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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

kjind

Jul 6, 2018, 10:46 AM

Team set for the race. I find this years pics a bit more tricky.  

Disylizzy

Jul 6, 2018, 10:53 AM

I made my pics, no idea what I was doing...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...will not second guess myself...

SwissVan

Jul 6, 2018, 10:56 AM

Still waiting for tomorrow morning.

Ain’t no one going to see my list (still only 2 riderson it)

Opc_danny

Jul 6, 2018, 11:00 AM

locked and loaded :)

Eldron

Jul 6, 2018, 11:09 AM

I made my pics, no idea what I was doing...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...will not second guess myself...

The 17th guess is the charm!

Disylizzy

Jul 6, 2018, 11:12 AM

The 17th guess is the charm!

 

since the 12 I currently have were all guesses, I only need to make 5 more!  :w00t:

Eldron

Jul 6, 2018, 11:13 AM

What other strategies are out there? I went with 5 sprinters, 5 climber/gcers and 2 emotional choices that I thought would make points ????

Jewbacca

Jul 6, 2018, 11:27 AM

Yoh... I have no idea how to play. With the TTT so early some GCers might make a play for an early grab at the jersey. Do you leave the GCers in 'incase' or stick to the sprinters and break away specialists for stage wins and polka dot jersey points?

 

I have no clue. I have picked a wholly donkey team of riders I hope to do well and will probably land me in the bottom 7 of the table. As usual!

Vetplant

Jul 6, 2018, 11:36 AM

Full Bench of Sprinters, sub in the GC okes at the end and hope you can hold off the pack with an early breakaway move....

Baldrick

Jul 6, 2018, 12:21 PM

Full Bench of Sprinters, sub in the GC okes at the end and hope you can hold off the pack with an early breakaway move....

Using the same strategy.

I have eventually put my Colombians back in again.

Hope the buggers down go walkabout like last year.

jimmycool

Jul 6, 2018, 1:33 PM

Eish, I thought I had my team all buttoned up but now I am making changes again and again.... :cursing:

Frosty

Jul 6, 2018, 7:30 PM

Made my picks earlier in the week after a few umms and aahs, and haven’t thought once about changing.

 

Going on holiday early tomorrow morning, and only returning on Sunday (stage 9). The only time I’ll be looking at my phone is when syncing my Garmin and GC - have no intention of looking at it any other time.

 

Will check again on the first rest day and decide what to do from there.

 

 

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worriesnot

Jul 7, 2018, 5:20 AM

Last year I chose with my head and ended the tour with only 5 riders...

Also chopped and changed ad nauseam up until the start.

This year I'm playing with my heart and picks took all of 5 minutes.

Not really expecting a different result in terms of overall standings - let the games begin! Roll on 11h00...

bmw1za

Jul 7, 2018, 7:11 AM

trying this out .. lets see how it goes, hands over eyes

HdB

Jul 7, 2018, 9:07 AM

Team picked in a hurry this morning. I hope I can get past stage two this year without losing a quarter of my picked riders...

Eldron

Jul 7, 2018, 1:33 PM

Great. 6 of my riders delayed by crashes and punctures ????????

Gen

Jul 7, 2018, 1:43 PM

Great. 6 of my riders delayed by crashes and punctures ????????

But surely they were on your bench for this week?

 

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Nick

Jul 7, 2018, 2:08 PM

Points for the stage should be trickling through.

 

As always, kindly let me know if you spot any inconsistencies.  :thumbup:

Eldron

Jul 7, 2018, 9:21 PM

But surely they were on your bench for this week?

 

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Yeah but I was banking on some "free" yellow jersey and white jersey points after the TTT!

Pure Savage

Jul 8, 2018, 7:13 AM

1st 3rd and 7th!! Boom!! Savage is taking the quick step approach to the fantasy league, come out swinging in week 1 then grupetto to Paris!!

 

It’s coming home!

 

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Gen

Jul 8, 2018, 7:46 AM

 

 

1st 3rd and 7th!! Boom!! Savage is taking the quick step approach to the fantasy league, come out swinging in week 1 then grupetto to Paris!!

 

It’s coming home!

 

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You and I are seeing different leader boards.

 

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Paulst12

Jul 8, 2018, 10:51 AM

Dammit, Sh_t, bugger... I dropped Gaviria for Bernal in the morning.
Murphys law!!!

Baldrick

Jul 9, 2018, 4:57 AM

I hate this game :whistling:

@grootlem

Jul 9, 2018, 5:15 AM

If BMC wins this Team TT I will have a brand new indoor training thing advertised next month. Only reason I have Porte in for week 1 is yellow for a few days from today. Against policy to have a Sky rider in my team, thats why I lose every year

Vetplant

Jul 9, 2018, 5:47 AM

My wife is in 32nd place

I'm in 269th....

 

What are the odds of me catching her before Paris...? :eek:

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