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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 yaj 7.4 on June 26, 2013 at 8:53pm

Feel free to revive it!

Permalink Reply by Rich S on June 26, 2013 at 9:07pm

I'm happy to grab a new tag if people think the current one is too cute.  I'm not going to prowl cemeteries looking for the current tag and since no one's taken it in about a month I vote time to move on.  

yaj 7.4 said:

Feel free to revive it!

Permalink Reply by Thedutchtouch on June 27, 2013 at 1:31am

seconded! i think everyone got distracted by the keg. anywho, it should be long drank by now...

Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on June 27, 2013 at 7:52am

Let's recap the history and rules of the game, in an effort to keep the game going. Ed adapted this game (for bicycles) from a game that a Ducati group plays. The Ducati group has members from around the world. Accordingly, tags must be of a type that someone in Switzerland or Australia can replicate. While the chainlink doesn't quite have that type of global reach, it does have active members from distant suburbs, exurbs and different states. 

If you get a picture of your bike with a Faberge egg, I'm happy for you, but if you post it in this photo tag thread, you have effectively killed the game. Likewise, if you post a picture of your bike with a member of the Active Transportation Alliance, or your bike with the gravestone of a revolutionary war veteran, you are killing the game. This is not a scavenger hunt. This is a game to encourage people to ride their bikes. Photos should be sufficiently generic that everyone who wants to should be able to play along.

Your bike with a police car is a "good tag." Your bike with a Morton Grove police car is a "bad tag."

Your bike with a gravestone is a "good tag." Your bike with a revolutionary war veteran is a "bad tag."

Your bike with a street sign with your birth year on it is a "good tag." Your bike at a particular intersection is a "bad tag."

Now somebody go out and get a new tag.

Permalink Reply by Ed on June 27, 2013 at 8:38am

What Kevin said, so we don't look dumber than a bunch of leather-clad, stuck up race bike riders.

Permalink Reply by JimmyD on June 27, 2013 at 11:20am

That would be a completely different game though. Maybe a new thread would be appropriate is you would like it to be played that way?

Evan said:

Why not have rolling tags? Using the existing example: to "roll" the tag of the revolutionary war hero grave, you post a tag of your bike in front of a goofy guy holding a sign in a tricorner hat at a tea party rally, next tag is someones bike in front of a lady holding a sign in front of a department store sale, next tag is your bike in front of a race car in front of a department store, and so on......
Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on June 27, 2013 at 11:21am

And more importantly, this would be another excellent example of how one of the well-meaning participants could kill this game.

JimmyD 3.75 mi said:

That would be a completely different game though. Maybe a new thread would be appropriate is you would like it to be played that way?

Evan said:

Why not have rolling tags? Using the existing example: to "roll" the tag of the revolutionary war hero grave, you post a tag of your bike in front of a goofy guy holding a sign in a tricorner hat at a tea party rally, next tag is someones bike in front of a lady holding a sign in front of a department store sale, next tag is your bike in front of a race car in front of a department store, and so on......
Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on June 27, 2013 at 12:08pm

I can't really get behind the notion that a too-challenging tag is what killed this game.

It looks more to me like a complete absence of challenge-- the rules were kind of thrown out early on, so effectively it ends up being about as interesting as "post a (bad) picture of your bike."

Besides-- the tag that allegedly killed the game was declared "awesome."

Permalink Reply by JimmyD on June 27, 2013 at 12:25pm

Can we change the name of this thread to "Bicycle Photo Tag DEBATE game"?  ;-)

Permalink Reply by mark stetson on June 27, 2013 at 12:46pm

My intent was not to kill the game, simply to get someone to ride to a location they wouldn't have otherwise.  I though that was the idea.

 

Just for the record, the tag was for a War of 1812 veteran.  I thought it was pretty easy, at least for those in the USA.  I didn't recall the anywhere on the planet rule.

 

http://www.triblocal.com/west-chicago/community/stories/2012/06/war...

 

Here's one that should be easy: Your bike with a road closed sign.

Permalink Reply by Ed on June 27, 2013 at 1:16pm

Game On

Permalink Reply by daWillinChi on June 27, 2013 at 1:28pm

By whom? IIRC, it was only declared as an "awesome" theme for Memorial day, but not the tag itself



h' 1.0 said:

Besides-- the tag that allegedly killed the game was declared "awesome."

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