Bicycle Tag of bike

@lynx
Subtle.

Old: Conor Harrington's mural on Trafalgar Road, Greenwich.

New: Taking patriotism to new depths

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Still no idea how the clue relates to the previous tag.

Coloured hag ... green witch

Of course, it's so obvious.

Not getting anywhere with the new one either, not even with enlarge and enhance.

oops, were you joking? Sorry

I never joke.

I think this is in fact a new one, not a regenerated one. I was confusing it with another one slightly further up the line.

Found it, but not somewhere I fancy a ride.

Might venture out there tomorrow unless someone beats me to it?

Hello hello! I just discovered this site and the gambit of BikeTag games that you have here! 10 years running!!? That's awesome!!

I (Ken) am not in your area of the world, I am over in Portland, Oregon, USA. But I wanted to say hello and see if any of y'all wanted to connect.

Cheers!

That’s amazing. I had no idea. Where did your tag originate / what platform is it played on? I’m pretty sure @MinhDinh brought it over from a motorbike forum.

https://biketag.org/about says 'The game was originally found on /r/BikingATX' which leads to https://www.reddit.com/r/BikingATX/comments/1dhjbr/photo_tag/ which is 7 years old

I moved here almost two years ago from Philly where we used to play "photo tag" on our bike forum.

He has a web-site:

https://biketag.org/

Here it is for Portland, for instance:

https://portland.biketag.org/archive?count=all

It's a nice way of archiving pictures, which we've had problems with here, but questions that arise immediately are whether there's a forum so people can chat, and whether people can give clues? Was the idea born from a Portland bike forum?

Also, there doesn't seem to be A MAP! :)

And yes, MinhDinh, the patron saint of BToB, started it. Praised be his name.

Looks as if they have Ludwigs in Philly, too:

After playing for a while in Philly people started coming up with some really obscure ones, ie. top of a parking garage at night and you could only make out a few lights in the background of the photo.

I can't find anything for Philly Photo Tag on a quick search. Maybe it's died or it's in a walled garden somewhere.

Good use of Google- wouldn’t expect any less from hardened taggers!

It’s definitely a much slicker format. Definitely miss the chat, especially context for the tags - though maybe Ken read our endless ‘clue please; no a better clue’ ‘ re-tag!’ ‘no more churches / ping pong tables / anonymous brick walls’ ‘wait, there’s a map?’ and made a conscious decision?

I’m still really intrigued to know if there was an ur-bike tag we’re all descended from. We may never know.

Obviously ideally we’d do an exchange visit with Portland bike tag - but as that is perhaps not 100% practical maybe we revive the BTOB rides. I think there were a couple - @oat44 and I did an underground version and I remember a night one that @Katie-coo did. Was nice to put names to faces and revisit some of the tags.

Yes please to another BTOB ride.

Was the idea born from a Portland bike forum?

From the first post:

I copied this from my motorcycle forum.

In fact they are really really old games... I can find online references to "tag-o-rama" games played by motorcycles to the mid-noughties. And that made me ask my dad if he ever played it (he's an old Hells Angel from the 1970s and still rides to this day) and the answer is yes! Though it used to be with riddles and clues more than photos, but eventually became photos when it was quick and cheap to do so (disposable film cameras and mail-in printing).

Here's a nice example that predates LFGSS doing it (this is from 2009) and they already acknowledge that it was done elsewhere: https://advrider.com/f/threads/texas-tag-o-rama.457739/ . That forum has hundreds of tag-o-rama threads for different areas.

Oh, I know where ours came from. I didn't mean to ask whether the general idea was born from a Portland forum, but where Ken got it from, which jellybaby found. Great to hear about the ancient history! Good games never die.

Ha, with motorcycles the range is just so much greater.

I haven't even ever looked if motorcyclists played the game in London or whether MinhDinh's motorcycle forum was London-centric.

'Tag-o-rama' seems to be an American expression from what I can see. I'm probably not searching well, but I can't find any motorcycle tagging in London.

@itsbruce may be pleased or displeased to hear that another tag game came up with the expression 'to bruce' for what we call tagzumping:

There can be frustrations for sure. Obscure tags can waste an inordinate amount of your time. “C’mon, there must be 50 early Coloradoans named Harold! Which one is it!?” And most cringe worthy of all is to be “sniped” or “bruced”—figure out a tag, ride over there, then check your phone to see that someone got the tag 3 minutes earlier. Argh! But remember, you just got a ride out of it, and that qualifies as a good thing in my book.

https://ridermagazine.com/2015/04/02/tag-o-rama-a-motorcycle-game-of-youre-it/

That’s really interesting, though as Oliver says, the range was potentially enormous! Truly we have a lot to be grateful to @MinhDinh for!