike club, and couldn’t get people to join. I think ‘clubs’ was a great idea, but in practice, people are just ‘Meh’… And Strava clubs end up being full of randos from across the planet, and if they are moderated for membership, almost no one joins.
Will the new Click button reprogramming feature include the +/- shift buttons? From the images, they look incredibly small which would continue my main complaint about the Play, which is that the shift buttons are difficult to locate and press when exhausted or sprinting.
Are the Canyon Aeroad colorways going to apply to the existing 2024 Aeroad? As in – if my Aeroad is upgraded, will the colorway just be a skin for my already upgraded Aeroad?
As it currently stands – no. It’s a whole new frame. I’m very much hoping Zwift rethinks that approach, though! And I’ve told them as much. They seem to be listening…
Considering the Zwift Academy skins for the Aeroads… that just seems like such a terrible decision
Speaking as someone with a fully upgraded 2024, I’ll spend drops for “skins” on the bike, but unless the new bike is better than the S-works SL8, it will end up a list of things to buy when I have 80+ million drops like Eric 😉
That’s a bummer. Spending the time and drops to fully upgrade a frame again just for a different color is a tough sell.
I think it would be cool if they extended the upgrade paths past L5 for purely cosmetic items. Colorways, finishing kit, handlebar tassels… the possibilities are endless.
Please oh please can one of the new NYC routes be called everything bagel WITH cream cheese.
😂YES PLEASE
what about Canadians? Where do they buy all this stuff?
And Aussies!
Any news about global distribution for the new clicks?
Looking forward to grabbing a Brompton to match the one I have at home!
Sorry in advance, this is all very first world problems
I’m very happy there’s new stuff coming to Zwift, I was getting very bored with it and was considering jumping ship. I feel like Zwifters in the Southern Hemisphere get forgotten about. I’ve been at Level 100 for months and only have 1 Route badge to get.
Something as simple as adding Route Badges for the Climb Portal would give me some more “carrots”
Since Zwift reduced the chance of getting 250XP on the Climb Portal power archs to about 1%, they took away the incentive to use the Climb Portal
So as we guessed the zwift play controllers are end of line. Seems like steering will have much less focus on it just based on the new design.
Personalized recs? Meh. New progress screen? Meh. Zwift unlocked? So it’s tour of watopia but they want to use all worlds. Basically the same as usual. New york expansion? Interesting! Power segments? This seems like a backward step. Racing stuff? Just the usual. Event cooldown? Announced already. Zwift camp? The usual. Distinct colorways? Changing an rgb value and telling us to get excited, is that it? An ad for pedal mafia clothing? I could buy it before if I wanted it.
Steering has been undermined by their draft seeking anyway & became a useless feature. the implementation is weird from the very beginning. instead steering at junctions they configured arrow buttons instead.
I was hoping the steering would make more sense over time, but you are correct, that feature has been depreciated. I think its still part of the Repack Ridge route. But it’s time for it to be replaced (again!) with something else. Wonder what the next experimental route will be.
I really like the brake feature. I ride in the “red light therapy” zone on group rides. Brakes are useful whenever the fence jumps backward when going downhill. Although activating the brakes is incredibly awkward, it’s better than getting zapped/dropped from the ride. 😅
Spotify / apple music etc ntegration please
All well and good. But New York runs like a sticky quagmire a lot of the time. Zwift admit they have a big problem on the KOM routes within NY where lag and freezing happen regularly. I report it everytime it happens and I have a powerful set up. Zwift response. ‘’one of these days there’ll be a patch to sort that out”
No Zwift World Series or similar racing series this year? I knew there wouldn’t be an elite racing series but I was hoping for a community series…
That would be announced in the next TSOZ, since it would happen in early 2026.
Are you thinking of Zwift Games now? Because those have been run in March the passed couple of years. Zwift World Series started in August last year.
Are the good people at Zwift considering letting users ’empty’ their garages of unwanted items ?. As in, letting us sell it back to the Drop Shop for 50% of cost (for example).
with extending the fitness logging to Wahoo, Garmin and Hammerhead, why not from Strava ( Zwift workouts already go TO Strava) so other exercise loggers can be used. ( especially my APPLE WATCH
Will there be an update to the Zwift Ride frame/bike?
The controllers are based on the Zwift Play, and are now dated. They could sell a Zwift Ride Upgrade Bar and replace all the active parts with updated ‘Click’ bits. About to buy one and thought that I should perhaps hold off until the dust clears.
No planned updates to the frame or controllers that I’ve heard. They may look like the Play Controllers, but they’re different in key ways – more buttons, different shape, share 1 Bluetooth channel, etc. I wouldn’t worry about them going anywhere.
We seem to already have lost several km of these new roads – https://www.zwift.com/uk/this-season-on-zwift is now citing “24km” rather than 31, and the FAQ says 13 new routes (not 20/16) …
Good catch. I reached out and asked Zwift about this just now – they told me that’s a mistake, and it’ll be fixed. Sounds like 31km is the accurate number still!
I know the 20/16 route number is accurate too, although there’s a possibility they won’t realize all those routes at the initial launch.
“Personalized Recommendations”
This looks awesome, I’m really looking forward to this