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Play Fantasy Tour de France with road.cc and CycleSurgery!

Win a £600 KHS road bike + £400 runner up prizes too!

It's Tour de France time again. The one race that transcends all cycling boundaries is rolling into Rotterdam for the Grand Départ on July 3 and you can be a part of it… well, virtually. Thanks to road.cc and www.cyclesurgery.com you can have a go at being a Directeur Sportif in the 2010 Tour, and what's more you could walk away with a road bike worth £600!

So, who'll be in your team? All eyes on this side of the Channel will be focused on Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish: will we have a British jersey winner this year? And if it was your team, would you pick them? Maybe you'd rather have a Contador or maybe a Schleck or two… and let's not forget Lance. Pick your team and enjoy all the drama, anxiety and excitement of the world's greatest bike race, minus the sweat.

Click here to go to the game

The road.cc Fantasy Tour de France game is very simple: pick your nine riders from the starting roster and they'll be awarded points based on their performance in the race. And it's not just about the big jerseys: riders will score for running loose in breakaways, helping a team mate to a stage win, showing a bit of fight – and even rolling in last! After each stage you'll be able to make two substitutions so you can keep on top of the riders' highs and lows, and the player with the most points after the Champs-Elysées showdown will be crowned king of the road. Do you have what it takes to put together a top team? Now's your chance to find out!

Top bike retailer CycleSurgery have 20 stores nationwide and a great new online presence at www.cyclesurgery.com, and they've come up with a fantastic prize pot for the game worth £1000. The outright winner will receive a brand new KHS Flite 300 road bike – exclusive to CycleSurgery – worth £600, and ten runners up will get a high quality CycleSurgery jersey made by Endura, worth £40. There's everything to play for, so head over to the Fantasy Tour page and get picking! The game is open now.

Click here to go to the game

 

Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.

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dave atkinson | 14 years ago
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yeah, 1 team per person...

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simonking | 14 years ago
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how many teams are you allowed to enter? 1 ?

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dave atkinson | 14 years ago
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now i have  1

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dave atkinson | 14 years ago
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there'll be a big list of everyone too davep, so you won't be on your own... haven't made it live yet, since everyon's tied on zero

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DaveP | 14 years ago
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Will there be a list of mini leagues for us Billy-no-mates to join?

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dave atkinson | 14 years ago
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no problem. keep us posted if there's anything else you'd like to see. can't guarantee but we'll do our best!

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Tony Farrelly | 14 years ago
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your team is still on there Jimmy, would it break the budget though?

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James Warrener | 14 years ago
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Can I have my first, first team to start?

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Tony Farrelly | 14 years ago
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Was really chuffed with my team until I realised I only had 8 riders in it… cue a bit of rummaging down among the four pointers

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Chuffy replied to Tony Farrelly | 14 years ago
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tony_farrelly wrote:

Was really chuffed with my team until I realised I only had 8 riders in it… cue a bit of rummaging down among the four pointers

It's a bugger innit?  20
Pick the good guys in the big categories and you can't afford the four grunts...  39

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Chuffy | 14 years ago
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Nice one Dave, ta.

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dave atkinson | 14 years ago
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Okay, mini leagues are live. you should be able to create a league, give your mates the ID and they should be able to join it.

comment here if there are any problems...

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clockwork replied to dave atkinson | 14 years ago
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Thank you for adding the extra functions over night  3

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JonMack | 14 years ago
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Got my team  4

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Tony Farrelly | 14 years ago
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It is…

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RogC | 14 years ago
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another request for mini leagues, we were going to wait for velogames to start up.... but if you build it  1

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dave atkinson | 14 years ago
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mini leagues are coming...

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Tony Farrelly | 14 years ago
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Okay, the apron's off

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Jon Burrage | 14 years ago
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mini league would be good. Its also a shame that David Millar is 12 points, I thought 6 points would be much fairer....  3

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Tony Farrelly | 14 years ago
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Dave says if enough of you want it, he'll take his new Rapha apron off http://tweetphoto.com/29033723 and put his coding hat on

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Fringe replied to Tony Farrelly | 14 years ago
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tony_farrelly wrote:

Dave says if enough of you want it, he'll take his new Rapha apron off http://tweetphoto.com/29033723 and put his coding hat on

nice apron, is that a willer steel frame in the other picture?

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Chuffy | 14 years ago
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Can you set up a mini-league? Always more fun if you can automatically lump your team together with workmates etc.

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Tony Farrelly | 14 years ago
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Glad you asked that gandberg, in the event of a draw we will take the total points of your final team, and then we'll go back through the stages until somebody wins.

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gandberg | 14 years ago
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Been checking the bloody velogames fantasy tour page on an unhealthy basis and its not open yet, so will deffo be doing this. What happens in the event of a draw?

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