Bicycle Photo Tag game
The point of the Bicycle Photo Tag is to reproduce a similar photo of an object or place that can be found in many different locations around the world. Much like a scavenger hunt, examples include specific street signs, a railway crossing with train, yourself at a toll booth with reciept, etc.... Get creative
Rules are easy...
1. Find a SIMILAR (ie; Not The Same, Different) tag and reproduce the photo (as best as possible). Take the tag to a new location, get the photo and post it here.
2. Upon posting your new tag, the tagger is responsible for specifying what it is in the photo that must be reproduced. Be specific, but not so specific that no one else will be able to play because we couldn't find another pink school bus.
* Try to place the tags in interesting locations, objects or places that could probably be found in at least the majority of the planet.
3. Tag must be: Common amongst all human habitation. Dirt is ok, but remember most of us are on street bikes. We don't want to exclude those who don't like to get dirty (wimps).
4. The first person to post a found tag gets to place the next tag. If you get a tag, but somebody else posts their picture first, you lose (bruced).
5. One tag at a time within thread. File photos are NOT permitted. You gotta ride to play this game.
6. No whining There are plenty of folks here that will help you understand the rules
7. The holder of the tag determines if the tag has been duplicated and acknowledges it by posting on the thread. (Surrendering the Tag)
8. No Pre-Arranged Tag Handoffs / Linear Tag sequence
9. Last but not least, should the tag be soo ridiculous that no one is able to reproduce it, it can be voted down if a majority of the active participants feel necessary.
Remember, the point of this is not to win the game, or get a better picture than the guy who just "bruced" you, the point is the ride. On that note, if someone tags a post office. Rather than get out and ride a block to my local post office, I might ride an hour or so, out to the historic post office a few neighborhoods over.... Make it interesting.
So the first tag is your bike in front of a house with Xmas lights
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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on -
Where's that guy from Albany Park when you really need him?
mike w. said:White bike with The Buddha:
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Permalink Reply by mike w. on -
Gerry, it is a LeTour, i and '87 is a good guess. Actually, it's originally my daughter's bike which we keep around as the family loaner bike. Wouldn't mind finding another one that was more my size, it was one of Schwinn's better efforts.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin C on -
I rode to the Midwest Buddhist Temple on Menominee yesterday. No Buddha. Well, no visible Buddha anyway. I felt his presence, and was infinitely cognizant of the Buddhist belief that everything is interconnected - every object, being, and concept is connected to what caused it, and what is around it. At the same time, for purposes of a Photo Tag game, I acknowledge that this epiphany has limited value.
So today, I rode to The Funky Buddha Lounge. Perhaps a bit less "pure" in its interconnectedness, but for purposes of the Photo Tag game-just what the Buddha ordered.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin C on
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Pending approval by the official rules committee, I offer the following tag for your consideration: Your bike with one or more snowmen/snowwomen. (Damn you Al Gore!) And Merry Christmas!
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Permalink Reply by Ed on -
got the tag and a personal enlightenment, what a game.
Bring on the snowmen(women)
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Permalink Reply by h' 1.0 on -
So I have to go out and get a photograph of "your bike with one or more snowmen/snowwomen?"
Is your bike going to be available in the next few days?
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Permalink Reply by Kevin C on
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Possibly in Chinatown.
h' said:So I have to go out and get a photograph of "your bike with one or more snowmen/snowwomen?"
Is your bike going to be available in the next few days?
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Permalink Reply by JimmyD 3.75 mi on -
Here's my commuter rig next to a snowman...
Next tag....
Tomorrow morning, I will post up a new pic for the next tag. I have to admit, I don't have a good idea for the next tag yet... I need to think of a good pic during my morning ride, and I'll post it up before 9:00am.
Kevin C said:Pending approval by the official rules committee, I offer the following tag for your consideration: Your bike with one or more snowmen/snowwomen. (Damn you Al Gore!) And Merry Christmas!
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Permalink Reply by JimmyD 3.75 mi on
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New tag: Bike next to a famous sculpture
This is my bike in front of the Thompson Center next to the Jean Dubuffet sculpture "Monument with Standing Beast" (1984).
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Permalink Reply by Holly on -
"5. One tag at a time within thread. File photos are NOT permitted. You gotta ride to play this game."
(I really don't mind, myself, but it seems like the ride itself is a key part of the game. (I see I violated the rules and put more than 1 photo in a thread and took the photos post ride.)
Anyway--is the tag, "bike with monument"?
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Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio 6.5 mi on -
Holly, I think the year is the year the sculpture was erected--not when the photo was taken.
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