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WIN: 3 x Wines2Whales entries with Food Lover’s Market

By BikeHubCoreAdmin · 79 comments

Are you up for a challenge? Food Lover’s Market have got three FNB Wines2Whales team entries to give away in their 2016 LOVE THE BIKE competition.

Food Lover’s Market is the official food sponsor of the FNB Wines2Whales. Not only will they be making sure that riders are fuelled up on the most delicious and nutritious food, but they are also giving those who missed the chance to ride their way to a 2016 W2W team entry!

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Simply sign up on lovethebike.com using your Strava account and start logging your rides! You could be just a few (hundred) kilometers away from a ride in one of SA’s most exciting MTB stage races.

We have 3 distance based categories with a 2016 FNB W2W Ride team entry up for grabs in each category:

  • Men – Most kilometers ridden over the 21 day period.
  • Women – Most kilometers ridden over the 21 day period.
  • Lucky Draw – Burn at least 6000 calories over the period to qualify for this lucky draw category.

Competition dates: 1 – 21 September 2016

Find out more and enter here: lovethebike.com

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Weekly Spot Prizes
Each week we’ve got a R1,000 Food Lover’s Market voucher up for grabs. Anyone who has signed up on lovethebike.com using their Strava account is eligible for these lucky draws.
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Comments

Velouria
Velouria

Sep 14, 2016, 9:43 AM

Boom!

 

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Meezo
Meezo

Sep 14, 2016, 9:46 AM

 

Wow, that's massive

Wannabe
Wannabe

Sep 14, 2016, 9:49 AM

Where / how do you guys get to train this much!?  :o

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Sep 14, 2016, 9:51 AM

 

Spoilsport, could at least let me enjoy the spot at the top for another day (or 3) 

Velouria
Velouria

Sep 14, 2016, 10:02 AM

Spoilsport, could at least let me enjoy the spot at the top for another day (or 3) 

There's still a week to go - I'm sure you can ride in the 800kms ;)

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Sep 14, 2016, 10:09 AM

There's still a week to go - I'm sure you can ride in the 800kms ;)

If I needed the entry I surely would have made a plan, no problem  :P

Meezo
Meezo

Sep 15, 2016, 7:15 AM

whoop whoop, spot prize :clap: :clap: :clap:

dirtypot
dirtypot

Sep 15, 2016, 7:23 AM

 

What the hell?!  That's an average of five and a half hours of riding a day as of yesterday when you posted the pic!!!  That's just madness!  

 

I always knew that I was only going to be in this for the lucky draw prize, but damn!  I'm being beaten into the corner with this!

PhilipV
PhilipV

Sep 15, 2016, 7:42 AM

What the hell?! That's an average of five and a half hours of riding a day as of yesterday when you posted the pic!!! That's just madness!

 

I always knew that I was only going to be in this for the lucky draw prize, but damn! I'm being beaten into the corner with this!

Ham is an old hand at this. He rides from Somerset West to town and back, and then does a ride with mates afterwards. And rode from Somerset West to Eselfontein to go see a mate.

Describing him as committed or tenacious would be like saying the beach is sandy.

Matchstix
Matchstix

Sep 15, 2016, 10:14 AM

Racking up miles on the road for a mtb race is a bit wrong in my opinion.

snakedoc
snakedoc

Sep 15, 2016, 11:26 AM

Tough one on the road mileage for a MTB event.

 

Guess its the easiest denominator to compare across the board.

 

Like in most things with rules you have to play within them

 

HAM must be helluva fit. Anyone have an idea of his route?

Velouria
Velouria

Sep 15, 2016, 1:06 PM

Racking up miles on the road for a mtb race is a bit wrong in my opinion.

You can even do the miles on a stationary bicycle. On it's easiest setting, it's quite easy to whiz along on the Wattbike at 40km/h.

 

Tough one on the road mileage for a MTB event.

 

Guess its the easiest denominator to compare across the board.

 

Like in most things with rules you have to play within them

 

HAM must be helluva fit. Anyone have an idea of his route?

75kms from Somerset West into Cape Town in the morning, and the same on the way home. Go and stalk him on Strava ;)

bodger
bodger

Sep 16, 2016, 8:00 AM

Racking up miles on the road for a mtb race is a bit wrong in my opinion.

 

Well I did come 3rd overall in the W2W Ride 2015, so I'm not totally useless on a MTB.

 

Sadly I don't have enough to win the challenge this year, Fanie is putting in some truly scary rides and most of them are hidden for the past week. His 9th sept totalled 228km (last unhidden rides).

 

As I said before, I have my own goal and I'll stick to the plan.

 

The Ham Plan!

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Sep 16, 2016, 8:31 AM

Well I did come 3rd overall in the W2W Ride 2015, so I'm not totally useless on a MTB.

 

Sadly I don't have enough to win the challenge this year, Fanie is putting in some truly scary rides and most of them are hidden for the past week. His 9th sept totalled 228km (last unhidden rides).

 

As I said before, I have my own goal and I'll stick to the plan.

 

The Ham Plan!

give me a shout, ill help boet ;)

bodger
bodger

Sep 16, 2016, 9:26 AM

give me a shout, ill help boet ;)

 

Cool I could use some company this weekend.

Flemish Lion
Flemish Lion

Sep 16, 2016, 9:36 AM

Cool I could use some company this weekend.

 

Hey Bodger - a little bit much unrelated but why do you have Alpacas in your profile pic? My sister runs an Alpaca farm in Belgium hence me asking... or did you recently travel to South America... www.alpacaflanders.be

The_Phoenix
The_Phoenix

Sep 16, 2016, 9:43 AM

Why does a competition to win a MTB entry revolve about distance? This just inspires road rides. Why not include a simple formula that incorporates elevation gain or something?

 

Go riding in Jonkershoek, do Saaltjie up and all the way down the canaries and corkscrew, go up to the start of Red Bennet and come down and end with a Firehut. It's less than 30 km that doesn't mean anything in this competion but I'm sure you will have much better prep for W2W. Also, if W2W is your type of thing you will probably have more fun too.

bodger
bodger

Sep 16, 2016, 10:08 AM

Why does a competition to win a MTB entry revolve about distance? This just inspires road rides. Why not include a simple formula that incorporates elevation gain or something?

 

Go riding in Jonkershoek, do Saaltjie up and all the way down the canaries and corkscrew, go up to the start of Red Bennet and come down and end with a Firehut. It's less than 30 km that doesn't mean anything in this competion but I'm sure you will have much better prep for W2W. Also, if W2W is your type of thing you will probably have more fun too.

 

Edit: What Admin said.

 

I just think its cool that someone has come up with a competition where you don't have to like and share their facebook page or hashtag & tag them in a selfie.

bodger
bodger

Sep 16, 2016, 10:15 AM

Hey Bodger - a little bit much unrelated but why do you have Alpacas in your profile pic? My sister runs an Alpaca farm in Belgium hence me asking... or did you recently travel to South America... www.alpacaflanders.be

I honestly can't remember. I was fascinated by them a while back, I was amazed at their long necks, fluffy coats and weird behaviour. I even went to visit them at the alpaca loom on Suid-Agter-Paarl Road.

Matt
Matt

Sep 16, 2016, 10:25 AM

Why does a competition to win a MTB entry revolve about distance? This just inspires road rides. Why not include a simple formula that incorporates elevation gain or something?

 

Go riding in Jonkershoek, do Saaltjie up and all the way down the canaries and corkscrew, go up to the start of Red Bennet and come down and end with a Firehut. It's less than 30 km that doesn't mean anything in this competion but I'm sure you will have much better prep for W2W. Also, if W2W is your type of thing you will probably have more fun too.

It comes down to reliability and comparability. Ideally we'd use metrics like elevation gain and calories, however when it comes to measuring these accurately not all devices are made equal... at least not in Strava's eyes. 

 

The elevation data from any device without a barometric altimeter is ignored by Strava and instead they use elevation models to guesstimate the elevation of a ride. And this applies to a big chunk of dedicated GPS devices and all smartphones.

 

This typically results in massively inflated elevation figures (to the tune of 2x what it should be) which means it's not a reliable metric we can use for scoring.

Velouria
Velouria

Sep 16, 2016, 11:10 AM

Cool I could use some company this weekend.

If you want company (or just a wheel to suck) for 5 hours on Sunday - let me know...

Skubarra
Skubarra

Sep 16, 2016, 11:18 AM

Edit: What Admin said.

 

I just think its cool that someone has come up with a competition where you don't have to like and share their facebook page or hashtag & tag them in a selfie.

 

Agree, as flawed as this comp is - far more interesting than "like & share our post"

CranksofGlory
CranksofGlory

Sep 17, 2016, 10:55 AM

It's called Love The Bike, why go and ruin it by cheating! Can someone please remove this Fanie doosh from the competition.

 

Who does a 7h road ride and rides at a constant 24kph up and down and taking uphill KOM all along the way!

 

I call foul play!

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snakedoc
snakedoc

Sep 17, 2016, 1:04 PM

Shots fired!!! :ph34r:

DjCyclist
DjCyclist

Sep 18, 2016, 3:45 AM

So here's my theory on the leader, we day 18 into comp he has done 33 rides @ 2888kms, I worked out he had to be doing 87kms twice a day which comes to 174kms a day,

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