#time-trial

Eggcelerate! to the Tropics time-trial racing game launches tomorrow on Linux, Mac, and Windows PC. Which is all due to the work of developers Tim Beaudet and Tyre Bytes. Which is going to be available on Steam. Eggcelerate! to the Tropics will be releasing on March 30th, 2023, just in time for Easter. It's a crazy digital egg and spoon racing game. Due to have you laugh and cry while balancing eggs on a motorcycle in the tropics. Race through thick jungles, sand tastic beaches, crystal caves, and ancient ruins of South America. Wild coconuts, cursed treasures, fires, spikes, and other traps to test you. The chance are, you are sure to have a good time Eggcelerate! to the Tropics. Due to have you make insane saves, then rage with the hopeless fails. It's really is a difficult game for people that enjoy overcoming intense challenges. You will drop an egg while you eggsplore multiple jungle routes. Throw the egg over steep mountain passes and work through deep caverns. All due to discover ancient ruins and hidden secrets. That is, if you have the skill to deliver eggs while riding a motorcycle.

Eggcelerate! to the Tropics Release Trailer

Those of you with non-cycling interested friends or family know how it feels when you try and talk a race to them and they give you the ‘what’ face and look disinterested. Explaining why you find watching men or women ride bikes competitively is too much for some of my friends.

Try explaining what you find so brilliant about a time-trial! Watching one or two men or women at a time go out onto a course on their own to try and beat the clock. It likely evokes the same reaction that my face makes if somebody tries to get me to watch Formula One so I get it.

So what is it about a time-trial? They’ve long fascinated me. They’re one of cycling’s art forms. Often set to a stunning backdrop, it’s the shape of the riders, the desire for them to achieve the ultimate aero-tuck. The attention to detail that leaves nothing to chance from the bike to the helmet to the skimpy skin-suits. Time-trials have long provided me with some of my favourite cycling images. Stage 18 of the Tour de France not only gave us a time-trial in week 3, but a mountainous one nonetheless, producing more great imagery.

There’s some awe inspiring about watching somebody go out and push themselves to the edge of the limit entirely alone and often with norhing more than a team car following and an in-ear piece trying to keep them motivated. For some riders it’s their domain. For guys like Tom Dumoulin and Tony Martin, it’s their comfort zone. Chris Froome made today’s mountain terrain look effortless with an effort that didn’t just blow the competition away, it annihilated them.

Much as they can be cited as being boring, they’re often not. There’s team time-trials if the thought of watching one singular rider doesn’t appeal. The entertainment they can provide is often second to none. I think we all remember the TTT in the Tour a few years ago when half of the Bouygues Telecom team ended up in a field! 

John McGuinness Breaks the TT Zero Lap Record! TT 2014 - Mugen Shinden - On Bike - HD [Volume Warning]

Guy Martin - 275k/h Speed Wobble