Race on your iDevice with Chain Reaction Pro-Cycling

Online retailer Chain Reaction Cycles has announced Chain Reaction Cycles: Pro-Cycling, a game for the iPhone and iPad featuring a combination of strategy and arcade style racing.

The game puts you in control of your own customisable athlete in road races or time trials, speeding through cityscapes and the rolling countryside against your friends via Bluetooth, against computer controlled competitors, or against the rest of the world on the online leader boards.

The higher you place in races, the more bikes and gear you unlock and the more you play the game, greater your character's virtual fitness. (Fitness gains of virtual rider are not expected to translate to real world, sadly.)

With more wins come increased bonuses including bikes from Vitus and wheels from Mavic. Lighter equipment will reduce your character's fatigue while accelerating, better components (groupset, cranks etc) will increase acceleration and the more aerodynamic your equipment is the less you’ll be affected by drag.

The equipment upgrades on offer aren't just in the game. CRC will be running monthly giveaways for top finishers including complete Vitus road bikes, wheels from Mavic, GPS bike computers from Garmin and nutrition bundles from High5.

“We’re expecting the leader boards to be hotly contested!” says CRC.

Developed in conjunction with BillyGoat Entertainment, the game features music from Northern Irish bands Moscow Times, Window Seats and Escape Fails.

You can customise your character's appearance with a variety of team jerseys and helmets, and gameplay involves keeping your chaacter hydrated during racing as well as keeping him moving as fast as possible.

CRC Pro-Cycling costs £1.99 from the iTunes store.