Today I had to help setup a cyberbike for the nintendo wii, so here’s my opinion on it.
The bike seems pretty study, the body is made of white plastic to as a guess match the wii, on the handlebars are thumb sticks and different buttons, these work as a gamecube controller. The bike connects with a cable from the front of the bike to the 1st gamecube controller connector on the wii.
The game itself that comes with it loaded up all ok, you then have to setup a profile, this is where some problems started, after you have setup your basic profile you have to set your pedaling strength, you have to pedal for 20+ secs, but we noticed pedaling wasn’t showing up on the screen, tried again but no luck, restarted game and set wii controller as main control, but still no joy, the manual for the game itself doesn’t even say anything about the bike as a controller, after a quick check in the photocopied bike manual, there is a switch on the handlebars that has gc or sb on, the bike was setup to gamecube controller mode, change the switch reset game and all ok.
The game itself has mainly to modes a story mode and exercise mode, the story mode gives you different challenges to do in the four separate worlds, they are submarine, normal bike, helicopter, and a mine cart, well these are my explanations of the worlds. the exercise mode you choose your type,time ,world, difficult and then play. You get a on screen display depending on mode of your time, distance, speed and calories burnt, we played around with a few modes over about 30mins and some did seem fun to play.
The different modes are pretty good using the bike handlebars to steer and the more faster you pedal the bike the faster you go on the screen. The bike to be honest is not that comfortable to sit on and if you not wearing trainers or some footwear can hurt the bottom of your feet and because of no pedal straps you feet can easily come off the pedals.
Even with the problems with the setup of the bike and the slight problems with seat and pedal that could be over come with a cushion and some straps, think this is a fun exercise bike, as you get great interaction from the different on screen games, and at just under £100 from argos (home order only) not a bad buy if you have a wii and are looking for a fun exercise bike / game. But if you are just looking for a normal exercise bike there are probably better made ones out there. But because this uses fun games gives you more of an incentive to use it.
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Someone asked me for help on setting this up so here are some clearer instructions:
First reset any programming you have done on the bike, this is done by pressing the start and program buttons down for 5 secs and the light in the middle will blink, (these are the 2 buttons in the centre part of the control pad/handlebar on the bike)
Make sure the bike is in cyberbike mode, this is a little switch under the main controls think says GC/CB you need it set to CB as this is cyberbike mode, the other is gamecube mode.
Now that should be all you need to do with the bike, so load up the cyberbike software and when asks you controller MAKE sure you select GAMECUBE controller as the game controller. Then in the game everything should work, ie if you pedal forwards you move forwards etc, if you have a profile setup in the game and still not working delete than profile and set it up again,
tried all of that, and still no response to the pedals, everything else works though, just not the pedals. But if I push the right toggle control on the handle bars it is as if I am pedaling ?????/ driving me mad
@Automorphe
It sound like the bike is setup correctly, so think is is your profile, delet profile in game and setup new one, and go though the calibration process, that should do it.
My Cyberbike is working well but I have no info as to how to use the buttons and joysticks on the handlebars, other than ‘A’ and the brake, eg can I use one to levitate? And what are the others for?
Thankyou to all those who have put how to get set up and start cos I was at a loss.
Automorphe, I had the same problem as you so i set up another character and made sure that CB was chosen on the handle bars and GB as the console and then everything worked. Hope it does for u too.
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