Bicycle Tag of bike

A new tag that is a pretag is acceptable. Getting someone elses tag with your pretag does not belong in btob!

Ps. The video is pretty cool, nice trends there. Is it possible to have the lines through them all or is that too messy?

Perhaps different colours for different distances, say under 3 miles, under 6, and over 10 etc...

I see the point, and the fun, of the game as being the continuity between the tags. As Skully says, you go out, find the old one and make a new one on the same trip or at least the same day. If someone beats you to it, c'est la vie. Only having to do half the work because you have a pre-tag on your PC seems an unfair advantage and all a bit about winning rather than taking part. I know it can enable people to pick more interesting locations but that's an added bonus to me rather than the aim of the game.
If pre-tags are allowed then insisting on it being the same bike looks like a way of faking the continuity; how can it be that 2 bikes on one day is not ok but one bike weeks or months apart is?

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This is where the fun links between old/new tags come into play - I enjoy most those that cleverly respond to the previous one, not so easy with tags from the freezer. For what it's worth, I'm gonna stick with the fresh ones - more fun, more creative, and more of a challenge

There are 2 tags I've done that I'm particularly proud of.

First was the cricket ground in Merton. An absolutely straight down the line tag. I rode down to Merton to bag the old one, rode back north to get a (sort of) related tag, went home and posted both pics together with all relevant info. The tags were 12 miles apart as the crow flies, I covered maybe 25-30 miles doing it and posted a couple of decent photos.

The other tag was a pic I'd taken in Paris over a month and a half before hand.

Oddly enough I am, if anything, more proud of the second.

Point is, if there is actually a point, that this is not a game that can be won. It is competitive, but competitive in a way that appeals to my inner hippy, in so far as there is no definite right or wrong, we are all winners, even if some are more winny than others. Were all just showing off. Showing off how far we can ride, showing off how fast we can get there, showing off the strangest nooks and crannies of London we have found, showing off what weather we are prepared to go out in purely to play. There is no prize at the end other than your own pride in your achievement, so if you do want to cheat you are only cheating yourself.

This is all self evident anyway, so more tagging less talking.

On that vein, I was very pleased after getting Johns's fish one in Woolwich. That took a lot of detective work.

So the five hundredth one is soon right? Perhaps we all go for a group ride and get another mass tag?

I've just done some rough & ready calculations.

Total: 897 Miles between tags
Max: 11.8 miles
Average: 2.47 miles

(These are based on the 365 tags in the mapping kml file, and some quick and dirty co-ord conversions)

I'll stop derailing the thread with pointless stats and vids, back to tagging...

I feel like throwing another cryptic clue into the mix:
An acre mor nextdoor. A garden where Whistler and Turner paid the ferryman. Lots more power to his arm.

I like stats :)

And for what it's worth, I don't mind pre-tags that much. Pre-tags have brought us some of the best photography, and most interesting places in this thread. Pure pre-tagging would suck, but an outright ban on pre-tags would be a detriment to the variety and entertainment value of the game.

Someone get this tag! I'm stuck at home for the next few days. Need someone to cycle for me.

what I love (and I've enjoyed the meta-tag chat last couple of pages) is that the BToB GAME JUST WORKS even though everyone has their own set of rules about what they do and what they enjoy. keep playing.

First was the cricket ground in Merton. An absolutely straight down the line tag. I rode down to Merton to bag the old one, rode back north to get a (sort of) related tag, went home and posted both pics together with all relevant info. The tags were 12 miles apart as the crow flies, I covered maybe 25-30 miles doing it and posted a couple of decent photos.

Let's face it, you just like tags in the middle of nowhere.

Whew

Old place: Cremorne Riverside Kayaking Centre, Lots Road, K&C.

I nearly baled on doing this, but it was worth the trip.

I was busy trying to track the last tag down and got Battersea Bridge from the clues. Looks like I was getting there....

Very close indeed!

I like the rusty exterior at the Cremorne.

All the way over there! Thats a grand bit of tag movement.

I thought that you might have had designs on the longest distance between tags, but its well under that...

I like the rusty exterior....

You'd love the view from my office window then. In fact I was tempted to go and drill some holes in it and claim the last tag....

I did more on my first tag, I think, St Pancras to Norwood - I wanted this spot for a reason connected to the first.

Skully, was the new tag featured on Grand Designs?

bloody ages ago it was! I'm going past there later... can I tag it from inside a train?

lovely bike, skulls.

damn, I know where that is as well and always wanted an excuse to go look at it.
(will clearly be tagged before saturday)
good old grand designs.

Yes to grand designs. I remember that one.

Hmm, wonder which one....feel like I'm grasping at straws