Ricardo Ferrand is a Portuguese graphic designer living in Germany. In these last years, he has been developing an old idea for a cycling board game, and has called it Pro Tour. He sent a first draft of his game in 2011; I included it in the unpublished games section and half-forgot about it. A decade and a pandemic later, I received some updates: a new version of the (still unfinished) rules, some new pictures, and a present for all cycling board game fans: Ricardo offers the cyclists he is designing for the game as free downloads. What's better, he promises to keep sending teams! If everything goes as intended, we will have a new batch of teams twice a year. That's really nice from him.

Of course, you cannot use these teams for any commercial use, or to obtain any gain or profit without contacting him first. If you want to use the teams or contact Ricardo for any other matter, please let me know and I will put you in contact with him.

This is what the game looked like in 2012, when it was first featured in the unpublished games section of this site.

And here is what the game looks like in 2022. Someone has been working hard!

The game will eventually feature lots of different, personalized riders (check the riders box on the picture above to get an idea). These riders are of the print-and-play type, but instead of folding in half like virtually every other print-and-play cyclist (check the make your own game section) these are (cleverly) devised to be almost three-dimensional, if you see what I mean.

 

Look at the riders (and the peloton) on the board

	BIC 1969		FAEMA 1969		KAS 1974
PEUGEOT 1977		SANSON 1979		TI RALEIGH 1979
	IJSBOERKE 1980		RENAULT 1984		CARRERA 1987
LA VIE CLAIRE 1985		REYNOLDS 1988		PDM 1989
	CILO 1981		SPORTING 1984		SEVEN ELEVEN 1988
MIKO 1979		BROOKLYN 1976		CAFE DE COLOMBIA 1987

Click on the riders to download the full teams (9 riders per team, PDF, ca. 5 MB)

 

We already have a big peloton! With so many teams from different seasons, some of the riders are starting to show up on more than one team. This had to happen sooner or later. The only way for this not to happen would have been having all the teams from the same season, but both Ricardo and myself prefer this anachronistic (so to speak) approach, mixing riders from different generations. However, these teams are not so far apart; they span from 1969 to 1989. Joop Zoetemelk (leader of the MIKO 1979 team)'s career covers almost all these seasons!

 

Should any doubt arise

To make it clear

Description rewritten in December 2022.

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