Who needs Bellville Rendevouz… when there's Yellowjacket


by tony_farrelly on December 11, 2009 - 23:20

Yellowjacket still

A few years ago, around Tour time a French fella got in touch with me to see whether the website I was then editing would be interested in running some animations and an online cycling game* that he had put together… I was, "we" weren't. The animations starred a cycling hero called Yellowjacket and centred on his perpetual struggle with is deadly rival Blackjacket… they were/are great.

Very French. 

Definitely worth a look, and a quick bit of searching on Youtube reveals a whole stack of them. My favourites are Mayo Jaune (featured here), the Chinese Episode, and Yellowjacket No 3, oh and Lantern Rouge is a corker too, but there's loads of them so have a hunt around and your bound to find one that particularly appeals. There more info on Yellowjacket on yellowjacket.tv, and below are a couple of episodes to be getting on with.

 *Fiendishly difficult affair in which you have to move Yellojacket around a beach cycling course by rolling a marble… which entaild clicking your mouse and pointing the cursor in the right direction. Oh, and the course isn't flat.

Ah yes. This is why we have webcronyms like OMG, WTF! and LOL. Surprise

Blackjacket *is* Lance, right?

posted by Chuffy [150 posts] 12th December 2009 - 22:31

That website has improved no end since I last checked in!!!

It was always a poor second to Secrets of the Peloton for me.

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posted by jimmythecuckoo [903 posts] 18th December 2009 - 13:13



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