28 June 2018 Promotions

Challenge your friends in the 2018 Bike Hub Fantasy Tour

By Press Office · 525 comments

The annual Bike Hub Tour de France Fantasy Tour is back for 2018. This year Bike Hub is offering a Wahoo KICKR indoor smart trainer for the Fantasy Tour overall winner. We have also introduced a pools feature allowing you and your friends to face off in your own leagues.

Grand Prize

The overall Fantasy Tour points leader will be riding indoors in style with a Wahoo KICKR Smart Trainer and a Wahoo hamper valued at over R 26,000.

Weekly Prizes

To keep you on track each week we’ll be giving away a Knog lights hamper to two lucky contenders. Check out the prizes page for all the details.

Knog PWR Rider

Knog Blinder Mob V Mr Chips Rear Light

How it works

The Fantasy Tour is all about picking your very own Tour de France dream team. You can choose any riders from any team to make up the ultimate virtual team.

Pick your squad of 12 riders: 8 active riders and 4 substitutes.
Team submissions close once the Tour begins: at 11h10 SAST on Saturday, 7 July 2018.
Substitutes: On the two rest days during the race you’ll have the opportunity to substitute riders. You can drop the non-performers or bring in some fresh legs.
Once substituted, riders can be used again, however points are only allocated while a rider is active…. if they’re on the bench you don’t score points.

Pools

This year we have included a new a feature, public and private pools. Now you can square up against your friends, families, and colleagues. Get started by creating your own pools here.

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Comments

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Gen

Jul 20, 2018, 7:59 PM

Me too, Porte, Rigo and Nibbles gone, but my only remaining sub is Demare.

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I can at least bring Bernal in..he may just get the white jersey because he is last man standing for Froome and Thomas..it might come by default.. but i also think he is going to have a bad day in the Pyrenees ... I don't have other option so no choice ????????

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@grootlem

Jul 22, 2018, 4:31 PM

I'm still top 10 and you are out of the top 50, doesnt look like your Bernal banker is delivering points

It's very hard to see what's going to happen, but I think the one thing that is sure is that the current Leader Grootlem is not even going to be in the final top20. His okes are mostly going to put on turboreverse in the hills, and points from De Gendt and Alaphillipe are a serious gamble.

my thinking. 12 okes in the squad.
6 flat stage okes (GVA = flat)
6 mountains. (Valverde = mountains)

week 1
6 flats + 2 mountains
week2
2 flats + 6 mountains
week3.
it depends.

now that I've lost richie and mathews I'm down to 10 riders.
I think the best mix is actually not 6:6 but 5:7 or even 4:8
I think the ultimate winner will come from someone who has at least 6 GC riders on their books for weeks 2 and 3 - and that doesn't appear to be anyone in the current top 10. the other leftfield possibility is the aggressive rider or polka going to an outsider which few people have picked. (if it goes to Barguil - 144 people got this base covered)

@grootlem

Jul 22, 2018, 4:32 PM

Apologies I always stuff up these quoting things, just responding to Professor Bartali that took my team apart a week ago

Eugene Oppelt

Jul 22, 2018, 5:25 PM

After missing the last sub deadline, I can finally unleash Tummy D and Roglic for week 3, amongst others ????

Kranswurm

Jul 22, 2018, 5:30 PM

Improved one position to 55 :-(

HeadDown

Jul 22, 2018, 5:53 PM

All my subs in Liverpool kit.

Patchelicious

Jul 22, 2018, 7:15 PM

**** is going pear shaped ????

bmw1za

Jul 22, 2018, 7:45 PM

**** is going pear shape

**** is going pear shaped
ooops... tried saying pear shape is modest . this game is brutal

Eldron

Jul 22, 2018, 7:49 PM

My progress can best be described by one of those cartoon whistles when Wile E Coyote falls a long long way ????

Baldrick

Jul 23, 2018, 4:29 AM

Subs done

De Gendt, Quintana, Bernal and Barguil out

Benoot, Groenewegen, Gavaria and Porte in

(I can't do any worse)

TALUS

Jul 23, 2018, 6:15 AM

Subs done
De Gendt, Quintana, Bernal and Barguil out

Benoot, Groenewegen, Gavaria and Porte in

(I can't do any worse)

I think you can!!! Gavaria (Gaviria) , Porte and Groenewegen wont be scoring many points for you...

Eugene Oppelt

Jul 23, 2018, 6:18 AM

Wrong thread...

:blush:

CASSIE1975

Jul 23, 2018, 6:52 AM

Subs done
De Gendt, Quintana, Bernal and Barguil out

Benoot, Groenewegen, Gavaria and Porte in

(I can't do any worse)

I think you can!!! Gavaria (Gaviria) , Porte and Groenewegen wont be scoring many points for you...

@Baldrick...I feel your pain :cursing: sarcasm...LOL

shaper

Jul 23, 2018, 6:56 AM

Quintana off the bench... maybe he will finally wake up!!

Down to 7 anyway, so he gets into the team by default....

Uni

Jul 23, 2018, 8:03 AM

I'm dropping Barguil so he's gonna rip up week 3

s14phoenix

Jul 23, 2018, 8:30 AM

I'm dropping Sagan... :whistling:

He is making everyone else look bad and thus is the only one not on the drop short list.

Frosty

Jul 23, 2018, 8:51 AM

Need to bring Demare back, but I'm not sure who to demote... Nibali or Uran. Porte left in week 1.I need to keep one of them in for "what if" reasons, to help lift the morale of the others left in my team.

Although I have 8 riders left, Barguil, De Gendt and Bernal haven't done much either.

Gnarly

Jul 23, 2018, 9:01 AM

I'm dropping Barguil so he's gonna rip up week 3

Gnarly sneak's back and returns Barguil to his team....

Shebeen

Jul 23, 2018, 9:18 AM

Apologies I always stuff up these quoting things, just responding to Professor Bartali that took my team apart a week ago

"took your team apart", oh dear, didn't mean to upset you so much.

What terrible things did I say?

It's very hard to see what's going to happen, but I think the one thing that is sure is that the current Leader Grootlem is not even going to be in the final top20. His okes are mostly going to put on turboreverse in the hills, and points from De Gendt and Alaphillipe are a serious gamble.

*top 20 come Paris - reckon you don't have the GC okes who will score this week

*Alaphillipe was a gamble, which did of course pay off handsomely!

Ja, I would say that again. I'm impressed you went all the way down the leaderboard to find my bunch of twats, we can at least both agree that a yellow jersey wearing GVA on the bench didn't work out.

Back to the trainer. our current Leader has a 93 point gap to 2nd, but only GT, NQ and Bardet as GC players. He's not really covered if TomD or Froome come through this week. with 3 mountain top finishes and a ITT.

I reckon Swissvan has got a damn good shout. Loads of GC guys, and the darkhorse Roglic.

probably depends on how alaphillipe does in the KOM jersey comp

s14phoenix

Jul 23, 2018, 9:37 AM

Need to bring Demare back, but I'm not sure who to demote... Nibali or Uran. Porte left in week 1.I need to keep one of them in for "what if" reasons, to help lift the morale of the others left in my team.

Although I have 8 riders left, Barguil, De Gendt and Bernal haven't done much either.

I have similar issue...

Uni

Jul 23, 2018, 9:46 AM

Gnarly sneak's back and returns Barguil to his team....

you're welcome

I'm first in my pool of 1 so I'll take it as a win :ph34r:

bertusras

Jul 23, 2018, 9:51 AM

I have similar issue...

Ditto. Bernal, GVA and De Gendt, which two make the cut...

Edit: And Yates??? what the bloody hell has he been doing?

jdwet1980

Jul 23, 2018, 10:05 AM

I have so many deaths in my squad that I have to bring Kristoff in for the Pyrenees.

Thats like sending Casper de Vries for the 100m olympics.

Eldron

Jul 23, 2018, 10:27 AM

I have so many deaths in my squad that I have to bring Kristoff in for the Pyrenees.

Thats like sending Casper de Vries for the 100m olympics.

I just dropped Bernal for Kristoff in Phase 3 :-)