PMCD Mobilisatie battle reports: Cycling game in 54mm with 3 stages: based on Cyclo the Game (and the Koers Tegen Kanker project)

Tuesday, 26 August 2025

Cycling game in 54mm with 3 stages: based on Cyclo the Game (and the Koers Tegen Kanker project)

We played a cycling race, based on the game I made : "Cyclo the Game" that was first publised in 1999 as a promotion item for Daikin Europe.

The reason for playing this game now again is because it has been reisued, as part of my "Koers Tegen Kanker" (Race against Cancer) project. The site in english is ; "https://www.koerstegenkanker.be/english" but you can also read in in Dutch, French and German, the same languages of the game rules.

The game is available in the Bioracer webshop :

https://shop.bioracer.com/nl/products/cyclo-the-game

I have the hope the game will have also versions for the fight against cancer in countries outside Belgium-Flanders. If you have ideas, please contact me.

Pics of the game via this link https://www.koerstegenkanker.be/fotos-film

Teams in our game:

Green : Jonathan

Red-Black : Alberik

Grey : Thomas

Yellow : Steven

Cyclo is a cycling game for playing track or road cycling races, including classics and Rounds like the Tour De France. Basics of the game (Cyclo Starter) : Flat road is 2 dice, up 1 die, descend 3 dice. The climber gets a +1 on his die result on a climb, the sprinter has 3 dice in the final KM. cobbled road - 3 spaces if rider end up in a dark square.

Added to this are some extra rules:

each rides receives a token per 50 cases, and the team 1 token (the team token can be used for any rider of the team). A token can be used to advance 6 spaces extra. 1 token (accelerate) . In climbs, only the token for the climber (red) or the team token (yellow) can be used. On flat road, you can also attack (using 2 tokens at once). on a cobbeld road, you can only accelerate.
taking the wheel : (only) on flat road or descends, a rider can take the wheel of another rider (also when the first rider accelerates! - so you favourite can follow the helper when this one uses his token)
Holding back, you can move fewer spaces then thrown, except on cobbled roads.
position change: (on flat road or descend) two rider following each other can swap position (mutual agreement), this way, riders could use their token atlternating.

Time trail : each rider completes the course, and the number of turn are noted and multiplied by 10, mines the spaces past the finish. (example 3 turns and 6 spaces past the finish gives you 24')

Normal legs, start with the same time notation in the next turn, once at least one rider has crossed the finish line.

In our game, we palyed a Leg race of one prologue, one short leg and ending with the main leg.

e also used the points of the green jersey in the normal legs as bonifications.

We started with the prologue time trial, of 26 squares. ("Proloog" columns) each rider and the team have 1 token.

Columns B is the number of each rider.

Column C is the time result of the time trail, ("uitslag rit", column F is the postion in the stage.

Number 89 of Jonathan was the first leader in the yellow jersey.

Number 93 of Aberik did win both stages. Well... the second one actually was won by Adrien, who had joined for the last leg, but as he had came in when our 1 leg was already finished, he did participate "unregistered".