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Up to:  Biker's CafeThis should be a good place for all purpose talks, better than interleaving our discussions with "Time Trial Champions" comments.
Carl China | 15 Years On Bike!time goes by so fast wow |
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|  |  | My first game was posted July 16 2005. Wow, it has been a long time! I probably started playing around the first of July 2005. Great times! Lots of good times in this community. Newcomers who took the game by storm (Kenn), players who dominated the game during their run (mike flips, BikerBrian, Andrew A), players who got ganged up on (Cirenco), players who were just good dudes (Kristopher, bones, (Th)Champ, Lee, Shane, Mr Floss), players who were competing before they could spell (Mr. Pickle), players who were the silent type (Carl China--thanks for the 15 year post), players who actually encouraged me and showed me that I could compete (Vin and Louis), players before me that put up times that gave us all something to go for (PrayeR, Tabs, You Qi, David King, Oliver, rachman!, Ruben), players who refused to play every level (Vega), players that were fierce competitors (Laser), players that I learned a slight connection with (Tyler and Smalls), players who made other sites (Casey and Kristopher), players who were just consistent (Lee), and the rest of you that I have enjoyed going back and forth with on the forum (sorry if I missed anyone). Last and certainly not least, SZ who made an amazing game!!! Thanks for keeping the forum alive for all these years even without a working iPhone game and with Palm long gone! Hope you still visit every once in a while. Thanks for all the years...! |
| BikerBrian
|  | | Excellent post, PMD! I'm proud to have been mentioned. I've spent countless hours with this game and chatting with you guys on the forum since my first uploaded run on Jan 8, 2008. I've owned every console game made, but never spent more time on a single game than on BoD. There is still nothing like it IMO. I will continue checking in from time to time. All the best to everyone! |
| Laser
|  | | I'm a fierce competitor!
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| PMD
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| | | You could say you are 'Laser Focused'.  |
| Laser
| | | Love it |
| Spence
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|  | | Well well, didn't expect this website to still be up and running, let alone to see familiar faces still here reminiscing! A series of strange coincidences today led me back here but here I am. Can't believe it's been so long since I first downloaded this game back at the end of 2005 (6th grade I think?)... crazy its been almost 14 years for me. You guys were always fun to talk to and compete with. |
| bones
|  | | 13 years for me. I live in Kansas City and if anyone is ever traveling this way I would love to meet an old internet buddy in person. I encourage anyone willing to add me on Facebook (Adam Imber).
This game was a great community and while I won't list everyone out as beautifully as PMD did I will list two things I remember to this day.
Mr. Pickle - oh how we went back and forth lol. And yet, what a good guy. Pickle and I are friends on facebook, and I've seen a while back that he got married and I believe recently had a child and it brings me nothing but genuine happiness to see such things from people who I barely knew, but yet felt so close to.
On the other side I feel so connected can be devastating. Henoch once told me his hometown and how it flooded and since then I've read story of how it was hit by another huge flood and I saw the damage online and all I could do was hope he was okay. I'll likely never know, but these connections really do stay with you. |
| FEL!PE FM
|  | | got back after almost 6 years, hello guys.
Since the game stop working on iphone I never played again. Just have an idea, why cant we just raise funds (all together, like kickstarter) to help SZ update the game again.? I miss this game.
We need to know how much money is necessary and how many of you would help, so we can calculate. Dont know, just an idea. |
| PMD
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| | | I'd be on board for contributing. I guess we would need a willing SZ. |
| thedudeguy
|  | | Wow loading this up on a whim, can't believe the Bike or Die community still kicking! SZ stopped working on it just before the level editor was done for iOS (I had played around with an early beta - it was amazing to not have to use the palm emulator!). Also game for contributing funds to help development costs, but if SZ would rather I'd be happy to get my hands dirty and port the code myself too - more than a decade later I've ended up as a software engineer |
| Andrew A
|  | | The idea of updating the game on this - and porting to other platforms, has been mooted and knocked around on a few occasions of course. Most recently by Vega a year otr two ago. He was wanting to take the whole shebang over and get it re-coded and re-released.
I think he tried to contact Sz about it without success. Seems to me Sz keeps this here as a sort of long standing monument to important times of pretty intense camaraderie and competition in a few peoples lives - on the one hand (which is pretty rare and rather lovely, given the ephemeral nature of most things digital) - and out of courtesy to those of us pesky and annoying enough to keep playing or dropping by and commenting - on the other 
I really don't see him having a change of heart and deciding to resurrect the game himself, or allowing anyone else to touch the hallowed code - however expertly and respectfully that was done.
I would love to be proved wrong on this though! |
| FEL!PE FM
| | | Hello Andrew
Where do you play the game.? I havent play since it was discontinued on iOS.
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| Andrew A
| | | Hi Felipe,
Long time since I last saw you on here!
In answer to your question :-
I play on an iPod Touch 3rd Gen (I think it is). Anything later is very flaky in terms of running the code. If that's what you were asking.
Or - I'm based in the U.K. - if that's what you mean |
| Champ
|  | | Thanks for the post, Carl. Glad to see you here
Bike or Die will live the test of time.
It's wonderful to see veterans check in! Out of every gaming community I have been a part of, the Bike or Die brethren has been the kindest. Encouraging healthy competition. Never discriminating on age or spelling (shouts out to Mr. Pickle!!!)
Thank you, Sz, for creating a second home for us digital bicyclists. For bringing together the most incredible people from around the world. Thank you for continuing to host the Bike or Die server.
Another thank you to all of you beautiful bikers. There are too many good fellas to mention. You all have helped to sustain the legend of Bike or Die with your talents, creativity, and ambition.
Spence- you are baffling in the comp! Holding the Steps gold alone makes YOU the champ. Always slaying it on those alternate routes.
Laser- your skills are terrifying! Not only are you fierce competition, but a great level creator. So many routes on LaserTag! Thanks again for the years of comp.
PMD!!!!!  This will be your 15th Anniversary on Bike or Die. It is great to have known you for so long! "Known". What does the acronym stand for???
FEL!PE~ I haven't had much contact with you, but appreciate you coming back to the game. Maybe we can figure out a way we can get back to playing.
thedudeguy! Welcome back! It has been forever! Good for you for becoming a software engineer! Let's work on BoD 3.0
I know the members of BoD would love a 3.0. If not even 3.0, a port. If y'all are looking to develop, I would gladly contribute. My main profession is audio engineering. I can do some programming as well.
These days I've been researching software for game production. Unreal Engine and Godot have been my final choices. Godot has a more permissive license. They also just received a mini-grant from Epic.
Revitalizing Bike or Die would be a dream come true. There are obstacles to it.
Sadly the digital Palm stores are offline. I can't find a way to purchase Bike or Die again. I synced my Treo today.... and it deactivated my BoD app. What a sad day. Anyone know how to run scripts on Palm OS?  Or know of a website that still sells valid codes? |
| PMD
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| | | Champ(Tony Hawk), I do have an old Palm Treo. If I remember correctly, there is some file where your activation is stored, so if you have a backup anywhere of your data (which I think the Palm would do), you might be able to just use a file manager and put it back. When I last played, I was manually submitting my saved games by just uploading off the SD card in the Treo. The sync no longer was working for me.
Good to have old "friend" check in. ChampTh, Thedudeguy, bones, Spence, Laser, BikerBrian (I always read that as BikerBrain), FEL!PE FM, and Smalls. And of course new friends--Andrew A.
PMD - My initials |
| PMD
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| | | Champ(Tony Hawk), I do have an old Palm Treo. If I remember correctly, there is some file where your activation is stored, so if you have a backup anywhere of your data (which I think the Palm would do), you might be able to just use a file manager and put it back. When I last played, I was manually submitting my saved games by just uploading off the SD card in the Treo. The sync no longer was working for me.
Good to have old "friend" check in. ChampTh, Thedudeguy, bones, Spence, Laser, BikerBrian (I always read that as BikerBrain), FEL!PE FM, and Smalls. And of course new friends--Andrew A.
PMD - My initials |
| Pinchies
|  | | I still love this game. Really want to give my regards to SZ, he hasn't replied for quite some time now.
Ever seen bike or die on Twitch? Yeah, follow @parkerlreed
on twitch or "Parker Reed" on youtube - he's been playing Bike or Die in the Mu emulator, on a Nintendo Switch. Me? I still have a T|T3 for playing BoD when the time comes.
But it really is a good time for Palm OS rights now. A few of us are still enthusiastic for the Palm OS platform, and have started a bit of preservation efforts. PalmDB.net will have archives of all the Palm OS software we can find, and we've saved all the BoD levels in case the site dies unexpectedly. There's a few of us on discord that chat, and Bike or Die is pretty fondly remembered by many too. Anyone is welcome to come join us if you like. discord.gg/Nxd4US |
| Pinchies
| | | I would also be happy to help kickstart a BoD 3.0, or even a donate towards full release of the source code.
But if you need a copy of the game (as abandonware), check out PalmDB.net. |
| Kamirashi
|  | | 15 years is a long time! I joined the game after the peak, but I still think this is the game I’ve put the most effort into! I was only active a short time compared to most of you, guess I played a bit too much and burned out for a while ^^ maybe I’ll pick it up again soon & #128517; It boggles my mind to see how much Andrew is dominating at the moment!
Lately I have been going through the app store to try and find another bike game that can measure up to this one, but nothing even comes close! I am however fortunate enough to still have a working device with the game installed
A BoD 3.0 would be the best thing ever! |
| Gus
|  | | I always find myself checking in every ear or so. BoD is still a gem. Hope everyone's keeping well. I'm going to try and find me some way to play this again, I'm still salty about losing a couple of golds (and the Foothill Half-Circle tie). |
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