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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 Kevin C Dormant on January 3, 2013 at 6:15pm

Now I see it. Jimmy's got the tag. Looks like I'm riding again tonight...

JimmyD said:

Ha! Kevin... we must have been posting at about the same time. If you'll check the post right before yours, I did in fact replicate the active tag just before your post! (Elephant and Castle pub pic.)

No worries though... I will defer my active tag in favor of your active tag... simply because it's cooler than my tag. I think I might be able to replicate yours on my ride in about 1 hour after I get off the Metra! (Local legion hall here i come!)

Cheers.

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on January 3, 2013 at 6:34pm

No, Kevin's got the tag!

No, Jimmy's got the tag!

Permalink Reply by JimmyD on January 3, 2013 at 6:42pm

HA! If I got off the Metra a few stops back, I seriously could have gotten a pic of a jet plane and a bunch of beer signs at the legion hall in Round Lake Park! heh.

Cameron 7.5 mi said:

Someone just go find a tank with a beer sign, and then we know we're covered.

Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on January 3, 2013 at 8:36pm

Alrighty. In my neighborhood, beer advertisement is almost too easy, so I have a bad photo of one in Polish. Zimne Piwo.

 

And for the new tag, I have a photo of more retired military hardware:

together with the "business end" of the retired military hardware decorated for the holidays:

Permalink Reply by We all have an inner Beast... on January 4, 2013 at 12:15am

Since I am retired from the military, would I count as retired military hardware ?

Maybe one with my CIB ?

 

 

Respectfully,

 

Manny

Permalink Reply by Sarah D. on January 4, 2013 at 6:15pm

Hey, are we waiting for a new tag, Kevin? Or does someone need to do more bikes next to military stuff?

Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on January 4, 2013 at 6:34pm

Someone needs to do a photo of their bike next to retired military hardware before they post a photo of the next active tag.

Sarah D. said:

Hey, are we waiting for a new tag, Kevin? Or does someone need to do more bikes next to military stuff?

Permalink Reply by Ed on January 5, 2013 at 7:13pm

Looks like the current tag is your bike next to military hardware.

Permalink Reply by We all have an inner Beast... on January 7, 2013 at 3:01am

My Beast with retired Artillery piece ( I think it's an old 105mm )New tag is...Bike with a dedicated Military Monument or statue.

Permalink Reply by dan brown on January 7, 2013 at 9:08am

OK this doesn't count as a bike : but I cannot resist my dog (Tyrone) tied to a tank at Smith Park

Permalink Reply by We all have an inner Beast... on January 9, 2013 at 1:25am

Ok.

Who has the tag and what is the topic/subject?

Is anyone still following this one ?

Just wondering....

Respectfully,

Manny

Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on January 9, 2013 at 8:59am

My bike at a military monument.  This one is dedicated to Walter Truemper (sorry about my crummy photography), a WW2 Navy flyer who got his crew safely off an airplane and then rode the plane to his death in the Pacific.

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NEXT TAG: Your bike at a medical facility (any sort of hospital, clinic, doctor's office...your choice)

These pictures were all shot before dawn this morning at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (VA Hospital) in North Chicago, IL, next door to Naval Station Great Lakes.

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