Bike Rush Beginner’s Guide: Tips, Cheats, and Strategies

Bike Rush is a brand new racing game by the prolific Ketchapp that challenges you to win a series of bike races against 24 different cyclists. Using a simple control scheme, you’ll avoid other cyclists, pull off a series of tricks, and earn coins that you can spend on a variety of upgrades.

In this guide, we’re going to teach you the basics of Bike Rush to help bring you up to speed. We’ll go through how it works before moving onto some more specific tips and tricks. Soon enough, no one will be able to stop you winning race after race.

Bike Rush Beginner’s Guide – How it Works:

The goal in Bike Rush is to win a series of races against 24 different opponents. You tap and hold on the screen to go forward and swipe left and right to move in either direction. You can also pull off flips if you use a ramp to get some air. Simply tap and hold in the air to flip as many times as you’re comfortable with to get a nifty speed boost at the end.

That’s the trick to wining in Bike Rush: flips. While they’re not all that easy to pull off, if you can chain a series of flips throughout the race, the speed boosts will make you unstoppable. The trick to flipping is to hold your finger on the screen until you’re back in the standard position and release. No matter how high you are, you’ll remain in that position and get the boost when you land.

The difficulty in chaining flips is that you use the same control mechanic – tapping and holding – to both flip and go forward. We’ve made so many mistakes where we’ve been so eager to hold the screen and go forward that we’ve pulled off a half flip right at the end of the jump and crashed. The best way to think of it is that the speed boost at the end of the flip negates the need to tap and hold for a few seconds, so you just need to focus on finding the next ramp.

As you (hopefully) win races, you’ll get coins as a reward that you can spend on a series of upgrades. If you’re running short and are desperate for a particular upgrade, you can watch an ad instead to get it immediately. These definitely help you to win races with much more ease, but they’re expensive so you’ll have to grind if you don’t want to watch ads.

Bike Rush Tips and Tricks:

Now that you understand the basics of Bike Rush, we’re going to round up a series of tips and tricks that helped us while we were playing:

• Focus on chaining flips: The boost you get from flips is the single most useful mechanic in Bike Rush, and you’re going to want to ensure that you have it up as often as possible if you want to win. When you start a race, find the nearest ramp and flip off it. While you’re in the air, seek out the next ramp and land right in front of it to continue getting those flips.

• Don’t be greedy with your flips: We don’t recommend trying to double or triple flip unless you get some serious air though, as it’s really difficult to control your landing. While you do get a more powerful boost, more often than not you’ll just land headfirst on concrete and set yourself back a few places.
• Hit speed boosters: You’ll also come across speed boosters on the ground, just like in Mario Kart. Aim to hit these as often as possible too – preferably between flips. Every little helps where speed is concerned.
• Focus on speed upgrades: Any gold you earn should be spent on any speed-boosting upgrade you can get. While the coin value upgrade sounds nice, you’re really not going to pick up a lot of coins while racing, as you’ll be too focused on finding ramps. Get it only if it’s super cheap.
• Knock your opponents off their bike: If a particular racer is causing you grief, just knock them off their bike. It’s not particularly difficult. You could ram them into another object or land on them after a flip.

Glen Fox

Head of Editorial

Glen has over a decade's worth of experience in gaming journalism, writing for Pocket Gamer, Pocket Tactics, Nintendo Life, and Gfinity. When he's not badgering everyone about the dangers of passive text, you can probably find him playing Wild Rift.