Bicycle Racing Games
Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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I raced bicycles when I was younger. I enjoyed it greatly. The tactics of the different races fascinated me. I was actually a terrible rider. Whether on the velodrome, a closed course criterium, open road race or time trial, I was not very good, terrible in fact. My only bright spot was mountain climbing. Steep hills I could climb in a barely adequate fashion.
I do miss the race tactics though, so I look for games that let me re-live the racing vicariously through plastic or cardboard figures. I found quite a few games that are about bicycle racing here on BGG. Most are simple roll and move type games. Quite a few are from very small publishers, some from long ago, making actually seeing most of these games impossible. I know A LOT of games published are not even listed here on BGG. Maybe people will enter any they have that are not here, as I, and apparently many others, am very interested in games on bicycle racing!
I have also included some bicycle touring games as some do have a race element. Mostly, the games here have bicycles in them!
Anki Toner from Barcelona, Spain and Ludo Nauws from Belgium are responsible for many of the pictures and descriptions of obscure cycling games that are posted here on BGG. A big thanks to both of them!
Edit: Searched BGG for more game and added them Sept. 2007 and again in November 2007.
Edit: Added many games May, 2009
Edit: Huge Thanks! to Dennis Frank, Matt Hinske & John Weber, each of whom keeps adding to this ever growing list. Thank you for helping keeping this list alive and useful!! (added Jan.2010)
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Matt Hiske
United States
Kentwood
Michigan
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2008
Each player takes care of one team (one colour) and moves his vehicles according to the dice throw. There are 3 types of terrain - down (dice throw x3), straight (dice throw x2) and hills (dice throw).
A few places behind you rides also your service vehicle, which can help in case of a defect (when you throw a six, there is a chance of defect).
Each player has also a pack of cards, which he can use in the race to speed up his cyclist for a couple of dice throws.
There are also fights for the yellow and striped dresses, which gives player advantages in next race. Weather has also influence on racer movement and is simulated randomly with a short forecast by a PC small program.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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~1950s
uncredited
Sio & Goliath B.V.
This card game sounds very similar to Mille Bornes.
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Board Game: Cyclo
[Average Rating:5.36 Unranked]
Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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1999
Dirk Donvil
Brand X Games Factory
From Belgium, but originally made for the Italian Lampre cycling outfit. Comes with 5 double sided boards to form different courses. Each team runs 5 cyclists. Dice are used, so there is luck, but strategy and real tactics will help your team perform.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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1982
Wolfgang Kramer & Hermann Wernhard
Ravensburger
A childrens game where bicycles are used by each player to get to different locations, but they must share only two bicycles amongst all the players.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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1985
Wolfgang Kramer
Ravensburger
A children's game about moving bicycles about the board. Seems the same as Bike About.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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2003
Joël Monfourny
BD2 Games
The 'Official' 100th anniversary game. A roll and move game.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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2006
Anki Toner
Millatoner Games
Self made game by Anki Toner of Barcelona.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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1980
uncredited
Jason Games
A game on the classic UK bicycle race. Uses a spinner, dice and tactic cards for movement.
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Board Game: Sprint
[Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]
Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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1990
uncredited
Diset S. A.
A children's game of bike racing. They get to build the modular track before racing.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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1952
Sebastiano Craveri
Edizioni Lo Scarabeo & Edizioni Gioghi Lasco
Re-released in 1993. 15 cards are used to make the track. Movement is decided by simultaneous card selection.
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Board Game: Tourspel
[Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]
Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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1987
Jimmy Tigges & Paul Groenendijk
Tigro Spellen
Produced by a small Dutch game company. Movement by dice rolling with slip streaming rules. Game rewards players, with better dice selection, by keeping their four riders together.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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1995
Mauricio V. Gibrin, Mauricio Miyaji, Fabiano Onça & Rupak Patitunda
Toyster
A children's game about Goofy racing around the board. He does need to use a bicycle at some point during the race.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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1998
uncredited
Kleo Games
This game is so big it needs two boxes. Apparently the manufacturer of this game, Kleo, is now out of business.
The game was released with 1998 rider stats and was suppose to have additional years released, but I don't know how far along this went.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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Published:2003
Designer: uncredited
Publisher: Art of Games
A French produced game of indoor cycling on the velodrome. Contains riders for 6 teams plus a motor cycle pace vehicle.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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1988
Wolfgang Riedesser
Ravensburger
By the designer of Ave Caesar! This game pits a race car, a motorcycle and roller skates vs. a bicyclist. Different turn around points should make this a fair race for all. It is a race game and there is a bicyclist, so it made the list.
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66.
Board Game: 54x12
[Average Rating:4.50 Unranked]
Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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~1980s (late)
uncredited
S36 Jeux
Tour de France game. Movement is by dice roll and influenced by card play.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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2007
uncredited
Espace Tonic
A new Belgium produced game with 2 boards, a flat circuit and a mountain course, and nice cyclists. The game claims to use plenty of tactics and race strategy with very little luck.
I would like to see more information on this newer game.
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John Weber
United States
Laurel
Maryland
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Just added this game to the BGG database. It was just released last month in Europe (primarily in Denmark and Germany), and I ordered a copy from a Danish distributor that ships to the USA. It is billed as "the best cycling game ever" and it may be the only one designed a professional cyclist. Will provide some more details once I have a chance to play it -- the cyclist pieces are very nice-looking.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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1990's
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Made in England. Looks like a standard roll and move game.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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1970
uncredited
Pic Toys Ltd. U.K.
A simple roll and move race game with BMX bicycles. Landing on certain spaces gets you a card that may be good or bad.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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2002
Uncredited
Edisigne
The game is about the Paris to Brest to Paris cross country road race. Participants try to ride the 1200km in less than 90 hours. This game tries to recreate the race.
The board and plastic riders look really nice, but it appears to be pretty much a luck driven roll and move race game.
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Board Game: Bikee
[Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]
Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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Designed by: Uncredited
Publisher: C.W. Faulkner & Co
Year: 1899
The game came with 6 cyclists and 20 tiles used to lay out a race course. The 2 dice included were used to move the cyclists.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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~1968
uncredited
HEMA
Dutch game that uses a a spinner to control movement.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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1987
Thomas Smith
Cross Challenge Corp.
A game on BMX bicycle racing on a dirt track, complete with banked turns.
Movement is by cards, so hand management and knowing when to play the right card makes this a game of skill with some luck in the card draws.
Game is for 2-4 players.
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Scott Henshaw
United States
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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1998
Kolja Rieffestahl
Ludomania
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Posted Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:19 pm
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
Anki Toner from Barcelona, Spain (web site in English)
http://www.cyclingboardgames.net/
Ludo Nauws from Belgium (web site in Dutch)
http://users.skynet.be/wielerspellen/index2.htm
edited to update Anki's website address per djfrank's information June 15, 2008
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
I try hard to keep it updated and about every 3-4 months I go through the database to look for any games I might have missed being added.
Feel free to do the same!
Melbourne
Victoria
But I am sure that it is a bicycle race with teams, a peloton, and points for stage winners.
VEey nice list. That has been a long time since I came to BGG.
My website http://www.sportgoodies.fr/ used to show a list of games and is now linked to Anki's excellent website.
I am concentrating now on the cyclists and cars but you can find some games and figurines on the Sport Goodies shop http://www.sportgoodies.fr/shop/.
Hope to have time to make the website with php in order to integrate a database of the games and figurines...
Next month the new "Bisikle" will be available. I you're interested please contact me. See : http://cyclingmodel.over-blog.com/article-35025502.html and http://cyclingmodel.over-blog.com/article-27401917.html
Bradford
Pennsylvania
There's much more English language content there now, including a discussion board.
Anki Toner's site has been reorganized and updated (2/2010). Well worth a look if you haven't been there lately! http://www.cyclingboardgames.net/cyclonew.htm
Believe it or not, there are games there that haven't made this list yet.