See, you want to go fast and not crash...

August 20, 2009 7:30 AM

Can't Wait for Friday Flash Fun: Cyclomaniacs is a bicycle racing game. Pretty self explanatory (GO FAST AND SPIN A LOT!) and fun.
posted by schyler523 (18 comments total)

Man, I've been tendonitising my fingers on this game for three days. Why would you want to do that to other me-fites?
posted by e.e. coli at 7:42 AM on August 20, 2009

Okay, this is going to be a big time-sink, I can tell.
posted by yhbc at 7:47 AM on August 20, 2009

This game is excellent. But lower-spec computers will struggle. My old laptop froze to a halt for a minute or so while trying to load this game. Proceed with caution. You may also need to lower the quality a tad if it continues to be sluggish.

Hell of a blast once you get it going though.
posted by nostrich at 8:04 AM on August 20, 2009

It always seemed like a bit cheap to me when the games highlighted on kongregate's main page are used as post material. I mean the one's posted here are meant to be the one we wouldn't obviously know about right?

Course, I don't know how you found out this game and it could just be a coincidence that this game is also on kongregate's featured.
posted by litleozy at 8:06 AM on August 20, 2009

Not everyone reads kongregate's main page.
posted by DU at 8:10 AM on August 20, 2009 [2 favorites]

Great game, thanks.
posted by fixedgear at 8:27 AM on August 20, 2009

The insprational music makes it so much better
posted by ashaw at 8:28 AM on August 20, 2009

Is this something I would need to have a fixie to care about?
posted by The Bellman at 8:29 AM on August 20, 2009

My old laptop froze to a halt for a minute or so while trying to load this game.

My decrepit Dell D505 is coping just fine.
posted by biffa at 8:33 AM on August 20, 2009

Crap. Just wasted time playing this.
posted by glaucon at 8:47 AM on August 20, 2009

Please—more games with stunts!
posted by study the living world at 9:00 AM on August 20, 2009

played it last night.. pretty fun. I like The Prisoner nod, having just watched it again recently.
posted by edgeways at 9:14 AM on August 20, 2009 [2 favorites]

> Not everyone reads kongregate's main page.

Not everyone has a RSS feed set up for The Big Picture, but those posts got old too.
posted by bjrn at 9:38 AM on August 20, 2009

Oh man. Been playing game since Monday. All well and good until you start dreaming about bikes. Cyclomaniacs combined with the novel Wicked before bedtime, and I was wide awake at 3am this morning thinking witch witch bicycle witch witch bicycle...
posted by Enki at 12:16 PM on August 20, 2009

Dammit, I just got off vacation and am trying to return to a semblance of productivity. BAH.
posted by jquinby at 3:44 PM on August 20, 2009

What's really amazing about it is that the geometry of the bicycles matters. I finally unlocked Letter F ("the Prisoner") on his penny-farthing, and it's incredible -- all front wheelies, no back wheelies. If you lean over too much, F does a header.

Felt bad about killing Elvis all those times, though.
posted by dhartung at 5:02 PM on August 20, 2009

For some reason, kind of annoyed me that they referred to Rover as "the party balloon".
But what a well-made flash game. Finally finished it, once I switched to that crazy-fast Sir Colin.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 10:03 PM on August 22, 2009

Awesome. I wasted quite a few hours on this bad boy. Thanks for the link
posted by Admira at 5:36 AM on August 24, 2009