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 Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on February 1, 2013 at 9:12am

noted. will have done most likely today worse case tomorrow.

Ed said:

yup, you have to ride to the tag. And it should be something that even someone outside of Chicago could do. For the out of state Chainlinkers.

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Permalink Reply by Ed on February 4, 2013 at 2:01am

waiting.......

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on February 4, 2013 at 2:08am

I haven't been on my bike all weekend. Tag is open to anyone who wants it.

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Permalink Reply by Ed on February 4, 2013 at 2:24am

This looks like a good tag, lets go with this one. Game on

Kelvin Mulcky said:

Okay, it's been two weeks. Let's just move on and try to keep things a little less specific in the future...

Hope you don't mind me volunteering a new tag. I was having fun with this and want to keep on playing!

How about this:

Take a picture of your bike in front of a mural or large work of art.

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Permalink Reply by dan brown on February 4, 2013 at 3:37am

ed - good one. I love that mural, it is on one of my routes home. Is that Fulton street or Hubbard ?

it's next to the used car battery place, right ? (ooops sorry to mention cars)

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on February 4, 2013 at 4:39am

I got the old tag (ATA), but gave up my new tag since I haven't been on the bike in a few days, so we are going with Kevin's.

h' 1.0 said:

Huh? I thought the process is that a "majority of active users have to vote down" the allegedly "difficult" tag.

Kelvin, where do you live? I'll have someone from Active Trans come to your house for the photo shoot.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on February 4, 2013 at 6:04am

We are going with "Kelvin's" tag; i.e. your bike in front of a mural or large work of art.

Julie Hochstadter said:

I got the old tag (ATA), but gave up my new tag since I haven't been on the bike in a few days, so we are going with Kevin's.

h' 1.0 said:

Huh? I thought the process is that a "majority of active users have to vote down" the allegedly "difficult" tag.

Kelvin, where do you live? I'll have someone from Active Trans come to your house for the photo shoot.