Fantasy DH League: LAST CHANCE to Build Your Team Ahead of Round 1 - Leogang World Cup DH 2021

Jun 8, 2021
by Pinkbike Staff  
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It's back! Pick your dream DH World Cup team and you could be the lucky person who gets to win this year's Grand Prize of an all expenses paid dream trip for you and a friend to Retallack Lodge with Pinkbike in 2022!

Get ready to show your skills for picking winners, at all 5 rounds of the 2021 UCI World Cup and the 2021 UCI World Championships. With a fictional budget of $1.5 million you will choose your ultimate team of 6 riders (4 men, 2 women) and go to battle in the Fantasy Downhill League. Each round you can make changes to your team and you can be a part of 2 mini-leagues and compete against your friends. Each race round will have feature prizing for the overall Top Team of the round and then at the end of all 6 races, we crown the overall Fantasy Downhill Champion and present the Grand Prize!

Sound good? Build your team today!



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Prizes

Grand Prize
Season Overall

At the end of the season the overall Fantasy Downhill Champion will get an all expenses paid dream trip for you and a friend to Retallack Lodge with Pinkbike in 2022 worth $4985. Including travel*, 3 days lodging and accommodation and bike rentals.

Retallack is a world leader in heli-biking and professionally guided backcountry mountain biking. Their exclusive commercial network of downhill, enduro, and freeride trails are dispersed in the Selkirk and Purcell Mountains of the West Kootenay region of southern British Columbia.

Pinkbike Retallack Trip

They recently obtained government authorization to expand our tenure to create the world’s largest backcountry mountain biking operating area–over 1.5 millions acres. Presently, Retallack is continuing to develop its network of trails that access additional descents of up to 6,000 vertical feet. Learn more about Retallack here and check out this video from our last staff trip.
*Winner to select dates based on summer 2022 availability. Dates based on availability. *Travel is covered up to $1500 CAD per person ($3000 CAD total). Prize is non-transferable and no cancellation policy. Visitors must be 19 years or older to ride the trails. Click here for Grand Prize details.

Pinkbike Retallack Trip
Pinkbike Retallack Trip


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Round 1 Prize
Leogang, Austria

The winner of Round 1 will go home with a RockShox ZEB Ultimate fork. ZEB Ultimate is a whole new breed of fork, designed to challenge the limits and take on the world’s toughest Enduro tracks. Going Ultimate has its advantages. Featuring an all-new stiff 38mm chassis designed with the Charger 2.1 damper, DebonAir air spring technology, SKF Wiper Seals, and Maxima Plush Fluid. Our highest performing, athlete-proven technologies matched with premium style plays. An anodized crown and ZEB’s signature color – Slab Grey – make a rocking debut. MSRP: $999 USD Learn more about Zeb here.


IMPORTANT: To maximize your chances to win the Grand Prize, we recommend you have your team created by June 11th 2021. You will want to maximize your points score and have your team present for all races. Teams created at a time after races have previously occurred earlier will not be eligible to backlog points that riders would have accrued from previous races.

2021 Race Schedule:

06-13.2021 - DH World Cup #1 - Leogang, Austria
07.04.2021 - DH World Cup #2 - Les Gets, France
08.15.2021 - DH World Cup #3 - Maribor, Slovenia
08.28.2021 - DH World Championships - Val Di Sole, Italy
09.05.2021 - DH World Cup #4 - Lenzerheide, Switzerland
09.19.2021 - DH World Cup #5 - Snowshoe, USA

Good luck!


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84 Comments
  • 49 0
 Thank you Pinkbike!
  • 19 0
 And thanks to retallack for stepping up as a sponsor.
  • 2 0
 i love PINKBIKE
  • 1 3
 @toast2266: It's a great prize but why do you have to be 19 to ride. What if you want to take your kid? And if it's due to riding ability I bet there's many children that ride harder than many adults. Some clarification on the reasoning please
  • 1 0
 @Shred-BC: Insurance? Safeguarding?
  • 7 0
 @Linkpin: A general dislike of small, noisy things?
  • 41 0
 I have no idea what I’m doing. But I used up the budget.
  • 10 0
 I have some name recognition, hopefully that will help
  • 3 0
 same, but i had to get neko in my team, im biased
  • 13 0
 @imnotdanny: I don't recognize your name.
  • 1 1
 @noapathy: not what I meant, I recognize a lot of pro ATHLETE'S names.
  • 3 0
 @imnotdanny: ya basically just blew all my money on those top guys that I recognize from PB articles.
  • 2 0
 @klazzymoto: hmmm I tried to spread my money across the board, we shall see which strategy works.
  • 2 0
 @ltharris: I'm not biased and have Neko in my team
  • 2 0
 I bet traffic on rootsandrain spikes when the fantasy round windows open. Best source if you want to overthink a dart throw.
  • 34 0
 This should have been a video
  • 22 0
 If my hypothetical team budget is $1.5 million, I'm curious how I can't buy the top two women, and four top 20 men, knowing what we all know about poor pro salaries now...
  • 9 0
 Great comment @Jamminator - I bet it stings for a lot of the pros to look at their prices on here and think "yeah right".
  • 1 0
 @chakaping: they are living the dream already!
  • 13 0
 awesome - well done!
  • 11 0
 Missing Jess Blewitt. The ultimate dark horse.
  • 3 0
 Całe here just to say that! She is on the start list. Come on PB, please fix this.
Actually, I kind of quit my job recently, so if you are interested , I'm free for hiring xD , I could do the updates for you Smile
  • 2 0
 Exactly this. No Jess Blewitt listed. But a pregnant Rachel Atherton is with the injured symbol next to it. WTF, @pinkbike. Sort it out please.
  • 12 3
 Budget the same but all the riders have increased in value..!!
Come in pink bike give us another £500k to play with..
  • 6 2
 Agree. Some of these riders are a complete rip off compared to their past results
  • 9 0
 So 2021 in a nutshell... pinkbike really keeping up with a game!
  • 5 0
 Get used to shortages.
  • 5 0
 Even fantasy has price inflation!
  • 1 1
 Prices are messed up big time. There are people in the 200k who are barely top 30 speed wise.
  • 4 0
 @ORTOGONAL555: don't pick them then?
  • 1 0
 @winko: haha No doubt! Price increases across the board in the bike industry
  • 10 0
 So Pinkbike is out of bikes too, . . . . WTF!
  • 5 2
 Surprised by the comments about budget, in the enduro league I put 1 top rider from each sex and then had nothing left over. In this one I have an absolutely sick team of recent podium riders with plenty of choice.
  • 2 0
 If a rider is listed in both the Enduro and the DH fantasy leagues... does that mean they may race some of each during the season?

Seems like you gotta check the start lists to make sure your riders are actually riding!
  • 1 0
 Don't tell everyone.
  • 6 3
 Great work, but some of the pricing is outrageous this year. Going to make the competition very hard.
  • 2 0
 Love that Rachel Atherton is supposedly injured - that is, if injury means 7 months pregnant lol
  • 4 0
 I reckon she could still podium, all that extra weight surely = more speed right?
  • 1 0
 @rad-but-also-sad: would that classify as outside assistance?
  • 2 0
 no clue what i'm doing but i'm just sticking with the frenchies, pierron and nicole
  • 2 0
 LETS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • 4 2
 Bernard is a STEAL! Highly undervalued young prospect right there
  • 5 0
 Bro don't spill the beans
  • 1 0
 How do the points work? Like is the podium very stacked with points whereas someone in 10th gets very few?
  • 1 0
 i belive the points work smth like this 250, 200, 160, 150, 140, 130, 120, 110, 100, 95, 90, 85, 80, 78, 76, 74, 72, 70, 68, 66 hypothetically the maximum amount of points you can get is 1520
  • 1 0
 This is my first year NOT picking top male an female podium regulars an actually thinking aboout my team!
  • 1 0
 Hey @dolores, have you decided who you're taking with you yet?
Look forward to competing with the rest of you for that Zeb.
  • 5 0
 www.pinkbike.com/video/538022 tup
  • 3 0
 He/she doesn't need any more prizes. He/she is living large after hacking the Colonial Pipeline and collecting the $5mil ransom. @dolores
  • 1 0
 @Three6ty: U.S. Seizes Share of Ransom From Hackers in Colonial Pipeline Attack Facepalm
  • 1 0
 @dolores: I may regret telling you this, but MVDP isn't racing the DH.
  • 1 0
 @chakaping: that's what he wants you to think.
  • 1 0
 I noticed that there are a few racers that are not on the list. Have these not been updated?
  • 1 0
 Budget limitato ma cmq proviamo lo stesso con i nuovi giovani
  • 1 0
 Damm! by the 11th June, I thought I had today to create a team Frown
  • 2 0
 Gravity rools
  • 2 0
 Woo hoo ! Finally !
  • 1 0
 Great prize too ! Thanks pinkbike
  • 2 0
 About effing!!
  • 2 0
 About time!
  • 3 2
 Why is Rachel even on the list if she’s not racing?
  • 4 0
 >assuming PB actually updates the fantasy rosters

XCO fantasy has riders who haven't even raced in three years
  • 3 0
 Perhaps PB can clarify how theirs operates, but I've been responsible for commissioning Fantasy League games for a large media outlet before and they've always been operated by the provider.
It'd be interesting to know if PB is using a mainstream provider's software or have their own code and operate it themselves - since they probably have more DH knowledge than the provider (but not more than us commenters, obvs).
  • 1 0
 Knowing my luck I’ll win the grand prize but can’t leave Australia.
  • 1 0
 How come Josh Bender is in the list?
  • 1 0
 I’ve got a $1,065,000 remaining. Looks like I can afford a new bike!
  • 1 0
 This is better than investing on Doge
  • 1 0
 CHRISTOPHER GRICE???
  • 1 0
 FINALLY!!!
  • 1 0
 Let’s be havin you
  • 1 0
 Just in time.
  • 1 0
 where is goldstone
  • 4 0
 He’s in junior
  • 2 0
 @archiesgm: Had to look for, wasn't really sure as UCI page is confusing, but found out in the process he is running for Miranda Team.I find it quite amusing a Canadian prospect from Squamish has found a spot for running WC n a Portuguese team.
  • 1 0
 @miguelcurto: pretty sure it’s because there were no other spots available on a team and he was staying with Trek too which meant he wouldn’t make it into either of the Trek teams
  • 1 0
 No Remi Thirion?
  • 1 4
 He's retired from world cup downhill I believe
  • 2 0
 @JNZ: he's in leogang doing track walk and posted a new bike
  • 4 0
 @JNZ: ummm.....just not on Commencal?
  • 1 0
 @Costigan76: ahhh good to know! He looked on form last year. Cheers
  • 2 0
 @Costigan76: He's on Giant.
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