This is a strange game. You find it every now and then on eBay, sold as an old game, but as far as I know, it probably isn't. I have seen it sold a couple of times with notices like "The seller guarantees the authenticity of this game", which I tend to read as "the seller seriously doubts that this game is authentic". I mean, I have never seen such a notice on a Jeu du Veldiv, if you know what I mean.

 

 

What is even stranger is that there are many similar games. The pictures below are taken from different eBay auctions in the last few years (while the game pictured above belongs to my friend François Cardinet and has no rules, dice or cyclists).

As you can see there are at least three boards. The "Criterium des As" is very similar to "Le Petit Vélodrome", only bigger. According to the auctions' descriptions, there is nop name of printer or maker on the board, but the booklets for "course de demi fond" and "course amériquaine" bear the mark "S.L.J.D.S." while the "Tour de France" rules (which come with a Petit Velodrome board!) are marked "Imprimerie Vasseur".

Most probably this game is a fake (I mean, it is not so old as it pretends to be), but it is still a cycling game.

 

 

   

     

 

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