Indoor cycling app Rouvy has announced a raft of updates as cyclists in the northern hemisphere batten down for a winter of riding on their turbos.
First up is Rouvy’s answer to Strava segments, offering a range of pre-defined timed segments in the app, complete with leaderboards.
The Rouvy segments aren’t only climbs; they offer sprints and rolling roads to ride, and you can challenge your fellow riders in real time to see who’s fastest, as with Strava Live segments in the great outdoors.
With Rouvy's segments, as with Strava's, you can race against the segment leader, your friends’ and your own best times, but rather than a dot on a map, each is represented by an avatar.
While Rouvy has chosen to create its own segment network, Zwift has Strava segments in its app. Initially, anyone could create Strava segments in Zwift, but as in the real world, these became a mish-mash of the useful and the confusing, so Zwift has now cut back to offer only its own segments.
New roads to ride
Rouvy is scattering its segments over its existing roads, as well as a suite of new roads. Its Winter Training Camp Spotlight arrives on 8 December and continues into 2026, with pro-team inspired routes in destinations including Girona, Calpe and (we guess not in the winter) Andorra.
If you’ve been there, done that and don’t fancy repeating it on the turbo, there are also new routes arriving between the tail end of October and mid-January 2026. They’re in further-flung destinations including Sri Lanka, Bolivia and even Tajikistan, even if, unlike the real thing, the latter two don’t add altitude acclimatisation to the mix.
There’s also a five-week climbing spotlight, running from 10 November to 23 December. It features five passes in the Dolomites: Passo Pordoi, Passo Sella, Passo Giau, Passo Fedaia and Passo Gardena. Rouvy’s rides star Andrew Feather, who’s a Rouvy ambassador and should know his climbs because he’s a former British hill climb champion.
New app features
Rouvy has added functionality to enable you to toggle ERG mode on and off as you ride, so you can choose your own resistance level if the app-controlled power level becomes too much. It’s also handy to add more precision for structured workouts, Rouvy says.
There are also refinements to route searches, including selection by gradient, and to Rouvy’s virtual garage, enabling you to choose your avatar’s appearance and equipment.
