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Tiger Tag O Rama (Picture Game)

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Tag O Rama (Photo-Tag)

ANY TIGER CAN PLAY!! And, if your Tiger is in the shop you're more than welcome to participate with whatever motorcycle you've got.

First person to get the tag gets to post the new target theme. Post a picture of your Tiger with the LAST requested "tag" in the chain, then you get "control" and post a picture of your Tiger with a NEW target. The new tag must be generic enough and standard for anyone around the world to join in and play.

New time limit rule. The tag needs to be completed, start to finish within 48 hours. "Completed" meaning, old tag photo and the new challenge photo need to be posted within 48hours of each other. If the time limit is not met, the challenge will revert back to the old challenge photo. Additionally, 1) After 3 days, the person who made the challenge can post their own picture and pick another topic. (2) If a challenge is not met after 5 days a new topic is picked by the previous challenger winner. (3) If a pic is in dispute, it needs 3 yes votes to be accepted.

No stock photo's for the OLD TAG. You can use stock photo's for the challenge tag (new tag) though.

Challenge photos: Keep things simple in such a manor as to keep the game flowing as quickly as possible. Try not to use "specific" movable objects as they are tough to predict where they'll be at any given time. Again, think of a challenge that will keep the game moving, if they're tricky to duplicate the game will stall.

If someone has an issue with the difficulty of a tag please post here or PM me so I can make some adjustments.



Here is the first challenge. Your Tiger pictured with an industrial chimney.
 
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#2,582 ·
I like this picture of you on dry land much better than the flood you posted earlier! Glad you got the plane. I was looking for small airports and wondering how to tell my riding buddies we were going to go airport-hunting on Saturday instead of something else.
 
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As a matter of fact, here's a photograph from the bridge behind our house. This boat is about a 42'. To the right maybe another hundred yards after the photograph is the river. To the left through the woods about 200 yards is our home. The 'road' it is sitting on is made out of sugar sand. There's no way a large truck can put a large boat on its back and pull it through that sand.
 
#2,587 · (Edited)
New Challenge

Your Tiger and a farmer's market, or produce stand or some kind of countryside grocery-store alternative. Extra points for pumpkins.



I am doing the happy dance right now! After an hour today researching on the forums and trying, trying TRYING to upload more than a thumbnail, I discovered that I just needed to paste the link into the message to get the full-size. I had been trying to link the URL through Manage Attachments, and getting repeated error messages. Woot!
 
#2,589 ·
Old tag:

Your Tiger and a farmer's market, or produce stand or some kind of countryside grocery-store alternative.

Pumpkins won't grow here, but Lake Constance is well known for the fruit farms surrounding it. One of them is the Schrofen Farm with its own Hofladen - "Hof" means farm and "Laden" means shop. The lake area is about 60 miles away from my place and is also well known for its persistent autumn fog, so there's certainly no bright sunshine in this pic:



It being Sunday means that the place was closed. But if you look closely, then you'll see the scales on the table and an (unlocked) metal cash box next to it. The sheet of paper on the right of the scales lists the prices for those various fruits and vegetables on display in those open-top green boxes. Customers are welcome to help themselves, weigh the produce and drop the money into the cash box. The farmer can safely expect that the amount of money he'll find in that cash box on Monday morning will match the amount of merchandise that has disappeared over the weekend.
I have lived in many countries, but unfortunately in most of them the farmer would probably not only miss his cash box on Monday morning, but also all of his merchandise plus the scales...

Tanks and aircrafts we already had before, the same applies for a car wash. So for the new tag I suggest your tiger and a truck wash:



Have fun hunting and ride safely.

Pete
 
#2,590 · (Edited)
Truck wash!



This is why enjoy this game - I wasn't going to ride today, but a friend called and I rode with her for a couple of hours, then headed two hours out of my way to get this truck wash picture. I passed a truck storage yard that had clearly 2 large bays in the washing building for washing trucks, but it didn't have a sign saying truck wash. On my way to this one I discovered a beautifully paved road with a few curves and very few traffic signals. Without the game, I would have headed home and worked on my to-do list. Riding is usually always better than one's to-do list.
 
#2,591 ·
And the new challenge - your Tiger and a covered bridge. My friend took this picture - it's too bad she wasn't on the opposite side of the side-road, to show the cut-out windows and interesting paint job on the outside of the bridge cover. That's what you get when you delegate, but at least I didn't have to get off my bike!

We were in the middle of a Horde of Harleys (my term for a group of this type - you know, along the lines of "army of frogs", "pride of lions", etc.) who were in the midst of a poker run. The Harley Dudes kindly waited for me to get my picture before roaring through the bridge.

I did google covered bridges in Florida, Northern California and Switzerland, and each place has some. Of course, Madison County of the "Bridges of Madison County" movie in Iowa has lots.

 
#2,594 ·
New challenge: your Tiger and a spot where any two bodies of water converge. Here is mine upon the bridge over the Matanzas Inlet; the Atlantic Ocean cuts underneath me to become the Matanzas River about 100 yards away.
Atlantic Ocean:


Matanzas River:


Hope it takes you somewhere new and exciting.
 
#2,596 ·
Interesting challenge. I have the Cuyahoga River draining into Lake Erie near me, but I'll have to figure out where these converge (downtown!) and see if I can get a picture somewhere. I can't get out until Sunday at the earliest, so someone may beat me to this.

I looked up your Bridge of Lions. I think you should do a challenge of a bridge with giant sculptures guarding the entrance. I have one of those also, only not lions.
 
#2,599 ·
Old tag: "... your Tiger and a spot where any two bodies of water converge."

We have no access to the sea in landlocked Switzerland, but lots of lakes and rivers. I had a look last night and thought that I could give you something impressive like the place where the river Rhine flows into lake Constance. Unfortunately all our rivers come down from the Alps and bring lots of debris along. Any confluence results in large deltas with shifting, unstable boundaries and certainly zero roads or tracks in the vicinity. So I went from big to moderate and got ever smaller. I realized that this tag in my part of the world is as difficult as convincing us Euros to drink tap water or make a North American pronounce the word aluminium correctly. So all I could come up with is this modest image:



This is the place where the Limmat and Aare rivers converge. Actually this is one of several little arms of the Limmat (on the left) pouring into the Aare (on the right) and certainly the only one accessible by road.

Assuming that David is OK with this rather unimpressive picture, then I suggest for the new tag your Tiger at a Garden Centre or nursery:



Have fun and ride safely.

Pete
 
#2,601 ·
This is where Lake Huron meets the Saint Clair River.
That was the kind of picture I wanted to take, but unfortunately I couldn't find that kind of an impressive location over here. And your "Girlie" looks impressive, too; even the local wildlife appears rather mesmerized, given how that bird stares at her...

We Euros have an unfair time advantage; if by the early morning in Europe no Aussie or Kiwi has posted anything, then we usually have the tag for us until after dusk in this part of the world.

Maybe on your way home you can do a stopover at a nursery?

All the best

Pete
 
#2,603 ·
Agree on the beautiful pic Oldmann. I love those stripey 955s - yours is a great colour.

I was going to head out to my local nursery yesterday when I (ironically) got distracted chopping down overgrown old bushes, which now require a visit to the nursery to replace.
 
#2,606 ·
This one is certainly off topic - apologies for that to everyone else:

I stopped to ride in a Sugar beet Harvester from your side of the pond. A Vervaet.
I was unaware that sugar beet harvesting was viable in the US. Those Dutch guys from Vervaet are certainly the best we have "on our side of the pond", though I didn't know that those harvesters have ever been commercially exported to the US.

Feel free to drop me a PM if you wish to elaborate.

All the best

Pete
 
#2,610 ·
This one is certainly off topic - apologies for that to everyone else:



I was unaware that sugar beet harvesting was viable in the US. Those Dutch guys from Vervaet are certainly the best we have "on our side of the pond", though I didn't know that those harvesters have ever been commercially exported to the US.

Feel free to drop me a PM if you wish to elaborate.

All the best

Pete
We used to see truckloads of sugar beets when I was a kid in my home province of Manitoba, Canada. These posts about sugar beet harvesters led me to look up sugar beet cultivation in Manitoba. Apparently, other crops have replaced the sugar beets (likely cannot compete with the cheap high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener) and they are no longer grown in Manitoba.
 
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