Six Day Bike Race

The Six Day Bike Race is a Pure Mechanical bagatelle-style game from the Lindstrom Tool and Toy Company, a short-lived manufacturer based in Bridgeport, Connecticut that operated only between 1932 and 1934. It was one of six games included in the "Super '6' Chest of Games," a boxed set of three double-sided panels (Wild West/High Ace, Six Day Bike Race/Hot Spot, and Wild Cargo/Double Header), each measuring 15 1/4" x 9 1/2".

As its name suggests, the game is themed around six-day bicycle racing, a sport that drew large crowds in both Europe and the United States during the early 20th century. Being a Pure Mechanical bagatelle, gameplay would have relied on a manual plunger to send a ball into a scoring layout, well before the invention of the pinball flipper in 1947 — no documented rules or scoring details for this specific title have survived.

No date is printed on any of the Super '6' Chest of Games titles, and detailed records of Six Day Bike Race are scarce. Still, as part of an early boxed game set from one of the pioneering pin-game makers of the 1930s, it offers a small but tangible link to the sports and amusement culture of its time.