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TAP TO START
Two words and a loading bar
Cycling Hero begins on its own title art, dimmed, with a translucent TAP TO START button sitting in the middle of the frame and a blue LOADING bar near the bottom edge. Those two words are the whole menu: there is no options list, no difficulty choice and nothing else to press. The dimming lifts only after the tap registers.
Observed 2026-10-04 in Chrome at 1280×800: the dimmed title art carries a translucent TAP TO START button and a blue LOADING bar with no figure on it.
The bar tells you nothing about progress
The loading strip is a plain blue bar with the word next to it, so there is no percentage and no countdown to judge against. Treat the wait as a fixed cost and keep your finger off the screen until the art comes up to full colour; tapping the dimmed state adds nothing.
The title card
One flat card and 3 blue buttons
Once the load finishes the art brightens into a single flat cartoon scene: light blue sky and clouds over green hills, brown mountains, small pine trees, a windmill and grey rocks, with a red-brown road strip running across the foreground. A blue round bicycle sign sits beside the CYCLING HERO wordmark, and the road-side props include a blue bicycle sign and a red-and-blue prohibition sign.
3 blue oval buttons along the bottom
The only controls on this screen are at the bottom of the frame. 3 blue oval buttons sit on the road strip: the centre one carries a white play triangle and is fully visible, while the other 2 are cut off by the bottom edge of the frame and their icons cannot be read from this capture. A further blue circular button sits in the top-left corner of the frame, with a glyph that did not resolve at this size.
What the screen does not report
A start screen with no numbers to read
The game shows no numeric readout of any kind: nothing in the captured frames carries a score, a timer, a level, a distance or a speed. That changes how you should approach a first session: there is no target to plan against and no readout to check your line against, so the ride itself is the only feedback the game gives you.
Make the first run a look-and-see run
Start short. Tap in, watch what the rider does on the opening stretch of road, and stop while you still remember what the screen did rather than how fast you went. Keep the two cut-off buttons in mind as the only remaining controls on the start screen; until their icons resolve on a wider frame, the screen does not tell you what they change.
The frame captured after a click is the same title card, so this brief describes the start screen and the launch, and stops there rather than guessing at the ride behind it.
Cycling Hero start FAQ
Tapping in, and what the screen shows
These answers stay with what the start screen actually displays: 1 tap target, 1 loading bar, 3 buttons and no numeric readout of any kind.
How do I start a Cycling Hero run?
Tap once. The menu shows a translucent TAP TO START button over dimmed title art while a blue LOADING bar runs near the bottom, and the screen only changes after that tap.
Does Cycling Hero show a score, timer or level?
No. Nothing in the three captured frames reports a score, timer, level, distance or speed, so there is no number to read before the ride starts.
What is on the title card after loading?
The CYCLING HERO wordmark over flat green hills, brown mountains, pine trees, a windmill and a red-brown road strip, with 3 blue oval buttons along the bottom.
What are the other two buttons for?
Their icons sit below the bottom edge of the captured frame, so they cannot be identified from the start screen. Only the centre button, which carries a white play triangle, is fully visible.
Does the loading bar show a percentage?
No. It is a plain blue bar with the word LOADING beside it and no figure on it, so you cannot tell how much of the load is left.
