January 6th, 2010

Fun Bicycle Games Online

The free online games that can be found on so many sites on the internet are very diversified. You can find games with all sort of crazy and funny topics. Some of the games are using fictional characters, but others are using real persons as characters to make the game more fun to play. Whether if they are using real or fictional characters there are many games categories. Here are some of them: racing games, adventure games, RPG (role playing games), shooting games, dress-up, games for boys, for girls, for adults, educational games, puzzle games and many more. But one of the most famous category of games are the sports games (such as : football, soccer, volleyball, basketball, golf, ski, surf and so on).

Cycling is also a famous sport, so there are many cycling games on the internet. Whether if you find it in the sport games category or in racing games, you can always enjoy a fun bicycle game online. So this is what we are going to discuss in this article. We’ll search for some cycling games, play them and then talk more about each one.

Let’s begin with the Mountain bike game from the famous site miniclip.com. In this game you will have to perform crazy stunts while racing to the finish line with your mountain bike. For each stunt you will get a number of points, and you can see your final score after completing the level. Use the UP arrow key to pedal faster and accelerate and the DOWN arrow key to slow down. The left and right arrow keys are used to lean forward or backward. These keys are useful to adjust the bike when you are in air and also to do tricks (such as wheelie, flips and others). You can also perform cool tricks by pressing the space bar, which will make your bike change direction. This it is not a race to be the first across the finish line so you can always turn back on the track and do more tricks, and get to the finish line when you see the time is running out. Don’t try to make crazy stunts, and be careful to land safely. If you don’t, your bike will crash into many pieces and you will get a time penalty. Before starting the real game, we suggest to go in the training mode. Here you will learn all the possible tricks from the game. First you will see an demonstrative movie, and then you can try that trick yourself.

All the other games from miniclip.com containing the word “bike” in their name, are actually motor bike games, so we have to move on to another site. Another famous site with free online games is funny-games.biz. Here you will find an interesting and also weird bicycle game. It is called “Weird bicycle game”. We also mentioned that is interesting because it is one of the few games where you get to see the action behind the handlebars. In most of the games you can see just an outside perspective of the bike, but here you can feel like you are really riding a bike. All you have to do in this game is drive forward and avoid the white teddy bears that will get in your way. Use just the mouse to steer the bike. The game is weird because you ride a bike on a field, and there are white bears on the field. But the great thing about it is the famous “Bicycle race” song from Queen that you can hear as background music. Have fun!

It seems like all the sites have just one bicycle game, and the rest are motor bike games, so we have to go on another site. Let’s choose the Downhill Mayhem game that we found on gamesfreak.net. First you can choose your name and your shaving style. There are all the bear types, such as hunter, dirty shave, Hollywood style, chin puff, goatee and others. The goal of the game is to race to the end of each level busting out as many tricks as you can. If you land in the water or run out of time, you will fain the challenge. While in the game, press the UP arrow key to accelerate and the space bar to jump. In the air, press the space bar and one of the arrow keys to make tricks. Your time bonus and trick bonus are combined to give you a final score, which is then given a color rating. By clicking on the “Trick guide” you will be able to see all the tricks that you do, and also the score for each one. The graphic of the game is really simple, and you can’t even see the face of the bike rider. So now you might wonder why it was necessary to choose a shaving style for your player. Well the answer is: because this game was made to advertise the famous Braun company, which among other products it also makes electric shavers. Good luck!

Finally we found a site that has more than one bicycle game (gamefreak.net). So now let’s play the BMX Pro Style game. As the name says, in this game you will ride a BMX. First you get to choose the name and design of your rider. You have many kinds of helmets, T-shirts, trunks and shoes. After that you can pick a track and from what we see there are just 2 of them. This game has quite a lot of controls. You have to use the arrow keys to steer the bike, the Q, W, E keys for hard style, the A, S, D for easy style (all of these keys are used to make tricks) and the Z and X for rear and front break. So if the controls are complex, the graphic of the game is also complex and really nice. I never seen a bicycle game that allows you to use both the front and rear break for the bike, so after all this is quite a nice game, especially for the extreme bike sports fans.

Another fun bicycle game from the site is called the “Alex Trax”. In this one you will have to use your kid from the bike to reach the exit and complete the level, without breaking your neck. In some levels you will also need a key to open the exit, so be careful to pick it along the way. Use the arrow keys to control the bike and the SHIFT to jump and accelerate and also to perform stunts. The space bar is used to flip direction. As you advance on the track, you will also see some panels containing useful hints, so be sure to read them and respect the advices. If you don’t you might fall and breack your neck, and then start the level all over again. Good luck!

So these were just a few fun bicycle games, and there are so many more to be found on the internet. Just make time and search for them. And if you find some that are really cool, tell us all about them!