GTA Online offers a lovely bicycle ride, murder aside Rock Paper Shotgun Support us Join our newsletter Visit our store Sign in / Create account If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. GTA Online offers a lovely bicycle ride, murder aside Alice0's cycling tour of video games enters Los Santos Feature by Alice O'Connor Associate Editor Published on July 18, 2022 9 comments Alongside the Tour De France, I rode my own Tour De Jeux with articles celebrating cycling in games and in life. Read the whole series here! The game I've done the most virtuacycling in is named after a whole other form of transport, but it is also a great place to ride a bike. When I'm visiting Grand Theft Auto Online for funsies, just to watch mayhem unfold, I like to do it atop a BMX. Sure, everyone in Los Santos wants to murder me, but players are a little friendlier when you're pulling sikk tricks. A little. GTA Online has an impressive spread of bicycles to buy: a sporty road bike, an easy-going beach cruiser, a off-roading hardtail mountain bike, and-my favourite-a stunty BMX. When I'm not logging on for profit or bloodlust, I'll usually pull a bicycle out my garage and trundle about town, watching the murders, stunts, chases, japes, and alien wars of regular Los Santos life. Players seem to like cyclists. Or at least, players seem slightly less eager to murder people on bikes. The fact that I'm slow, exposed, and easy to knock off means I'm not much of a threat. I'm just a tourist come to watch the murder, you know? I want to bunny-hop over your car, try to ride on your truck, and follow you through a police chase. That's all! Please let me live! Though the fact that I'm so vulnerable does make people more inclined to screw with me. One player yesterday spent seven minutes casually chasing me around and knocking me down before whipping out a gun to finish the job and claim a meagre $7000 bounty on my head (don't ask). You can see some of that in this selection from my many deaths while nonviolently trundling about town: Watch on YouTube Honestly, the catlike toying was fun! They could've supermurdered me if an instant if they really wanted, and I enjoy trying to hop over speeding cars GTA V's cycling doesn't feel much like real cycling (not like how Riders Republic impressed me) but it is great fun. The BMX is easy to jump and bounce around on too, and can casually pop up into a wheelie. I like the absurdity of wheelieing through a very, very active crime scene. It's remarkably resistant to toppling as well, often happily recovering from tumbles and bounces that should have fed skin to tarmac. I only wish I could master the glitch which lets you hop up walls like some manner of Spider-Bike (I blame my half-broken Xbox controller, thank you). That would have come in handy. GTA Online is a terrible place in many ways. While it's a little less stingy with money these days (finally!), you'll still encounter the ubiquitous cheaters, racists, and miscellaneous jerks. But sometimes, you'll land on just the right server and have a lovely little weekend ride-or at least you'll laugh at how silly some of your deaths are. Disclosure: I have some pals at Rockstar. Edinburgh's a tiny city. More Features What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Alice O'Connor an hour ago 21 You're probably better than me at One Many Nobody You go on without… uh, you? Sin Vega 17 hours ago Have You Played... Star Trek Online? Boldly going where no PC has gone before CJ Wheeler 17 hours ago 27 Supporter podcast - The Nate Files episode 13: dry bones Bad science is also FUN science! Alice Bell 18 hours ago Latest Articles What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Alice O'Connor an hour ago 21 Past Wordle answers Here's an archive of previous Wordle words Ollie Toms 2 hours ago 1 Wordle answer today (Saturday 15 October) Hints and the answer to today's Wordle word Rebecca Jones 9 hours ago Overwatch 2 hero tier list Which are the best heroes in Overwatch 2? Ollie Toms 16 hours ago Supporters Only You're probably better than me at One Many Nobody You go on without… uh, you? Sin Vega 17 hours ago Supporter podcast - The Nate Files episode 13: dry bones Bad science is also FUN science! Alice Bell 18 hours ago Japanese dating show Love Wagon has surprising parallels with Yakuza and Persona My new obsession Ed Thorn 2 days ago If you're hankering after Bayonetta 3, Valkyrie Elysium might be a good substitute It's not out on PC until next month, but the console demo has been a surprise charmer Katharine Castle 1 week ago 4 We've been talking, and we think that you should wear clothes Total coincidence, but we sell some clothes Buy RPS stuff here