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 h' Zerocats on
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Let's make it 2 hours.
yaj 3.2 said:I agree, two weeks is long enough to wait. Maybe we can add that to the rules, that after two weeks without a match anyone else can re-start the game?
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Permalink Reply by Ed on
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Or we can make a tag from the un-matched tag picture. I like the Stranger in a Captain Morgan pose with bike idea.
Or picture of bike with someone in a Willow-made Balacava.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Mulcky on
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I thought this was about riding, not getting strangers to pose with your bike...
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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on
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I don't think there should be a time limit, I just think you all (me included) are lazy..... I'm trying to work on it now since I have 2 board members on my block.
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OLD TAG: ATA Board Member/former employee/ exec director(CBF) with my bike
NEW TAG: Give me an hour to get this week's newsletter out and I'll get something up. I'm SOOOO excited to play finally!
Sarah D. 1-3.3 said:I am so excited to finally get to play.
Panda shot - this was scary!:
New Tag: Bike with someone who works for Active Transportation Alliance (Thanks, Brian)!
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I would have just changed the photo angle a bit and created a new tag of "my bike with a lawn chair."
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New Tag: A picture of someone you know in a Chicago newspaper from 2011 or earlier with your bicycle. Cannot include you or any blood relatives in the picture. Does not have to be bicycle-related.
Here are two:
#1 - Centerfold of Lauren Sailor in a November 18, 2008 Red Eye article about biking in winter.
#2 - One of my best friends on the cover of The Sun Times on June 2, 2011 when civil unions became legal in Illinois.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on
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Terrific! I'll check back in another two weeks.
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Is this one too hard??? Let's give it a few days and if no one can get it I'll tweak slightly, ok? Sir Master Ed, is that ok?
Kevin C 4.1 mi said:Terrific! I'll check back in another two weeks.
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It has nothing to do with too hard. The point of the game is to get participants to ride around to different locations to reproduce the active tag. The location should be generic enough to enable everyone interested in playing to be able to ride somewhere whether in the suburbs, in the city, or out of state. Your bike with a pre-2011 newspaper photograph of someone you know is neither generic enough so that everyone can participate, nor the type of tag which encourages/enables others to ride around for the tag.
It doesn't comply with rule 2 or 3.
Julie Hochstadter said:Is this one too hard??? Let's give it a few days and if no one can get it I'll tweak slightly, ok? Sir Master Ed, is that ok?
Kevin C 4.1 mi said:Terrific! I'll check back in another two weeks.
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Ok. Need to ride somewhere, got it. Will redo tag. If not today, for sure tomorrow.
Kevin C 4.1 mi said:It has nothing to do with too hard. The point of the game is to get participants to ride around to different locations to reproduce the active tag. The location should be generic enough to enable everyone interested in playing to be able to ride somewhere whether in the suburbs, in the city, or out of state. Your bike with a pre-2011 newspaper photograph of someone you know is neither generic enough so that everyone can participate, nor the type of tag which encourages/enables others to ride around for the tag.
It doesn't comply with rule 2 or 3.
Julie Hochstadter said:Is this one too hard??? Let's give it a few days and if no one can get it I'll tweak slightly, ok? Sir Master Ed, is that ok?
Kevin C 4.1 mi said:Terrific! I'll check back in another two weeks.
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