- Morning, Trainiac.
Huge workout this morning. 3 hours, 15 on the bike,
followed by a 30 minute run, and I'm afraid of it.
So, let's procrastinate by talking
about customizing your Zwift Rider
with the new Zwift Drop Shop.
The Garage! It's exciting!
(slaps) We can actually put a Ventum
on our Zwift Rider now.
Woo!
Wanna do this workout!
(upbeat electronic music plays)
So, historically, you've always been able
to update your Zwift Rider,
customize your Zwift Rider,
but it was never really tied to anything
besides your level in Zwift.
And what they just recently updated
was a hybrid model of level in Zwift
and Drop Points, and these Drop Points are associated
with drops of sweat.
Now, you accumulate these drops of sweat,
these Drop Points, that you can then use
to purchase items in the new updated Zwift Garage,
the Drop Shop,
A: by riding,
but there are two additional ways
that you can get more Drop Points.
One is you can ride inclines and you can climb
and this makes perfect sense that they would want
to change this because historically you didn't accumulate
as much experience points and level up faster
because you weren't going as fast in Zwift.
So now, when you climb, you have an incentive
to do that because you're going to accumulate
those Drop Points at a higher rate.
You also accumulate Drop Points
for the 15 seconds after you receive a ride on
at a higher rate.
So, it encourages you to develop a little bit
of a sense of community, have followers
that are excited when you're on the platform.
Now to make sure that you have this in the app,
you do have to update Zwift.
So, go to your app store,
and if it's not showing that you've got an update
like here,
just pull down and refresh.
Hit update, and once you go through that process,
the next time you go into Zwift,
you'll be able to login to the Drop Shop.
But that doesn't mean that everyone's starting at zero.
When you login to Zwift the next time,
you're gonna notice
that they will have automatically calculated
how many Drop Points you've got
over the course of your entire lifespan
on the platform.
So you login as you normally would,
and you do have to be in the game
so wake everything up to show you this.
Come on, cadence pair!
So when you get into the game,
you're gonna notice that it welcomes you
if you've updated the Zwift app
with how many Drop Points you have.
It'll prompt you to go to the Drop Shop,
so you can go right away
but let's show you how you can get there
with being in the game if you don't want
to go into that right away.
So you can go Ride, and you go Menu,
and now you see this little icon that's new here
for the Garage, so you can go in there
and again, this will take you there.
Now, the two primary things
that you can customize are bikes and wheels,
and Zwift Outsider did a fantastic article
that outlines which bikes
and which wheels are associated
with how many levels you need
and how many Drops, so you'll see
that some bikes require a certain amount
of Drop Points and a certain amount of levels.
So let's go in and show you a few examples.
Of course, we want to go to Ventum
and see right there.
So that is going to end up costing me 482,800 Drop Points
but, I also have to be on Level 31.
I'm only on Level 21 right now,
I have about 79,000 experience points
and Level 31 requires 180,000 experience points,
so I know what I'm saving up for.
The most expensive bike is the Zwift Safety Bike,
which (laughs) looks really funny,
you have to be on Level 44
and you need,
got it written down here,
3.55 million Drop Points.
The bike that requires the highest level
to get is the,
let's go find it here,
the Cervelo P5X,
which requires 1,065,000 experience points
and you have to be on Level 45.
As far as most expensive wheels go,
there aren't a ton of really super expensive wheels
but the Zwift Safety wheels again,
(laughs softly)
which are fairly old school require 710,000 Drop Points
and you have to be on Level 44,
so I can't, in the bottom left, actually select this.
And when you actually do want to select a bike,
the Zwift blog outlined, point for point,
with screenshots how to actually do this,
and how you do this is,
let's go to a bike that I would actually go for.
Let's go with, say like, the Canyon Speedmax.
You select that, and you'll notice
that in the bottom left of the screen,
there will be a green button
for allowing you to select that.
Now I'm not gonna do that right now
because I gotta window shop a little bit.
But you will select that,
then it will ask you to confirm that purchase,
and then to upload that to your Zwift Rider,
you're going to have to click Equip on the next screen.
So that's the new Zwift Garage and Drop Shop,
just a little bit more incentive
to regularly take part in the community
and get in more rides.
Obviously, that's what Zwift wants to do.
On that note, when I was at the Zwift headquarters,
Craig, the marketing guy, awesome triathlete,
sub nine hours in Kona, told me
about this coming up and he said, "100% this will not be
"a 'for purchase' thing at any point
"in the future."
They want to make it about community,
they don't want to make it
about purchasing more Drop Points,
they just said like, "That doesn't feel like
"it's in the spirit of what we want to do
"with the community."
So it's just about riding more, and (sighs)
I'm sorry, folks.
You gotta suffer.
I have another 100,000 experience points
to accumulate before I can ride that actual...
Well, pfff!
I have a Ventum!
I don't need...
Yes, I do need a virtual Ventum.
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Let's do this.
(sings)