I mentioned this to Zwift staff and heard that they figured out how to fix it server side
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If that’s the case I’m not sure why they mentioned it in the email - have a look at the pic I attached.
me either, I’m not aware of any changes to your profile in the companion app?
Yes, it’s weird they mention indications in the companion app, and yet in the FAQ there’s no mention of that. I guess marketing didn’t get the message yet LOL
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A lot more riders who are at 100 than I expected when I had a look.
That’s because Zwift’s “only less than 1% of users are Level 100”
Is probably closer to 5% of active users throughout a day.
Meanwhile I think I saw a picture from Tim Searle that he’s level 400+ … 
Which if that’s true, Cat Allen has to be probably close to 500?
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You do see the level in companion app:
It shows for other users as well. But I didn’t notice the stripes.
I get a bonus from this, I go to level 206, with my counting from when I got 100, I only just reached 150 before this levels rollout happened.
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Using an XP bonus bike frame I thought I’d get 84 XP from accelerated leveling for each km (20 x 4 for the km + 1 x 4 for the bonus XP bike). But I only get 81 XP. Looks like the bonus XP doesn’t count towards accelerated leveling.
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Same for me. Weird considering the 2xp bonus does retrieve 6xp from hijacked XPs
How long does it take for the average cyclist to reach level 100?
“Average” is hard to define. I took 3 years at probably 5 hours per week with a lot of intentional XP farming (route badges, alpe laps in erg) some people do it in half that time and some started years before me and aren’t there yet. Getting to 200 is going to take longer than I’ve been on the platform to date.
How much does the average cyclist ride?
(For grins before hitting reply I actually figured I could look up and see what Garmin says with Insights… nope, turned into useless data because it says average is <15 minutes a week… cool. Although, it says average distance is 12.4 miles [per week]; this is my age range, 35-39; though, checked 40-44 and 45-49 and they matched?)
I am very ignorant to the XP stuff, I don’t give a hoot really, but if the 807,000XP is supposedly still the level 100; that takes 40,350km of riding in Zwift… that doesn’t include all the bonuses or anything; Pure distance.
All routes and climbs as of May 2026, equate to 148,531 XP (how much of that is accessible by the user .. hard to say, but we can still use that)
If you do all routes that means you hit ~882 segments
So reminder of course that of those 882 segments you’re likely to get an XP bonus as the powerup worth either 250XP or 10XP. Do that math as you like.
edit note - that doesn’t include end of lap arch, so that needs including too; which supposedly there’s now 326 routes and climbs total in Zwift (again, total access… not withstanding)
What I’ll add though to make it all kind of funny, is a reminder that it takes 8000km to fully upgrade a halo bike. So… if I were to avoid all math and take a stab at it; I think even a brand new user would only JUST be able to unlock, and afford a Halo bike before hitting level 100.
(XP by distance alone means you can fully upgrade 5 halo bikes); no way they’d be hitting level 5 before 100.
As far as the 100+ it’s going to be of question to see how long it takes.
I think I managed to get to 103 from my 2ish hours of riding last night alone, saying I’m going up to level 203 or 205?
As mentioned somewhere earlier, Tim Searle posted a picture of him getting the bonuses up to level 400 something.
So quick maths…
20,000xp per level
20xp per km but 4 x accelerated levelling gives you 80xp per km
To get to level 200 thats 20,000xp x 100 = 2 million xp
Divided by 80 = 25,000 km in game with 4 x accelerated levelling to get to level 200
Have i got that right?
For someone starting now it’d be something like 40 full days worth of riding - 960 hours. Lots of variables with all the XP bonuses available.
I’m a pretty average cyclist, and it has taken me nearly 11 years to get to level 90 (although I have the XP for almost level 98 as previously noted).
No XP farming on the climb portals? I have seen folks there already trying that. Although it isn’t so lucrative anymore since the limitations have appeared.
You could try the Cannondale Synapse bike at level 5 upgrade, but it’s pretty slow compared with an Aethos. When I got the 250XP at the top (for the helmet) Zwift flashed up 262XP.
No way I’ll be winning the race to Level 200 or 400, I have an ADZ challenge for the year and that’s not the best for XP or long distances per day. So no 2500km weeks of riding for me.
I enjoy looking at Zwift in normal worlds. I do not enjoy looking at climb portal graphics. Otherwise my riding is split between races, erg workouts on the alpe (and mostly in the winter for that) and pace partner rides for base and to get drops and km in quickly. I’m looking forward to whatever the high value level 200 prize is (dirty socks?) but not enough to change what I actually want to do on the platform very much.
I’m just about to stage 4 with my SP74, I might start leveling up some Zwift frames if I ever feel like getting the halo Tron, or anticipation of another ZHQ halo bike (Tron Trial maybe someday?). But realistically I expect there will be a new batch of halo bikes at some point, maybe this fall, maybe next year, but it’s got to happen eventually.
I still dont have a Halo bike. The amount of drops is just way too much for me to even bother.
20M needed to get one and upgrade it. If I do an hour on Tempus with Miguel it gives me 60k drops. Thats almost a month of continues riding before I get that many drops.
Thats not going to happen.
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