Wahoo today announced a host of new features for its Wahoo X software bundle, which bundles the brand's two independent indoor cycling apps, RGT and Systm, into a single monthly subscription.

Among them is a voice chat feature that until now has been almost exclusively provided by the third-party app Discord. Known simply as voice chat, Wahoo RGT users will be able to chat with riders in four different ways. First, chats can be set up based on proximity; second, a map-wide chat, in which everyone on a particular map at a particular time participates; third, allowing riders to create private channels; and finally, a one-way chat, in which team managers and workout leader to direct race tactics and sessions without interruption.

Wahoo built this feature into the app based on its desire to connect riders.

To this end, the voice chat feature is accompanied by a selection of other new features: the Wahoo RGT app has 13 "real roads," which are virtual maps based on the terrain of real locations. These include the 2021 World Championship Finish Circuit in Leuven and the Dirty Leaver gravel race stretch in the Kielder Forest in England.

The latest addition to these, however, is a circuit called Dunoon Crossover that brings mountain biking indoors. Based on a destination to be opened in Dunoon, Scotland, the circuit is a mix of gravel roads with singletrack and various surfaces. Functionally, there will be three different levels of rolling resistance built into the algorithm, but it has not yet been confirmed whether riders will be able to swap to mountain bikes, as is possible with Zwift.

RGT is not the only aspect of Wahoo's portfolio of new features. In a move to bring indoor training outside, Systm, Wahoo's indoor training app born out of the Sufferfest platform, has been given the ability to push workouts to Wahoo's Elemnt series cycle computers. It automatically pushes the day's workout to the cycle computer and displays it as a workout to follow, similar to TrainerRoad's Outside Workout feature.

If one really wants to distort reality, the cycling computer can be brought indoors and used to control the smart trainer.

Finally, Systm also offers many new racing experiences. It attaches a camera to a professional rider's bike during a race and pairs that footage with the same rider's power file to create a workout file. As the rider attacks or the hill gets steeper, the smart trainer increases the resistance, immersing you in the experience and making you pretend you are elbow-to-elbow with the world's top riders. Because of its reliance on video footage, this training is of course limited to indoor rides.