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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fanievb

Jul 4, 2018, 7:22 PM

#goLance

Vetplant

Jul 4, 2018, 7:28 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...

If you don't place top 100 then the game is rigged I tell ya!

Seriously, what's your team name? Wanna see how far the analytical approach goes.

RABUBI

Jul 5, 2018, 12:47 AM

I won this competition in 2010. the only year there were no prizes. my luck sucks by the way

Gen

Jul 5, 2018, 6:20 AM

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...

Ha, I tried that one year..it failed miserably...But good luck hopefully you unlock the secret to winning this damn thing.

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Baldrick

Jul 5, 2018, 6:33 AM

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...

So it's essentially the same as my approach of throwing eight darts at a board then.

Dieter!

Jul 5, 2018, 7:49 AM

Team is finally done!

This sheet from r/peloton helped a great deal!

Vetplant

Jul 5, 2018, 7:50 AM

I am getting tired of training on my "dumb" IDT, always fiddling with the resistance setting and gearing to achieve the required Watts in Zwift.

However, I am going to have to delay the upgrade as at this stage I still have a realistic chance of winning the KICKR, though I might place my upgrade order after about stage 3 of the TDF

HeadDown

Jul 5, 2018, 9:13 AM

Got this thing wrapped up, have asthma.

Frosty

Jul 5, 2018, 9:19 AM

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...

When I was organising the competition, I had access to see everyone’s picks before the competition start date - a reason I declined to be eligible to win a prize. I could see the winners picks from prior years, and compare to their picks submitted. It helped me bugger all as the best I finished as a top 30, and there were never more than 120 entries. Once it got to over 600 entries, it was too much data to go through, and I picked based on my limited experience.

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Frosty

Jul 5, 2018, 9:22 AM

I won this competition in 2010. the only year there were no prizes. my luck sucks by the way

Back then, my core objective was providing a platform for the competition. Bragging rights as the prize.

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shaper

Jul 5, 2018, 9:51 AM

Team in, spent all of 5mins on it.

Won’t change till Sub day...

Going to laugh if I beat you over analyzers

What took you so long??

Zub

Jul 5, 2018, 9:53 AM

If you don't place top 100 then the game is rigged I tell ya!

Seriously, what's your team name? Wanna see how far the analytical approach goes.

Maybe I will reveal after the first phase

Patchelicious

Jul 5, 2018, 9:56 AM

What took you so long??

I was doing it one handed on my phone, while taking a Dumoulin.

Zub

Jul 5, 2018, 10:00 AM

So it's essentially the same as my approach of throwing eight darts at a board then.

Exactly :clap:

SwissVan

Jul 5, 2018, 10:32 AM

I am getting tired of training on my "dumb" IDT, always fiddling with the resistance setting and gearing to achieve the required Watts in Zwift.

However, I am going to have to delay the upgrade as at this stage I still have a realistic chance of winning the KICKR, though I might place my upgrade order after about stage 3 of the TDF

I wonder if admin will send it to Switz ????

If not I’ll give you first option and a special price