Vintage Cycling Board Games

September 18, 2009 11:35 AM

A huge collection of vintage cycling board games. The main site also has resources for rolling your own cycling game.
posted by OmieWise (14 comments total)

I strongly suspect that none of these would be very playable when mounted on my handlebars.
posted by gurple at 11:51 AM on September 18, 2009 [2 favorites]

I just had a vision of the HyperGalactHoloNet of 2109. There's a virtual museum dedicated to products from the years 1995-2005 and aimed at the "internet craze". Large display on internet-ready power strips.
posted by DU at 11:54 AM on September 18, 2009

Member of the Italian team jams a frame pump into your spokes- lose three turns.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 12:08 PM on September 18, 2009 [6 favorites]

I didn't know there existed even one cycling themed board game.
posted by HumanComplex at 12:15 PM on September 18, 2009

I thought I knew a lot about bicycling spinoffs, but I'd never heard of this. Great post.
posted by ardgedee at 12:19 PM on September 18, 2009

Pretty much the best post ever.
posted by fixedgear at 12:50 PM on September 18, 2009

Member of the Italian team jams a frame pump into your spokes- lose three turns.

Spanish federation close your case, despite overwhelming evidence of doping - win Vuelta a España!
posted by afx237vi at 1:17 PM on September 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

Oh, and now I know that my little cycling guy that I bought at a flea market is a piece from one of these games.
posted by fixedgear at 1:17 PM on September 18, 2009

Get back to me when they have a huge collection of pirate memory games for children between the ages of 4-8.

Not too pirate-y, though.

(As a board game enthusiast, I have to agree with fixedgear - this is pretty much the best post ever.)
posted by Remy at 1:21 PM on September 18, 2009 [1 favorite]

Who knew? Wow.

Some of these are incredibly beautiful.
posted by peachfuzz at 1:32 PM on September 18, 2009

This one actually looks fun... most of these are lovable just for the artwork.

Great post.
posted by anthill at 1:33 PM on September 18, 2009

Jeeezzz, I'd love to have some of these just to leave out.
posted by cccorlew at 3:36 PM on September 18, 2009

These are not all vintage games. Leader 1 is currently available, and was just released last year. Tour is also a recent release (2006). Um Reifenbreite is also in print.
posted by Windopaene at 5:26 PM on September 18, 2009

A couple of links away, there's a page with collections of Tour de France miniatures.

I want to get a whole bag of 'em and make a peleton that rides across my desk. :-)
posted by Wild_Eep at 7:00 PM on September 19, 2009