I've got a few such games, although lack of other keen cyclists in the family means I haven't played them much.
Breaking Away is probably the best. Pieces are moved according to the throw of dice, but it still manages to reproduce the aerodynamic advantage of being in a group of riders, and the way that breaks develop and fail.
The
Great Victorian Cycle Race is like
Snakes and Ladders on two wheels. We ordered it from the States, only to find it had been made in Milton Keynes
Devil Take the Hindmost is a card game based on the race of that name.
Homas Tour or
Um Reifenbreite was originally a card game but there is also a
freeware PC version (not checked - download at own risk). Apparently many of the card versions were destroyed in a warehouse fire, but you could also download patterns to make your own cards.
Of course, if you count computer games as well, there are the
Cycling Manager series for PC, and
Tour de France for Playstation and X-Box is fun. There's a cycling competition in the
Summer Athletics (Olympics without the official branding) game for Wii. And then there is
Whirly Wheelers, which we picked up at a jumble sale once... Four plastic bikes driven by magnets under the velodrome. Eat your heart out Chris Hoy
