Cycling Board Games

by fmk on Oct 4, 2008 6:18 AM EDT

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Some of the distinctive features that make a game worth calling "a cycling game" may vary depending on the type of race represented by that game, but others should be built-in in the mechanics of the game. The two crucial issues of cycling are recovery from effort and protection from the wind. Any cycling game that does not consider these runs the risk of being simply a race game with bicycles. Nevertheless, these are two difficult features to implement.

From a fully footnoted explanation of what is and is not a cycling board game.

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It's a cool photo

Simulating drafting in a dice game?

A true cyclist geek! (said fondly)

I believe there is a small scene in the French film Amelie where someone reminisces their childhood rolling dice and moving little Tour de France cyclists.

by cyclingchallenge on Oct 5, 2008 2:03 PM EDT 0 recs

They’re in the box she finds that set her off on her quest to fix other people’s lives. It’s a sweet scene.

pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway

by fmk on Oct 5, 2008 3:03 PM EDT up 0 recs