Episode 80: The Fence is Back, Clubs Launches, and Tour de Quarantine

April 1, 2020

LAST UPDATED April 10, 2020

Simon, Shane and Nathan are back with the second of the new cycle of weekly Zwiftcasts – and there sure is a lot to talk about.

Special guest Wes Salmon from HQ appears twice to give us a ton of detail on the return of The Fence and why it went wrong, plus the thinking behind the limited launch of the much-awaited Clubs feature.

We also have another honoured guest, Brad Sohner, the genius behind the funny and uplifting Tour de Quarantine, which now has a Zwifter in the mix.

Elsewhere the Zwiftcasters range across the very busy period on Zwift, with a few changes that come under the “let’s be nice to noobs” category, plus the turbo trainer famine and why rowing won’t be coming to Zwift anytime soon.

And of course, the podcasters make room for discussion of Peak Zwift. It seems we have a winner 😉

We hope you enjoy listening.

Simon Schofield

Simon used to live in Yorkshire, but now he spends much of his time in the cycling paradise of Girona and the surrounding area, in Catalonia, Spain. In a previous life he was a journalist and TV producer, spending a career both in front of, but much longer behind, a camera and a microphone. After signing up as User No 10 at Zwift, Simon conjured up the first ever video review of the upstart new platform and later wondered if there was enough going on in Watopia to interest an audience. One hundred episodes and 1.2 million podcast downloads later, he had an answer. Simon has now happily handed over the reins of the Zwiftcast to a great new team. He’ll remain a lifelong friend of Zwift and its community. Recent health issues have kept Simon out of the saddle . . . but he’s now working on a Great Big Comeback.