Bike Games

Bike games put you on two wheels to get over ramps, jumps and obstacles without crashing. There are around 55, all free and with nothing to download, with BMX bikes, mountain bikes and cartoon characters.

More balance than speed

What shows up most in this section is physics: the bike reacts to the terrain and the rider's weight, and one sudden move flips you over. Wheelie Bike, Wheelie Bike 2, Impossible Bike Race, Trials Ice Ride and Cyclomaniacs are the best examples. Trials, in fact, is a real discipline where balance and control count more than speed, and Trials Ice Ride takes it onto icy ground.

Other types you'll find on the list:

• BMX and tricks: Bmx Park, Bmx Master, Sik Trix BMX and Naruto BMX Challenge. BMX is the small bike built for jumps and stunts, and in these games the score matters more than the finish line.
• Courses with their own style: Extreme Bikers, Super Stickman Biker, Line Biker, Biker Street, Cycle Extreme and GT Bike Simulator.
• With characters: Juniper Lee and Recess, with TJ pedaling around the track.
• Deliveries: The Pizza Guy, where you have to deliver pizzas by bike.
• Puzzles: Cartoon Bike Jigsaw and Happy Bike Riding Jigsaw, which are jigsaw puzzles with bikes.

Rider.io, Melonman, Custom B BMX Painter, Bike Mania 4 Micro Office and Tomolo Bike are also in the section, with very different ideas.

To flip less

• Don't accelerate nonstop. Often you need to ease off the gas on the downhills.
• Lean forward or back depending on the terrain: that's what keeps the bike stable.
• In the trick games, learn the jump and the landing before trying flips.
• Repeat a hard stretch several times. In these games, the pattern can be learned.

To start, Wheelie Bike is the most direct way in. If you prefer stunts, Bmx Master. And for a calmer break, the puzzles.