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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Gen
Gen

Jul 2, 2018, 7:50 AM

I really enjoyed the year when we has that predict the stage winner thing going.. that was just an added little competition that kept us going.. would love to see that return even without prizes.

 

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CASSIE1975
CASSIE1975

Jul 2, 2018, 8:14 AM

I really enjoyed the year when we has that predict the stage winner thing going.. that was just an added little competition that kept us going.. would love to see that return even without prizes.

 

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Jip that WAS quite cool...picking one out of 176 riders is not an easy feat  :clap:  it was fun and also pulling HAIR out of your skull when your pick ended 2nd or 3rd on a specific stage...LOL...maybe we should not request it again  :ph34r:  :devil:  it's already difficult enough...but I agree it was something ADDED on a daily basis  :thumbup:

s14phoenix
s14phoenix

Jul 2, 2018, 8:17 AM

Eks so deurmekaar soos 'n verkleurmannetjie op 'n smartie boks.

 

:wacko:

 

I think I will be making huge pick mistakes again...

CASSIE1975
CASSIE1975

Jul 2, 2018, 8:25 AM

Eks so deurmekaar soos 'n verkleurmannetjie op 'n smartie boks.

 

:wacko:

 

I think I will be making huge pick mistakes again...

 

That is the same issue we ALL have  :cursing:  :devil:  LOTS OF LUCK ALSO INVOLVED IN THIS GAME!!!

 

How can you perfectly predict the outcome of a 3 week long cycle race with 3500 off kilometers from start to finish...the same chance we have of winning the Lotto  :clap: well ONE lucky Bliks#m will be the "closest" to predicting the final result...

Imploder
Imploder

Jul 2, 2018, 8:55 AM

Last year was a complete bogger op..I think I Finished last year 5 riders.. 5[emoji102]

 

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Same, Eish I just saw that stage 9 is a cobbled stage. With my luck I'm bound to lose some riders there.

My new goal is to finish with as little riders as possible.  :D (Some reverse psychology on the cycling gods, can't hurt.) 

Trailman
Trailman

Jul 2, 2018, 11:53 AM

Thanks to Bikehub for putting this together. So here we go again, my relatively psychologically stable self is about to traverse that range of emotions normally associated with serious mental disorders. I hold you personally responsible for my anxiety, lack of sleep, OCD, ADD, dependant personality disorder and a whole bunch of other personality disorders as I contemplate my picks. :w00t:   

 

This is just before we even get to the line, then as the race rolls out of town I suffer feelings of ebullience and depression all at the same time as my picked riders win and lose. I inflict self harm through over indulgence of too much beer in celebration or drowning of my sorrows as the daily post race results are made clear. :wacko:

 

My wife initially asks if she can assist as I sit in quite amazement as my top pick tumbles from the top 50 at the team time trial. In the 2nd week however she storms off to our room as I lose all sense of reality swearing at the screen as my top GC contender crashes out. My dog even retires as far away from me as possible as he gives up on his daily walk and my demeanor.

 

The highs and lows as I move slowly up and then plummet down the log like a broken elevator are tantamount to bouts of bipolarism.   :w00t:  :thumbup:  :thumbdown:

 

Thanks Bkehub for testing that range of emotions that otherwise would not have pervaded my life, at least I am shown that even a normal even tempered guy can be inflicted by le Tour and the fantasy game. Thanks for bringing on that full range of emotions I wouldn't have it any other way.. :clap:

Baldrick
Baldrick

Jul 2, 2018, 12:59 PM

After last years disaster I have decided to ban all Colombians from my team.

Frosty
Frosty

Jul 2, 2018, 7:00 PM

Posted in the wrong thread... my picks:

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s14phoenix
s14phoenix

Jul 3, 2018, 5:55 AM

Posted in the wrong thread... my picks:

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:lol:  :lol:  :lol:  Yes it's just about the only sure thing...

Bateleur1
Bateleur1

Jul 3, 2018, 7:16 AM

I joined for the first time.  I have absolutely no clue but picked my team and will see how it goes.

Imploder
Imploder

Jul 3, 2018, 7:59 AM

Posted in the wrong thread... my picks:

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You win!

Eldron
Eldron

Jul 3, 2018, 8:27 AM

I joined for the first time.  I have absolutely no clue but picked my team and will see how it goes.

 

Same here! I'm at "analysis paralysis" point....

CASSIE1975
CASSIE1975

Jul 3, 2018, 8:33 AM

Posted in the wrong thread... my picks:

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Please advise address for ADMIN to deliver your Wahoo KICKR  :thumbup:  :whistling:

dexterdent
dexterdent

Jul 3, 2018, 8:55 AM

I have only fine tuned my team 17 times today so far. MUCH harder than last year 

Frosty
Frosty

Jul 3, 2018, 3:00 PM

Please advise address for ADMIN to deliver your Wahoo KICKR :thumbup: :whistling:

I’m in the WP next week - will arrange collection.

 

 

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SwissVan
SwissVan

Jul 3, 2018, 6:59 PM

2 riders on my list so far....  :P

Davey_Jones
Davey_Jones

Jul 4, 2018, 10:23 AM

Ok so after the 50th change-up I'm finally happy with the balance of my team. 

 

 

 

Until Tomorrow

Davey_Jones
Davey_Jones

Jul 4, 2018, 10:26 AM

2 riders on my list so far....  :P

Márquez isn't ridding this one. :whistling:

SwissVan
SwissVan

Jul 4, 2018, 10:51 AM

Márquez isn't ridding this one. :whistling:

No blerry chance I’d have MM on any list....

Nick
Nick

Jul 4, 2018, 11:36 AM

An update on prizes!
 
Wahoo SA has given the main prize a big boost. On top of the Wahoo KICKR, the winner will now also receive the following hamper:
  • ELEMNT BOLT
  • KICKR Matt
  • TICKR HR Belt
  • Wahooligan CYCLUST SOCKS
  • Wahooligan Road CAP
  • Wahoo Bike Sweat Guard
  • Wahoo CIOVITA RACE FIT JERSEY
Weekly Prizes

 

Knog is giving away a set of PWR Rider and a rear Blinder lights each week.

 

Details on how to win these weekly prizes will follow on the Fantasy Tour website.

Allrounder
Allrounder

Jul 4, 2018, 12:44 PM

 

An update on prizes!
 
Wahoo SA has given the main prize a big boost. On top of the Wahoo KICKR, the winner will now also receive the following hamper:
  • ELEMNT BOLT
  • KICKR Matt
  • TICKR HR Belt
  • Wahooligan CYCLUST SOCKS
  • Wahooligan Road CAP
  • Wahoo Bike Sweat Guard
  • Wahoo CIOVITA RACE FIT JERSEY
Weekly Prizes

 

Knog is giving away a set of PWR Rider and a rear Blinder lights each week.

 

Details on how to win these weekly prizes will follow on the Fantasy Tour website.

 

Wow thanks for all the arrangements ADMIN. 

bertusras
bertusras

Jul 4, 2018, 1:11 PM

If only they would release it in advance in batches from stages 1-9, 10-15 and 16-21...

 

Zub
Zub

Jul 4, 2018, 1:29 PM

I've taken an analytical/numbers approach as apposed to gut and past performance.

 

Looked up and recorded the odds of winning each stage for all riders on various media platforms and built a little database which logs most likely scores for each rider over the 21 days.

 

So based on most likely to least likely to win a stage, rider gets allocated points. Structured my picks so that my chosen 8 plus subs results in a maximum combination of points for each of the three phases.

 

This takes into account the favorites on flats, cobbles, hilltops etc. Then just also made sure that the most likely jersey winners are also included.

 

This approach has caused me to leave out some big names I would otherwise definitely have picked, but seeing that that didn't go well last year, I'm sticking to my new BS approach...

Hacc
Hacc

Jul 4, 2018, 1:59 PM

I can't handle this stress, I have changed my team for the 100th time now...

 

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Patchelicious
Patchelicious

Jul 4, 2018, 3:20 PM

Team in, spent all of 5mins on it.

 

Won’t change till Sub day...

 

Going to laugh if I beat you over analyzers :P

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