Zwift version 1.110 begins its phased rollout today. This is a significant update, since it includes fast new gravel bike frames, new wheelsets, and a new Makuri Islands route! See details below…
Two New Gravel Frames
Zwift is clearly looking to update the game’s gravel offerings, and that begins today with the release of two new gravel frames:
- Canyon Grail SLX (Aero: 2 stars, Weight: 3 stars) available at Level 10+ for 800,000 Drops
- Cannondale SuperX LAB71 (Aero: 2 stars, Weight: 3 stars) available at Level 28+ for 1,000,000 Drops
Early tests show both of these frames are faster than any existing gravel frames in the Drop Shop, with the Cannondale having a slight edge overall. Watch for detailed posts releasing this week with complete test results.
Four New Wheelsets
Along with the new frames, Zwift has added four more wheelsets to the Drop Shop:
- ZIPP 303 XPLR SW (Aero: 3 stars, Weight: 2 stars) available at Level 35+ for 550,000 Drops
- Princeton CarbonWorks Mach TSV2/Blur Disc (Aero: 4 stars, Weight: 1 star) available at Level 42+ for 1,100,000 Drops
- Princeton CarbonWorks Wake 6560 – White (Aero: 4 stars, Weight: 4 stars) available at Level 32+ for 685,000 Drops
- Princeton CarbonWorks Alta 3532 (Aero: 3 stars, Weight: 4 stars) available at Level 35+ for 685,000 Drops
The ZIPP wheels are for gravel frames, and should be the fastest gravel wheels in game. The Princeton CarbonWorks wheels perform exceptionally well also. Detailed speed test posts incoming!
New Makuri Islands Route: Yumezi Grit
Zwift says, “The Yumezi Grit route is now available for free rides and meetups.” I haven’t put together the route detail page yet since I’m in Mallorca at Zwift Community Live (edit: it’s up now), but it’s got a lot of dirt (hence the name). Here’s the Strava segment and Veloviewer profile:
Improved Elevation Previews
Zwift has updated the elevation previews you see when clicking a route, similar to what they did with route cards a few updates back. Here’s the old preview vs the new, color-coded previews:
More Release Notes
Zwift supplied the following additional release notes:
- Route cards you haven’t done yet will now display XP available for completing them.
- Previously earned badges that were listed under “Completed Missions” on the Achievements page have been moved and are now labeled as “Challenges”. Earned badges will still be visible; however, there are no new badges available to earn at this time.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the Climb Portal routes Koppenberg and Paterberg to be missing the activity title and difficulty level in the Post-Ride Report.
- Fixed an issue that could display an incorrect value for Race Score on the Home Screen when using a shared Zwift device with multiple Zwifters.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the camera to be zoomed in after switching bikes when a steering device is connected (e.g. Zwift Ride, Zwift Play, Zwift Click 2).
- Windows, macOS: This update includes Zwift Launcher version 1.1.15 as the minimum-required launcher version.
- macOS: The High graphics profile is now enabled for devices with Apple A18 chips (e.g., MacBook Neo).
- Android: Stability improvements.
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Questions or Comments?
If you spotted any other changes or bugs in the update, please comment below!
Great update.
Eric do you know if we also getting new Halo bikes in the near future?
Haven’t heard any news.
I’m not too worried about more Halo bikes. My program is that they made the Pinarello one rubbish and not worth having. If they upgraded the performance of this bike to make it the best TT bike I’d be happy.
I just want my avatar to stand like the one in the second photo while I wait for a race to start or at the top of a KOM. The sass is off the charts!
Right?! That’s the first thing I noticed in Zwift’s image!
Nice. But when is the major update ?
I wouldn’t hold your breath.
I’ve just come back to Zwift after over a year and half break from it and shocked how little has changed. They just continue to add a few routes to the same old roads.
just go back to mywoosh gramps
I could be wrong, but there isn’t that much gravel/dirt on the new route?
Correct; but at least it’s making use of a crossover section that has only been part of 1 route since release of Makuri/Yumezi (that’s 5 years now for the record that that one singular section of gravel road has only been accessible on 1 singular high climb short loop, or free roam)
It opens the doors for more routes though. Why they didn’t loop it through the farmland gravel sections is a strange one, maybe … in another 5 years.
Personally still waiting for that hot springs / onsen loop crit circuit!
I would love that crit circuit. Either as a figure 8 or just the outer loop.
I am so confused as to why that farmlands section is also only on one route! It’s pretty! Use it! (I mostly do workouts and Z2 on Zwift, not racing, so I don’t care what my virtual “speed” is, just that I have nice scenery to look at to distract me from my legs burning, and thus the various gravel/dirt sections are A-OK with me.)
Quite a bit: it goes through the Golden Forest area and up onto the Temple KOM with its bypass road…
There’s some zwift gravel events coming up in two weeks, so we will need to be doing upgrades on these new fastest gravel bikes on a short turn around.
Routes under 10km or even 15-20km serve no purpose. Do it once get the badge and forget about them
That’s narrow minded. Even an additional 5km anywhere on a map can add new routes well over your arbitrary distance.
When upgrading the Halo that needs a lot of km, easiest to just daily ride laps of either, tempus fugit or ticktock and neither is more than 20km
They are perfect for a warm-up or cool down ride.
Obviously you don’t race. There are lots of great short routes for racing.
Really wish they’d bring back badges for challenges
I’m a newbie. Just wondering if that Cannondale SuperX Lab71 is the right frame to buy for gravel events? If not, does anyone have any recommendations?
How about wheelsets? which ones are the best to pair with a gravel frame?
Appreciate any advice I can get. Thanks!
It’s the fastest gravel frame in game today. And the new Zipp wheels are the fastest gravel wheels in game as well…
Thank you Eric!
1st upgrade complete😉
Really? The long time best – the Cervelo Aspero has the same number of stars in aero and weight. In gravel wheels, the best were Reserve 25 GR and Cadex AR 35. I don’t need more aero on gravel.
Stars do not go into enough detail to indicate which bikes/wheels are fastest and where.
I don’t see the new zipp wheels in the drop shop, but I do see (and bought one of) the new Princeton Carbon Works wheels.
Do others see the zipp wheels in the drop shop?
I found that I had to equip the gravel bike in order to show the gravel wheelsets.
The “new” Yumezi route is meh.
Less than one half gravel. Mostly roads already there
A poor introduction to any new offerings of Zwift gravel.
It’s 100% on existing roads, no?
Apparently. If Zwift is going to tout gravel with new bikes/wheels, they should offer new routes. There is a dearth of gravel in Zwift.
The big intro is Gravel Mountain, releasing with the Pas Normal Racing series. The Makuri route is just a little side bonus.
I think there are also added 2 event route badges. They are called “Red Rock Loop” and “Red Rock Loop Arcade”
Gravel Mountain routes, opening in a couple weeks!
Any idea why Zwift doesn’t actually fix the star ranking system for bikes to make it useful if they are going to have it?
Literally: because they have zwift insider to provide the proper info for them.
Someone just hit level 101 in my group ride
That could also be a glitch. Even weeks before this update/news, it showed „101“ once a level 100 rider „leveled up“ (technically filling up the XP bar).
But we‘ll soon find out when the real new levels are unlocked.
It’s been a painful, slow slog to upgrade my Crux to level 2. Does this mean I’m best to abandon and start over with one of the new bike offerings?
Yeah, it seems like it. But are they gonna release more gravel frames again to beat the new one?
Yeah, I would wait until the next set of three more gravel frames is released. Let’s see which one is the fastest!
Now that there are gravel-specific wheelsets available, you can obviously equip your gravel bike with the set of your choice.
Is it also possible to install a road wheelset on a gravel bike, and vice versa?
I’m just asking for a friend who’d like to upgrade his gravel bike as quickly as possible so he can participate in “Robo Pacer” rides on tarmac.😋
Nope. Gravel wheels for gravel bike, road wheels for road (and TT) bikes.
The ZIPP 303 XPLR SW is not on my drop shop after I downloaded the latest update. The Princeton wheelsets are all there.
You need to be on a gravel bike to see any gravel wheelsets such as the Zipp 303.
That I didn’t know, Thank you RoadWarrior!
I’ve just updated and now my atom v1 isn’t putting the power out properly. Anyone else had issues. It’s not necessary the update
After the new update, I can no longer find any trace of my activity file in the relevant folder. I can see it on companion and it uploads directly to Strava, and I can find it in my activity feeds on the site.But not in the Windows//…activities folder
Mine are showing up here: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Zwift\Activities\2026-03-28-07-17-29.fit
They moved it recently, you can search zwift insider to find the article talking about it.
@Eric Schlange do you know when the companion app
update is out where you can plan your week etc ?
Zwift just says it’s coming in April. My guess is we’ll see it after the 20th…
this update isn’t well liked by my Mac. I keep getting asked to “force quite all” and “Zwift needs to update” every time I log on. there was a short period of time a few months back when that was addressed. now it’s back? like it’s a design feature, maybe?
@Eric Schlange Do you know if the formula for calculations of XP from outdoor rides has changed somehow? It appears to be way more than 5XP per KM to me. Would love for someone else to confirm this. Thanks!
As of last week it was still 5 for me. Haven’t heard that it’s changing, either…
Wahoo DirCon does not work in this version (not for me, anyway).
“Fixed an issue that could display an incorrect value for Race Score on the Home Screen when using a shared Zwift device with multiple Zwifters.”
Any chance there is also an issue with segments showing wrong when sharing? Today I was easily beating segments where apparantly I rode them 1 day ago… but that was not me it was my daughter who rode last. Then thinking back, my daughter did a PB sprint but then was not her own list – so they must have been my segment times.
This is on 1.110 – can confirm that the new gravel routes are available to ride.
Would be nice to get sharing riders fixed. First it was weekly goals that were mixed up, then the race score, and now segments. I would assume a similar bug in these areas – perhaps set AI to reveiw the code for similar issues to those found. It can’t be that hard.