New Drop Shop Bikes and Wheels [March 2026]

[shooj (Shuji)]

Hi Zwifters,

We have two new bikes and four sets of wheels in the Drop Shop with this week’s v 1.110 game update!

Canyon Grail SLX

Light, balanced, and built to move. Be it long days on mixed surfaces or quick rips on your local doubletrack, the Grail SLX is rapid where you want it and rugged when you need it.

Weight rating: 3 stars
Aero rating: 2 stars
Unlock Level: 10
Cost (in Drops): 800,000

Cannondale SuperX LAB71

Made to absolutely smash gravel races. Simple as that. This is full-gas road race performance engineered for the full thrash world of gravel. Elbows out, head down, get off the front and don’t look back. SuperX only has one destination – the top step.

Weight rating: 3 stars
Aero rating: 2 stars
Unlock Level: 28
Cost (in Drops): 1,000,000

ZIPP 303 XPLR SWs

Wide, aero, and unapologetically quick. The 303 XPLR SW pairs a broad rim profile with gravel-tuned efficiency to smooth chatter and hold speed where others stall. It feels planted in corners and eager when you hit the gas built for riders who don’t just survive gravel, they press it.

Weight rating: 2 stars
Aero rating: 3 stars
Unlock Level: 35
Cost (in Drops): 550,000

Princeton CarbonWorks Wake 6560 - White

The 6th iteration of the Wake series and the largest step change in performance they’ve made yet. Faster. Lighter. Stiffer.

Weight rating: 4 stars
Aero rating: 4 stars
Unlock Level: 32
Cost (in Drops): 685,000

Princeton CarbonWorks Mach TSV2/Blur Disc

The shape of speed, reimagined. A wind-cheating tri-spoke up front meets a relentless full disc rear, slicing drag and holding momentum when seconds matter most.

Weight rating: 1 stars
Aero rating: 4 stars
Unlock Level: 42
Cost (in Drops): 1,100,000

Princeton CarbonWorks Alta 3532

Float up climbs. Flow through corners. A light-on-your-feet feeling with instant acceleration, effortless rhythm, and the kind of ride that makes every effort feel smoother.

Weight rating: 4 stars
Aero rating: 3 stars
Unlock Level: 35
Cost (in Drops): 685,000

[Volker]

I would love to see some more wheels for mountainbikes as well. Some pairing MTB with faster gravel tires would be appropriate for the trends in gravel and MTB marathon.

[Kevin_Fogelberg]

Do the new gravel wheels matter? A previous release made all the gravel wheelsets perform the same as the Zwift gravel wheels. Has that changed? Or will it change with the new routes/world coming out?

[Steve_Hammatt (Steve)]

@Kevin_Fogelberg

Do the new gravel wheels matter? A previous release made all the gravel wheelsets perform the same as the Zwift gravel wheels. Has that changed?

It seems that it’s changed. Eric S (Zwift Insider) hasn’t published a test of them yet, but he said “should be the fastest gravel wheels in game” (in his article on 1.110).

[Kevin_Fogelberg]

Thanks! I hadn’t seen that article yet.

[Chris_D9 (Chris)]

It would be interesting if the halo bikes were no longer the fastest in game - things like that Cannondale or the Pinarello should be way slower than current generation bikes.

[Steve_Hammatt (Steve)]

@Chris_D9

It would be interesting if the halo bikes were no longer the fastest in game - things like that Cannondale or the Pinarello should be way slower than current generation bikes.

That’s already the case. The new halo bikes have never been that fast.

[calfzilla (Michael)]

@Steve_Hammatt

The new halo bikes have never been that fast.

SP74 is the fastest bike in game on flat ground, the roller skate is almost as fast and slightly lighter and both are on the leading edge of the scatter plot. Sad that the Tron is bested by the SL8.

[Eric-Schlange-ZI (Eric)]

Yeah, Zwift is bringing some fresh gravel wheels to the game, and they’re faster than all the other wheelsets, which all perform the same.

[Eric-Schlange-ZI (Eric)]

I’ll be publishing detailed posts about the performance of each new frame and wheelset. Here’s the first: All About the New Cannondale SuperX LAB71 Gravel Frame on Zwift

[Steve_Hammatt (Steve)]

@calfzilla

SP74 is the fastest bike in game on flat ground

Only on the flat though. And the Pinarello isn’t fast on any type of terrain.

[Chris_D9 (Chris)]

The rollerblade Cannondale should be tweaked to account for its real life incredibly unstable handling. It should be made super slow through corners and downhill.

And SL8 Tarmac should be slower than SL9 when it arrives (not yet launched). We can assume it will be the fastest everywhere, so it should have a 10,000,000 drops cost to reflect that. And maybe a new way to unlock it, say 100 laps of Alpe du Zwift and 100 laps of Ventop?

The latter would exclude me.

[Chris_D9 (Chris)]

@Steve_Hammatt

Only on the flat though. And the Pinarello isn’t fast on any type of terrain.

These tests would be good if they were also run on something like Mega Pretzel or Uber Pretzel to get a combination of varied terrain across a longer distance course to see exactly what the benefits are overall.

Let’s say I ran a bot at 66kg and 180w across those courses.

[Kevin_Fogelberg]

But does that mean the original wheels, Cadex AR 35 for example, won’t be updated and will continue to perform the same as the Zwift gravel wheels?

[Nigel_Tufnel (Nigel)]

New Grail SLX shows a color slider in the garage, but doesn’t appear to actually change color. (Unless, of course, I just can’t tell because my avatar always seems to be in a shadow in the garage, which I would love to see corrected. This is in iPadOS.)

[Paul_Southworth (Paul)]

The color slider issue has been reported for years. I think usually they don’t intend for the color to be adjustable but I’m not sure in this case.

Also the dim lighting in the garage Please fix the garage light

[Nigel_Tufnel (Nigel)]

Yup, there’s this one, too, marked as a ‘known issue’ and also as ‘solved’, though it doesn’t ever seem to have been. I just would love for Zwift to fix it.

Avatars look dark in Garage [July 2023] [PC] [1.44.2] [SOLVED]

I just did the update and when I go into my garage my avatar seems really dark (I think something happened with the in game light shader). All other things seem okay although just did the Canyon/SRAM ride and during the event I wasn’t wearing the special pro help I thought everyone was able to wear…

[hampsta (CReid)]

I’m waiting on Zwift Insider to do some tests on the Wakes. I am farming drops for the Enve 4.5 (among other things) but if they are superseded will get the Wakes instead.

[Chris_D9 (Chris)]

Should the Meilensteins get an update to remain the fastest climbing wheels since they are a special unlock? Hopefully done quickly before everyone burns drops on new wheels.

Since the difference on ADZ is only four seconds if I remember right, that’s barely anything and with a human doing the lap (as opposed to a bot) is likely not to matter too much. Not really enough to be worth spending drops on them. The 4 seconds is likely wiped out by not getting your pacing absolutely spot-on.

[Steve_Hammatt (Steve)]

@Chris_D9

Should the Meilensteins get an update to remain the fastest climbing wheels since they are a special unlock? Hopefully done quickly before everyone burns drops on new wheels.

I doubt that’ll happen, because for a long time the Roval Alpinists have been available in the Drop Shop, and they’re pretty much the same as the Meilensteins in terms of performance.