Cyclomaniacs

Cyclomaniacs is a 2009 bike racing flash game developed by LongAnimals and robotJAM, published on Kongregate.com.
== Achievements and unlockables ==
Tracks and characters are unlocked through achievements, such as completing the level under a given time without crashing, reaching a number of forward or backward somersaults, wheelie time, consecutive wheelie time, reaching an air time (consecutive or total), and reaching a boost level. It could be described as a precursor of Fingersoft's "Hill Climb Racing".
The game has 70 achievements in total. Each is rewarded with $200 of in-game money.
=== Horns (collectible) ===
Some levels feature "horns", which are collectible yellow circles in the air with the clip-art of a horn. For each collected, a note of "Ode to Joy" (European anthem) is played, and afterwards a constant tone. For some achievements, not necessarily all of them need to be collected. Occasionally, the player needs to bounce using the space bar to reach one.
=== Characteristics ===
Physical characteristics such as stability, agility, height, and bounce height vary throughout characters' bikes, making some more capable than others for specific achievements. For example, it is difficult to achieve the ten-second wheelie challenge on the moon level with any other characters than "Cycle King" and "Spoke", whose bikes share the same physical shape. 
Front wheelie challenges are difficult to be obtained with any other bike than that of "Letter F" with huge front wheel, and "The Bowler Brothers" are more stable and the least likely to land upside down. Their low bounciness also prevents them from hitting their heads in "Outlands: The Caves". 
"Sir Collin" can rotate as quickly as to be able to perform somersaults from bouncing from stillstand, thus can attain high boost levels.
Each character features a horn (not to be confused with collectible in-level "horns"), which is a sound made by pressing the "B" button. Horns are separately unlocked.
== Locations and stages ==
There are six different locations: The Dunes, Volcania, Planetoid, Outlands, Sunset City, and the moon, five of which (all except the Moon) have five stages, the last of which is a chase which can be played with only one predetermined character. In the first four stages of each location, the game plays with nine randomly selected opponents, and 19 on the moon. 
== Stunts and boosting ==
While racing, the player gets rewarded for stunts that are wheelies, air time, and somersaults, by charging the "stunt meter". Once it is full, the player's racing speed will be boosted, and a "boost meter" indicates how much boost time is left. If the player manages to fill the stunt meter before the boost time runs out, the boost will be reinforced. There are five boost levels.
The counted duration of each stunt is indicated at the upper right under the stunt meter.
More difficult stunts such as longer wheelies and more consecutive somersaults are rewarded with more increase on the stunt meter.
If the player crashes, the stunt meter gets reset and gets spawned on the last checkpoint, which are marked as flags throughout stages.
A so-called "sneaky start" is necessary for one of the achievements. It can be performed by pressing the arrow-up [↑] button imminently before the "go!" text with which the race commences appears on screen.
== Upgrades ==
There are five driving upgrades that apply to all characters' bikes: Top speed, acceleration, braking, boost, and spinning. Each can be upgraded up to ten levels. The cost of upgrading increases exponentially. The last upgrade costs $2000 in-game money.
In-game money is earned through achievements, where each is rewarded with $200, and finishing in a good place, where the first is rewarded with $100, the second with $50, the third with $25, and the tenth with $1. On the moon level, where there are twenty racers in total, places 11 to 20 are not rewarded at all ($0).
== Further observations ==
* The camera slightly moves while racing, possibly for a handheld filming effect.
*The game features three distinct soundtracks for racing levels that are cycled through (no pun intended) per race, and one for "chase levels" that sounds somewhat like "Benny Hills". 
*Autopilot mode: When leaving the window in which the game plays while holding the "up" arrow key, the game will act as if the key is still held when it is not. This is best tried with "The Bowler Brothers" or "Trikeceratops", whose wide bikes are the least likely to flip upside down, the latter due to egg cargo trailer.
== Cheat codes ==
The cheat codes are "Cheese", "Gerbil", "Elvis", and "Haddock" for "low gravity", "super gravity", "auto boost", and "haddock custome" respectively, of which only up to one can be activated at a time. While active, the game disallows earning money and unlocking achievements, meaning that the codes are just to be used for experimenting and fun, not to gain an advantage.
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