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I rode this route as part of a meetup yesterday, while my husband rode it at the same time on his own. I (and my meetup buddy) earned the achievement badge after ONE lap, while my husband earned it after doing TWO full laps. Weird!
Have had confirmation by Zwift that they can’t do anything about retrospectively awarding badges and XP’s for Pump Room 8. Looks like we’ll have to do it again. Bugs, bugs, bugs! Does anyone know of any other routes that have a similar spawning point problem?
I am not aware of any other route having this problem, but maybe it is not clear to everyone that the finish for the Surrey Hills route is at the top of the Fox Hill. Therefore, you have to climb the Fox Hill twice - 5 climbs in total (Fox - Leith - Box - Keith - Fox).
Wish I had seen this before I attempted this course today. I’ll give the u turn a try and hope that this works. Thanks for sharing that info.
At least I got the XP!!
I tried today and I rode through the finish banner. than I see right above a mention ‘UCI world reverse’. What do I have to do? The Royal pulp room is the UCI reverse or not? Do I have to ride through the finish banner and than make u u-turn or is it good for the badge Royal pulp room? Thanks!
To receive the achievement badge for this finishing Royal Pump Room 8 you must begin at the start/finish banner, then ride the entire route described above, ending as you ride through the banner once more.
The problem is, Zwift has you spawn after the start/finish banner. If you simply ride forward from there, you will not receive the badge as you cross the finish line.
The easiest way to get the achievement is to flip a u-turn first thing, ride under the start/finish banner, then flip another u-turn and do your ride.
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I don’t know about Pump Room 8 specifically, but Zwift now shows the lead-in and actual route in different colors on the animated route selection screen.
It looks Zwift changed the spawn point for this route. Today i spawned just behind the banner so I didn’t have to do a u-turn and when I got back to the banner, I got the achievement badge.
@Dan_Hutjens I just looked at your activity from today and you did not do the Royal Pump Room 8 route. If you chose this at the start then it looks like you made a manual u-turn right at the start, since you headed out along the UCI Short Lap direction. It looks like you may have made some other manual turns along the way, also.
Huh. I did not knowingly make any manual turns and don’t recall my avatar making one. I use the companion app on my bars to give ride ons and sometimes when touching the circle for that inadvertently move the map. Can that cause a turn?
Hard to say what happened, but it looks like you started in the wrong direction right from the start. For the Royal Pump Room 8 route you should head through then finish banner in the reverse direction right after you start, but you started in the forward direction.
