Today, Zwift posted a set of rides for the coming weekend (October 3-6) as part of an event dubbed “Zwift’s Big Weekend.” It’s Zwift’s birthday celebration – 11 years old this fall – and it’s “Our celebration of everything Zwift—pure energy, on and off the bike.”
There are actually two pieces to this weekend. The first is a set of fun banded rides led by pros and ambassadors, which I’ve detailed below. But the second piece is an unprecedented hardware sale featuring the biggest discount we’ve ever seen on the full Zwift Ride setup, which now includes Wahoo’s latest trainer, the feature-packed KICKR CORE 2.
Save on Zwift Ride + KICKR CORE 2
With a price well below other smart bikes, the Zwift Ride is already the best deal around for anyone looking for a turnkey Zwift setup. But this weekend, riders can pick up the Zwift Ride + Wahoo KICKR CORE 2 package for just $999.99/€999.99/£999.99. That’s a huge discount off the regular price, especially for Zwifters in the US:
- US $999.99 / $300 discount Shop Now >
- EU €999.99 / €200 discount Shop Now >
- UK £999.99 / £100 discount Shop Now >
If you aren’t looking for a full Zwift Ride setup, but would love a trainer upgrade, Zwift is running a second promo on the new Wahoo KICKR CORE 2. This trainer, released less than a month ago, improves on the highly popular KICKR CORE by adding Wi-Fi connectivity, race mode, Bluetooth bridging, and more.
Purchase the CORE 2 from Zwift and you’ll get a free Wahoo TRACKR Heart Rate Monitor ($99.99/€89.99/£79.99 retail) thrown in!
- US $549.99 Shop Now >
- EU €549.99 Shop Now >
- UK £499.99 Shop Now >
Note: Zwift says, “During checkout the TRACKR will appear as a free add-on option,” so be sure to add it to your cart during the checkout process.
Ride Schedule and Guest Leaders
All events are 45 minutes long and rubberbanded, so as long as you keep pedaling, you’ll stay with the group!
- October 3, 7am UTC/3am ET/12am PT
- Rider Leaders Freddy Ovett & Rosa Kloser
- Neokyo All-Nighter, 45 mins, rubberbanded
- October 3, 9am UTC/5am ET/2am PT
- Rider Leaders Kaden Groves & Ceylin Alvarado
- BRAEk-fast Crits and Grits, 45 mins, rubberbanded
- October 3, 11pm UTC/7pm ET/4pm PT
- Rider Leaders Paula Findlay & Eric Lagerstrom
- Knickerbocker, 45 mins, rubberbanded
- October 4, 3pm UTC/11am ET/8am PT
- Rider Leader Bert Van Lerberghe
- London 8, 45 mins, rubberbanded
- October 5, 4pm UTC/12pm ET/9am PT
- Rider Leader Sam Laidlow
- Douce France, 45 mins, rubberbanded
- October 5, 5pm UTC/1pm ET/10am PT
- Rider Leaders Demi Vollering, Evita Muzic & Juilette Labous
- Greatest London Flat, 45 mins, rubberbanded
- October 6, 8am UTC/4am ET/1am PT
- Rider Leaders Ashleigh Moolman Pasio & Julie Van de Velde
- Ocean Lava Cliffside Loop, 45 mins, rubberbanded
- October 6, 12pm UTC/8am ET/5am PT
- Rider Leaders Kasia Niewiadoma & Neve Bradbury
- Tempus Fugit, 45 mins, rubberbanded
- October 6, 11pm UTC/7pm ET/4pm PT
- Rider Leader Lionel Sanders
- Turf N Surf, 45 mins rubberbanded
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/zwiftsbigweekend >
Questions or Comments
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What a tease…I feel like you’re leaving out the juicy bit.😂
Me and every other cycling publication… media embargoes!
Yeah I understand. But you can just tell me quietly…Are we getting a halo climbing bike? More of these color drops? 🤔
Serious question – no kit unlock this time around?
They have strange week-ends at Zwift, Saturday at 1am & 7am, then Sunday at 6pm and 7pm. My week-end falls right between that.
It’s up to the pros and when they can ride, methinks.
Hopefully the ride leaders will be more engaging than Puck Pieterse was. I’m guessing she was still wiped from her races, but for the most part she was quiet
Seems to be a common theme. Woke up at 430am to ride with MVDP and he didn’t say a single word the entire ride🤣 no hello or bye; nothing.
Maybe his other half wasn’t available to type messages for him.
Lot easier that way, especially if you have to wear glasses and have a sweaty head and they mist up or drop off. 😁 😁
I think this is primarily a lack of coaching from Zwift. Great riders aren’t necessarily social butterflies. Recommend they pre-appoint a spokesperson with chit-chat skills to type for them. That person is told how often they should send something if communication becomes idle. (Every five minutes???). Plus to. include the covering a greeting and closing statements. (None of this is obvious if you seriously lack chit chat skills.)
Being able to spend hours alone on a bike probably means you’re an introvert which would make the chat part hard.
The celebrity rides are really poor. People want to rub elbows with champions but they’re almost never good ride leaders and the size of the rides is just too big. They’re full of inane fawning chat. I skip this type of event because they’re not good. Go ride with your friends instead.
I joined today’s ride with Rider Leader Bert Van Lerberghe, and about ten minutes in, the only thing he’d said was “have a good ride.” I dropped a note in the event chat asking what the value was of having a guest ride leader who doesn’t interact much, and that didn’t go over too well—lots of negative replies came back my way.
In the end, I decided to leave the group ride. What’s always kept me coming back to Zwift is the sense of community, so I felt a bit let down by this one. If Zwift is going to highlight events with guest ride leaders, I think it’s fair to expect them to engage a little more with the group.
Well, at least it wasn’t “Check out MyCanyon in the Drop Shop” every 10 minutes
Sigh. This happens way more than it should. Zwift can’t seem to figure out how to consistently bring in celebrity leaders who do a good job of interacting. It’s a bummer. Because there’s so much potential there…
I was on this group ride as well. Late in the ride Bert said he had poor Wi-Fi and also had a bike crash the day before and apologized for not being very talkative.
Tim Merlier was also on the ride and did say hi to everyone late in the ride.
The timings are wrong: for example monday on zwift website is at 10am and 2PM GMT+2, so it would be 8 and 12 UTC
Just went in and adjusted all the times to match the current schedule. My guess is the original schedule Zwift sent me got adjusted to meet the pros’ availability…
Planning my weekend rides now, “in advance”, something I find Zwift never seems to get.
So whatever Zwift’s secret is, they’ve wasted their effort, won’t find out about it now till next week.
It’s not an event, so you’re ok there.
In banded rides, if you are sitting mid pack, are you still being pulled by unseen forces?
It’s now closer to the weekend! (Today is October 2!) Can you tell us the rest?
Does it strike anyone else as just a little bit insane that Zwift believe subscribers will approach their weekend telling the family “keep the schedule clear–Zwift’s gonna announce something with zero lead-time and I gotta jump on the trainer at a moment’s notice!”
It’s not a ride. It’s some discount, probably on hardware …
To be fair to Zwift, they haven’t announced to anyone that something else is coming, and you should wait with bated breath. That’s all me.
I just happen to know there IS another thing. So I mentioned it above. But it’s not an event to ride, so you don’t need to keep your schedule clear. 😀
75% off everything in the drop shop?!?
False !
Zwift announced it in Facebook 19h ago ! 💸 Unmissable deals
True, just saw that! But also, it makes my point… they didn’t tell you to reserve room in your calendar either…
Double or Triple Drops on every Group ride, Race or Workout ???
A Prize wheel at the end of every ride ???
Am I getting warmer ?
Tataaaa: This is it: Zwift sells Zwift Ride including Kickr Core for only 999€ – ONLY THIS WEEKEND!
is the sale only oct 3 to 6?
Correct.