and here are some examples and such.
So for example, Jason dropped this tag:
Quizbot Picked it up:
and then dropped a new one:
complete with a hint of the tag's location
I grabbed the tag earlier:
and will post another one tomorrow night. The game continues on as such.
There is no active tag just yet, but there will be within 36 hours, I promise! 
I'm reposting this info so it appears on the first page, for the convenience of new players.
Here's the Tag-O-Rama map, with links to the threads
Here's the Tag-O-Rama spreadsheet showing who got which tag
Perhaps this would be a good opportunity to rephrase rule 5, "The bicycle in the picture must get to the tag location under its own power." The game's motorcycle origins are peeking through here. Suggested replacement: "5. The bicycle in the picture must get to the tag location under the player's own power."
done.
Any other suggestions, while we can reword?
Yay, team! This is so fun to watch!
fixed.
Some more links for convenience
For new players: How to post photos
(Also, there's a missing # before the 5 in the rules.)
lame. I messed it up. Too late though...
BTW, I did hear back from erok, he said he thought he fixed it (but I guess not?) but he had limited access to deal with it on account of being in mexico...
It kind sucks we could not keep the original thread going but it was beginning to be a pain in the ass. I like all the info on the first page now.
RF: can you edit your first post to contain the tag map and other good info people posted above?
Sadly, you can only edit a post within the first hour that you've posted it.
Most of that info is in the first couple of posts after the initial photos. I'm just glad it's all on the first page. I could never find the link to that map in the original thread, and it was in there a couple of times.
I know erok can work some after-the-fact magic, but he's vacationing.
oh, thanks!
I took a shot of the new tag, but I'm not at a computer that can read SD cards. just a few more hours.
EDIT: looking at the picture, i'll have to take another picture, because I missed all the distinguishing characteristics of the place in mine. It'll still be posted around 8pm though
New Tag!
This is a pretty rad place if you're looking for some reading material.
Sorry for staying in the east. But I think yinz can put up with it: I believe in Yinz.
Ah close by, but just not in the mood to get rained on
Editing Complete:
The introduction, rules and helpful links have been added to the first post of this thread- if anyone wants to add anything else, let me know.
a quick note on the current tag (not a hint): I recommend going when they're open, pick up some books. If you show your Bike-PGH member card, you get 10% off!
[don't get any.]
Big idea bookstore on liberty and millvale
I can't believe that sat for so long. I believe they're also working on getting a cafe setup. Cool people. They're like the freeride of books.
I actually volunteer there, and we are working on setting up a cooperative cafe/bookstore. I'm really excited about it.
new tag:
(sorry for the poor composition of this photo.)
Yesterday i was googling some trivia about pittsburgh. I read that the first drive-in gas station was constructed here. I think that it may be a disputed thing or maybe it was a specific kind of filling station that was the first, because other cities, such as portland, seem to also claim that they had the first. there IS one of those historical blue markers on the sidewalk saying it was first, though. maybe ask walt.. he may know?
I'll post a better image later, just wanted to get this posted quick.
That tag is at Baum and st Clair in slibby. I rarely ride on Baum past negley outbound, so I never noticed. There is an automotive repair place called walter's a few feet from here. Oh and the mortuary school is across the street. I Saw some studens smoking outside. Guess they want to become clients sooner?
Whoops - yeah, I forgot to post the street names. And now that I'm home looking at the image without all of the outside glare on my phone, hey, it's not so bad!
There's an odd, cool, sculpture thingee on top of the red pole. You can see it on both of our images.
Yeah I have no idea if it is of any significance.
New Tag
The last tag I found was in a Hill neighborhood -so too is this one. Conversely, my last tag forced riders to look down, this one - look up.
I laughed when I first saw the sculptures - amusing! Until today, I hadn't noticed the Sprout Fund plaque nearby.
i love that this was chosen over a mural for the public art!
not going to get there today though!
Dan- two things - is that the new bike I'm seeing in all your posts? And, you remembered the sculpture - right on! (FWIW, that is absolutely my favorite piece of sculpture in the city!)
Yes, new bike - amazing that you noticed. Ive been wanting disc brakes.
3106 Brereton St.
I did some googling to find this one. This article is worth a look:
http://blogski.phcapgh.org/vote-for-your-favorite-polish-hill-mural/
I missed it at first so I had to climb the hill 2 times.
This tag is very popular with skateboarders / BMX. Just don't skate there during school hours.
Yeah, This tag will more then likely be a hill climb (uphill from polish hill). Get out there while the weather is nice!
Thanks for posting the article about the artist and his work - I agree, worth a look. And yeah, me too, I rode up and down a couple hills trying to remember where I had seen the sculptures last year.
Any hints? Is the name of the school the same as a local park?
Hm, I have no idea where that skateable ampitheatre is. But, for those who liked the Paul Bowden sculptures, there are a few nice white porcelain ones hanging out on the walls at Lili cafe on Po'Hill.
there are some other paul bowden door handles in east liberty next to Tana too.
An earlier tag...
Yup, tag 62 featured the door handles.
Sad to report that the bridge sculpture in tag 164 has fallen over. I guess it now represents the city's crumbling infrastructure.
I thought this might be a tough one.
The school is not listed on google maps. That might make things a bit harder.
Copy and pasted:
____________ is a secondary magnet school in the _______ neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. _________ is one of ten high schools in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. ________ is currently a 6th-11th grade school with 530 students for the 2010-2011 school year and will expand to a full 6-12 school in the 2011-2012 school year.
I know where this is. Too late now, and the next few days look like rain, so maybe quizbot will get it.
I can't go anywhere till after work tomorrow...
Damn, I was looking at google maps in that area this morning. If it is still there on Wed I will get it.
Wow! Glad I got that bridge tag when I did! (Tag 164) I confess, though, that the mural of the girl on the bike, pigtails swinging, was what originally attracted me to the site.
Milliones Middle School. This was harder to find than I expected. I would have ridden right past if not for a helpful (and slightly suspicious) French teacher.
But now she's going to try riding to work so I've reached my two new commuters goal six months early.
Soooo, like, where is that?
New tag. If I was really competitive, i'd choose one that's harder for stefb to find.
I have been painting the house and then out of town for the past week-ish. Hmm I don't know where this one is. Gonna have to do some googling.
Oh, well, good to know you're not sick. This statue looks less like the Thinker, and more like, I dunno, the Bereaved.
Hidden in plain sight, I just walked past this yesterday while Visiting a family member. Nice Caring touch Lyle.
could we get another hint here? I have an idea of what kind of building but no idea where this could be located...
Many people stop here either on arrival to Pittsburgh, or on departure, or both.
What a shady clue...
There is a local center for AI (applications, not research, AFAIK) right nearby -- about 300' as the crow flies.
This tag is visible on StreetView but only just barely.
I see the picture is both out of focus and off-center. Oh well.
I got nothing on this one, it is a nice night and I'd like to go for a ride. How about another hint?
ah i think i got it. they are the enemy, if i am correct. perhaps tomorrow morning. i am in for the night.
Shadyside Hospital. Main entrance promenade on Centre Ave.
Yes, I did have a rotation at Shadyside (the dark side) when i was a student. I wonder if that was there in 2005? Anyway, even though they are my nemesis (since i work for the other health system), I had a nice time when I was a student. Can't complain.
I've had some un fun times there. I do like the trees and garden on this side of the building. Behind the sculpture a bunch of ferns are starting to uncurl.
I recall that there's been some kind of agonizongly pained sculpture in that area for a very long time. Not positive that it's always been the same one, but it seems likely.
My wife went to Shadyside Hosp School of Nursing for a while back in the '80s. They had a different sculpture then. I think it was named Oscar.
AGH! I see it now...man I figured it was Shadyside and was pouring over Google maps to verify, but haven't had time to go over and explore. Oh well. Nicely done Pseudacris.
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I think this is probably an easy/obvious one, but holler if yinz want clues.
I get messages like that a lot.
Mick, it's on your way home too.
I'd don't have the camera/post technology down.
Hell, I dont' even have caller ID on my home phone.
So I have gotten messages like "This is the third time I've called, dude! It's the last time! You gotta call me!" ...with no number. Much like the tag.
No time like the present to learn....
Even I got the hang of it!
Mick, if you have a gmail account, it comes with a free online photo album called Picasa. Pretty easy to upload from any computer with an internet connection, once you get the images off your camera.
For the record, I snap some of my tags on an old blackberry, but can't seem to post directly from it...so I end up using it like any other digital camera.
oh oh oh...I know it... I wonder if it'll be there after work though.... 
great, now i'm gonna have blondie in my head for the rest of the day!
Fortunately for me (but unfortunately for you), I don't know a lot of Blondie... 
crud, I don't know this one. I'm not going to ask for a clue, though I think I'm going to go home by a different way and see if I run into it.
If you want a nice glass of Albariño after work, head south after picking up this tag.
no time to grab it tonight but I know where it is now.
Building on 5th and Kirkpatrick/Birmingham Bridge.
It was an advertisement for Greater Love Outreach which closed its doors shortly after I got out of college (2005). They did this poor job of painting over the message soon afterward.
The hint Pseudacris mentions I believe refers to Mallorca, which is south of here across the Birmingham bridge in the South Side.
Nicely done!
Yes, Mallorca or the neighboring Ibiza.
I like how they painted this out. Looks like someone requested a billboard via the Freedom of Information Act & got a redacted photo 
NEW TAG:
Hint: Companionship of a sort, but not Man's Best.
I like how they painted this out. Looks like someone requested a billboard via the Freedom of Information Act & got a redacted photo
I always found it funny how they chose to make it obvious that something was there before...I think they must have run out of paint. I'm not sure what they did or why the program got cancelled. Something with youth...and a friend of mine from college was involved with it I think.
Funny, I ride by that every day but never saw it. Must be the blood in my eyes. I think I know the new tag, but not sure.
I know where the new tag is but, I am too lazy / busy to bike there.
Tag:
Corner of S Graham and Coral St
I drooped a pin right on it in google maps. If it is still there in the morning, I will go after it. I have to pack for the 5 boros ride tonight though (*excitement!*)
I rode around the east end for a while trying to find a creative tag. I saw quite a few but I'd like to make you guys work a bit for it. This one is at what I belive to be the highest point between the rivers. It is just outside city limits. There is a giant water tower just outside the field of view on the right. The buildings in the pic are downtown. I belive this is one of the furthest points downtown can be seen.
Here is the view, you can see part of the fence on te right that surrounds the water tower.
Here is another photo:
This water treatment plant is nearby, maybe about 1/2 mile north east. This is not the tag.
Sorry for the crappy iPhone photos. If you what more clues just let me know. I might be able to get a daytime photo in the morning depending on what is going on.
Surprised that Pgh. Montessori school tag went so fast.
Here is a google earth snapshot of what you might see in the day time:
Here is the water tower on street view (note the steep hill the google car is on, if you come from the other direction it is not nearly as bad):
Here is another street view photo, if you look real close you can see the Cathedral of Learning, you can see downtown through all of the haze:
My best guess by looking at google it that is at about 1225 to 1250 feet in elevation.
That no pets sign and fence is so stupid. I guess dog owners were abusing the grass so they put up giant ugly signs and a fence in front of another fence. Way to beautify the neighborhood.
after about a half hour of work, i found the current tag. i was thinking of heading that way after work for a ride/errand. perhaps i will consider it more strongly now.
@rsprake: um, most fences around schoolyards are probably more about keeping kids safe from abduction, and probably less about dog poo and aesthetics.
The giant even uglier 20 ft chain link fence probably has more to do with keeping kids inside, the black fence serves no other purpose other than to keep people off of the grass.
I'll bet the kids can get through that hole at the bottom of the fence, and I'm sure that some can climb it. I think they need razor wire, and probably Dobermans in the no-man's land between the fences.
@rsprake - keeping them in, keeping them out, maybe both. One thing is for certain, that fence keeps predators out, and you will find one around every school yard.
That black fence has probably been there for 80 years though. Nobody - and certainly not Pittsburgh Public Schools, is going around installing wrought iron fences these days. And certainly not to keep out dogs.
@Jason, dang you put my cycling range to shame...and at night too!
I am thinking something like this Lyle.
When I was a kid playgrounds weren't prisons and we liked it!
oh, yeah! INVISIBLE Dobermans, even better/worse.
the Herron tower tag is at 1260 ft
the new tag is at 1261 ft
I have a 'between the rivers' tag to drop at 1350 ft... there's just a pinch more elevation to be found out there
Montessori fence: the tall one surrounds the playground behind the school & also serves to keep kickballs, footballs, etc from flying into the street. There's also a garden on the one side between the iron & chain link & trees scattered about, so it's not entirely unpleasant aesthetically. FWIW, the side playground w/ slides & jungle gym doesn't have the tall fencing, which reinforces my flying object theory.
the corner of cushing and brushton, up past lemington off mt. carmel. i did work for it, by the way! but i was planning on headed to dirty harry's (my route there goes out lincoln) after work, and managed to do that, despite getting there after they closed (apparently they close at 6, but they were kind enough to let me make my purchase, and harangue them with my many questions--good folks!).
I was going to comment yesterday about spots between the rivers, not too far away, at better than 1300 feet, but now I will not mention it.
My statement about invisible Dobermans was not meant to be factual.
@ lyle
My invisible cat is relieved.
Does your invisible cat ride one of these?
Oh lolcats. I had this picture on the board in my Office foe quite a while
that orange public notice sign is the first i've ever seen on this place, as new ownership is coming. i doubt they'll rebuild the gazebo that once stood here, though.
Pittsburgh directions! "You go the where the _____ used to be ..."
Love it.
more info - for those of us in the dark?
I figured it out, now the issue is to find the time to run over there. I need to run some errands down that way. There are enough clues in the photo to find it even if you have never been there. Great photo!
Well three of us that regularly participate in this game are still out of town, so You'd better get it before we get back to pittdsburgh
Tag:
Doc's Place on Walnut St in Shadyside. I saw the "lace" on the window on the picture and started googling "palace" thinking it was a Chinese restaurant. Next it tried "place" and this was the first result.
Actually, the China Palace, next door to Docs, was where the Gazebo was. At least when I worked there. I was convinced that's wehre the tag was.
It is funny because when I searched Palace, the Chinese place next door was the first result I looked at.
New Tag:
Taking it out to the ragged edge of the map.
my bad, i should've said "near here", though the doc's deck upstairs is over china palace.
Wherever this new tag is, saltm513 should be the one to get it. It would go well with her colorful bike.
found it, fwiw
I might be able to get there tomorrow evening.
Don't forget to grab some tacos while you're up that way...
Tacos! Is there something I don't know about?
Oh, the thumbnail map totally gives it away.
The thumbnail doesn't, but the pixels in the redacted information do! I feel like David Caruso yelling "enhance that!" at my computer.
I found it using only Nate's image above:
@Jason, if you're coming from town, keep going, to the next big intersection. The restaurant is on your left as you approach. Less than a mile. Old-style fare.
You can also just read the name of the place on the sign in the original post, or at least, enough of the words to google it.
By chance, I had been thinking of biking up that way last Sunday, though in the end I took the bus instead. Didn't hear any voices as I passed though.
enhancement dadburnit! I was amused to smear the paint tool over all the words and hints. FAIL!
It's on a reasonable cycling route, I know I've bicycled past it numerous times, but I didn't recognize the picture. I probably won't ride there tonight, especially if it keeps drizzling. But, then, now I know about the tacos...
I couldn't read the sign in the first post, or in Nate's. I could read through the paint brush tool though, at least in a few places. When someone grabs the tag I'll post the modified photo. Blur filters can be reversed, information buried in a 90% opacity brush can be recovered. Your best bet is to delete pixels in the region you are trying to hide, or paint over it with a 100% opacity brush. A while back some government outfit released a bunch of documents with censored information blacked out with black boxes. Turns out they just took a PDF file and overlaid black boxes that you could simply delete and read all the text still behind them.
I can't wait until someone gets this, I have to find out about the taco's.
Blur filters can be reversed, information buried in a 90% opacity brush can be recovered.
In a "flattened" image file? Do tell?? (oh please share your blur/brush removing secrets! - or is it a really, really technical solution?)
The reviews of those tacos sure sound good. Alas, the time doesn't suit for a taco run until Saturday.
Yea, in a flattened file. I'll send you a PM.
I'd go get this in the am but still clueless. Ragged edge?
The edge of the bike pgh map as indicated on our tag map. It is a main road in the area.
I'm not going to spill the beans, but a taco isn't the food item you might expect on that road.
The original bike map is different than the current version with different boundaries.
The boundaries I am using is the blue line on our tag map in google maps.
Really, Steven? PM me and tell me what you're thinking, because I don't personally know of any other restaurants.... oh. Never mind.
/me walks away muttering. God that was cheesy.
Cheesy? Are you saying you didn't relish my hint? I didn't mean to make you sauer.
OK, I'll stop now.
The current blue line on the Google map for this game is based on the version 2 bike map. It shows the region that's fully visible on the printed map.
The printed map covers an even wider area at the sides, but there are informative boxes almost completely covering those sections, so I didn't include them in the blue outline. (There's a 100 foot stretch of I-79 in Heidelberg that's technically visible on the bike map, for instance, in the little strip between the list of bike resources and the edge of the paper.)
The map's just a guideline anyway. The rules don't require keeping to the map (though if you drop a tag in Altoona, people may be cross).
Duh. I wasn't looking on the right side of the line. Instinctively I knew though.
Must you pepper all your replies with bad puns?
Ok, now I'm confused. I just looked at Stephen's map and the bounding line is now a rectangle, without the cutouts for information boxes. What happened?
In any case, the current tag is actually outside the bounds (though way closer to Pittsburgh than to Altoona).
Oops. Did I give it away?
Originally the blue lines were based on the version 1 printed map. Excluding the different-sized information boxes left an irregular region with some areas that stuck out more than others.
A few weeks ago I redraw the blue lines to match the version 2 map. The result was rectangular, since the new information boxes are all the same width.
Must you pepper all your replies with bad puns?
It's either that or tedious map construction narratives like this.
Not to worry, though. Soon someone will ride out there and grab the tag. I mayo go for it myself, though it's a bit chili this evening, just to try to catchup.
Speaking quite frankly, I didn't want to test the rush hour traffic this am. Not a familiar route for me.
Nice sunny day tomorrow...
BTW, while perusing the t-o-r map I discovered that my original estimate of the distance to the taco place was way off. It's actually more like a couple of miles. Still worth it, though.
Oh and please, no more puns.
Tomorrow's date (05 May) is perfect for tacos and cervezas! This would make a fun group get.
I would be willing to do a group ride to get it after work this evening..if others know where it is. I swear I have driven past this building, but ii can't place it. I do have an idea of which direction it is but I didn't feel like putting the time in to street viewing that entire road. I probably wouldn't be available until 6 or 630pm though.
Group expedition sounds great, esp. on May 5, but I'm committed to driving to Coraopolis this evening. Very sad.
Eh well I may not be able to do this until later because of an emergent surgery this afternoon.
i wonder if a group ride would lead to someone hot-dogging and racing ahead while the rest of us try to catchup.
Chatterbox Day Care, on Frankstown Road.
Finally someone got it!
So where is the taco place?
taco place --> Rey Azteca. You need to keep going to where Rodi Road comes up; it's on the left.
I like it because it serves the kind of Mexican food you might find in the south, near the border. (Well, in my experience.)
threadjack for the taco fans:::: last time I ate at the taco stand in front of Reyna foods in the strip, the guy said they're going to put a restaurant in the adjacent basement soon (where there was a diner for a while, then I think a jamaican place).
New tag:
Since I had nothing left to lose, I just pushed my bike up the hill.
Haha, that's a funny clue! I was thinking about using this spot for a tag, but you've beat me to it!
I think I know where this is. Might have to grab it in the morning.
If it's where I think it is, then Kris or Gordon or Janis told me, but it's free. I might be able to grab this on my way to the Keg Ride, but will certainly be bruced by the time I get near a computer.
Tag:
Freedom corner near the Mellon arena.
Phew. Had a few beers on the keg ride. Went straight to my head.
Ps, peaceturkey helped with the tag too. That is her bike on the right.
Awwww I was gonna get it after leaving the brewery. Good job
New tag:
I think I use to be a car dealership.
What a nice day for a ride!
I this this is still Ellsworth and Lamont way In. Shadyside. Trek store is off to the right.
Our tag didn't last very long! Today was the first time I participated in tag o rama. You guys and gals are awesome! It's great to be a part of this. It's just fabulous how you all embraced Jason's idea!
It really is a fun game. This was just a block or two past my usual route home, so it was convenient. It got pretty windy on my way home from the brewery. It got dark then sunny then sunny with rain. Weird spring Pittsburgh weather.
Crap, I knew I should have checked my phone before I left, I haven't picked up a tag in ages. But Stef probably would have bruced me anyways.
I was out riding this afternoon. Take a look at those two tag photos, an hour or two apart. Beautiful and sunny, then the clouds came over, and dropped some rain. The droplets felt icy cold as I sprinted the last mile home. But now, looking out over the computer screen it's sunny again.
I dodged raindrops the entire nine hours between leaving this morning at 8 and arriving home around 5. Even in the 3 miles from West View, I got rained on twice, with sunshine between the two, and afterward.
I am sooo over that last tag. Time for a new one. I can smell my favorite pizza place from here.
Ps- marko: we will drop that tag we spoke of on a weekend.
whoa, another taco tag... but, alas, these are the more trendy ones. (Though way closer.)
Also, there's something really weird with the StreetView for me; it's all red.
Not only is it red/orange on street view, it’s all wavy on satellite view too. I wonder if this is some sort of vortex or worm hole like they have in new-age Sedona? Alpha Centauri here we come!
Alternately, Dick Cheney might be living under this bridge. Or perhaps some other troll.
hm... why don't you just tell me where this tag is, so i can see this "anomaly" for myself...
speaking of sedona, here's the tram in albuquerque I was talking about yesterday: http://www.sandiapeak.com/
^ now you're going to get the Historian all riled up agian, sheesh...
Be that as it may. Patrick McGoohan is still one of my all-time favorite actors.
This is what I see on street view. I'm likin' the color.
That is weird... well, like I tell everyone, use the "report a problem" link in the lower right corner - people do look at those reports.
Edit: um, I guess the street view "report" link is on the left...
i highly doubt it will still be around, but i will be by there at around 6, and home around 7 to post. this is one of the few tags so far that i recognized at a glance, strangely enough.
also, i think that smell is from my favorite "hoagie" place. so good!
I know where this is but I don't think a bike ride is in the cards for me today. I'll have to see how much work I can get done and how motivated I feel later today.
East Busway overpass on S Highland Ave!
Close to delicious pizza @ Pizza Sola and Dinette.
[Edit - S Highland Ave]
And, if you're in the area, check out Fleeting Pages in the old Borders Bookstore space.
Woah, that was tag 189. I'll try to drop #190 this evening. We'll probably hit the 200 mark before the end of the month. All the tag-droppers should meet somewhere for a beer when we hit 200.
@pseudacris - Or the person who tags #199 could place an "event tag" in addition to their real tag for #200. The event tag would include details on WHEN to meet THERE for aforementioned beer....
A nice idea!
[edit]
haha - stefb I just got your "clue"!
And if you do check out Fleeting pages, check out The Big Idea's table! /shameless advertising.
Agreed. I would like to get together. I also have an idea for a mobile tag, but i will save that for a weekend when people have more of a chance of getting it.
My day shaped up differently than expected: new tag late tomorrow morning. Should be beaUtiful outside tomorrow...
argh, i am so dumb. i looked at this before i left this morning, figured out where it was, and then just completely forgot to get it. i don't deserve to get tags.
although, i also forgot my badge and my bike lights so i guess i shouldn't feel so bad about forgetting the tag. but i did remember to pack a bottle of scotch.
BTW, the street view stuff is even weirder than the picture above... can anyone see what this says? definitely 'energy'
maybe a wrapper of some sort got stuck on the lens? i dunno, i'll have to see if i can figure it out (although i'm not sure if i'll be able to divulge the answer...)
I rather enjoy the Google Glitches. They are the Refugia of the Interwebs. Tomorrow's tag will be in the east end, so you may have another shot at a tag soon.
[edit] Also, I LOVE the streetview along Sampsonia Way. Is there any way to arrange some other location full of bicycles? Maybe if the above location is re-photographed?
Y'know, sometime about the year 2135, some graduate student working on a Digital Archaeology degree is going to dig up this thread, and fall over in a fit of giggles.
I've noticed several places with orange street views. Here's one with a rarer yellow view, on Halket. Here's one from the Highland Park bridge approach. It looks like the text is part of one or more web addresses. I see "-energy.c" and "w.cr", for instance.
It's the same text at each place. Seems like nearby photos often indicate it was raining, so perhaps this is what happens when water gets somewhere in the camera.
ew freaky. i am gonna have weird orange and yellow nightmare with big weird nonsensical letters in them.
Here's a Photoshop enhancement of salty's screen capture - I've rotated it 180 too. It's easy to read "energy," but the other word(s) - it's tougher.
I noticed the one at Halket a long time ago and 'reported' the problem. I've ran across the orange blobs browsing around other streets too, but I didn't take care to write them down.
Above [below] "-energy._" I can make out "w._edc_o. or ormation w.cru_oja"
Maybe something in english and spanish?
dwillen's top image looks like
wredcro and the bottom one, cruzroja
red = roja
cross = cruz
above those words, might be "information /informacion"
Maybe its some kind of tyvek covering issued by the Red Cross?
[edit - add]
http://www.cruzrojaamericana.org/
http://www.redcross.org/
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This is not nearly as old as it appears.
It's only slightly older than the asphalt that's probably being poured in front of it within the next couple of days.
I should have knowed the road would be all tored.
St michael, iirc.
new sculpture by james simon
Oh, boy. A Viking angel as my namesake.
I'm having trouble finding your bike in that picture, Lyle
Dwillen wrote: "...I'm having trouble finding your bike in that picture, Lyle ..."
Does that mean that Lyle can get bruced then for failing to follow protocol? 
because I live 5 minutes from this.
@dwillen, try photoshop enhancement on that reflective piece, lol
Too late! If you snooze you loose!
St Michael Statue, Memorial for Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, at Immaculate Conception Church, Liberty Ave, Bloomfield
Oh snap!
Ha ha, this has GOT to be the best -Bruced- of this thread.
I like to plant the low-hanging fruit
{edit} I think I saw skipdip criuse by right when I was taking this.
bikeygirl, new bike for spring? woot!
I love that arcangel, that is some badass angel business.
Nice grab Bikeygirl!
Someone just got schooled on Rule #1.
Haha! Yup, you got me. And I had such a cool tag planned for this morning. Guess I'll just have to postpone it.
This should be an easy tag to snag -any commoner can grab it. The visual clues should be helpful too -and that is no bluff!
That's a cool view. It doesn't even look like Pittsburgh.
^ It wasn't until 1907.
Crap. No bike today. Great tag.
I know where it's at. I may go for it after work if it's still around.
did you hear they are thinking of removing those little bridges for larger railroad cars?! outrage! sacrilege!
North side near/in the park. I think this is ridge road? The Italian ice Guy is close by but I have no cash. I believe this is the correct tag. Lucia's photo shows up light on my phone.
It is right, StefB!! Ridge Street, Allegheny Commons Park...... hence the clues for "commoner" and "bluff=ridge"
I KNOW about the Italian Ice guy!!!! I should have said "bring your monies" when you get the tag, because I saw the snowcone-dude and I had no money, so I left with this face 
for some reason i keep dropping tags near my favorite pizza place, but i haven't had a slice in over a month. i bought this bike here, but had to use the new door on the other side of the building to get it. in the past, i have used the door on this side to take my bikes home... and the tires on them have all been thin, except for one bike
Heh
come on stef, you can work six or seven more clues in here...
I feel like a Jedi when the new door opens for me.
It's so nice not to have to compete with Stef for a tag -- better odds this one will stick around until I'm ready to go for it. Ironically, I was a block away about an hour before her post, and I'm rarely over that way ordinarily. This time I'll remember rule #1.
Can't bruce me now! Rule #1 and everything.
And the next tag, right on time, bcus I'm training for the ms150 today.
i cant believe it took this long for someone to drop the tag where lyle left it. one of my favorite places in the city.
I've been planning it for a while. I lived there briefly when I first moved to Pittsburgh. Convenient, but expensive, and not conducive to the kind of cycling I wanted to do.
The building is on StreetView, however, this particular aspect of it is not visible.
^ and it's one of the best parts!
The shape of this building is a little unusual. Less unusual given its vintage.
Another clue that will probably help nobody. George Miller (director of Mad Max, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Babe: Pig in the City) was here for a day or two.
I thnk I may have arrived home from work too late to get this tag before it rains.. No storms
The building is a hollow rectangular prism. This is only visible from above, or from inside the building. In other words, it's a square surrounding a central air/sun shaft, so the inside offices have windows as well as the outside ones. Once central air conditioning was invented, it became much more economical to build solid shapes instead.
Well, it is hard to build an empire with limited capitol.
With possible dime-size hail predicted, the weather might be keeping a lot of people stationary tonight.
Yeah it has just been getting darker and darker outside.
@pseusacris - that might be the best observation ever! Especially for a Pennsylvanian!
P.S. Love the tag. A beautiful view.
There are two sides to this. One, you are above any liberties you might take, but you may find a bus way off to the other side.
Ok then it is the building I originally thought it was perhaps
If it is the building I am thinking of, Pittsburgh is spelled Pittsburg in stone. I always thought that was weird until I was told that Pittsburg was the correct spelling for a while.
The Pennsylvanian. Near the Amtrak station on liberty and grant? You guys keep dropping tags near my commute routes
It is a very pretty building
If you're living in Pittsburgh, and haven't stood under that rotunda, you need to go do it.
Agreed. Thanks for dropping this. I haven't been there in years. I love it.
@lyle wrote If you're living in Pittsburgh, and haven't stood under that rotunda, you need to go do it
I agree too. I miss strolling through there on the occasiaonal lunch hour walk. I always thought of it as an object lesson in changing modes of transportation too. Once upon a long ago I believe this was the entrance to the Pennsy Railroad Station in Pittsburgh. So once you are there take a peek around and down at the Amtrak "station" and sigh...
I'll take this opportunity to make a shout-out for the other game on the message board, Wheelset of Fortune! We're now in a nice rhythm, 15 tags already, but there are only about a half dozen or so people playing it.
What makes this so much fun is that it allows a bit more creativity in getting shots. "Find a dinosaur." "*In* a river." "From inside a bus, bike on rack." Since there's some time to get the tag -- recently it's been about a week -- you don't feel rushed to chase out in dimming light or racing a storm to grab it.
The two current tags are here, giving you the chance to get nutty or itchy or fruity, among other things.
This is pretty new from what I understand. Last week I dropped a tag on highland, which was kinda over the tag left on Ellsworth. This time I am dropping a tag under a tag that was left towards the start of the whole game. Take this path down, make a left and end up at a fence because the park at the end isnt entirely open yet. Hang a right and you might encounter an old cork. Go straight and you'll be all wet
Downtown is crazy right now. Lots of random driver tricks.
Here's the tag from a slightly different vantage.
Next tag will follow in about 30 min.
At one time, this restaurant was family-style but strictly reservations only. However, the owner would stand in the middle of the road during rush hour and sell pepperoni rolls to the backed-up motorists. This was on my daily commute, but I never bought a roll, nor ever ate dinner there. My loss.
THIS RESTAURANT IS AWESOME!
I'm running tomorrow and should have been in bed an hour ago, though (nothing like 4:00 oatmeal!), and it's lightning and I'm apparently making lame excuses. I'd get it on my way to the convention center tomorrow, but I lack the technology for that.
Hey, this is on a flat route two. (to, too, two?)
It makes me think of http://youtu.be/ywWBy6J5gz8
It just does.
Was this place on a wqed Rick seback special?
I haven't seen it on a rick sebak docu, but there are so many of them it's not out of the question.
I am going to get this right now (after a very sub-par run this morning, alas), but by the time I make it back up the hill someone else will probably have it.
Nah I have been hogging them recently. I, for one, am gonna lay off for a bit unless i see a tag I really want to drop
Jozsa Corner Hungarian Restaurant at Second & Hazelwood Avenues
I've been there once, this older Hungarian guy and his granddaughter (I think?) made a multi-course home-cooked Hungarian meal for about 20. Then he told stories and sang folk songs. Definitely worth going--they open upon request for large groups, and I believe occasionally have dinners that anyone can go to.
Fellow forumite Pierce came along!
yep, that was on a wqed special.
and PS - the tag i dropped earlier and lyle got was at the convention center, where the new waterfront trail opened.
Convention center tag was dropped WAAAY back... around #4. What's the tag o rama equivalent of a repost? Full cycle?
it was a different element, and not the first time we've had two tags very near each other.
It was technically a new section that just opened on Thursday. A worthy spot.
At this point, I demand a new rule, any tag which is NOT a repost is invalid!
New tag:
I hear the apocalypse is coming; good thing this fallout shelter is for sale!
Thanks to the Convention Center tag, I found out that the trail had been opened. You can access it from a ramp on the 7th Street Bridge. Ride north, up river, to 21st Street. Nice. A worthy tag, indeed.
There are many fallout shelters still in pgh. And stone is a popular bldg material. One more hint please?
Went looking for this tag, thought I knew where it was but I was wrong. Hit some debris in the downhill bike lane on Forbes, bent my front wheel and flatted. Didn't crash, miraculously. Walked home.
Fffffffuuuuuuuuuu. Chasing tags sometimes is like slapping yourself in the face.
I was only kidding about the repost thing, btw. Not. Serious. Any tag is a good tag AFAIC.
Maybe I should have zoomed out after all, but I thought the trend here was "obscure". Actually, looking through the new thread, it looks like "interesting" has made a comeback.
The Virgin Mary missed being in the frame by a few feet.
Holy crap, Lyle, hope you're alright. All in the pursuit of tags.
sure, I'm alright. Just pissed off. I managed to true up the wheel. The spoke tension is kind of uneven, but I think it will be okay. And then I was such a zombie I forgot to look for the tag this morning.
I thought I may have gone past this building on The way in. It was stone and for sale but I think I was looking at the wrong side of the building as I rode past. Is there something about God chiselled into the front of it and a dinosaur across the street? Even if it isn't the building in the tag, I think it is kinda funny.
I can't get there today, but someone should get this tag quick before the bridge is closed.
No dinosaur.
Nice clue Marko82! I shouldn't have to think up any more.
Ahhh, thanks for the hint. Here is a screen shot from google street view. Now to motivate and go get it.
Tag:
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary church
Near the end of the greenfield bridge.
New tag:
It is just off the map again... It is worth every pedal stroke. It is a very nice ride.
You will have to cross this fence or walk across the RR tracks to the other side. Crossing the fence is easy. Just hang your bike and climb around.
If you feel it is morally wrong to cross the fence then this is an acceptable tag photo:
You will be missing a few miles of great trail.
Can! Not! Wait! for that section to be open.
Jason's pictures really do this trail justice. We discovered this yesterday and it is one of my favorite rides we've ever done. It almost reminds you of Ohiopyle trails with the damp rocks and tiny waterfalls to the side of you as you ride through the woods.
Ok, finally home. That was a great ride. I logged nearly 30 miles and 1500 feet of climbing.
I edited a couple of the previous photos, enjoy:
I just looked on google satilite view and these bridges and trail do not exist yet.
some friends of mine were finishing up on the gap from DC this weekend, ready to hit 837, when they stumbled upon a board member with a key that escorted them all the way to point state park!
some friends of mine were finishing up on the gap from DC this weekend, ready to hit 837, when they stumbled upon a board member with a key that escorted them all the way to point state park!
Wow, awesome!
Man, move the tag out of the east end and no one wants to get it.
I will get it if no one else is going to. I just felt like I was getting every other one and wanted to give others a chance.....
Got it.
Nice trail. They're going to have to worry a little about landslides, though.
I was thinking the landslide issue is why it is still closed.
New tag coming tomorrow morning. I haven't forgotten.
This is pretty new construction. A white structure among other white structures. Not sure if anyone even lives in the adjacent (white) houses.
I like this tag and the discussion. But at what point does "just a little bit off the map" become an "ineligible" tag? When someone refuses to go out and get it? As I say, I am simply curious as to how flexible the rules really are. Are other rules also flexible?
It's a consensual process. Things go along until someone complains. Discussion ensues. A clarified understanding of the rule emerges. We then wait until next time.
That is an interesting tag. Any idea *how* new the construction is?
Apparently it's new since the last tag in the area.
Or at least, I'm pretty sure it's new since then. It's not visible on Google Maps, overhead or street view.
Tag: worlds ugliest house, located on Beechwood Blvd.
Tag: I have never peed off of a bridge this high before (not really a clue, just sayin).
aw, Jason... that second photo makes it too easy. On the other hand it does enrich your narrative, by suggesting how astute positioning contributed by helping you balance the tension between anxiety and relief.
BTW folks, I just noticed that the streetmap for the next bridge up is, like, an orange field for its entire length. Is this a Pittsburgh Google Map thing, or a Google Map thing? Inquiring minds want to know (at the very least) whether the GoogleMobile driver has a monitor displaying current video. Failing that, we'd like to know what those guys get to smoke while they ride around or while they're proofing the images (you know, to pixillate faces and such).
@Swalfoort: See rule #2 on the first page. There were no set limits, we decided early on to use the map as a general guideline. There are no set limits. If you are unwilling to go get a tag I am sure someone else will come along that is willing to go for a ride, especially since the weather is getting better.
Ahlir - there was a discussion about the orangeness a week or two ago, I think it was on this thread actually. It was on the highland ave bridge over ellsworth, and people pointed out some other examples.
I did ask around about this phenomenon and I'm not sure how much I'm supposed to share but I will say the term for these images is "socked". How it goes unnoticed, or how long it might take to rectify, I unfortunately don't have any insight into that. As always, "report a problem" does help - although for this specific problem if you want to send examples to me, I can report them a bit more directly (but ordinarily I use "report a problem" like everyone else )
@salty: Yes, I know. I was the one who first brought attention to the Highland Ave bridge anomaly.
Now you have me wondering if there's something special about Pittsburgh bridges and streetview... or whether what we have here is just an ill-considered attempt to pull one of those Sampsonia Way stunts.
BTW have you guys un-pixillated the Naval Observetory yet? Inquiring minds...
Oops, sorry, the way you phrased it made me think you missed the earlier discussion... my memory only works in limited ways
It is unintentional for sure, and I suspect it has been an issue in places other than Pittsburgh (although I haven't seen other examples). I don't know if there's anything that makes bridges more susceptible to the problem - or really too much about the imaging process in general though... I wasn't aware of the observatory thing until you mentioned it, but I see there's a wiki page that lists a bunch of similar locations.
It is orange on 5th between highland and college, if you're makin' a list
And on William Penn Highway in Murrysville.
A year ago, I reported a section of the Parkway West where the outbound lane's Street View was socked, and the images that should have appeared there were instead assigned to a section of Woodville Avenue, about 5 miles away.
So this suggests that just maybe, a socked image shows up whenever the correct street view image for an area has been incorrectly assigned to some other road.
On the other hand, it could be that the wrong-street problem and the socked-image problem just happened to hit the same section of Parkway West by coincidence, and socked images are really due to mere camera problems.
At the moment, the socked images have been deleted from the Parkway West, but the images from the Parkway West are still assigned to Woodville. (That region of the Parkway West, westbound, currently contains quite a few street view images from a different road, as well.)
Tag: 40th Street Bridge - early morning fog.
I suspect that the camera gear has a protective cover, and every once in a while the driver is too stoned to remember to remove it before going for a run. Kind of like forgetting to remove your lens cap.
A little extra info... I counted 7 North Carolina seals on the north-facing side of the bridge (and I think there are a couple more) - here are a few. Jason's is the one on the far right. An observation - all of the seals on the north-facing side seem to be eastern states.
And considering the age of the bridge, I guess all of the states/territories aren't accounted for, eh?
I was going to guess that the "orange socks" were some kind of cheap workaround related to "Homeland Security," but I like Lyle's scenario better.
Salty, did I guess the text on the images correctly? Bilingual Red Cross material?
TeamDecafWeekend's tag will be number 200. And as of today, it's been exactly 250 days since the start of the game. So we've been setting them at a rate of 1.25 days per tag.
The PghBridges site has lots of info on the seals.
The ballustrade which runs the length of the bridge includes metal reliefs of the Great Seal of each of the 13 original United States plus the County of Allegheny. Each measures approximately 2 ft wide by 3 ft high. They appear in the following order (north to south): Allegheny County, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. This order is roughly the same order as the states appear in the map from north to south, with Allegheny County providing a divider to restart the series. The series repeats just over 10 times per side with a total of 290 seals on the bridge. Photos
Wow. 200! Thanks to everyone who continues to play.
What's the deal with that house on Beechwood? They ruined that location with the ugliest home ever built. I can't imagine anyone in their right mind giving the architect the approval to build it. Must have been their 3 year old son's design.
I almost can't believe the beechwood tag was dropped 2x. It's interesting how interesting uninteresting is sometimes.
hopefully our drivers aren't stoned but otherwise, lyle is on the right track. like i said, i don't really know how it all works so i don't know why the driver is unaware or how they make it into production, or why it's not one continuous long run of orangeness.
and i also don't know what was on the sock - from this picture it just looks like they use whatever was lying around: http://www.seologs.com/google-maps-car/
@salty - also see rt 28 near millvale in google earth terrain mode. I reported it a year ago.
::: New Tag :::
Observe, the 200th Tag. Yay!
I know this one!! And me out in the 'burbs.
I wonder if this will still be around tomorrow morning after trecking through Troy hill...
OBSERVATORY HILL
and i also don't know what was on the sock - from this picture it just looks like they use whatever was lying around: http://www.seologs.com/google-maps-car/
it also looks like they use 8020 to build the frame. sweet!
The 60 mile pedal pgh took us up this street instead of 18 this year...
my old apartment is exactly one block up from this - the commute down josephine was always a blast.
Oh, did you mean to make this tag so obvious, stef? Not sure if I'll have time in the morning though. Hope so, because I've got some new tag ideas for some easy to reach places that I'll bet nobody here has ever been to. I visited one tonight for the first time.
Yep. I just want to make people climb hills again.
I don't know why nobody picked up this obvious tag yet. Arlington St, in Arlington.
I suspect the state of your derailleurs in the photo says a lot about why nobody has picked up the obvious tag.
I was there yesterday, and had no intention of going back the same day after I got home and checked the board
The Tag-o-Rama map just hit a Google limit of 200 items on the map at once. Google has split the map into two pages, and you have to pick which page you want to view.
There's a trick to make Google show all the tags at once. This method also displays the map much faster. But the result is not directly editable.
So if you want to check out the tag map, you now have two choices:
tinyurl.com/tag-o-rama-view shows all the tags at once, and displays quickly, but can't be edited.
tinyurl.com/tag-o-rama-map is for editing the map.
Thanks Steven. I always hated how long it took for the tag map to load.
Can we add the quick loading tag map to the first post in this thread?
Good grab Lyle, what was the cross street? I suspected it was on Arlington but I did not know for sure and Google street view did not help me at all.
Yes, Steven, thanks for letting everyone know about the limit and the quick-loading map.
To all readers of this thread... The quick loading map has been added to the first post of this thread. It's located near the bottom with the other "helpful links for the convenience of new players." Anyone is welcome to check it out - let me know if you see anything that needs to be changed/reworded.
My pleasure. Thanks for linking it into the first message, TeamDecafWeekend.
Jason, the cross street was Eleanor.
i was in arlington on my bike on sunday and i really can't imagine biking there too often. oof~
@Jason - I wasn't complaining about the location of your tag. I thought I made that clear in my post (about the edges of the map). I was just wondering how much latitude I should presume I have when scouting new tags. I'll just go by instinct.....
I forgot to get the new tag this morning, sorry. I got on my bike and the old horse just took me where she is used to going.
http://sdbikecommuter.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=524&page=1
I spread this to San Diego. It's a good game.
@swalfoort: It's cool. Just play it by ear. Let's try and not drop any tags in Greensburg or Wexford, I think if you decide to drop a tag that is further out, you might want to make it easier to find.
Tick tock ....
Stupid weather forecast said today was going to be tstormy so I rode the bus. Must remember - ignore weather forecasts, if it isn't storming right now, ride now. Guess I'll take a break from work around 5 and set that tag.
@Lyle that has been my strategy this may and I've only bussed once and gotten rained on twice, rather miraculously.
@alankhg: so excellent you got it started in San Diego! It's so WEIRD (and fun) to see the game happening in another locale.
Tag-O-Rama heads...check alan's link a few posts up^
The photo might totally give it away, I can't tell on this little screen. Should be easy, anyway, it's practically under your nose.
Oh man, my first semi-successful post from a phone. Ironically, I could not use picasa on my phone. East Liberty bus garage behind. Bakery square.Oh
OMG Lyle... your chain & cassette need some Simple Green lovin.
I think my html needs some simple green, too. Too hard to edit on my stupid phone, urg, sorry!
Lyle, is your photo from the Bakery Square garage? There are nice views on the top floor.
Hm. I need a ruling on that last tag acquisition. Judges?
#1 - Find the tag and get a picture of your bike in the same location (as best as possible).
The pick-up photo is recognizably the same location, just not the same vantage point. Pseudacris got as close as possible to get the same side of the building. Works for me.
I'm surprised I didn't recognize it (having been in the place at least four times)! Then again, I haven't seen it from that vantage point.
wow, did i blow that one - i glanced at the picture before i left work but didn't even recognize it.
even worse - when i saw the picture, i had fled my office due to some noisy work going on, and i was sitting in the east corner of the building, where i literally could have looked over my shoulder and seen the tag. the only thing worse would have been lyle snapping a picture of me looking at his picture, which he probably could have done.
i suck at this game.
I put it there for you and sprite. I actually was afraid you would see me placing the tag and come down and mega-bruce me by getting the tag before I even got it posted. I skulked by and didn't see anyone so I figured I was safe.
I’m with Stu, this is a good Bingo!
::::::: New Tag :::::::
No clue? Text-wise?
The sculpture in the foreground is facing West-ish. The sculpture in the background was surrounded by deep purple foliage last month.
If you were able to stand on the roof of the tall brick building on the left, you'd see rocky bluffs due south.
augh i totally know where this is!! doubt ill get to it in time
I lost my camera, or I'd go get it right now.
St.Patricks Church, strip district, 17th street.
Pseuda, I see you are taking some liberties with your clues…
I rolled right past here about an hour before the tag was dropped.
NSFK: "Not Safe For Kittehs"? What's that all about, anyone know?
Not Safe For Kids, I imagine. Here's some older graffiti with the same letters.
On Foster Street near the 40th Street bridge.
New tag!
Giving directions based on things that aren't there anymore is an old Pittsburgh tradition.
So go to the site of a bridge that isn't there anymore. Head southeast toward a still-standing bridge that bears the name of a borough that once stood on the opposite bank. Stop when you reach a street that bears the name of a bank that had branches here in the 1980s, and check out the former Grocery and Confectionery, where the sign shows how, perhaps half a century ago, tiny families could enjoy refeshing soft drinks from vast towering bottles.
Backtracking on an old tag - I posted a tag a month or so back of the Victory Statue in Brighton Heights. It was created by the same guy who created the Doughboy Statue in Lawrenceville. Nate then mentioned that there was a replica of the artist's most famous work, "The Hiker" her in Pittsburgh. Can someone fill me in on where to find it? Thanks!
The Wikipedia page on the sculptor indicates it's off Schenley Plaza, near the Frick Fine Arts Building.
The Wikipedia page on the sculptor indicates it's off Schenley Plaza, near the Frick Fine Arts Building.
The Wikipedia page on the sculptor indicates it's off Schenley Plaza, near the Frick Fine Arts Building.
i just rode past there and noticed it today!
It's been more than 24 hours with no takers, so here are some more clues:
The bridge that's not there any more was formally known as The Bridge. It was plainly visible in a previous tag. And it was yellow.
Oh, that helps a bit.
This was up so long I got it!!! Seneca & Tustin, uptown.
I finally got in a nice Sunday morning ride. It's starting to get warm though. This city is fabulous.
Here's one for climbers, the neighborhood it's in shares a name with T.S. and Ness. This simple little neighborhood has some incredible views. You might think it has something to do with the discovery of Uranus (heh, heh, heh), it does not.
This was so obvious, I don't why nobody beat me to it. Herschel playground, Elliot. Group get with travis (newbie)
New tag:
too damn hot outside. maybe tomorrow.
I thought this would be more obvious. Hm. Well, in keeping with the Pittsburgh directions: before Home Depot came to town, this was where I bought plastering supplies and Sakrete. Also, in theory, you might buy toilets and dishwashers here, though I never did.
I was thinking Keystone Plumbing but I can't find the right view of the building.
Oh, I didn't buy the supplies *at* the building in the photograph, but near my bicycle. At the building in the photo, I'd be more likely to be shopping for robots.
There is a direct connection between this tag and my previous one.
Other things that aren't here any more: an ER that isn't run by UPMC.
Said non-existent ER is behind me in the photo (well, not in the photo, ykwim).
Other things in this neighborhood that aren't here any more: a beer distributor.
Off to my right are many wormless birds.
i immediately recognized the big building in the photo. and i thought your first clue was pretty obvious.
unfortunately, i'm out of town until friday.
There is a direct connection between this tag, my previous tag, and another of my earlier tags this year.
Hope this works, I seem to have broken something at picasa
Shit. Beaten by 30 mins. Shoulda left work when I was going to. Would have probably bumped into you
There was a girl with blue hair in front of me, I didn't recognize her but I was convinced she was going to bruce me by 15 seconds. Then she made a couple tricky turns and I got stuck at a light, then I lost her.
I have no idea what that building is, the picture was on Trenton Ave south of Thomas in Wilkinsburg. I kinda got the hospital clue and figured the other one was about the busway but it still took a lot of street view to find it.
Funny thing is I was headed to Regent Sq. via that exact route (which I've never done before), and I almost didn't figure out the tag before I left, in which case I likely would have rode right past it.
Btw I thought it was Forbes not a upmc facility before...
Right. Forbes Metro had an ER that wasn't affiliated with UPMC. They were AUMC after they were forbes. Before they were forbes, they were columbia, and ther's some interesting history there.
Oh, the distributor clue also made me pretty sure it was in the area but I didn't know Beer World was closed. That sucks, I bought a ton of beer from there back in the day.
It also made me realize I don't think I've been to a distributor in the 2+ years since I moved back to the city. I pretty much either brew or go to East End (and sometimes D's), and maybe my wife has brought me a few cases...
So the building is CNT Motion Systems? Looks like a lot of people work there by the number of cars in the lot on street view?
Was looking right there on google satellite view for a long chimney shadow... obscured by trees.
crap... it looks like the thread is broken again, at a much smaller size.
i see quizbot has the last post on the main screen but when i come here mine is the last post. changing the page in the URL from 8 to 9 shows his post.
probably my posting this will fix it. [edit - yep, looks like it... erok, any chance of fixing the bug?]
Maybe config.php?
Maybe +1 more?
bbpress != wordpress
WordPress is the publishing platform that bike-pgh.org uses, and BBPress is the message board system for it that bike-pgh.org also uses. I think quizbot's link is spot-on.
But the solution used last time (expunging deleted posts, I think) seems better than the one in the link (restoring all deleted posts in a thread). On the other hand, expunging that old thread seemed to move many of the posts onto new pages, which messed up the links in the Tag-o-rama map.
To avoid the problem in the future, we might try to avoid deleting posts in this thread, and just editing them to say "never mind". (But it's possible other things than deleting can cause those extra posts that mess up BBPress's count.)
Nobody liked my "wormless birds" clue? *pout*
Parked next to the tandem today, Lyle. Do you ride that thing solo to pick up random passengers, or what?
Jitney version of a pedicab?
Simply riding a bike just isn't iconoclastic enough for me anymore, now that everyone is doing it.
Here's a twist on "things that aren't there anymore": this place already has a tag, but that's only because it's not here yet. It should have been here today actually, but apparently a bit of Kräusening was required.
Ah I bet this will get picked up by the time I get out tonight.. I think I know where this is
I wouldn't have known without the clue. I feel lazy though.
Future home of East End Brewing Company, 6580 Frankstown Avenue in Larimer.
[Edited to add link and address]
New tag!
Bring a thread so you don't get lost.
Extra points if you ride through the maze?
It's more challenging now that they've apparently stopped mowing it. You can't see very far, and you have to fight the vegetation a bit. Hope they start mowing it again soon so it doesn't become completely impassable.
A guy there told me the folks who owned that land gave it to the local municipality last year, and that's when the mowing stopped. FWIW.
Wow, that actually looks good compared to a few months ago when all you could see was trash blowing around. (Is that a locomotive in the back or is somebody burning stuff on the other side? Angle's not quite right for the tracks.)
The smoke wasn't moving. There's a park around there, so maybe a cookout?
My guess would be troublemakin' kids. Or hobos.
The park is up on the hill; that fire is down on the wasteland. Must be them kids...
Say, wasn't there supposed to not be a ride out that way last year?
The smoke -- there's a bit of a clearing right there. The other year I was riding on the "trail" and rolled down into the clearing to see what it was. There was a guy who'd driven in with his pickup. We talked. He was moving branches over to a bonfire spot. Some of his buddies were due to show up with a case, just to sit out by the river and let the world ... let the world go do whatever it wanted without them.
I wished him well.
a bit of etymology that I learned recently:
-- hobos travel around to find work
-- tramps travel around but don't care to work
-- bums don't travel around and don't care to work
---=> this is NOT a tag pickup! <=---
The current tag was actually on my list of tags try-outs. Since Stephen chose to set it, I now can't. Well, who cares? There's too much other stuff out there anyway. But I did want to show folks this contrast just so that you could see something that isn't there anymore (complementing a current theme, albeit along a different dimension). I'm frankly amazed at what nature can do (this shot is from March 13th).
And I got me a train on that bridge. Beat that.
That's impressive.
And I got me a train on that bridge. Beat that.
I guess you think your train beats the speedboat flying by in mine. (Well, maybe so.)
I'm leaving now to get this! I hope I don't get bruced!!
Go for it. I meant to get out this morning at 8am but my bed was too comfy
I have some stuff to do before I was hoping to head that way. Wanted to check out the new trail portion.
This is right next to the Homestead pump house, site of the Battle of Homestead between Carnegie's Pinkertons and the Steel workers who worked in his mills.
I'm not really sure of the significance of the circle is... Anyone?
I'm having some photobucket struggles. Please Excuse the extraneous posts! I'll drop the next tag either tonight or tomorrow!
Here's an article from the Post-Gazette on the labyrinth.
Much to wife's chagrin I walked through the whole thing once while she waited.
Thanks for the link Steven!
New tag: Looks like it's a good time to buy a Dairy Queen... If one was so inclined.
h/t to Jason for being my date to pedal to get some ice cream.
Buller?
The owner was a total sweetie + let me buy a cone 30 min before opening!
DQ in Verona
::::::: New Tag :::::::
But, you may want to wait until tomorrow to get it unless you want to breathe some serious vapors.
That's a reproduction of a Romare Bearden painting in the background.
Nice!!! Was just over there on my scooter when that was going on. Tons of smoke!
I hope I Dnt get bruced!
Bike safely: there is epic rubbernecking-while-driving throughout the area right now.
Frankstown and putnam
I swear I saw rob on a bike on a side street off of east liberty blvd
what was the smoke? i saw it on my ride up into squirrel hill, but never got to see the source, and the post gazette website isn't illuminating at the moment.
An old funeral home in larimer. It is a coincidence that Kayla posted a pic on faceboom of the smoke from a different angle and then pseuda posts a pic with the smoke in the background also. There were cops blocking fransktown at that intersection. I wonder if they tought it was odd that two different cyclists were taking pics of their bikes in that location.
Edit: the threat of severe weather today is gonna keep me off of the bike until this evening. New tag tonight or tomorrow morning.
on this hill are two houses.. one is occupied and the other seems to be under construction still. a patient recently asked me if there were any houses left on this hillside. i guess there was a fire that consumed some of them at some point in time, if he was correct. anyway, i believe the land i was standing on was higher than the bridge seen in this picture.
hmm, this may demand a little jaunt in the morning...
If I wasn't tired now and if it wasn't going to be so hot tomorrow, I would definitely go get this because for once I know where it is.
for once (well, one of a few times) i recognized a place on sight alone. i went through here a few times on saturday but don't see it happening any time this week.
for some reason i always find myself fixing my bike right there. often, it's just tightening brake cables or the like, sometimes fixing saddle height, or tightening this bolt or that. maybe just a drink of water. but it just seems like such a great place to stop, and i have no idea why.
That's a great spot. Well worth the ride up. If no one grabs it by tomorrow afternoon I'll be tempted on my ride home.
Baker St & Morningside Ave
I posted a photo from this spot way back when -- on page 7 -- since it was a view of a tag down by the river. I like the work they've done on the house over the last couple years.
[EDIT] http://bike-pgh.org/bbpress/topic/pittsburgh-tag-o-rama/page/7#post-50722
Thanks for not getting the trash on your photo. I didn't realize until I got home and looked at the pic. Sorry to keep the tag in the east end again, but I think the view from that spot is pretty nice. There is property for sale out of the picture on the right side along the hillside. I kinda hope no houses are built because it would ruin the view.
hm, need to get back up to speed.
^ all right! Good to see that you're back in the saddle, Ahlir!
new tag:
Stu can point you in the right direction. Be sure to bring your climbing legs.
I wish people would stop apologizing for and berating tags in the East End.
well a good number of them are in the east end. i think there were about 5 people who post here that live within a few blocks of the last tag i dropped.
ok, how about this one:
This is indeed on Stu Street (or, "McCandless" as the locals call it, just above Stanton Ave).
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Boy. My first day back on a bike turned out to be lot of work. I had planned to save Stanton for when I got my "legs" back, but when you gotta go you gotta go, so I went. As it turns out what you lose after ~3 months off is your breath, not your legs. Huff.
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good one!
next tag:
My bike is at the bottom a bit towards the left; sorry for the angle, it makes it hard to see the Vittorias.
@stefb: Actually I think that catching a corner of the trash is nothing to apologize for. If you look at it from the right angle, there's a lot going on:
Consider the left to right progression: an upended can (perhaps the property of an asocial hoarder), the conventionally filled upright one in the middle (reflective of bourgeois propriety), the casually tossed plastic bag (signalling a lumpen disdain for convention) on the right. A progression that forcefully communicates the range of practical solutions to a challenge posed (to all of us) by the relentless accretion of objects whose purpose has vanished.
And of course the whole book-ended by an SUV and a bicycle, two (orthogonal?) modes of response to this challenge.
This is true. I am about to take the garbage out to the back here myself, as tonight is garbage night for morningside (or at least my end of the neighborhood).
The new tag reminds me of the place I got married..or maybe it is the place I got married?
another clue please?
yeah, there's no way I can figure that out.
sorry guys... I obviously need to recalibrate.
Here's a couple of clues:
-- Do you know that movie 'Vittor, Vittoria"? It might have played in the neighborhood.
-- Unlike my Vittorias you can actually see (a bit of) the Vittor.
To be fair:
If someone wants to jump into the game and go pick up this tag with me, drop me a PM.
I took a ride last night over to where I thought this might be, but I didn't have access to it at 9:30pm. It may also be somewhere else vevy close, but it as dark and I didn't look too hard for it. I could also be way off, since I couldn't visualize lights that matched the one in the picture
Cross-dressing something somewhere work by a prominent sculptor? I think I'm close but need another clue.
I have an idea what the clue means but still having trouble finding it.
The possibility of cross-dressing hadn't occurred to me. Though, you know, I can see why you might think that; clothing styles have changed a great deal over the centuries. stefb posts some decent clues. In any case, the photograph should pretty much have the information that you need; think of it as a game of "Where's Vittor?"
Private event
I stared at the tag photo for a long time before I saw the head poking up out of the trees.
Sorry I didn't get to the right vantage point. Maybe I could have gone in, leaned my bike up against the bride, but I figured that was bad form.
What do you think, close enough?
close enough for me!
OK, no objections. Or, maybe you are all out riding. Hope so.
Here's a tag, "Further proof that no one has my back but me"
Sort of a depressing statement, and I violently disagree, since I'm pretty sure in time of need a lot of you even would have my back. But more to the point, here's an entrance to an abandoned road, right very much here in the city, short, very rideable in either direction, only one downed tree (I totally dabbed and hobbled over it)
Take your tag photo from the other end, pay no attention to the various parked cars. (I mean, unless you want to, that's your own affair, I'm trying to be non-judgmental in my hints, Or non-something, I don't need to know ok)
Good combination of photo and clues...
I remember when this was open; amazing transformation. Also, many chainring bites on that log that Nate ran into.
Here's a shot from the other end... though as I pulled out my camera I started to feel awkward. I imagine not everyone up there would have considered it appropriate. Anyway.
Map location (roughly, 5300 Pocusset).
Dammit. I didn't know I could get the tag by taking a picture outside of Phipps outdoor garden, or i would have when the gate was closed when I was there Thursday night. I KNEW that looked like the place I got married. Oh well. There will be more tags
Sorry Stef, I felt a little guilty after I reread your post and realized you had been there outside too last night. Nice spot, nice choice. I dragged M out to ride to these places with me but I took credit for tagging We spied in on the ceremony and overheard a few words. The weather today really held up for them.
@stefb: sorry about that. I did realize that you knew where it was, from your first post. I didn't say anything because I don't feel that the tag-setter should be commenting on the accuracy of posters' conjectures; that just might tempt people to game the system. I think it's OK to respond to requests for extra hints, since it's up to the tag-setter to figure out how to provide more (but not too much more) information about a tag, whilst not favoring any one player.
In the matter of Nate:
In addition to demonstrating that he had figured out the location, he also had the presence of mind to come up with a plausible excuse for not getting himself to the correct spot for the photo (though arguably it boils down to technique). Complicating matters, I was feeling guilty about setting Yet Another way-too obscure tag: I was simply glad that somebody had finally posted a pic.
Perhaps the right solution is to amend the rules to stipulate that a tag pickup needs to (more or less) include the original tagger's bike location somewhere in the pick-up photo.
In all seriousness, of course.
No worries. I don't mean to come across as a whiner. Sorry
Rats, I had this, too, but didn't post because I thought I had it wrong. I took a shot from the back of the garden, behind the Columbus statue. Maybe I'll put the photo up anyway because I thought it was a funny doppelganger, not the correct place!
Ahlir, I like your proposed amendment. I think it's good to provide a slightly bigger frame of reference in the tag-get-photo (see, I speak German too) but sometimes the *point* of reference is the point of the tag.
And no, I had absolutely no clue. I was looking for Victor St, or Victor Ave, or Victor Way. I thought that was a bit of road in the foreground, and couldn't see the statue even after told it was there.
OK, my bad. I should have just posted a closeup of the "Closed" sign as a teaser & a hint. Next time. It's back in Ahlir's hands now anyway.
*waves small flag* um, y'know, we should all be out taking pictures of tags, and it's supposed to be fun.
Over on the other game, we extended the existing tags for another week! There are two: (a) Find a restaurant-or-whatever named after a foreign city; (b) Your bike at both ends of a long trail, e.g. old jail to Millvale. Here's the link!
Go back a page to see some creative combining of two tags in one photo. (The previous two tags were (a) flowers and (b) high elevation views.)
Behold. The base of the Great South East Passage:
Many have climbed, a few have pushed.
@stu - I'm not sensing a lack of fun here. Am I missing something? Personally, I like that it's fast paced & competitive to some degree.
I like the photo in the latest tag. There's something funny about that boxy house and those boxy barriers.
Boxy!
Sorry to go off topic a bit. Is there a story behind that closed road?
funny enough, not having seen the tag, i drove up pocusset today after dropping dan off for the first time i don't know how long - maybe since the 90's? i saw that odd "schenley park" sign and wondered where it went... and what it used to be. i had a friend who lived right there on pocusset so i used to go by there a lot but i have no recollection.
also, is the city just going to let the road fall over the hillside? looks like it's on the way in places...
@jeg: It's been too long, but I understood that the road was closed once that area became a place for people to socialize. I don't quite recall whether this was to prevent marauders from sneaking up from, or escaping down to, Pocusset.
Pocusset on down to the Greenfield Bridge has been seeming to fall down the hillside for some time. It would be a bit of an engineering challenge to stabilize the road -- hard to say whether the city is up to that challenge.
I think that road has been closed off for at least 20-30 years, it's still a nice trail, I end up riding it once a year or so. That upper road in Schenley Park, with the roundabout at the end, was (and is? I guess?) a gathering spot for decades as well. I don't know anything about why the road was abandoned.
[and I don't know where this new boxy tag is]
I'm confused. I looked at Ahlir's map of Pocusset, and I'm pretty sure that's the road I enjoyed zooming down most of last Fall on my way to the Jail Trail. But Nate says it's been closed for 20-30 years?
Here's the bottom of the one I'm thinking of, with a shot of the old park sign.
@pseuda: on my map, take the little yellow streetview guy and plunk it down on the 5300, which should be right in the middle of the map display. Face north-ish. That's the road. Just past where the houses end.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I managed to forget how to extract the lat-long for a location. And more embarrassed to admit that I was too lazy to take the time to figure it out again. Posting that info would have saved everyone some time. (And, it goes without saying, "why couldn't you have taken the time to do it right in the first place" is a perennial favorite in my long-running parental lecture series. The irony.)
Thanks! I didn't know the streetview guy was drag-n-plop. Ha, and I think I finally deciphered those other clues.
There are a couple labs for lat/long. I like the one where you right click to drop a marker (it might be on by default even?). There's also a tooltip but I find it a bit intrusive.
Saline Street off Browns Hill Road. Saline is roughly 50% street, 50% craters, so Street is really the wrong word.
New tag!
This house is named after the people who opened it, over a century ago ago, not the nearby park, though they both bear that same name.
I love that disembodied foot!
The real challenge, of course, is to be able to get up early enough tomorrow morning to snag the tag before people start leaving for work. Plus, stefb is probably on her way there already.
Schadenfreude is fun! I'd go get it now, but I'm actively recovering from my Sunday ride.
I used to live around the corner from there.
I am at Forbes this morning. Not over that way until tomorrow. Say hi to the bike cops if you see them haning out a little east of this building. and get yourself a nice treat, even if today isn't going to be that hot
Oh, but I just climbed the nearby hill eight hours ago. (Hint: This isn't too far from the venue for the Ciclovia event last night.) No hill involved in grabbing this post, just for me getting home!
Park House, East Ohio St.
location: 40.453321, -80.001430
I just knew this wasn't going to be there at lunch time, which was my first shot at it....
Next Tag:
This heart may look red to you but it will always be Gold to me.
man i might have to go home this way now
oooo, I'll be happy to go this way home regardless if I win the tag or not.
this happens to be within the 5 block radius of my place of residence that i consider getting tags in. if it's still around when i leave work, i shall have a go as well!
longitudinal drain grate! I think a >= 28mm tire would be OK, but I'm not so sure about a narrower one.
@stu I'll test it aht with my 42mm's n'at.
Gold way. I remembered why I don't like this route - got buzzed by an andrettini in the esses.
jerk. I'm still going to take this route when I leave in 15.
Dammit! I was gonna get a tag with my husband finally. Drop another! Weather is really perfect.
I want to see a photo of a front wheel in that drain.
Oh, sorry... I just got home and I'm feeling a bit ill. I'll try to think of something easy for the morning. I promised to go video a bike lane I like, maybe that will be the tag.
a bike lane lyle likes...
I do not think that word means what you think it does.
:::NOT A TAG::: )
Doesn't stand a chance against my fatties.
Fresh Paint
nice. fat tires ftw.
Lyle: Please post a video tag!! I really want to see whether that can work.
New tag. The place's the thing. 
Hmm, tricky, just upstairs from our usual spot. Not riding today, though.
oooo, good one. maybe over lunch?
Macy's Parking Garage dahntahn.
@dmtroyer Nice composition in that first photo!
I thought that was the Kaufman's parking garage.
@Lou, thanks! I can't believe it came out of my measly 3 year old cameraphone.
@edmonds I wasn't sure what the true name was... I work in the Frick building and many of my co-workers have leases there and just refer to it as the macy's deck.
Oh, that was just facetious, in line with the traditional Pgh "giving directions from things that aren't there any more". Kaufman's has been long gone.
It's the "Forbes Garage", tecknickally.
so what's the clue about?
That you have to be on top of the garage, not down in the street. I thought the view of the incline should be enough clue for everyone.
The incline coupled with the human services building at the end of smithfield is how I figured it.
:::new tag:::
I have a terrible sense of how difficult these are so I will wait at least a few hours for a clue.
Of the tags that I've posted, the ones that I've thought were obscure are the one picked up fastest.
Although without googling &c I don't recognize yours at all. I can make guesses, involving vehicles of a different sort.
I like your new handlebars, and the panniers & pump placement.
Yeaaaaah buoy!
Don't back up too far to take the pick-up photo.
I might have a shot at this in the morning. The problem as always is being bruced by someone with Internet on their phone.
Or someone who has to get up at the buttcrack of dawn for work. I don't know where this is for sure, but I have an idea. I saw a lot of interesting things from the gateway clipper the other week that I had never seen from the roads..
I just rode 17 miles in the rain, but couldn't find it. I did find out that you can get from the Point to the Mon Warf Trail now - it's open!
god I just wrote a sweet clue paragraph but it seems that stu has a pretty good handle on where it might be so we'll just bypass any new connections that could possibly come close to a pointed solution.
This is on the trail along the river side of the 10th street bypass- trail that links the convention center to the point.
ps - stu pulled up as I was trying to upload! we will drop a new tag later! i passed reddan on my way over to the north side after posting this. it would have been neat if three of us showed up to get a tag at 7am.
Or four.
I think I might finally have to break down and get that data plan for my phone...
Did you guys 'ring' the door knocker? It was a favorite passtime of ours when fishing down there as kids.
I'm so bummed, rode right past it last night. How dumb am I?
Next tag!
*Phil Rizzuto voice* "Top of the seventh, nobody on, nobody out..."
(nobody on the bike, nobody outside when I took the pic)
Stef - This is where we discussed, but when I went back to look at the specific object (which is about where the bike is) I decided the hill itself was both more photogenic and recognizable.
@Marko82 - Not today, but I've done that in the past. That's truly a cool noise! If we had an audio tag-o-rama game, that would definitely be in it!
No fair! Just kidding. I am still at work for a but. But does this mean I can pick it up since my bike isn't in the pic?
did you get this from the top? if it's where i think it is...
If it's where I think it is, from the bottom is way more, uh, interesting.
is what Stef tried to post.
OK, you lost me there.
I don't understand what went on with that last tag. You two guys were supposed to jointly place a tag, but you didn't. Instead, one of you sets it then the other one picks it up. The tag happens to be roughly in the agreed upon place, yet is somehow different (who knows in what way; we weren't there when you worked it out).
I would say that this particular tag is spoiled and that the two of you need to get together and try again.
though (or maybe especially because) i could tell where this was at a glance, i'm inclined to agree with ahlir. either this tag is still live for whoever wants to get it, or the two of you should convene and drop a new one together.
or maybe (even better!) stef should drop it on boustead st., and whoever wants to get it can head to canton! the midway point in terms of dd hills, you know.
The plan was that I was going to get a pic of a small wooden staircase halfway up, which I'd spotted as a spectator on last year's Dirty Dozen. When I got there, I could hardly see it, it's so covered with ivy and weeds, not what anyone riding DD in weed-less late November would have recognized, so I decided to take a pic of the whole street.
My pic is from the top, looking down; her pickup is from the bottom, looking up. But it is the same spot. Yeah, we should probably do a do-over.
I'll PM Stef with a couple of ideas, and one of us will have a tag out there shortly.
Someone didn't meet me after work to set the tag. Cough cough
So stef got Bruced 'setting' a tag? That'll teach her!
I guess I did! Hahah
By the way, Stu, nice pic!
New tag, take 2.
Hint: Remember!
Maine memorial in the Allegheny commons park
My first tag! And with my buddy Emelio from Cleveland!
New tag:
Haiku clue:
We sprung up a mount
Turned around, stopped halfway down,
but: "No bikes allowed"!
Interesting. Were the residents complaining?
Ridgelawn Cemetery, on Mt. Troy Road
New tag!
In the spirit of abracadabra's haiclue, another clue in verse:
If this photo has offended
Find the tag and all is mended.
Haha - I've been gone for a couple of days & I see there's a new kind of Bruce that happened, and now puns, haikus and portmanteaus are getting all mixed up.
[edit]
Is that monument to the Maine an actual chunk off the USS Maine? 'Cause that's an interesting piece of history.
@Pseudacris I think it is a cannon off of the ship - not 100% sure. And interesting and depressing note - my buddy decided to climb up it from the bottom, and midway through remarked at how bad it smelled. I noticed that the opening was at groin level, and we immediately identified the smell of urine. I think the thing is basically a big pee chute now for neighborhood troublemakers.
The Allegheny Commons web site says it's a torpedo tube salvaged from the Maine.
"...MIDWAY through remarked at how bad it smelled."
For some reason I laughed uncontrollably at this.
Torpedo tube makes sense. The design of the thing had me very curious as well.
Consol Center, home of the Penguins
===>>NEW TAG<<===
Clue please?
Considering the previous clues' styles...
I'm not very fluent in poetry, but I offer you this:
If I was accepted near this place
I'd learn enough to save my poetic face
(hey it rhymes, okay? I'm a designer, not a poetry writer,
I woke up in the middle of the night suddenly recognizing Steven's Puckish clue. Too late.
I walked through those bars twice a day at least when I was growing up. That private property once belonged to the city, but is now collectively owned. I find no evidence on google, but if you get an old enough map you might look for Fairfield Lane.
This place is visible on google maps.
On Streetview? Or just on maps?
Got the location but doubt I can make it there before someone else. It is visible on Streetview.
Yes, I meant street view, sorry.
Stair at Lytton Ave -Oakland. Courtesy of Lou M. & back-up by Bikeygirl.
Ah dang I had just figured this out thanks to Nate's clue and was about to head out.
Two double tag pickups in four days! (Three, really.)
That's the place, but if others are looking, I think it's actually on Parkman Ave, maybe 10 yards down from the Lytton intersection.
I'm out of town otherwise I'd have grabbed it. Was planning go borrow a key to that gate and take a pic from the inside tomorrow morning. The other end of the path is on Bigelow across from Schenley HS, also gated off. The houses on Centre Ave all access it.
The fencing went up around 1980, not sure exactly when.
Next Tag:
Climb and educate yourself on this hidden miracle, or choose to look the other way and contemplate secluded darkness....
Lourdes Grotto Duq Unv
:::Next Tag:::
Today being the longest day of the year I was able to stay out & pick up another tag this evening.
One of my previous tags was just cheesy so I though I could ham it up this time.
Pennsylvania Macaroni co mural on 20th in the strip.
It may be the longest day, but it's still dark out at 11! Sorry about the terrible photo.
New tag:
Haiclue:
Keeping pittsburgh clean
Bonus: check the threat level
We're never in green
Hm. Maybe I'll go for this on Saturday, but not sooner. I've been sticking pretty close to home lately. Have to be careful taking pictures of that sign, though, someone might decide it's a threat.
I am envisioning erecting a "Skepticism Level" sign somewhere. Except it would start at yellow. And have no top. Art project.
I can't wait to find out where that is. How ridiculous. Has it ever dropped below yellow?
whenever i get to set a tag, im going to take a picture of my bike in a giant cloud of gnats. blech, they were pinging off my helmet last night!
@rsprake from wikipedia: "The threat level has never been lowered to Low (Green) or Guarded (Blue). It was recommended in a September 2009 Task Force report to remove the Low and Guarded conditions from the Alert System altogether and set Yellow (Elevated) to "Guarded" as the new baseline of the system, without changing the baseline conditions issued when under Yellow in the current system. So far, the change has not taken place."
@caitlin I was basically swimming in gnats last night on my way to set this tag. I had to nearly shut my eyes and hold my breath. It's weird though because they're not always there!
Bats eat gnats.
And Ozzy eats bats.
Haha. Nice. I have an idea of where this is... I am guessing near a river, but not the parts of the rivers i routinely ride near. Gnats are the reason I wear glasses of some type while on a bike. I was thinking of keeping a bandana tied around my neck and raise it over my mouth and nose when I encounter gnat clouds
gnats are one of the reasons i cut much of my beard off. gross...
I accidentally breathed some in last time I was on the trail near the Strip District.
Gnasty!
I wear one of these:
if I get gnats (or anything else) in my eyes it's game over, because I wear rigid contacts.
abra: how do you deal with that? do you wear goggles or something?
When I used to wear soft lenses it wasn't an issue at all, even if I wasn't wearing sunglasses. But now I have to wear RGP and I have never worn them on my bike
I wear a helmet with a visor, like the one I posted. I have thought about wearing goggles instead though. The gnats/dust/dirt can occasionally come up from underneath, especially if it's windy. Also, my doctor has told me that if you stack the RGP on top of big soft lenses, you can overcome this issue. She has RGPs too, so she has lots of good tips. I haven't ever stacked though, I think if I was to ever do a race or anything where it was important that I didn't stop biking I would probably do it.
thanks, i missed the "i wear one of these" part in your last post although i guess it should have been obvious from the context.
i'm also worried about the wind blowing the lens out of my eye, is that possible? or maybe i go to wipe some sweat away and dislodge it... could be i'm just being paranoid, i dunno.
if i am thinking i know where this might be, it will be off limits tomorrow because of obama's visit. is that true?
@salty The wind has never blown them out of my eye, and I've never dislodged it unless I'm wiping right on or under my eye. It's more likely to dislodge it by really quickly looking left or right. In terms of sweat though definitely wear a headband. Getting sweat in your eyes is way worse.
@caitlin I didn't know Obama was coming tomorrow! I don't think that a visit from Obama would make this place off-limits though.
Obama's in town for Anthrocon, isn't he? I heard rumors of a keynote...
I meant "eye shield" instead of "visor". Don't know why I said that. Also meant "Getting sweat in your eyes is way worse... when you're wearing contact lenses".
Here's the announcement that I received:
President Barack Obama will address the U.S. from Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood this Friday, June 24.
His speech will address the key roles that universities — in collaboration with government and industry — play in enhancing the global competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing, jumpstarting job creation and the process of bringing ideas to market.
His talk is at 11am.
Re gnats: remember to hold you breath when you go through a swarm...
I have soft contacts. if i don't blink enough, my eyes dry out, and I have had my contact fold up and land on my cheek when I finally blinked again. This has happened three times.
@Ahlir...I have been holding my breath from the Convention Center to the Cork Factory...crazy swarms.
This, plus some safety glasses from home depot. The yellow roofer's ones are great.
source: gemplers.com
new tag!
or, uh, not really
This tag has been up so long - can we get another clue?
I'm pretty sure that the route to the tag is sprinter-friendly.
OK, I can do another haiclue. Admittedly only the first line from the last one was really helpful.
Head up the north trail
past the mystery island
even past the jail.
P.S. - no street view.
road was under construction
when google came through.
Ah. At a place where some would say to enjoy working there, it has to smell like money?
Actually, I did know where this was from the first clue which was perfectly clear. I'll probably go grab it shortly unless I get bruced.
Alcosan
Doh! (and it is on streetview)
Yes, but in a different place. Still at Threat Condition Elevated, of course, since we've always been at war with Oceania.
Wish I'd gone for this Friday evening. I decided to leave the bike home due to the threat of rain, and wound up getting soaked anyway while walking back to the bus.
Same tag, but from a bruce angle:
Where is it on street view? I couldn't find it. Glad to hear my first tag was ok too, I think I am still getting the appropriate clue level calibrated.
Still trying to figure out what sprinter friendly means.
Oops, meant "first clue" not "first tag".
New Beaver Ave, from the pen to (more-or-less) the curve, is a nice long straightaway with good pavement and light traffic. You can really open up on it.
flat flat flat, ride along the river, no hills, no climbing necessary.
= = = = = >> N N N N N E W W W W ..... T T T T T T A G G G G G << = = = = =
Easy to identify the location, not so easy to get there.
If this is where I think it is, there was already a tag there
@Lyle - Looks to me like the sign was photographed for Google, as you show, but after the construction it was moved to the corner before the entrance road on your link
10th Street Pedestrian Bridge
Did I get this one before?
*** NEW TAG ***
Due to the obviousness of the location, I think one should get a pic of a furry with yur bike^^
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Did I get this one before?
This particular location hasn't been used before. But tag 152 (Owl Way and Newton Street steps) was just 100 feet along on the same street, though looking up, not down. Set by Andrew, found by Dave.
I like your new tag. If folks don't get it by the time the convention ends Sunday, it'll get a lot harder. Way to motivate!
I love the new tag! Watching the baseball game for now though. It is a good one.
Was he fantastic?
Thanks for the sprinting explanation, and Lyle you're right, but TeamDecafWeekend I think you're also right.
The fox looks totally swanky with your bike. I saw that on bike-pgh twitter moments ago...
I rode through there an hour ago, but it was all deserted at 9am, and I didn't find that particular tree either.
Got one!
Yoi, bruced by a sideways post. Sorry I missed you stefb, would like to have had a double.
yeah, i left the convention center around 10am. i had to wait around though until i finally saw someone in full furry garb.
next tag:
it was such a beautiful day that i could have gone all the way to DC if it wasn't for work this week.
Those buildings look mildly familiar but I have never seen the train or the sculptor before.
It is kinda far out there, but not that far beyond another tag that was recently dropped and picked up. I could hear people screaming about a mile away.
i just want to say that the tags with the furries have totally made my day. haha!
Hmmmm, I figured it was out there. I actually rode out there today. Maybe I'll have to do that ride again in the morning.
Found it, I rode past there twice today.
I'll see if I can work up the motivation to go there tomorrow.
So those were photos of parts of the convention center? Or some other building? I'm having trouble finding the actual locations on street view, and don't recognize the buildings.
So, you're asking for a paws-itive identification?
10th Street, in front of the Westin (I think that's the hotel name). Convention Center is one block back.
Oh, of course. Thanks. And I see Stef's photo is the same hotel from a different angle.
(That angle being 90 degrees.)
Hey Stef, here's a page that talks about fixes for your iPhone's photo rotation issue. It mentions some apps you can use, and a trick to rotate a photo without apps (view it full screen, rotate the phone as appropriate, and take a screen shot of the result by pressing home and sleep/wake button at the same time). Hope you find it useful.
Yah my photo is in front of the hotel. Sloaps said that the pic just had to have a furry with your bike in it. I was outside the entrance and sat for probably 15-20 minutes before I spotted one off in the distance and sprinted over, as this particular guy was headed back into the hotel again.
Thanks for the help Steven, but my photos have the correct orientation when I look at them here. Does anyone else see mine as rotated 90 degrees?
I was riding with a friend who was on schedule, so when we stopped and I pulled out my camera, he started looking pointedly at his watch. I didn't see any furries
Is that a new bike Stef?
Stef, your pic was right side up on Facebook but sideways here at about the same time.
My son Gabe was at Anthrocon & identified the furry in Stef's pic as Rummage, a.k.a. Yappy Fox, who's a bit of a celebrity in the world of furries. He's the one who organized the fursuit parade. (Caution, 23-minute video, the first 60 seconds of which can be skipped while he figures out camera angles.)
Yeah, stefb, sideways on my browsers... Mac Firefox and Safari.
stef, same thing as stu and TeamDecaf. It's coming up sideways on my browser, but not all the time. Your last tag that you posted isn't rotated, and some of your other pictures here haven't been since it started.
Stef: Your furry photo is sideways on Firefox 5, Chrome 12, and IE 8 on Windows, and on Safari 5 on Mac.
Your train photo is fine.
iPhones, instead of rotating photos like other cameras, just put a code inside the photo's metadata (exif), saying that it should be rotated later. Some Apple software (not all) notices the code and rotates it. Most of the rest of the world displays such photos sideways, but some sites (Facebook I presume, but not Dropbox) are clever enough to fix the photo before sending it to a web browser.
So putting your photos on Facebook and using that link here should work fine too.
Yeah it is my new single speed. Traded the cayne Uno in for an SE lager. Sorry about the rotated photo, guys.
sculptures and train engine at uss mon valley works training hub, duquesne pa (ridc park)
it took quite a bit longer than i expected to get here! isnt this outside the boundary of the bike map and thus the tag-o-rama??
Rule #5.
It is a little bit outside the boundary, but other tags have been also. It was gotten, so I suppose it counts?
It's actually about 2 mi outside the boundary, off the newly connected SVT. (Have you checked it out yet? Do it!) But Melange was willing to schlep all the way out there, so whatever.
On the whole, it would be nice if weekday tags were closer to town so that more people could reasonably make a go of it.
I'm happy with pushing the envelope, but, yes, particularly on the weekends. Good job, melange.
I did post it before 3pm on a nice sunny, coolish day when the sun set around 9pm.
I propose that if the tag is out of boundary, the tagger should disclaim it -I was thinking this tag was on the steel valley trail but I had ridden the trail within the boundaries, so I figured I was wrong. Obviously not a big deal though, I probably should have just gone out and explored anyways. also do you mean rule #6? Which I might be breaking now.
On second thought I think I've been that far out, but I just didn't leave the trail to see this.
There is a lot of whining going on about a tag that was an extra 2 miles down a beautiful new rail trail.
LOL
At lease it was not in the East End again!
JUST KIDDING!!
the pedantic rule-humping in this game is getting a bit over the top again.
pedantic rule humping is officially the name of my new band
Pedantophiles!
Abracadabra's got a point. He searched for a legal tag on the SVT - and he correctly ascertained that there was none.
"STOP WHINING! If you aren't in the 'in' crowd, then you aren't. Not our fault!"
Maybe you guys should modify the rules, to prevent this from happening.
maybe people should worry less about the rules and just go ride their damn bikes?
+1 cburch.
I don't see a problem with stretching the boundaries. If a tag sits for a really long time, a little bit of whimpering for clues is in order. I like the variety of tags and taggers. I'm slow and kind of clueless unless it's in the east end. Others here are monster hill climbers who find great views &tc: more power to them! I like finding out about new locations.
The rules don't say the tag must be on the BikePgh map. They say only "Try to keep the tag within Pittsburgh city limits and the surrounding neighborhoods."
The map is a useful rough guide to reasonable locations, but the five tags so far that have been outside its boundaries are all legal according to the rules.
The tag wasn't particularly difficult to reach (even compared to some of the ones right in the middle of the map), so I think the only issue is that Abracadabra thought the rules required sticking to the map, and was misled.
Maybe we should add a note to the first post, saying that keeping tags on the BikePgh map is encouraged but not required?
Yeah, sorry, it was my misunderstanding. Still a tag-o-rama newbie.
"this is not 'nam. this is bowling. there are rules."
click here to see a train car i passed on the way to and from the tag. there was a row of these, stopped on the tracks right next to the trail. i thought they were some sort of family-friendly sleeper cars, but perhaps they are referring to the rules???!
and here was the alternative view of the tag:
new tag coming this evening...
@abracadabra: don't be discouraged: just keep trying. As we can see from the Furries tag, even getting 'bruced' can lead to interesting results.
There's also the Wheelset-Of-Fortune game on another thread if you want to try a differently-paced game. I play that one sometimes, too.
[edit] lol at that train car image!
I was on the trail as they were pulling those cars into the yard. There were a bunch of workers huddled in a circle having a meeting. On my way back they were installing satellite dishes and cleaning them up. Not sure what they are for.
i thought they were some sort of family-friendly sleeper cars, but perhaps they are referring to the rules???!
I spotted the same message on another car there a few weeks ago.
Turns out it refers to a method of rearranging cars in a train. More on Wikipedia.
pal jesus was here
Any more clues? There are loads of Xtian churches with wooden doors and limestone (?) exteriors.
Is "pal" part of your clue?
the buddy christ!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyYCxz_Ao5g
oh kevin smith, please start being funny again soon...
catholicism WOW!
i can assure you the tag is not in red bank nj, but it is wholly within the bounds of the bike pgh map
argh!!! Wish I was in Pgh at the moment just to get two Konas in front of churches in a row... that and "Stopacoupleofangelsfromenteringandthusnegatingallexistence."
Dogma was filmed here...and I think the church in the movie is located in Bethel Park
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma_(film)
Nope, Larimer Ave, between E. Liberty Blvd + Broad Street.
[edit] interesting tag: I always look at the spires on this church from afar, but have never been to it before. There's a nice view of it from the top of the Bakery Square parking garage.
dammit! also, there is an awesome gigapan of this church here: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/5071/
There's a Historic Marker on the front, but I can't find any web pages about it.
Thanks for the clue, @RF!
its got the historic landmark plaque, though it looks like its falling into some serious disrepair. i find this sad -- but only because i loved the movie so much.
when i first saw dogma, i didnt have any evidence that it was filmed in pgh, but i was pretty convinced that church was in the vicinity. i went riding to look for it, and found it no more than 15 minutes after leaving my shadyside apartment. i was very proud of myself. a year or so later, i realized that i lived around the corner from the red haired member of the hockey playing devil child trio (still lived in shadyside then). what a small world.
here are some action shots from the filming: http://www.dogma-movie.com/pics/images.html#church
wow, that makes two tags within spitting distance of my office where i had no clue... i gotta get out of the office more i guess.
:::::Not a Tag:::::
The Dogma tag made think of this place for lunch today...
^ Funny, the original name for this place was Hot Dogma. I wish I bought one of the shirts before they changed names (I think another place claimed rights to the name or something). New tag coming this evening.
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stand right on your head ... and dab ink
That's a really cool one. Shocked I haven't seen it or anything close by sooner.
This area is pretty fun in streetview. ITS NOT IN THE EAST END!!!
"House Poem" @Sampsonia Way, North Side -Mexican War Streets
NEW TAG
33rd st in the Strip, down by the river
dang that's a crazy top tube
carbon is a wonderful thing
Sheez. I want a new bike.
Fancy bike. I like it.
Drop another tag plz. I have riding to do!
Darn, bruced. I took this picture at 11:23a, but don't have interwebz on the phone. OTOH, I had a thoroughly enjoyable day fixing bikes (mainly mine) at Kraynick's.
New tag!
If I'm not mistaken, we've seen this artist's work in the thread before.
More detail:
I can think of a couple fountains like this. Do they all have the scary fish on them?
Ah, I thought there was only one, but now I know there are 2 at least. This one is free flowing. I believe they are both the scary fish design.
Entrance to highland park
Just got out of the shower and now I am sweaty again.
At least you got a nice cool drink
I had a further-out tag in mind, but am taking it super easy on the knee... day after cortisone injection, things are a bit uncomfortable.
Yeah put ice on it. I tell all of My patients to put ice on their knees the night of and day after a cortisone injection. Usually starts to kick in 2-3 days after you get it. Sorry, couldn't help giving my little speech. I say it at least 5 times a day several times a week.
I did not get a cool drink. Came right back home and got a drink at home after someone exclaimed that the water from the fountain was warm. That climb up bunkerhill was harder than it looks from the bottom. But thanks for keeping it close to my house when there was no water at the pedal pgh stop in HP, I was irritated because it was difficult to get water from this fountain into a tall water bottle.
And where was the Italian ice stand? I could have gone for that. I thought about leaving that as a tag before.
Dang I had just found this. Should have checked the thread. OK, now I'm all hyped up, I want another tag!
Dammit. Found the one with a button... in Schenley Park
P.S. when I first saw the picture I thought your blue rim was some kind of circle you had put in in photoshop or something to point out where your bike/the fountain was.
Stef: There's a little plaque on that bench in your pic for Tony (the Italian ice guy)... he passed a few years ago. Definitely a nice treat while he was around.
I saw that but there seems to be someone who took over with his old cart or a new one. Last year nick bought us Italian ice on a ride from a younger guy.
When the June Flock ride stopped here, I helped fill water bottles by holding my thumb carefully over half the nozzle, just enough to make a tall-ish fountain. The trick is to keep a steady enough thumb that the fountain is a predictable height.
Ok I wanted to Set a new tag downtown but the regatta and the Kenny chesney concert is happening, and I didn't want to get caught up with large crowds from the suburbs. New tag is close to home. It is on a street that shares a name with one of my favorite aquabats songs involving midget pirates. The water fountain my bike is resting on (not pictured) also runs continuously (like the one in the last tag), as does the fountain pictured here. Kids love to run through it. Play ball and praise Jesus.
Heths or Hampton Park - not sure of the name. Highland Park/Morningside.
Right behind St Raphael church and next to some baseball fields. I love to ride through that sprinkler. My dog will run through it with some coaxing and then run up the ladder in tht gym and then down the slide.
A couple years ago I was riding around somewhere toward the northwest, Bellevue-ish, I'm really not sure where exactly. It was a hot summer day, I had just climbed up some hill and found myself cutting through what turned into playground. And there was a sprinkler fountain, looking so cooling fresh, shooting water up into the air and marking a dark brown circle where the water dampened the concrete. I cut a path through it, curving around the center fountain. But that dark circle was algae. Slippery algae. Algae all over the left side of my body as I bounced off the ground. Bleah, yuck and ouch.
sounds like Marmaduke playground
I actually like the little playground. Great place to refill a water bottle on a hot day. It's tucked off in a corner of a neighborhood, so you have to know where it is and how to get there.
"Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright"
Bob Marley
This was my church...
I have a bum knee right now & can't ride to pick this up
Mr Small's in Millvale. It would appear that one of the other Marleys is booked for a show.
Ahhhh how did i not get this? I recognized the staircase but i guess it has been too long since I have seen a show at smalls.
@Greasefoot: What denomination/ethnicity was the church? The style looks kind of Romanesque, but not really.
It was St. Ann's Catholic church. I was an alter boy here for 5 years!
Next tag: (bike behind the trash can on the left; snapped at ~4pm)
This is a very easy tag to get to. Getting back, not so much.
Kinda glad they cut this out on pedal pgh this year...
I agree. When I saw it on the route description, I thought "boy, that's just plain mean".
Added note: But this is Tag-O-Rama, and that makes it ok
hut (for lack of a better word) at the cul-de-sac at the end of parkview blvd
on the way in to get that tag, i saw a bunch of signs that looked like pointers to a movie set. then i thought i saw maggie gyllenhaal driving out while i was riding in. i got the tag and rode around to find the set, which wasnt too far around the corner. i went and found this on imdb which makes me think i was correct!
i also saw this on the way in, which reminded me of the train cars i spotted on my way to get my last tag: (NOTE: not a tag!)
i have to admit, i cheated a little bit on the way out... i took the gravelly path out the back of that development which leads to browns hill road. it was marked 'road closed' so i might have been trespassing or in a hard-hat-only area. that made for a short but steep climb back to greenfield for me.
I was gonna get this when i broke off of the team decaf ride, but I checked quickly and saw that it was picked up like 10 minutes prior. I saw someone coming out of that area, too, and I think it was you, melange
The gravel "path" is an easier way out of the development, unless it's been raining. I think it's for expansion of the development, but not much construction lately...
I just huffed it up Forward. Need to think these things through better.
If I saw the tag in time I could have *really* cheated since I was driving back from the waterfront testing out my new bike rack
I saw a ton of movie trucks on Beechwood on the way out there...
They've been shooting for a few weeks now. They used the Rezenstein basketball courts as their parking lot a week ago.
Another Stand and Deliver remake without Edward James Olmos?
NEW TAG!
to counter the recent string of church tags, i present this one:
hail seitan!
I am out and about. I want to look for this but I can't tell what the photo is. I know where I can get some seitan, though!
It's a shard of a mirror, isn't it?
Not 100% sure if this is it... Maybe 98%? There are plenty of shards of glass on a gray cementy background.
Sculptures next to Spak Bros (home of the best seitan dishes in Pgh)
I'm very tempted to go in and get a vegan seitan melt but I just ate lunch.
thats it! i didnt think the tag would go so quickly, with my extreme close-up reflection shot and all. well done, abracadabra.
spak's is AWESOME. everyone should try them -- vegetarian or otherwise. as an ovolactopescatarian, i highly recommend the buffalo seitan melt sandwich w/ non-vegan sauce (its got butter in it, i believe) and provolone cheese.
I looked at those on Saturday when i was there and i was wondering if anyone left that as a tag yet. Clever! Great job!
Well, I only know of a couple of places with shards of mirror embedded in concrete, and when I hear "seitan" I think of spak bros. I have a few buddies who work there and have eaten there more times than I'd like to admit. I'm impressed that you got that shot of so much of your bike in the shard, I was trying to replicated it but could only get a little top tube!
Maggie's in town and didn't tell me? Well, I guess that tears it. We're officially not friends now.
@Lyle We're officially not friends now.
I'll let her know when she comes by my place tonight.
OK, new tag, I meant to post this earlier but got caught up in other stuff.
Haiclue:
Under reverb bridge...
What is that - a sand sculpture?!
Cool... it must be new.
What if they take this down before someone gets it? This is on my commute (not on Thursdays unfortunately). I saw officials removing the tent it was under... And it looks like the fence has been taken down and people have been touching it already...Wait, I am sure someone will get this on the morning commute. I know red Dan goes right past this usually.
This might give new meaning to the Things That Aren't There Anymore idea: Things That Weren't There Long Enough.
I know red Dan goes right past this usually. Yep.
Sand sculpture in Pt St Prk.
As do I. For those interested, under the sand are big crates, which forms the "foundation" for those sculptures
I wish I'd had the presence of mind/time to take a series of photos as the sculpture was being assembled and carved...would have made an awesome time-lapse sequence.
Early work on the sculptures
I figured it must be on some people's commute! Looks to be in worse shape in reddan's photo than it was when I took my picture.
New tag:
When life is the pits, and it feels like the weight of the world is on your shoulders, a nice pipe near the river can help put you at your ease.
I just saw a news story that the sculpture was knocked down today. Glad you got it, Dan!
Atlas Clay and Metal
A guy just came out and asked me if I was lost. Thought he said "you lost", as in, someone got the tag first.
"...a nice pipe near the river can help put you at your ease."
There's a punch line to this somewhere... give me a minute, i'll find it...
A bit more detail on that tag. It's on Chateau St, almost directly across from the Park & Ride that nearly nobody uses. It's a wonderful place to park the car for free, unload the bikes, then roll over to the river trail for a ride to stadiums, casino, the city itself.
Getting to it is rather weird, especially with some street construction right there at the moment. Even without that, unless you've practiced getting in and out of there, you might not figure it out in a hurry. All I can tell you is, if you're ever in this part of town, take a few minutes and figure out all the weird little ramps and left-hand U-turns and paths in and out. PM me with your point of origin and I'll tell you how it's done. Every approach is complex, regardless of direction of approach (or exit) as well as method of travel.
Wow another quick nab. And I thought I was gonna take a small detour on my morning commute.
hey abra' and the rest of you lot: keep snapping them tags! We're waiting for you...
Sorry, I had hoped to post a tag tonight; I'll be posting one tomorrow evening.
I just exited the bike trail at the science center, road up allegheny, then across franklin, and up chateau. I imagine it would be more of a headache to get there if you stuck to the bike path more.
New tag. Sorry it's late, hopefully this will be a fun weekend tag for someone.
Haiclue:
At the top left edge
Look out across the water
Island with no bridge
Island, east of Neville Island bridge
Damn! I was just gonna set out to get this. I snooze, i lose. So which route did you take to get there and back?
Crossed the West End Bridge, went down West Carson/Rt 51. I'm not sure of the street name that got me off Rt 51 and took me to Helen Street in McKees Rocks. I then went across the very end of the McKees Rocks Bridge back onto Rt 51. Not a pleasant road for a single cyclist. Good thing it was early - little traffic.
New tag coming soon, I shot a bunch of places on my return trip, I'm selecting one now.
I think it's much nicer if you stick to the north shore trail, then take the McKees rocks bridge across. Carson St. is pretty bad. You have to climb to get to california ave in brighton heights, but the McKees rocks bridge has a ped. sidewalk and is a nice and easy ride down. From there you can take Island Ave (which is what 51 turns into) which is fine for biking until you get to the bridge to neville island. My friend and I went this way last night on our way to the Montour trail, headed to Robinson. I also came this way when I did the threat level sign tag.
ok. i was thinking about going the way abra described. thanks. i was thinking about going out that way to the montour trail at some point this summer.
clue please!
The clue is in the header above the picture.
[Edit: 1948 violins]
Warhol museum
I think I got the right window... The gift shop one?
Damn fast, yes, I think it was the gift shop window. It was on the General Robinson side.
Andy Warhol's Sprite Heads Playing Violins, 1948
I don't think I would have gotten it from the red face in your tag alone, it took your saying "violins 1948" for me to get it! Very cool painting.
I was slow on my last tag so this one is fast.
New tag:
Haiclue:
I was one day late
Note: Some climbing required
of numerous kinds
Jeez, I would like to have had the time to get this today - could have gotten 2 in one day! I'm not sure anyone has had 2 tags in one day.
Slightly OT - Who does all of the updating on the tag map and spreadsheets? Whoever you are, thanks!
For those who haven't checked out the map and spreadsheets, check here (this is copied from the first page of this thread):
If you want to check out the Tag Map, you have two choices:
1. tinyurl.com/tag-o-rama-view shows all the tags at once, and displays quickly, but can't be edited.
2. tinyurl.com/tag-o-rama-map is for editing the map. It loads slower and displays in multiple pages of about 200 tags each.
The Tag-O-Rama spreadsheet, showing who got which tag
The original Tag-O-Rama thread
@TDW: According to the tag dates in Stephen's double-plus handy spreadsheet, it would appear that player Miasme managed two pickups on October 1st. Way to go!
I also observe that multi-tag days were more common at the beginning of the game, and that we haven't had more that a couple per day for the past few months. We can speculate on why this is (or not).
I was also wondering who updates the maps and spreadsheets (I hope it's not the tag getter or setter, as I have not been fulfilling my duty).
Yup, I've been doing most of the updating recently. Happy to do it.
Miasme may well have been the first player to get two tags in one day, but unfortunately the dates in the spreadsheet from that time were added some months later, and required some guessing and approximating. (I didn't make the spreadsheet until the game had been going on for some time, and the board software was already unhelpfully showing the post dates as "X months ago".)
Fun fact: The recent Fleming Park Bridge tag is the westernmost tag to date, over a mile west of the runner-up. We've had tags north, south, and east of the edge of the Bike-Pgh map, but never west.
Cool Alhir and thanks Steven. Interesting to know about the development of the spreadsheet and to know abracadabra and I share the western-most tag.
I think maybe the reason for the lack of western tags is that west of Pgh seems to be a bit desolate in terms of bike-friendly routes until you get to the montour or panhandle trails. Also, I don't think there's a huge draw out there...!
Hmmm I know what the thing in the tag is but I cannot place it. I am coming up empty handed on your end of town, which is where I thought it may be, but at least it is a beautiful morning to ride.
@ stefb - I thought I had it too - rode 21.4 miles searching, scouring - nothin'!
Regarding the first part of the clue I was one day late... I was born exactly 9 months after my dad's birthday - ew, gross to think about.
Hey! How do you know what end of the town I live on? (I've been thinking about this a little - to find criminals they often calculate some sort of centroid based on where they committed crimes, and apparently it's rather accurate at finding their home. I don't think that's quite true of my tags yet... I just often end up riding around the north side because there's nice riding there.)
The clue is a little cryptic... "I was one day late" refers to the day I set the tag, not the day I was born!
Also, it is just barely a tiny bit visible on street view... probably not enough to really see it.
You got the Warhol tag quickly so I assume you love on or near the north side. I may be wrong. And now I realize where I should have looked for the tag instead.
@stefB I assume you love on or near the north side.
I love where ever I can...
@Mick: I hope you're not looking for love in all the wrong places (like North Side?)
Oh I have the best typos
:::crickets:::
OK, so I guess in order to ensure that the reason no one has gotten the tag is that no one has gotten a chance to head out to it (rather than the clue being too cryptic), here's a more obvious clue.
Fill in the blanks:
Thank god it's _________
Bruce Springsteen and the E _______ band
________s and recreation
whoever gets that tag be careful. that street SUCKS to bike on.
So I'm guessing we are thinking of the same street, unless there's more than one obvious way to fill in those blanks. I thought the street was really nice to bike up and down... It even shows up as a bikeable street in google maps (not that that means very much). This seems to be a recurring theme though, I think my standards for a "nice biking road" are just way lower than everyone else's. Maybe from now on all my tags will be very close off of bike paths.
speeding cars and blind turns with awful pavement on a really tight road are most certainly not included in my idea of bike friendly. its too bad too because its a great connector between two very distinct areas. the one other viable option for the connection is also a hell of a climb but the road itself is a bit less hairy to share with cars.
Hmm, no way I would have come up with this location. I've been on the street a couple times, I guess I share abracadabras low standards, or maybe it was a low traffic time.
I used to play basketball here all the time and I would have never got this without the clue. Try not to pick this up during rush hour, the road becomes a short cut due to the construction on 28.
Ah, got it.
Going from east to west does involve a nasty climb, but going downhill on the other side is then pretty ok in terms of traffic (though I've only been through there on weekends).
The rush hour thing makes sense in terms of differing opinions in terms of bike-friendliness, I can see this road being terrible if it was used as an alternative to 28. I feel like rush hour changes a lot of roads... eg, smallman, river ave, river front drive. Crafty cops could easily hide out on any of these streets to help meet their ticket quotas.
At any rate, sorry that the clue was cryptic (will work on that) and sorry if the road ends up being sketchy for you, if you head out to get this.
I normally have no problem ridding on this road. There are some huge drainage ruts that may give some concern and recently it has become congested due to 28 construction. I would just be careful during rush hour(s).
its more west to east that i dislike. having untrimmed trees whipping me in the face and a wall of rock as my escape option for idiots barreling down the hill is the part that i really dont dig. i'm generally riding downhill more than fast enough to keep up, but there is always that one idiot who MUST pass the biker.
ahh cburch always takes me on this shortcut when we are driving back from the north hills. no wonder i knew i saw this somewhere but couldn't place it. i don't think i will ride a bike on that road. actually, i disctintly remember saying, "i would never ride a bike on this road."
Hahhaa, sheesh, if you guys hate it so much you ought to report it to google as bike-unsafe.
Also, if you're really set on not riding up TGI_ road, then it looks like there is at least one back way that gets you there.
Park at Friday Street, Shaler
good job @bikeygirl! You seem to go for all the really tough ones.
Comments:
1) I checked with MapMyRide and found the problem: the eastern approach clocks in at a 16.8% grade (with ~20% on a couple of segments). It's funny, but my subjective experience was that the grade just keeps increasing the higher you get...
2) @abra', by alternate do you mean going up Parker to the fire station and turning left?
I'm impressed - I've ridden my bike up that street once - pretty much decided that once was enough. My guess, and my fruitless attempt to find the location, was miles off.
I figured out that it had to be a playground while sitting at the Frick playground off Beechwood (it has a water fountain). I then checked several playgrounds, but no luck. I did notice that contemporary color schemes tend towards earth colors (brown, green, etc) and figured that we were looking at a pretty old installation. But where?
The park on Friday is a bit hard to pay attention to, since you understandably need to focus on the road. But of course the right thing to do is notice and explore.
Good tag.
Lucia is one ballsy chick. She climbed a mountain to get to the park above polish hill where the French fry sculpture sits.
Wow, did not know it was quite that steep. Hence the "some climbing required" warning... the "of numerous times" was because I had to climb on the jungle gym to get my shot, which in retrospect, was kind of a stretch. Ahlir, yes, I was thinking of turning off of seavey/parker onto elbe dr. and zigzagging over. I don't know if that would be less hilly, that was mainly a suggestion for anyone worried about bike friendliness. In the future (assuming I get any more tags ), I'll try to make the haiclues less cryptic and also try to follow the unspoken rule that it should be either on or very close to a bike-friendly road/path/trail. I have been fun "noticing and exploring", as you put it Ahlir; I would not have headed up to this park unless I had a tag to set, and now I know of another fun/grueling Pittsburgh climb.
there's no such "unspoken rule" and rule 6 applies to "reverse whining" too
The comments all revolved around the safety of the road itself. I didn't see anyone complain about having to venture far from a normal route. Many of the best tags have been pretty far off the beaten path, while sone other great ones have been hiding under people's noses.
Yeah, I'm okay with tougher tags too. Why stick to the obvious, easy stuff?
Right, that's just what I meant - not that tags should be close to a normal route so much as that they should not be on a road that people are concerned/discouraged by it being unsafe. I think it's probably not right to set tags on roads that people are not comfortable riding on.
If you ride up Friday Rd from the Evergreen Rd side this tag is not difficult to reach.
My only problem is tags that encourage risky behavior (like dealing with Bigelow). That doesn't seem right. Anything else goes.
A good tag is some combination of location, photo and clue that challenges the players, and that could be anything. It doesn't have to be on familiar routes.
I've set a tag that was picked up and posted in 10 #$@!* minutes and set tags that took many days and extra clues to get (sorry). It's hard to judge, so just go for it.
+1 Ahlir, a good tag is some combination of location, photo and clue that challenges the players.
FYI
While I initially didn't know where this tag was, with the additional clues given I figured it out. I'm actually knowledgable of this area (Shaler/Milvalle/Etna) since I know people who live in there, so I took what I thought were the obvious-choices of safer roads: Millvalle trail, to Millvalle, to Evergreen Road, to climb-up Friday street, to get the tag.
Friday St is not that bad with traffic, and since it had been raining and it was pass rush-hour, I figured it was even safer to try and get it. Parker Rd is indeed scary, and while I did-go downhill on it, I do-not think I would venture there up-hill.
I don't really think I'm ballsy, but I do like the idea of a challenge. This was fun to get, though! Specially since it was nice and cool after the rain
Hopefully the tag I have in mind is less controversial but just-as-rewarding
out of bounds?
Wow. There is something deep inside me that just lights up when I see mountains, spirit, soul, whatever, I have a mountainy soul.
That sign seriously needs a BikePgh! sticker. C'mon.
that tag counts. i will see you on the mountain (i wish).
When I've gotten tags to set, I've tried for the oh-I-know-I've-ridden-past-that-50-times-but-just-whernell-IS-that-really, like the 10-foot "@" sign, the "nothing happened" plaque, the library that's too new to be on StreetView, etc. Not physically difficult to get to, nor particularly hidden, just not real obvious.
@quizbot - Big big grin )
+1 on leaving a Bike Pgh sticker
Now that would have been a great idea...
I hope the next tag is somewhere I can get to before work. I just got a new camera and I'm itching to get back into this game!
I was hoping he'd stick a protractor to it.
NEW TAG
Climb for your right to this tag.
Hopefully Macy's won't go and buy its name.
Heh... I did think about leaving a sticker once I got up there, but by then it was far too late. I'm nominating rsprake for that mission, and cburch for the protractor You'll want something bigger than a 27 in back if you have any sense BTW.
you know bikeygirl there were a couple alternate places for this tag that are much closer to my house.
When I go to European mountains to ride I'm taking the lift up.
@salty I'm sure! But then it would be half-as-fun
This tag is very central and hommie, I think. Plus, across from it, new nom things will be happening...
Centre ave and heldman. kaufman center/hill house (something or other). Ran into ahlir. one of us will leave a tag later
I notice that neither of us did a wide shot for context. Sorry about that. Annoyingly there doesn't appear to be an up to date photo online. But I did find this (from 2009):
At present the (original?) concrete steps have been restored. It looks much nicer.
stefb and I agreed on a location for the next tag and discussed some possible perspectives. Should be up later today.
I'm curious what "nom" means and what nom things are going to happen across the street?
Ahh well, ahem!
Nom means "food", and accross from the Hill House-Kauffman Center, a new Shop-and-Save grocery store will be built. This is HUGE for the area, since they haven't had a grocery store in the community for decades.
A bit of history: This tag is on the Hill Distric part of town, which is currently pretty ghetto compared to the rest of town. Back in the day it used to be a booming hotspot for jazz music and culture, but after the Civil Right's riots of the 60's, and the constuction of the Mellon Arena which destroyed the most of the lower hill area close to downtown, the community never quite-recovered. However, over the last 10 years some things seem to be finally happening in there -specially on Centre Avenue. The new Carnegie Library, the new business-building, the grocery store, and what I think is a new apartment building... shessh, I think this is the most action I;ve ever seen in the Hill!
BTW -those are all new steps, installed after the renovation of the center
I'm pretty sure that's in reference to a future grocery store going in there. Shop n Save, maybe?
Think...
OH sweet! Sounds like some great news.
Oh, no, ryan, that's awful. Who would eat a tiny bunny?
would be a nice companion dish to roasted quail. mini-chicken and mini-rabbit!
Next Tag
Clue: Money. A lot of money.
Glad to see a tag in the Hill. It's one of a bunch of places in the city that have gotten very few tags. Oddly, Oakland has very few tags, for all the chasing through and our gathering within it. North, West and South-of-MtWashington have gotten scant attention, too.
Riddle me this.. Actually I am not too much of a riddler. Just wondering how such a monolithic tag sits unfound for 5 hours. Here is another clue:
yep, the clue is the tag from a different angle.
Oh yea, now you show me, after I'm already home.
Haha, you just don't know how to make right side up pictures with your new phone...
The first clue would have been more appropriate if people were Fed up with this game
CMU's Mellon Institute. Fifth Avenue between Bellefield and Dithridge. New tag tomorrow morning!
Fun fact: not only will this building be in the new batman movie, its colonnade is made of the largest monolithic columns in the world.
Ah! I think that first clue was even worse now. Worse = I was way off, thinking financial institutions. Interesting angles though.
Additional, not so fun fact: (unless you use animal models) Animal research is conducted in that building
Nice wedding shoots, nice guards
Personal interesting fact: My great-great gradfather was an iron worker who helped build that building!
Pierce, I encourage you to break in and free the animals. Then they will bite you, and you will become a zombie. Then we can have a zombie apocalypse. I am ready for it. I think I can outrun a zombie on my bike, and i learned what i need to know from Zombieland.
On closing the loop -- the stone on that building is Indiana limestone which by way of 30-year-old movies takes us back to cycling, and European bike racing, and then of course to exoskeletons. Or more directly, if you lean close up against the stone of many of the buildings around there you'll see tiny shells and fossil remnants of ancient sea creatures. Invertebrates, naturally ....
That's genius, Nate. Everything is everything.
Sorry you didn't like the first clue. It was either that or "cantaloupe". Should have gone with the fruit...
On another interesting fact about that Tag:
@Pierce: you are right about the animal testing
@all: back when I was a student at CMU, I was "locked" overnight in the building twice with other friends while we were making a student-horror film (I was in charge of special effects).... anyhow, on breaks from shooting, I would go and explore the building, the highlights: got to dance in the helicopter pad on the roof, got lost on the mechanical plenum area ((it was like a jungle!)), and found an abandoned locker room that --seriously-- I don't think had been touched in 20 years. There was stuff left on the lockers, boxes on the floor, everything covered by a very fine layer of dust. It was SO COOL!! It was very odd, must say.
Oh, and inside the building, I don't know if is the experiments they've done there or what, but at night, some of the corridors seemed to give this very low-glow.
Ok ok...... done!!
Final fact...I rode by this this morning.
lucia, that is awesome! looks like a cool building to be locked in. do you have any pictures? and i would like to see this horror film.
The batman scene will have a motorcycle ride up the steps, explode off the doors, and ride into the building.
I’m Batman.
nanananananananananan BAT-MAN!!!!!!
there are 40-60 GPD squad cars parked in the soundstage under the 31SB. thats going to be a MASSIVE chase scene!
@Stef Thanks! It was indeed awesome to be there! I think those were the only times I was ever on that building. Since I was an architecture major, I didn't really have any other reason to be there.
Unfortunately, that happened in the last decade before cellphones became popular or had cameras, so I did not take any photographs of the experience Also, I don't have a copy of the movie -which pisses me off! It was done on a 8mm camera and the director/guy friend was too lazy to make copies. Afterwards he moved to germany so don't know what ever happened. It was only 9 minute short film, B&W, BUT it came out awesome! I was the special effects AND bug ranger for it... the movie was called "The Artifact" and it involved crawling insects -madagascar roaches- that I got to "act", plus I also had to make an "artifact" that dissolved in "blood"...... and I did it!
ahhh.... memories are pouring in! It was so much fun!
nananananananannnan BAT-MAN!!!
Nanananananananananana- spiderman!
I would see you more as a super hero based on the chupacabra.
New tag:
Some good wood was used to create a friendship with the birds here.
Bruced todd while he was uploading!
Dammit, I bruced colin and then he distracted me and bruced me.
Oh, that's a burn!
Hahaha awesome.
Good tag, nice photo
Lolz I like how Todd is smiling and uploading. Probably didn't get it posted first cause he has a droid and not an iPhone
I assume this is in friendship somewhere?
Edit- I posted this before Colin told me that this was said. Double lolz
I made the mistake of stopping to chat with him instead of concentrating on the posting, then all the sudden I see him taking a picture and I'm like "oh crap". Plus I did screw up uploading and it was all over.
That Colin is a sneaky bastard.
Friendship and Goodwood. Wood.
Also I totally waited a couple minutes for you to upload and then told you I was going to try to Bruce you.
Also also this is Colin.
Stef, I figured you would appreciate the wood aspect of this tag.
hahahah! awesome!!! I vote that both Colin and Todd share credit on this tag!
Oh, ouch.
+ Kayla deserves some kind of prize for "most delightful tag." I like how the bike is leaping up toward the happy houses.
i just wanna say that i am so happy to see
1) this tree full of birdhouses and
2) salty wearing the tree map shirt!!!
This one is pretty obvious. A kid could see this one a mile away.
Under the Bloomfield Bridge on Melwood.
New tag:
Inside this building is a portal of sorts.
Midwife center mural
Another late night strip district tag.
lol @quizbot's clue
[edit] extra funny because I thought "sorts" was the clue...it's an old typesetting term.
@cburch - you may want to discard EXIF metadata or location services on the camera with your next tag. Long/lat info was in there & made for some easy pickins.
Drop box on the iPhone wont let you upload pics without turning location services on. Ugh.
I'm a huge fan of Apple, I run my business on Macs, but really, the iPhone and iPad have drawbacks. No ability to see Flash content drives me crazy.
Speaking as a flash developer, I say, "fuck flash." 90% of the time it's bullshit bells and whistles with no real value that some account rep talked a client into paying for.
New tag:
A school with a view
Get high but don't bring your drugs
Who is Mr. C?
Wow, this is only a mile from my house! I’m tempted to go grab it, but I think I’ll let it stand until at least tomorrow evening so others can explore my side of town.
That's awesome, I was actually pondering on the way down what happens when a tag is super close to someone's house. I think you should offer cookies and punch to the person who gets it, but that's just one man's opinion.
Just a note that the two "main" ways to get to this tag are not really meant for bikes, but they are slower roads and there weren't a ton of cars on them. It looks like there are many "back ways", many of which Marko may know.
Last time I ventured over that way it was a lot climbing.
I climbed and I climbed but came up empty handed. I know where marko lives but I guess google didn't tell me where all of the schools in the area are. I am not familiar with this part of town. I thought that I was close to being in the correct spot to see the buildings in the background at the correct angle but didn't quite get there. I figured I was in the right part if town..the parking lot has barbed wire on top of the fence? I could have been way off though.
A slight "correction" to your plans would have helped.
Ah I get it now.
Should I meet you with punch and cookies as abracadabra suggests?
Nah I am heading out to visit family. You can meet someone else with punch and cookies who might get this today.
the parking lot has barbed wire on top of the fence
It sounds like you were there. There are a bunch of signs like this one in that parking lot.
The way I worded that was a little confusing. What I meant that the neighborhoods i searched are considered "bad" neighborhoods, so I figured that a barbed wire fence around the parking lot would be normal at a regular school in a bad neighborhood. Every place I checked had regular fencing. But I must say that I did a few long hills on my single speed just fine and now I realize that next year i should be able to do pedal pgh on a single speed without dying (although probably a lot slower than on a geared bike)
Took a wild stab at it & went for a ride up around Shuman... tag wasn't up there.
I think I know where the tag is, but I'm on recovery mode right now
Marko's bonus clue is very helpful for context, but I don't think the school uses that word in anything describing it. My "leave your drugs at home" comment is also slightly more pun-ridden/offensive than I had originally intended. Also, it comes up on google way faster if you think of some synonyms for school.
Don't forget to do your "research" too.
http://m.flickr.com/photos/ntfrnzn/5947484507/
..one moment while I figure out how to link an image from this device
The Academy.
Was this on Churchview Rd?
Agnew Rd, here
I did ride up Brownsville to Churchview to Joseph to Agnew.
and see also The Academy
The nice part of the ride is going down the dirt and gravel roads of Hays Woods or 40 acres or whatever it is called now.
And yeah, who *is* Mr C?
The spots marked for parole officers are behind, toward the middle of the parking lot.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's the principal or CEO or something. Hope you got some time to enjoy the view up there. I went up glass run road and came down Becks run road because I had my non-gravel-friendly bike. Glass run road is a really nice climb, a lot like spring garden ave.
Here you go, a much lower elevation.
Not obscure! No clue. Last time I posted something I thought was obscure, it got picked up in 2 hours. So see it, go get it.
The Academy is in the old J&L Steel research facility- stuff that aint there no more. And those woods are a great place to spend a few hours either by bike or on foot.
Gah I went so far as the intersection of Brownsville road and beck's run (from the direction of 18th st) then turned around because I thought that the point of view was a little closer to mt oliver somewhere. I did find where 222 ormsby is and decided that there probably isn't a good place to lock a bike up if I go to a show there. Also saw some place called little Vegas, and heard a domestic dispute at 7am.
Nate, you may say "no clue" but I have no clue which bridge that is! Perhaps I have just not taken my bike under enough bridges.
Stefb, sounds like you got really close, but also sounds like it may have been worth the ride..!
It is a little out of the way (although maybe in some brilliant future Pittsburgh it won't be) still you can ride directly to the photo spot (I moved a small log off of the path)
222 ormsby is a pretty fantastic venue. though i did get a ride there when i went, and my ride was good friends with their neighbor. who is super cool and provided me with more yeungling than i wanted, so i'm pretty sure i could lock up at her place if i wanted. but i guess that's cheating?
@marko The Academy is in the old J&L Steel research facility-
Graham lab. My father used to work there, back in the day.
@Mick:My father used to work there, back in the day.
Weapons research, flint knapping division? Or was he part of the team working to tame fire?
@reddan
I think he was in the bronze spear head division.
I think I know where this is based on account of it looking newer and being relatively close to the other tag, also it not having much going on on the other side of the bridge
time of day is about 6 pm in that photo
Hi Level bridge from duck hollow trail.
damn, did you get that in the rain?? i think i see drops on the river...
i was gonna get it first thing in the morning, but you win -- especially for venturing out in that craziness!
damn, did you get that in the rain?? i think i see drops on the river...
i was gonna get it first thing in the morning, but you win -- especially for venturing out in that craziness!
Yea I got a little wet, and I didn’t think I would get the tag ‘cause I was on my way to darts and knew I wouldn’t be able to post until late this evening. It’s funny, Dwillen has pretty much the same pic on “Wheelset of Fortune” from a while back, so I thought he would go get this. Anyhow, a new tag coming tomorrow.
New Tag:
If you can get here tomorrow (Wednsday) after 3:30, you can buy an apple off of one of the nice farmers.
I think i know where this is, but I can't seem to find this building on google maps. I wouldnt get there until after dark anyway, and I am not sure that I want to do that
I think I know where it is too, and I'm thinking it's also a pretty close tag to Marko's house... which means it's a bit of a ride, so I may try it tomorrow!
Is anyone grabbing this?
slight threadjack: a while back @alankgh posted a link after he got this game started in San Diego. I was just checking it out of curiosity and it now seems there's a second regional one going. It's fun to look at if you like or miss So'Cal Surf culture, although it seems slower to catch on than the first one.
[edit, links added]
Farmers market in carrick behind te shopping plaza. That was a shitty climb on a single speed in this heat. Ugh
impressive! I like the photo, too.
That's where I thought it was, but it doesn't look like the same building. Don't know where else has farmers that start selling apples at 3:30.
It's a different building, shot from the same parking lot.
Stef's view is looking east, Marko's is south. (Neither Street View photo is from the parking lot, of course, but you can tell where they were.)
this was looking at the farmer's market, which is what marko's clue was about. i did not get an apple, for fear that i was gonna be too hot to eat.
new tag:
i think the italian ice guy's sign says that he has been there since your dad was a kid, or something like that. also did not get anything, cause i thought i would puke from the heat. you may be able to read the sign, which would reveal the location, but oh well.
this is not a tag, but this is close by. what is it and why does it have an adam's apple?
edit: mark's tag is facing the school i think. i am sorry, i didnt realize it was a different building i got in my shot. i was standing in the parking lot and had sweat in my eye. if you want to not count it, it is fine
Ah damn! Why couldn't this have been dropped on a Tuesday morning
Stef, the tag was the market not the building - so your tag is good.
Damn you passed up apples and itialan ice on the same trip? Also, if I remember right, that deer used to have antlers too- besides the adams apple.
Whenever I go riding on a hot day, I stop here. His product works wonders on cooling you down from the inside!
Dang, I know this one but I'm in Florida.
Ok I was hoping that the statue near my tag had antlers at some point. Or maybe someone at the art institute designed it long ago and it was a transgender deer?
"...too hot to eat."
Your words, they are so strange to me, I don't understand.
Yeah Yeah, I know this one and the deer statue with the weenis!
Gustation will be rewarded for occupying this tag...
Dang. Came past the tag this morning, but hadn't checked for a new tag before I left the house.
Here's a 2006 CP piece on the deer:
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A20278
It does NOT answer the adams apple question (other than to call it a stag), but does confirm that it was once antlered....
thanks for posting that! i didn't think that there was that much significance to it. i love to read stories like that. i was going to leave that as a tag, but thought that the italian ice guy was more delightful than a deer with a wang.
i was going to leave another clue as to where it is, but i don't think i need to now
Oh, both the deer and the italian ice guy are popular landmarks in Pittsburgh. No extra clues necessary.....
balls
The Italian ice was good today.
The bridge in the background of the first one was a give-away. I think it's been mentioned in this thread before (definitely on these forums somewhere)
New tag: This fixer-upper is in a straight line between the last two tags.
I hope you did not put this atop a hill. So hot.
Italian ice? Gus & Yai Yai's is Greek.
Greek? Italian? It was mighty good in today's heat.
@stef - follow the line...
Sorry, I just realized it I called "gus's icy balls". There was a brief interview with him on the 6pm news. Ha icy balls. I assumed it was Italian ice.
on first ave near market st. It says "folding paper box" on the left hand side, "paper" in the middle, and "laun.... Supplies" on the right
if you look on street view, the paint is faded and old. i think that it was re-painted in the past month or few months. just noticed it yesterday when i was going by. this morning's ride made me pretty hungry. i was going to have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch, but i think that peanuts have not been agreeing with my stomach lately.
double post!
[EDIT: this is Nate, not Mary. Somebody's been using my computer. Time to change the password!]
That's at the intersection of E Ohio and Moravian. I didn't know where this tag was, and thought I would ride through the strip to see if I could spot it. After that didn't work, I thought, hey, maybe the North Side, Deutschtown. So I stumbled over it.
The next tag is educational. Not apparently a very interesting spot:
But it is one of the places where the Pittsburgh Coal Seam outcrops on a hillside in the city itself. On the sidewalk, in photo, are a couple pieces of coal I picked up from the ground a couple feet away.
I suppose the coal seam outcrops a little bit higher on the hillside, and bits of coal erode out downhill. You can't see the coal seam itself, it's under the dirt somewhere.
This spot is not exactly on a road, but you can get within 10 feet riding through a parking lot.
Wait - so is this the new tag, the sidewalk at the coal seam? Just confused because it was posted by "Mary" and the tag was snagged by "Nate".
*grouse grouse*
I'm grousing because I was one block away from the boarded-up building tag and thought "naaaah, can't be Downtown", so spent 45 minutes scouring the South Side from Sta Sq to about South 12th Street, in 90 degree heat.
It wasn't a total loss. At least I know I can bike in the heat!
Yep, that would be the tag. I didn't cheek the login name when I sat down at the keyboard.
Sorry Stu. Guesswork.
The partings and silty remains of the Pittsburgh Coal would outcrop in lots of places in Pittsburgh.
Could you narrow down to a neighborhood?
Well, that first photo links to the larger image at at least. Take a look. If you do some research you may learn something.
Also it is only a few hundred feet from an earlier tag, a month or two ago. Although not connected by road. If you are going to bicycle there, you have to go through the parking lot.
I grew up near there. Once, walking around near one of the buildings nearby I saw droplets of mercury in the sidewalk cracks. Surprising? Sure, but some careless person must have spilled it, or dropped a thermometer, or something similar.
since its way up on a hillside, does that make it "higher educational"?
coal seam outcropping (and emergency call box) behind ebberly hall @ pitt!
Drat. I picked this up around 1 o'clock but didn't get to a computer till now.
BRUCED!
marko: i was there at least an hour after 1... if you posted on the spot with a cell phone, youd have won!
in keeping with the educational theme, i present this new tag:
the picture itself contains a pretty decent textual clue...
CMU's ETC, on Technology Dr., off 2nd.
Location: 40.432774, -79.964664
New Tag:
On my way home my back tire starts to leak! I knew this place had a pump, so I stopped. But then I discover that their hoses don't fit my Shrader... Such a day!
Oops. I just messed up the spreadsheet for the game, and had to make a new one. It's at http://tinyurl.com/tag-o-rama-results. It should be identical to the previous one, but with a different link name.
So if you bookmark it, you'll need to update your link. Sorry for the inconvenience!
I changed the link on page one of this thread to match your new URL
Thanks TDW!
zone 4 police and fire station!
my wife lived across the street from here before we moved in together. i knew this tag as soon as i saw it, i didnt even need to zoom in for the 'k-9' reference on the parking sign...
once, one of the cops backed out of that very same lot and into her car door! they paid for repairs, of course.
i was slightly worried that theyd harass me for taking pictures of the station, but i only saw one officer, and she was busy having a phone conversation.
Which station is it? I was looking at fire stations on the googles and was coming up empty.
zone 4, northumberland st at asbury pl (the pics are from asbury). they serve the squill/shadyside/oakland area
new tag:
while youre here, get a free personality test
Ah dang I know where this is but I can't get it until tomorrow probably. Want to get my jedi levels tested too.
Too lazy to go get this...Well, too lazy to ride back from going to get this.
I may take a detour into work tomorrow if this is what i think it is..
Don't get audited on the E-Meter!
Try remaining anonymous while picking up the tag.
Pittsburgh Scientology. Tom, let Katie go!
South side. E.Carson st between 19th and 20th
I apologize for the poor quality of my pictures.
New tag:
Weird. I don't see a tunnel anywhere around here. This is pretty cool, and I regret never learning how to play.
Great. Now I've got "One Night In Bangkok" stuck in my head.
I may snag this during lunch, if no-one picks it up aforetime.
i too considered getting this during lunch. however, i'm eating lunch right now. at my desk. sigh.
so no one is going to check this until later? maybe at night too?
Nope, that tag has been, uh, "pwned", so to speak.
Tunnel Park, across from REI. The pieces weren't there, though.
[Edited to add:] BTW, it's a beautiful day for a ride.
Darn, Ingmared again!
nice job w/ the scientology tag @ 6am... as with the police tag before it, i was a little bit afraid of being accosted by the scientologists inside the center when i took my pic -- theyre pretty notorious for giving people a hard time for anything that doesnt involve them selling you stuff (though maybe that too). being there so early makes avoiding them easy.
heres the personality test i mentioned: http://www.xenu.net/archive/oca/
*SPOILER ALERT*
xenu did it
*SPOILER ALERT*
i think i was the only one in the theater that got this joke:
New Tag:
The ride to pick up this tag started smoothly, but had a bit of a rocky finish.
I know that sign.
This be easy pickens for PRob.
I know where this is and it is close but I am not sure I know an unrushhourish way to get there.
3313 west Carson. Scary road. Is this esplin?
New tag:
After snapping this picture, I rode a block down the street and got a veggie dog and a handful of fries. No 6 pack though. And it is weird to not lock my bike to the fence. There are potted plants there now.
ha, i love that apt building. i always wish he were spewing wine into a fountain!
I assume this is Bacchus
angry drunk santa?
Your dad doesn't get drunk and I have not seen him angry.
Regent Sq, opposite the movie theatre on Braddock.
Haha - great followup to the other tag. It used to be a functional fountain and whomever manages the building used to stain the water to look like wine. I seem to recall a sculpted dish as part of the fountain -- just below the beard.
Your next tag:
And your clue:
When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother, what will I be
Will I be pretty, will I be rich
Here's what she said to me.
Mad props for the poetic pun!
Cathedral by Richard Serra
Cathedral by Richard Serra
Oops, the sculpture is actually called "Carnegie.", though it reminds me of the shape of the Cathedral of Yearning. I am so clumsy with the "smart" phone interface! Thanks to @dwillen for helping me post the image at the end of the Flock ride.
Obligatory Doris Day video. Did you know the song is from an Alfred Hitchcock movie? "The Man Who Knew Too Much" won Day an Academy Award in 1956 for Best Song.
Doris Day on a bike.
is this bruce-able by now?
I think it has been 36 hours, but I think in the past people have let it go for 48 hours.
New tag:
I picked up the last tag Friday eve. No whining plz.
That's a neat photo. I do not know where that smokestack is. I was just flickring for "square smokestack" and have come up empty.
I do know where this is though:
@ Nate
@ clue seekers:
A friend's last need is a thing to heed.
(double post - sorry)
I'm thinking we need a little more help. I rode 27 miles, no luck on Sunday.
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;"
This and the earlier clue are lines from a famous poem, the title of which will help you figure out what the smoke stack is for. That should narrow down the options by quite a bit.
I did figure out the purpose of the building / chimney from the picture; and the clue clinched it. But I haven't been able to Google Map anything plausible so far. (You should see how many entries there are in the phone book. Scary.)
You can see it from Street View, but its far enough in the distance that the stepped sides get anti-aliased and the stack appears smooth.
There is a fountain nearby!
I have an idea where this is, but it is just too hot for me to ride anymore today.
I'm surprised no one has picked up the tag yet. Don't worry about Zombies but keep an eye out for Zombo. His haunt is not far from the tag.
I've been stumped, up until now
Still I predict someone else will get there before I do.
You're right, someone did.
North east corner of Allegheny Cemetery.
The building currently looks to be a part of the nursery.
Location: 40.476611, -79.955460
That was a good one.
When I saw the picture, something said "crematorium", so I checked out all the older cemeteries. I can see why I skipped this one: it had a greenhouse attached, and the chimney shadow just blended right in.
Of course I don't know for a fact what the building was really about, but why would a garden shed need something that tall? (cf. chimney at the right end of the building).
Oh, and special thanks to (the original?) Zombo.
Dang, I spent a while today biking around the zombo gallery looking for square chimneys. I found a bunch but did not find this one. Also looked at all of the crematoriums around here (this one is not a crematorium, I gather) and none of them were it, of course. I even rode up stanton thinking that's why Pseudacris mentioned "no whining". Should have investigated the cemetery more!
Nice work, Ahlir! I don't know if you looked inside that greenhouse, but the plants were really struggling along. The cemetery still advertises cremation services - they have a pretty interesting web site for a cemetery!
I looked at the cemetery website and found this in a 1947 brochure: 
Judging from the size of the Conservatory, and given the number of greenhouses and the need to keep them warm during the winter, the big chimney seems to make sense, unless...
I was thinking homewood cemetery was a possibility. This tag was closer to my house than I thought. Well done. Will there be a tag dropped before the ride tonight?
It won't be before the ride (I'm not even sure I'll get out of the office by then).
New Tag:
Hint: Garden of Paradise
augh i should have rode instead of walked to work today!
Any chance you could give us another clue?
Ah well, maybe I set the bar too high (or perhaps misplaced it altogether).
How about: fiori di piacere
Mural in Bloomfield at Liberty and Cedarville, across from pleasure bar. About to Bruce team decaf!
Bruced! While abracadabra was still on the site.
melange396 came too! Double bruce!
Also I meant to congraduate ahlir on the 1000th post in this thread.
Agh I just refreshed this page cause I was heading on over. Can't believe this sat for so long. Next please
When was this painted, anyone know? A quick look around the web seems to say 2007 -- I ask because I looked for the mural on streetview, and it is visible from Liberty, but when you move the view up Cedarville the mural disappears. Time warp!
The lower right hand side of the mural has a description and credits. Sorry, I don't recall the details other than (as you might imagine) it's supposed to celebrate the history and culture of the neighborhood. (I'm not sure how Halloween fits into it, but the flashlight is a nice touch.)
I believe it was in 2007, because here's a photo from September 2007 of it getting painted:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seasailor/1386521266/
I believe the costume is in reference to the yearly Halloween parade:
http://www.bloomfieldnow.com/tag/halloween-parade/
Bllomfield has an awesome Columbus Day/Halloween parade each October. Columbus = Italian holilday = Italian neighborhood, etc. When I lived in Bllomfield the marching bands would assemble right outside my apartment. Parade Day and Marathon Day were two of the best days to be a Bloomfield resident (as long as you weren't planning to leave the neighborhood....traffic was a nightmare.)
New tag
Haiclue:
Head here at sunset
Another place for zombies
Forgot the last line
Calvary Cemetery, overlooking the Mon river?
That's not it! - note the lack of gravestones. Different river. I remembered the final line, it was going to be "You can see the mall" but your photo is also overlooking a mall so that would not help distinguish in this case. The first line would be particularly useful for distinguishing between the place you posted and the tag location.
Yeah, it didn't seem quite right. Sorry to all for the wrong location.
Doh! I was thinking the same thing, but I see your clue makes more sense now. Too late to get it tonight though.
ah, got it.
Like @TDW I headed for the Mon, but further upstream (to better match, I thought, the bend in the river). Alas, I misjudged the angle. On the positive side, I did find a new climb: Whitaker Way. Pleasantly painful (well, for me).
Is this the first time we've had a rejected tag?
I have to say though, those photos are strangely similar.
No, we had one for a tag on (I think) Sycamore. That tag was a great photo.
(I can't believe I can remember this stuff.)
And for a Toynbee tile (#174), where somebody picked a slightly different tile. (The East Sycamore tag was #153, for those of you scoring at home.)
Interestingly, I posted the original Toynbee tag - rubberfactory posted the similar, but incorrect tile. Now I'm on the other side of an incorrect post.
Looking north along the Allegheny from Riverview Memorial Garden, Inc. (not Sunset View, as the map has it).
Location: 40.479229, -79.879207
I don't know why google maps is calling it "sunset view cemetery" but I figured that people were using google to try to find stuff so I should use that name. If you roll around a bit you're bound to find some small gravestones there though.
Sunset View Cemetery was renamed Riverview Memorial Park, according to the Spring 2011 newsletter of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Western Pennsylvania (PDF).
I don't know why they changed the name, since the new name is also the name of a public park (not a cemetery) in Tarentum.
On the other hand, Riverview Memorial Gardens is the name of an entirely different cemetery in Halifax PA (and others in other states).
First a correction: I was facing east for the photo (though the river itself is curving to the north).
I rode around the grounds but didn't see any monuments. The graves are marked by stones set in the ground. I believe it's to make it easier to mow the grass. There is no chapel or other ceremonial building (just a maintenance shed).
This is not a cemetery in the sense that Allegheny or Homewood are cemeteries. Rather it's a place to bury bodies (a "memorial park"). According to the "notice" nailed to the sign, the company that owns the place has an office in Monroeville. I got the feeling that they operated several such places.
Weekend Tag!
The hint is posted on the building! Don't make me repeat it.
#$%!&*#! dangit, I have to go to a dinner. Humblesage, this could be you. And you wouldn't have to bmx it the whole way, but you still wouldn't have to drive.
This would be fun to get but I'm not going to be able to!
If anyone thinks they know where this is, I can recommend an oustanding Cambodian restaurant on the way. Oh, and an awesome pub as well. Pm me. But I won't give the tag away.
Something is telling me why my riding doesn't contribute to more weight loss.
Wow that is out there. Not sure of a safe route to get there. I have never biked out that way
The obvious route is pretty safe... I'd like to go get it but i don't think I'll have time.
Carnegie Free Library, Carnegie.
Thanks Salty, for giving me the confidence that it was a fairly safe route. I've never been here via bike and only rarely via car. After crossing the West End Bridge, I took Noblestown the entire way, sort of, I had to ask for directions a couple times.
Beechwood Street.
I'll find a new tag on my way home, yes that's a hint for the next tag.
Nice TD. Anyway, the restaurant is Angkor, 2350 Noblestown Rd, in the extremely nondescript(!) "Noble Manor Plaza". Try the Panang. Mmm. Though this morning you could stop at Eggs R Us and get a big plate of grilled awesomeness.
All these recommendations could be used for the PAPA ride also.
I knew you would get there before me, so I didn't bother. I will have to venture out that way now that know that noblestown is ok
We saw Dan pedaling up Noblestown with a big grin on his face and knew we had been bruced. That was right before our second flat of the morning.
Alas too late
Good to know that Noblestown is OK for biking, I think that may provide a better way to get to Robsinson than Montour or Steubenville Pike.
Noblestown is wide and the hills are reasonable. Getting past West End Circle is the only really annoying part (and even that's not too bad).
Just the facts... I'm a designer, I like art of all kinds.
@ abracadabra and ahlir... Yes, Nobelstown is wide and generally feels safe. Of course, at 9:00 am on Sunday there's little traffic to worry about.
@ Mary and Nate... Sorry about the grin, I think it was more of a grimace, as Noblestown felt like it was uphill both ways at the time I saw you riding towards the tag.
@edmonds59... Thanks for the Cambodian suggestion
@stefb... Yeah, a fairly pleasant ride.
I have to give edmonds all credit for harping on Noblestown - I used to ride Steuben all the time. Actually I think either one is fine traffic-wise and they generally have nice shoulders but the climbing on Noblestown is mellower. Anyways, I don't get up anywhere near early enough on a weekend to have a shot at that tag
+1 for Angkor, I used to eat lunch there once a week, it's great. Although I'm not sure about getting back on a bike after eating all that spicy food. I was partial to the green curry myself but they have a lot of excellent dishes.
@Dan, my stoker commentary went like this:
"Hey, look, that's Dan! [wave] Wait a second, he's heading *back* on Noblestown ... and he looks happy ... crap, we've been bruced!"
Great ride, beautiful library.
@ Mary... I was reading your lips while you were saying "Hey, look thats..." and then I realized, they're headed to the tag! I've been bruced a couple times recently, no fun!
This next tag has me stumped
I picked up the latest tag on my way back to the city from Carnegie. I hadn't crossed a river when I shot the images - the rusted steel female (visible on street view) - and the white marble bird (not on street view).
There's another branch of the Carnegie Library within about 5-6 blocks of this location.
And like I said, it's a Fact that I like Art of all kinds, but I'm not sure I like antiques and furniture.
heh - figured it out - good one @TeamDecafW!
But, how early will I wake up tomorrow?....
Ha, ha, it's a fact!
That lady seriously needs some rustoleum.
Mary, it's a shame you didn't see the inside. The Civil War room is un-be-leivable.
Mary just said out loud "darn it we went right past it"
For my part I have to admit, "I never looked at that."
Ha good one! I guess you clearly stated it in your clue. But I am going east for work tomorrow, so I hope someome else picks this up quickly
Dammit, the Sunset View cemetery is in my backyard.
@Nate & @Mary, does this mean you were meta-bruced on the way home?
argh! How could I miss that?
@Pseudacris, yesterday I was wondering if getting bruced on a tandem meant you were bruce-squared.
I'd call that "getting Ashed"
@cburch: Tandem == boom stick?
tag lunch...
Location: 40.442477, -80.031184
Also 20,000 Quality Oriental Rugs
Next Tag:
Maybe not the place for when you're feeling blue, but you should be able to consol yourself just down the street.
Fifth Ave, Uptown. The guy in front said "What are you doing, taking a picture of my bar?"
What did he make of your explanation?
Amused, it seemed. New tag to be posted this evening.
Another sign inside the door. Not the new tag.
i like how kenny's choice of clothing colors are in almost perfect contrast to the colors he used for the building facade.
I am glad you got this. I am always afraid of someone questioning what I am doing, especially if it is their property.
It is a sidewalk. You can stand there and take as many pictures as you want.
http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf
@stefb -- You should be OK if you are taking the picture from the public street. There's no expectation of privacy in any facade or elevation of the building (residence or commercial)that faces the street, because any member of the public that goes by there can look it. There's really no difference between your looking at the building with your eyes and looking at it with your camera.
If you went onto their property to take the picture, it's a different circumstance, and it could have a different result.
just because its legal doesnt mean people wont harass you about it... they might be ignorant of the law, or they might be aware but try to intimidate you anyway.
i mentioned this when i posted the pictures; i was mildly concerned when picking up the tag at the police station and fairly worried when leaving the tag at the scientology office (here is one reason members of anonymous wear face covering while protesting).
and then there are also situations like the bridges and tunnels of nyc that have 'no cameras' signs hanging all over them... thank you patriot act!
I didn't get the impression from @TDW's comments that he experienced any harassment or obstruction from the bar owner - just curiosity.
It looks like this guy and whomever owns the place next door are keeping up their property. As a side note, when the URA or whomever decides to move forward with eminent domain or "urban renewal" projects, sometimes they first have to define an area as "blighted." This can involve sending people out to take photos of buildings in the targeted neighborhoods. Given the history of this sort of thing in Pittsburgh, I could understand why a business owner would be at least a little bit curious about photos being taken.
Is this the first time we have (identifiable) non-players in a tag photo?
That sign inside the door is fabulous...
No harassment at all. He was quite pleasant after I told him what I was doing. He immediately understood that I was going to go out and take another image somewhere else to keep up the game. Sometimes when I explain, people don't get it. And speaking of the next image... stay tuned, I'm moments from an upload.
This sculpture may not be recognized easily because it's only been in place for a couple weeks (note the caution tape). Conversely, I'm going to make the clue straight-forward and easy...
Find this tag on a heavily-travelled river trail.
Oh no I didn't think there was any harassment involved. I just think it would be awkward if someone asked me why I was taking a picture of my bike in front of their place.
^agreed! There's a tag I'd like to drop except that it's in someone's front yard.
yeah, i bet we've all had those thoughts. i took a few pictures for each tag before deciding which to use, and one of my tags was actually someone's house. it's not that we expect to be harassed, or anything but niceness from people once the game is explained, but there's still a moment of apprehension when taking a picture where you worry that someone will come around and say "so, why are you taking a picture of my place?"
i'm glad we had one and that the result was positive! it should lessen those apprehensions in the future.
It'd be a little...odd... to see someone take a pic of your place and the next day see a few more people come by to do the same thing.
"Oh no. It's the paparazzi again."
Saw this out of the corner of my eye on the way to work, thought I might have been bruced by a guy that looked like cburch
Where exactly is that?
Millvale River Front Park
@pierce what the heck are you carrying to work?
Ah sorry, I kept forgetting to post the location...
@pierce what the heck are you carrying to work?
I think Pierce just rides around with 20 kg of groceries all the time. I don't think I've ever seen him riding without at least a half gallon of soy milk.
dang pierce, you have MUDFLAPS on your bike!
From seminary to science; maybe he has a brain freeze from one of stefb's (probably not suitable for me) italian ices?
I apologize for the poor focusing. I thought I had it in the right spot...
Ironically, I did have a half gallon of chocolate soymilk on the bike. The top is lunchbox, front facing pannier is briefcase, rear pannier is general storage.
The rear mudflap (I think cburch's idea in some thread around here) doesn't usually drag on the ground, but my rear fender cracked through the middle on the way over
screw the technical crap, @Pierce, that is one awesome tag pic (and hint).
Sadly, the first thing it reminds me of is my high school... in a different city.
west hall on the north side ccac campus.
new tag:
i wonder if she is polish?
Ha, ha! not a tag:
danica mckellar has an amazingly low erd?s-bacon number. i am thankful just to have an erd?s number (i think it was 6 last i checked).
I know someone who looks like Winnie Cooper. Her name is Allie. She rides bikes. Someone here may know her. I haven't seen her in a while. This mailbox made me think of her.
woohoo, got a tag!
corner of melwood and finland, in polish hill.
rats.
What a weird progression from child actor-star to model/math educator. I think my erdös number is 7.
I had a professor whose Erd?s number was 2 but I never collaborated with him.
My Erd?s number is 5 and my Black Sabbath number is 4.
i have no idea what an erdos number is?
Paul Erd?s (1913-1996) was a great mathemetician and kind of a gypsy. He would travel around, stay with mathematicians, and write math papers with them. He was an amusing and productive guest, so he would usually be welcome. Often his hosts would recommend the next place for him to go.
He wrote about 1500 published mathematics papers with 500 collaborators.
Erd?s's Erd?s number is 0. If you co-authored a paper with him, your Erd?s number is 1. If you co-authored with someone who who co-authored with him, your number is 2. And so on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdos
Kind of like the "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon" in film.
The fact that the Erd?s-Bacon number (sum of the 2 numbers) exists at all is perverted. Anyone who has one is obviously a sick person.
Even though Erd?s's papers were mostly (all?) mathematics, people in other fields often have Erd?s numbers. If you co-authored in a peer-review journal in forestry, you probably have one. (ecological models -> stats -> math -> Erd?s). It might be a little hard to find, though.
I got my Erd?s number in an Anesthesiology journal. My number is actually 6. I lied when I said it was 5. I plead insanity.
Black Sabbath number- I played once with Danny Stag, later of Kingdom Come (Led Zeplin clone) when I was 17 and he was maybe 11. Stag did some stuff with guys from the Scorpions. Some of them played with members of Black Sabbath.
So my B.S. number is actually 3.
Comment from audience member on my performance: "That was, like, really loud, dude."
The fact that I make my living with numbers is scary.
Danny Stag! - I went to grade school and high school with him - saw a nun beat him with an umbrella one day as he sat with his head down on his desk. He wasn't exactly the most behaved 8th-grader - so my B.S. number is 3 too? Yay!
@TDW - I don't know him. Only met him once and that was for seconds before he and I and a couple of others started playing.
You don't actually get a Sabbath number from it unless you played on stage or on record with him, though. But an 8th grade marching band performance or something similar would count!
@ Mick... Damn, a premature-BS-number Yay!
new tag!
i decided to go with a tag-o-roma(nesque). but i can't help but think: who decided all the wood on all church doors and windows should be red?
One of our Richardsonian masterpieces.
Why do so many Episcopal Churches have red doors?
It's because red doors traditionally mean "sanctuary" -- the ground beyond the doors is holy, and anyone who goes through them is safe from physical (and spiritual) harm. In ancient times, no one could pursue an enemy past red doors into a church, and certainly no one could be harmed or captured inside of a church. Today, the red reminds us of the blood of Christ and that we are always safe in God's care!
I'm a Facebook/MySpace friend of a former groupie of AC/DC, but never actually met her. I guess that doesn't count for anything, right?
For a second I thought I knew right where this was but then read that episcopal churches generally have red doors. I learned something!
It is what I thought. I nearly dropped a tag here a week or so ago. North side. Church is on North ave (abdell way(?) actually) near my work
Awesome building, Emmanuel Episcopal church, it's a national historic landmark. Well worth going inside sometime too. They have jazz services the second Sunday of the month starting in September that are so cool.
http://www.episcopalpgh.org/jazz-at-emmanuel-2010/
Thank you. I was in a hurry to get to a meeting and sprinted away after posting. Neat building. The walls arent straight vertical.
I played with Joe Grushecky once at the Decade. My Springsteen number is 2!
I passed this on the way to get the atlas tag and thought it would make a great tag.
My Erd?s number may be ∞, but my h-index is higher than his (by a lot). So there.
@ greasefoot I played with Joe Grushecky once at the Decade. My Springsteen number is 2!
That would make your Black Sabbath number (at most) 4.
Black Sabbath would NOT be my choice for this. It wouldn't even make my list of candidates. Not even close.
I'd chose (in reverse chronological order of last performance)
Dylan
*Keef Richards/Stones*
**Chuck Berry**
Grateful Dead
Cab Calloway
*Count Basie*
****MUDDY WATERS****
***ELVIS***
***LOUIS ARMSTRONG***
*****BEATLES*****
*Jimi Hendrix*
Duke Ellington
*Jelly Roll Morton*
Robert Johnson
John Phillip Sousa
Beethoven
JS Bach
Last but not least:
Pythagoras.
As it is, the lugnuts that did the list don't even have the B.S. number for Louis Armstrong (at most 4, by way of Johnny Cash)or Beethoven(?). Which makes me suspect they have either some kind of neurological issue or they're deaf)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4RhtRo6-Zs&feature=related
PS Sorry Taggers, for highjacking the thread. It somehow fits in with the random connection-ness of it, though. Might provide amusement while waiting for tags.
new tag:
it's a trap! this was one of my favorite games when i was growing up. i wonder if alice cooper has seen it?
Sorry for the crappy pix. It's some rube goldberg type thing over at the science center. It will be there all week according to the guys I talked to puting it together.
@Marko - did you pick up this tag during flock, or were you out searching for the tag at 2 a.m. on your own?
New tag:
Swalfoort, I got the last tag on my way to the party, being fashonably late.
Hot Metal bridge, from trail inlet.
Nice shot Marko. And nice pick up TDW. I knew this wasn't going to take long for the second tag......
When I visit the site of this cool yard art, everyone else is looking the other way.
243 Grandview Av
New tag:
Who's on first, what's on second...
Someome is gonna get there before me...
Whoops.
not where you thought it was huh
nice hint.
Very sneaky. I thought it was Oakland but it is on court place downtown on the side of the on ramp up to blvd of the allies.
@stefb... A screen shot of your sideways post. Safari V5.0.5, MacBook Pro
Not a tag attempt.
Ah sorry. Forgot to take it landscape when using dropbox on my iPhone. Ummm I didn't have my V8 today? (anyone remember those commercials?) or umm I was on a reeeaaally steep hill?
new tag:
i wonder if this business has ever printed any cherry coke ads?
graphic arts building (first ave and cherry way)
*** NEW TAG ***
the columns of LEDs on the left can be used to produce an interesting effect.
however, given what youve probably been doing when youre near these, trying to see it might make you hork.
how about another horkin clue
yeah, sorry... i wasnt trying to kill the game, but i realized i made it a little too obscure. (well, either that or everyones too wrapped up in bikefest activities to keep playing the game :-p )
done correctly, the green LED part of the POV effect will look like a certain kind of common succulent. also, anyone mistaken about greasefoots last tag would likely be 'in the ballpark' for this one.
bonus points for getting this tag at night when the LEDs are in their full glory!
Argh, I totally know where this is. It makes me MAD that I can't go get it due to my schedule + houseguest all week.
OH MAN I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT THAT SIGN LAST NIGHT
thanks caitlin. i was beginning to feel like [more of] a weirdo because nobody knew what i was referring to... i have a small obsession with strange and unique lighting.
so, I've never jumped into this game, but I like to check the thread from time to time and once in a while there is a tag that I so 100%knowwherethatis and this is one of them. By the time I saw it it was already posted for 16 hours and I figured someone with a smart phone would be posting any minute. So I thought I forgot about it, but it wormed it's way into my dream last night. Long dream short, I got the tag only to later realize that it wasn't Tag-o-rama, but Wheelset of Fortune and that the tag wasn't even supposed to be that exact location, but unique lighting in general or something. Just thought I'd share, melange, the strangeness that your tag set off for me.
nice! i like to increase the strangeness quotient whenever i can
....but, this is tag-o-rama, and not wheelset of fortune.....
it sounds like you were on the right course, but then convinced yourself otherwise?
Current wheelsets of fortune tags are bridges and batman......no mention of lighting in either of them.
i think tabby was describing the dream, not what actually happened 'IRL'
ahhhh....
yes, a dream! I sometimes get dreams and real life a little muddled
how is this tag still here???
@ Tabby... I thought I was the only one who dreamed about tags... good to hear others dreams are invaded by this game! Abracadabra keeps showing up 2 minutes before me.
Hahahaha... so glad I made a lasting impression on your subconscious.
I want to know where this LED sign is, it seems really cool, but I have NO IDEA where it is.
no idea?? i thought my clues in the paragraph that starts 'done correctly' were a dead giveaway. if you get there in the next 1.5h or so, itll be even more worth your while...
maybe its still there because people want to see the sign at night
Someone please get this!
My google skills have completely failed me for the key words in the "done correctly" line.
it should be dark enough now to see the sign well. also, the special on margaritas starts in 15 minutes!
I got it! now to post the pic....
eta: sorry you can't see the cool sign or my bike really.
not sure if flash would have helped, but that line of LED lights shows a cactus and a margarita if you look at it right.
mmm, mad mex... welcome to the game, tabby!
hahahaha oh man. i ate lunch at mad mex this afternoon, where i explained to my girlfriend that i thought the tag was nearby, but i wasn't quite sure where. by then i had forgotten about the emphasis placed on the cactus and had begun to be once again mystified by the clue about horking. it has been so long since i "horked" because of b00ze that it simply didn't occur to me that that's what you might mean.
i'm glad that tabby managed to join the game, though!
I read it as "honking", which threw me off until now. Is this at the oakland mad mex? I've only been to the new one in shadyside. Is it near some kind of baseball park?
it is the oakland mad mex (the original). forbes field was a baseball park that was about 3 blocks away from where mad mex is now. part of the outfield wall still stands... and looks a little like greasefoots tag.
* *New Tag* *
I pulled on my jeans and went for a ride. A little boy said, "mommy look at that motorcycle" but this cycle requires no gas.
How about another clue? This looks so easy, but we seem stuck.
this place is out of the furnace and into uhm frying? see if that clue helps, plus there are TWO clues in my original post. Now Go Forth and find this tag!
this location is probably not part of everyone's daily travels, but the sign is so distinctive that's why I cropped most of it out. I thought at least a couple people would recognize this tag right away.
clue summary
for the area this tag is:
jeans
Go Forth
Out of the Furnace
for the tag business itself:
[no] gas
something to do with fryers/frying
do you need another or have people just been doing other things?
Well, the area clue seems clear enough.
I thought so too and figured anyone who's been to that area would recognize the business since it's unusual.
i've got it now. i had no idea this place existed until just this moment.
interesting clues! is anyone planning to go get this?
I might pedal out there at the end of the day; let me know if you're going for it.
(Or if anyone want to go together, let me know).
i promised my mrs a bike ride, but she wont want to go out that way, so feel free to take it
Fossil Free Fuels in Braddock, on Braddock Ave. Yes, it smells like fries.
Location: 40.40577, -79.87259
Yay!
I liked this tag (I learned something new) and the clues were creative.
Now I have to choose something; I wonder how this is going to play if we ever get to (say) Tag 1000.
Good thing there's still a lot of cool stuff in the area. For instance, more or less across the street from the last tag:
I can't quite figure out why the paint is in such good shape. When you look closer it gets baffling:
The paint seems to be on top of the graffiti (well, tags). But then "Lucky" Frank is on top of the paint...
I was all a set to roll over there early morning & then drop another outside ET but you didn't put your bicycle in those photos. Not a tag yet, huh?
yay thanks for picking up my tag!
I think that wall mural is pretty new (but the pub has been there). I don't remember it being there a few years ago when I used to go down there to the hospital (when there was a hospital). There are lots of art projects in the Braddock and North Braddock area.
@Nate (et al): Sorry! That is not a new tag, just some local color near the previous one.
Can anyone help identify this (click link)?
that overturned drum seems to see _eep _own _n. one imagines it likely says something along the lines of:
help keep (or please keep)
our town (or uptown, perhaps? maybe even downtown?)
clean
or, perhaps, the stenciler didn't bother to center the words.
those buildings are pretty distinctive, so i imagine if you found a section of city in which they were pervasive, you would likely have found your place, i think. unfortunately, it seems that much of uptown and the hill have been torn down and rebuilt (or not), so that may not help.
the car on the left looks like a mid-to-late 50s model, for what that's worth.
hrm... I might have to go and explore up there....
IF the clock on Max's is right, 9:00 am, people are wearing jackets, so spring or fall, late morning. Based on the angle of the shadows this would be the west side of a primarily north/south street. But I can't think of a condition like that, with buildings like that, where you would still see a hill that high in the background. I almost want to say Butler Street, looking south/west. Or Max's clock could just be wrong.
No... that is the Hill District, and I have a strong suspicion it is either Wylie or Centre...
http://padl.pitt.edu/index.php/record/view/62711
I tried net searching on the business names but all I found was the same "photo detective" link.
My inclination is to think "Keep uptown clean" because that is what trash barrels in uptown say now.
The hill in the background is a clue.
Pittsburgh was a highly segregated back then. To understand where it might be (Even McKeesport? Duquesne? Clairton?), you would have to know what neighborhoods it could have been.
Uptown or the hill strikes me as the strongest possibilities, though. Jewish businesses, black customers.
The buildings are unlikely to be there anymore.
I think you would need an 80 year-old Pittsburgher to really find this.
The hill in the background is really stumping me, but it just "feels" like somewhere around here:
And Max's clock has to be wrong.
There was, until 2006, a business called Rossi Floor Machine at 2726 Penn, and in this image, the building at 2724, G&C Record, has a 3 tiered roof line like the building immediately behind Rossi's Restaurant in the archive photo. The shadows in the archive photo seem about right for late afternoon at that location:
is there a new tag? sorry guys, im getting confused with these side convos!
sad i missed the mad mex one. i forgot about it and got kind of tied up with work!
Sorry, got carried away with the sleuthing. But does anyone happen to know if the Carnegie Lib/Heinz HC/Pitt anywhere might have an archived phone directory from around 1955?
@edmonds59 - another possibility might be city directories. They list individuals and businesses both alphabetically and by street address. The public library here in Butler has them back to about 1910 for the city. Whether they were done for cities the size of Pittsburgh I don't know, but it's if they were, they're a valuable resource for locating this sort of thing. Definitely worth inquiring about.
@edmonds59 The Pennsylvania Department at the Main Library in Oakland has old city directories for Pittsburgh going back a long long way.
This reminds me of a book from a few years ago titled Pittsburgh Then and Now. It's photographs of buildings and city landmarks from different eras ranging from the late 1800’s to the present day. The person who created the book used a collection of old photos and then recreate the picture in the present day location.
It's been 39 hours! Obligatory nagging post. Less sleuthing, more tagging!
**crickets**
whoops, sorry about that will have something up shortly.
speaking of nagging posts, i wish there was a way to see the precise date and time of each post instead of the vague time offsets that bbpress shows us, like 'Posted 2 days ago'
There is - look at the RSS feed for the topic.
Ok folks, I have a problem. I'm on my way out of town and I won't have time to ride out and get the tag I wanted. My interpretation of the rules holds that a 'new' tag has to be snapped after the last tag is found. So the only pic I have that qualifies for a tag is this one:
If you've been following along you should know where this is. Anyway, see ya, I'll be back in a couple of weeks.
so is anyone planning to pick this up today? I expect to be riding past it in the next hour, so not picking it up is a little hard to resist.
go grab it. I thought I might get there today, but not that soon.
can you make it before 6? we can catch it together, but I want to make it to the farmers market.
abracadabra++ (though the rss feed is limited in that it only shows the 51 most recent items)
did you go already tabby? i might have to race you out there!!!
I found Tabby loitering in Braddock.
She'll post a new tag.
ok, I'm going to whine again... it's been 44 hours! I wanna find a tag this weekend...
::NEW TAG::
climbing up here makes me think of Homer.
Like Homer's The Odyssey?
No. Like Homer's beverage.
eta: the house on this street is the tag, nothing to do with the background either.
House on Duff st.
I just got back from a ride to plum and saw the new tag. Wish it was in the opposite order so that I could have set a sweet tag ou that way! I passed the weird rainbow daycare place that was a tag a little while back.
sorry about that abra. I got behind on things and getting back to a computer to post the tag.
No problem dude, didn't mean to come off as passive aggressive or anything. This just added a nice bonus hill to the ride. I don't think I've ever ridden herron ave all the way to the top before...!
Dang, had a new tag but it was already a tag. Will get another one tomorrow.
New tag
At greek and dogma
a house engulfed in mural
but plain on street view.
i want to ask for another clue, but instead i will ask: what was your already-tag?
I think I know where this one is!
I (naively) thought that Salt of the Earth wasn't a tag yet. Got a pretty cool picture of it too.
I think this mural is relatively new, I know very little about it though. If no one has snagged it in another day or so I'll give another clue.
OK, in lieu of another clue, I'll say that the clue is not meant to be symbolic or tricky in any way. The first line is in (specific) reference to a recent tag - this tag is basically across the street from it. The second line is literally what the tag is, it's a house which is almost entirely painted like it is in the tag (a mural). The third line is also true - the house isn't pained this way on street view.
A house on Omega Place, near the church that appeared in the movie Dogma, which was tag 231. It's adjacent to this house, which I thought was also worth a photo. (Note: This is not the next tag.)
I didn't recognize the part in the pic. I have also been slacking because I have been kinda busy.
New Tag!
Clue: Play here, not at the downtown branch.
Man, I actually know where this tag is (for once!), but I didn't ride to work today. No chance it'll still be standing by the time I got there.
point park university's pittsburgh playhouse in oakland on craft near hamlet (how apropos).
What's the deal with all of the branches?
i overheard a bit when someone said something to the woman sitting there... i gathered that its for a set
youve might have seen this from an adjacent roadway when you werent riding...
Run and get this tag!!
Whatre you waiting for??
Saline Street, at the dead end. Parkway East is behind me.
100 of these creatures roam Pittsburgh. This one thinks out of the box (or in this case, out of the triangle).
D'oh! I ride right near that tag on saline street almost daily.
@ Steven
First, thanks again for adding all of the Tag-o-Rama tags to the Google maps and online spreadsheet, I use it often to check locations and tag availability.
A question... Since I'm a little unfamiliar with anything beyond the basic function of the spreadsheet I don't know if I can safely go into the doc, do some sorting, and exit without messing it up for others. Can you give me tips on how to use the doc and leave it in the original format when I exit? Do I just sort as I want and exit without saving?
Thanks.
Any changes you make will be visible to everyone and automatically saved. You could roll back your changes via file->see revision history but far safer would be to use file->make a copy and play with the copy.
Yup, like Salty says. Please make a copy first. That's what I do myself for major changes.
We're just a few weeks now from the one-year anniversary of Tag-O-Rama (September 13th). Thanks to Jason for starting this game, Charles for starting the map, and all of the 50 players so far!
Hey! I know that dinosaur!
I hear that a lot.
Thanks for the tips salty and steven, I'll make a copy before I do anything.
@ ALMKLM
You could get out your bike, walk it to this tag, and get back home practically without getting wet - it's so close to your place. Why not take this chance to join the game?
I know where this is but have been out of town. If it's still up tomorrow evening I think I will snag it.
Freeport Road, Aspinwall. A couple of blocks upriver from the Highland Park Bridge off-ramp.
New Tag:
This is Jabril Muhammad. He is standing in front of the Sunrise and Set Park, located across the street from his house. Mr. Muhammad told me he'd been working on the park for 10-12 years. A demolished laundry formerly stood on the property (there's a bit of the walkway just in front of my handlebars). At the back are milk crates filled with rubble that are part of a retaining wall. Mr Muhammad is retired but used to work as a bus driver for PAT (and, for a while, Metro in DC ). He is a devout Muslim and read his Qu'ran daily. He told me that he often gets around on a kick scooter and that this year (as in years before) he's planning to run the Great Race. I asked him if he would mind if I took his photo and showed it to others. No problem, he said; everyone knows who he is.
You're probably wondering if any of the above contains a clue to this tag, and if you do know Jabril then it obviously does. But if you don't I should say that the photo is to the north and that the land probably gets good sun in the morning and I suppose some in the evening as well; hard to tell, since it was overcast this morning.
I'm pretty certain that at least one other person in this game knows exactly where to find this tag, since you have to pass this spot on your way to the tag that he set (assuming that you're coming from the west). It's one of those corner tags that might be part of a Tag-o-Rama game-within-a-game, though I'm not sure that there is such a game going on. Anyway this clue is starting to have way too many words, especially since a couple of the relevant ones are right there, in the pic.
Additional information:
This is not a Streeview-friendly tag; the current appearance of the park is very different (and much improved).
His house is ones of the nicest looking houses for miles around. I drive past here several times a day. Now if I can find a moment to get down there.
Sunrise and Set Park - Lincoln Lemington neighborhood at the corner of Lincoln Ave and Deary Street
Check out the fancy new ride I got!
Hope everyone is having a great summer! New tag to come tomorrow morning!
Glad you picked it up peaceturkey (the tag). I like to see the game move quickly and that one has been lingering too long. And yeah, on the Specialized - cool lookin' bike.
Sorry. I need to get back into this game. Things have been busy lately.
New tag:
Frick Parl Lawn Bowling Club clubhouse. Location: 40.444854, -79.900895
Built 1940 by the National Youth Administration, a New Deal agency that focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 24.
I obviously don't "bowl" enough. I can't believe someone got that tag in like, an hour!
Ahlir, I am seriously impressed! I thought this was gonna be one of those "I know I've seen that... Where the hell is it?" Tags. Well done!
damn, i was about to go out for this im glad i checked
i knew what it was as soon as i saw it and didnt think it would last long ...but 1.5h!? well done, sir.
Tag-O-Rama started one year ago today. 50 players, 287 tags, and tons of great photos and interesting tidbits. Thanks to all the players!
Not a tag. Birthday cake.
by the looks of the pic, ahlir got it when the sun was still out. maybe i could have had it if i went out immediately after seeing it... i need more dedication to the game instead of frivolous pursuits like eating dinner
1.5h? I once had a tag snatched in, like, 10 minutes after I posted it. I mean, really. I still can't over that.
Public water fountains in Pittsburgh are actually not all that common. So if you bike you tend to remember them. This is a good one to know about if you ride through the park (say going to or from Duck Hollow).
I don't keep track, but I've also set tags that seemed to take forever to be found, even after a round or two of extra clues. (And I usually feel bad about those.) It's hard, for me, to judge what will work (i.e., be not too easy and not too hard).
Anyway, I'll try to make sure that the next tag will easy to find and to get to: it will be along a popular commuting route (and, yes! in the east end).
@melange396: The tag-pickup picture is with flash. I should disclose that I also goosed it using the Picasa "lucky" button. It's a night-time shot: the shadows don't make sense for daytime (the shelter faces north).
This is what it looks like without flash: 
I always take several pics then choose at the keyboard. Imagine having to play this game with "real" film cameras...
(Also, I straighten and crop and try to get lucky. Hey, it's a game, you have to play it right.)
Cool tag! I was part of the CETA program when I was a youngster (sorta like the NYA), but I didn't get to make anything that cool. I did learn how to run a giant keypunch machine: my first computing experience - woo!
I hope to get back in this game again soon.
Weren't you at the team decaf ride? Did you leave to get the tag? It was dark when I got home
I was on the ride, but I live pretty close, in Squirrel Hill. It was easy enough to pop out for it.
New Tag
Lately I've been having problems with clues. For example, should I describe this as escaping art? Or, since it seems to growing, is it better described as escaping flora? I'm not sure it's either.
I don't know where this is, so I tried to google it, which didn't help but it taught me about something new:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_padlocks
@ahlir: i might not have beaten the 10m snag, but i did beat your 1.5h
bridge over panther hollow (panther hollow bridge??) between phipps and carnegie library.
i tried to add my d-lock to the fence (temporarily) but couldnt get it to fit
Good job! If you follow abra's link you find out that in Florence they have been trying to eradicate the locks accumulating on the Ponte Vecchio. I somehow managed to snap the following a couple of weeks ago:
I think the one on the PH bridge is some kind of art project thing (there's other stuff on the opposite side). But new locks are appearing; what's interesting is that they don't seem to be added to the (nicely laid out) main cluster.
there's other stuff on the opposite side.
If you're talking about the colorful yarn patterns that're now quite worn out, those are the handiwork of two young women from S Korea who are/were art students at CMU. They wanted to make something nice for the other students who get quite homesick, as a welcoming gesture. It is some kind of traditional pattern, but I forget how it is usually displayed in Korea. (not usually yarn in chain link, though).
I think there were locks on the Brooklyn bridge in NYC
i thnk that in some locations, locks are put on but a couple in love.
The things we learn on this board -- some is truly edifying, others mere edumacation, but all of it is enlightening. Keep it coming, folks!
Love the lock art (and the Ponte Vecchio pic) - thanks for the cool tag. I'll never look at locks in the same way again.
Oh yeah, and a belated Happy Birthday to the thread.
hopefully this new tag will continue the learning:
Dammit I went right past that on the way home. I almost used that as a tag before. Well, I am not going out again until tomorrow evening, and I am sure this will be gotten by then. I already hung the bike up in the basement for the night. This only looks really neat at night... Though I only pass it from below when I take a shortcut.
hm. I could go out and get this one right now... but I won't. This one does have a good story.
Oh bother. It's already past 10pm, I'm 10 miles away, I already have 30 miles on the day, and my phone takes rotten pictures in dim light. But I know where this is, no dreaming required!!
Yeah - that's it, I'm deliberately leaving this for someone else too. After Colin stole my innocence I can't get back in the swing of this game anyways.
randy pausch memorial bridge, connecting the gates building and the purnell center/the cut at cmu.
NERDS!!!
i had to wait a long time (15 mins!) to get the full spectrum (rainbow) shot. there were a bunch of single color washes and some tartan plaid colored effects that just didnt do it for me. i think ive mentioned before my soft spot for strange and interesting lighting :-p
ive been planning to do this tag location for a while, but the lights came on too late at night during the summer. changing colors and longer nights -- consider this tag an homage to autumn... happy week before the equinox, everyone!
Stew, I had it wrong too... I'm glad I resisted the urge for a late night picking.
i too have thought about leaving this as a tag, but since i dropped a tag within a few thousand feet of this one, i felt i had to resist the urge. happy to pick it up, though! i cross this bridge several times daily.
happy week before the equinox, everyone!
this just depressed the hell out of me. thanks!
dislike! i am going to be riding to work in the dark entirely and coming home in the dark now entirely, too. the sun isnt even up by the time i get to work now like it was just a few weeks ago. ugh.
@malange396: thank you for taking the trouble to compose that shot... I like the result.
@HiddenVariable: that is a nice photo; it gives a very different (and cool) feel to that spot.
new tag:
going to leave this one without a clue for now.
Your picture is isn't loading all of the way. Maybe it is just my phone....
I know where that is. Not going to get it though... have been avoiding the game lately. Bad knee grrrr.
My first! Schenley Park monument on E. Circuit Rd. Thanks @melange396 and our friend Daryl for riding along.
Great to have a new entrant to the game - congrats.
Balls! I was gonna get that on my way home. I have known where 5 of the 6 last tags were but my timing and availability has not been great. Nice pickup though. Keep it moving!
This place has a dramatically colored door. Thats the best play on words I could come up with.
City Theatre, Southside
I was riding near the stadiums when I decided to check on the game, and ha! I knew the location! Flew over here.
Sorry about the bad, small image. I was in a hurry.
Wow, that's a fast tag pickup! At this typing, they both say "Posted 1 hour ago".
Here's the larger version of the City Theatre image. I couldn't get the embed code right (from my phone) when I first picked up the tag.
I'm riding between 1:00 - 3:30 today, I think I can post the new tag before it gets dark.
This is a school for little kids in the middle of a school for big kids.
ah, my son went there...
@ Ahlir - I like the new gravitar
I found it on a wall in Granada. That city has amazing stuff on its walls.
Much of it looks like graffiti but some of it is probably sponsored (a lot of surface and a lot of work).
falk school @ pitt (alequippa st)
* NEW TAG *
a local shop uses a setting nearly identical to this for their home page. i feel a little guilty about using this shot because it is very close to my house. the shop is even closer to your house.
I know what you're talking about, but I have no idea where that other picture was taken either! ha.
i didn't know this view existed until i did a group ride a month or two ago..
definitely not a shop that's paying for Google Adsense.
In greenfield. Deely and frank. Hazy, so you can't see the city
for those playing at home, that tag was a re-imagining of the shot from the page at http://www.caravanbikes.com/ (home to the 'only door-to-door bicycle repair service' in the city!)
Yeah sorry, I forgot to mention it. I did a team decaf ride last month and I had never seen the city from greenfield before. I recognized the approximate spot.
I have to admit that I left my house tonight and rode the team decaf route to this spot, then met up with the rest of the ride after getting the tag. A new one should be posted before or after work.
@Ahlir - (OT - from the pic with your gravatar - beso negro translates to "black kiss".
from Wiki - Black Kiss is a hardboiled erotic American comic book limited series written and drawn by Howard Chaykin, which was originally published in 1988 by Vortex Comics.)
I love my Google machine.
New tag:
I could leave a clue but I provided a map.
Jacksonia Street, North Side
dang nabit, I was just getting ready to head over that way ::::::
The last tag I set was an educational site, so too is this.
A dead-give-away clue to keep the game moving...
I decided to see if my new tag ^ was visible on Google Street View and I was surprised to discover that no, it's not. Here's what you'll see instead:
I figured out where this was last night. Just a matter of getting there. Slept in though.
So when I meet people now, they know who I am from this game haha.
Ok, I know where it is, it makes sense that this sculpture is there, and there is no chance that I'll be getting this tag, as I suspect it will go this morning....
i won't make it there until at least late afternoon, so get it if you want it.
Rats, I rolled right past there after Flock last night & didn't recognize it. Not that my crappy camera would have been able to get a picture at night anyway.
Locust street, Duquesne University
I need more time to set a new tag. I thought I could use the bates street bridge as a new tag, but it doesn't officially open until next monday.
i forget how many people i told that it opens this monday...
This old building made of stone is located inn temperanceville.
Nice tag.
I dislike the roads I have to ride to get there, but it is a cool tag
@ sloaps is that a Trek Portland you are riding, looks like a 2008 model.
yuppers!
Old stone tavern inn on greentree and woodville in west end
[ Edit - It was a party - the last night of Team Decaf Tuesday rides for the season. The tag acquisition was a gang-tag, by (left to right) Marko82, reddan, Psuedacris, mr marvelous, UrbanRider (No Gravitar), Ahlir, stefb, TeamDecafWeekend ]
looks like a party!
Who should get credit for the tag on the results page? So far I've got:
stefb
Marko82
TeamDecafWeekend
mr marvelous
Pseudacris
Definitely not ahlir just kidding. He showed up right before I hit the post button and got in the new picture, and he remains the same distance behind me in the game instead of two behind.
Stef, I see my mistake: I should have stood about two or three paces to my left
Ahlir, Reddan, and (check with TDW on the last nickname...Urban__?), plus the fellow who took the picture!
We all get credit. Here's our new tag and everyone involved... The gravitars are aligned with the rider in left-to-right order. The far left rider is UrbanRider - he doesn't have a gravitar. Also, thanks to Aaron - the photographer.
holy crap - what kind of rides are you running over there?
Thanks for all your hard work TDW! It's been a good summer & I hate to see the Tue. night rides end.
I got my first tag! Watch out Stafb I'm catching up I'll be in first place in like.......
Ha! @ ahlir and double ha! @ Dan. You used the name I suggested. It may be obvious where this is, but we may need to leave a clue... I don't think gang bang really gives away the location. Gang bangs can happen anywhere.
re: the Old Stone Tavern, since everyone may not know this, and just because it's interesting, that building is probably 250 years old. Think about that number. Stu was talking elsewhere about "old roads", that pre-date cars, etc. The intersection in front of the building, that you rode on, has been seeing traffic of one kind or another for at least 300 years. That amazes me.
@ stefb - thanks for letting everyone know you created the name Gang Bang Tag, I was afraid that I'd get a perv reputation, now it's on you.
And oh yeah, a clue, I think it's pretty obvious where the new tag is, but if you think of bike-pgh in days gone by, the tag is where you would ride.
My first tag and it ends up being a gang bang my wife is gonna kill me
as soon as i saw the name i knew it was stef who came up with it...
@edmonds59 – While my knowledge of Pittsburgh history is pretty limited, I am not so sure about your dates on the tavern and the road. That would date the road back to 1710 m/l and the building to 1750 m/l. The earliest reference to the founding of Pittsburgh by Europeans is usually 1754 when the British built the first fort at the point. Prior to that it would have been Indian territory. Footpath, yes, but road I doubt.
Most of these early taverns come into being to provide lodging to stagecoach travelers. Around western PA this seems to be 1790 to the 1850s when there were enough people living here to generate the required traffic and before the railroads supplanted the stagecoach.
Assuming the building began life as a tavern and wasn’t converted to it later, the fact that it has an upstairs would suggest that it provided accommodations for travelers at a point in time where there were enough travelers to justify it doing so. I would think for Pittsburgh that could be as early as 1790 and probably no later than 1830. The building has a look and feel of about 1820 to me.
I am speculating on all this. If I were in Pittsburgh, I would probably research the history of the building to see what I could find. I am intrigued.
The existing windows are later – probably replacements. The 2 over 2 design puts them at about 1870. The lentils and sills seem to match the windows, so I would guess they were either added at the same time, or the replacement windows were custom crafted to fit the existing space they defined.
My memory of the sign on the inn is "Established 1756". Last night was a long time ago, though, so I'm not positive.
@reddan -- Dan, if that sign is right, I stand corrected. Bill didn't say anything about the sign or how he got to his date in his post. That sign would explain his dating. I was working off general knowledge.
One thing, though. I would want to know the origin of the sign before I accepted it at face value. If its put up by the state or a local historical group it tends to have a lot more credibility for accuracy because it's probably been researched more carefully.
The same may not be true for the sign if the owner puts it up. It depends how good their reserach was. Several years ago here in Butler, I had a considerable discussion with a couple who had bought a house here in the South Side of town. They were convinced by their research that the house dated to the 1850s (even though it was obviously a high style Victorian 1890s house) and that it was the house of the man who developed the South Side of Butler. I knew they were wrong as I had seen references in the local papers at the time to its being built and knew when it was built and who built it. I also knew the location of the house they thought theirs was. (It was down the street and had been torn down in the 1950s to build a church.) They were reluctant to admit I was right and after I proved it to them I never heard from them again.
Shooting the messenger, I guess.
BTW, gang bangs are tough, and you may want to forget about them anyway.
There's a more information in this article. It would appear that there's documentary evidence.
As near as I could tell, members of Team Tag left the team bang tag quite pleased with the whole experience. I guess you had to be there. Anyway, the tag is still there and none of us can get it. Anyone else?
I wasn't there and I have a very rough guess as to where the tag might be but I've never actually seen this spot so I'm kind of clueless
@ahlir -- thanks for the link to the article. I stand corrected. With that much research, plus the fact that Pgh History and Landmarks was satisfied with the accuracy, the preservationst in me says its credible.
What a neat building, and what a neat story!!
These 11th hour preservation rescues from demolition permits are all too common. I assume that City preservation commission passed the application and it got historic status -- that should have been a no brainer. I'll have to see what I can find.
Don't let this be the END of the game. Doubtful though.
@abracadabra and others looking for the tag - the clue:
If you think of bike-pgh in days gone by (not that long ago), the tag is where you would ride.
Oops, sorry I missed that clue from above. It's where I thought it was! Now let's see if I can get a chance to get over there...
I have the perfect place for a new tag. Someone please get this
This tag was sticky
Wait, is that pic the "get"? Cause I am going underneath there right this second. Gah, train!
New Tag!!
A friend of mine called me up and said she was organizing an unusual display to draw attention to the fight against cancer...anyway I donated my lost and found box to the display...If anyone notices something that belongs to them let me know and I'll see if I can get it back.
nice tag, i read about that this morning...
Not what I expected to see on this visit to the thread.
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Cool project, but they're not very interesting when empty
Do you guys realize how expensive bras are?
Dammit. I was gonna leave that one!
@pseudacris
Boxers are moderately expensive too
Hot metal bridge, south side. Breast cancer awareness
Hey I just passed there why didn't I think to pick up the tag
Bruced! Damn smartphone was cranky this AM.
Hooray for boobies on the HMB.
+1 Boobies!
16 minutes between stefb & reddan. For that matter, only mr marvelous was only 3 minutes behind her post.
Is that where chiodo's moved to?
I'm sure Joe would approve.
Sooo close to getting my first solo tag. I keep checking my phone so I can grab the next one as soon as class is over. This game is fun even when you just miss a tag
What kind of bees make milk?
Boobies.
Say it out loud. It is funny.
^ harhar...... I might have to repeat that, har har!
The joke was so bad I bust out laughing in class
New tag to come either before or after work.. And I will give you a hint that it will be north of downtown..so it will be reasonably close to ccac north side, mr marv....
^ I'm ready
new tag:
I will make this easy. This is a new mural next to a school sharing the same name. Also, I had to use dropbox, so the location may be found if you look at the details of the photo. Couldn't do much about that right now, since I am posting from my phone. Chances are though that you will have to climb a hill to get to it, unless you are coming from the north.
aw I found it but no way I'm getting there on my single speed tonight.
I'm not going to make it promised Mrs. Marvelous date night tonight, I suggested a Tag O rama date..... denied.
Awww sorry. The mrs marv is more important. Tricia- there are hills that aren't so bad. I did it on my single speed (slowly)
Can I drag my butt out of bed at sunrise? I've been watching them paint this all summer, just waiting for the scaffolding to get out of the way.
^ I'm planning on doing the same, if they don't need me at work tomorrow I'm planning on heading up there before sunrise. But It'll be my luck that my job calls me in.
Go for it. I have to chauffeur my dau to an SAT test bright and early. Direct conflict. Happy climbing, guys!
Looks like the tag is up for grab.im working 12 hour shifts the next three days.
Crap.....now if I could only remember which school is which....there are two that I get confused. Is this the one on my normal commute, or the one a couple miles to the east? I guess I need to consult google.
Exactly where Stef said it would be, and a very recent addition.
Location: 40.489871, -80.018749
Tag:
Hint: A stern reminder, the last of its kind.
Imaging riding up a steep hill finding a tag then realizing you have no idea how to post it. Then downloading the Flickr app to your phone and still can't figure out how to post it. Sigh and I was wet and cold.
Mr Marv: Post it anyway! (I still haven't succumbed to posting from my phone; I trudge back to my computer and post from it.) In any case, here's a full view of the mural: 
I like the inscription on the left. The one on the right (and the tag pickup) reminds me of something Pogo once said.
Also, Charles Street has been repaved. Very nice.
The previous tag was right down the street from Tag 171. In fact, they act as a pair of bookends for the buildings on that block of Perrysville between Benton and Vinceton. Not surprisingly, it is also a mural commemorating Oliver Perry.
@ mr marv - try a few experiments posting your Perry images to get accustomed to the best way with your phone - it takes awhile to get used to how it works. Do it now, record the best method, and be ready for the next time around. Here are helpful instructions.
@TeamDecaf, any idea why 50% of the photos that Stef posts in this thread don't show up on my computer (Chrome/Mac)? I love the idea of posting from phones but technology and I don't seem to click. Oddly, it is only Stef's pictures and half the time they load.
ps. I haven't been playing the tag game since I'm out of town, but I love looking at all the pics. You guys rock!
My guess is that it's partly because Stef's photos posted via dropbox are often really big. For instance, the last one was 2 MB, while Ahlir's following one was 190 KB, less than 10% of the size. Most posters are scaling their photos so they're around the size of Ahlir's, or smaller.
@ headloss, ^I'm with Steven on this one. I'm not sure, but it's a possibility. Sorry, I wish I knew more.
Is anyone else having similar experiences? I can see every image posted, regardless of the source. I'm a Mac user too, Safari on a MacBook Pro at home, iMac at the office with Firefox. And just now, I opened a bunch of pages that contain stefb's image posts using Chrome - no problems.
I'm able to see all of stef's posts, using Win7 and Vista, in Chrome.
I usually shoot in RAW and my originals run 2-3MB. I upload to Picasa, (fast) edit then upload to "picasaweb" using medium resolution (whatever that means); images (jpeg) end up in the ~0.2MB range. Occasinally I detour through Photoshop but still use picasaweb for uploads. Hey, it's my workflow and I'll like it if I want to.
That said, I'm not sure that image file size should matter for a modern browser, unless (I think) you're on certain phones or maybe on one of those pad thingies. I suspect there's some other problem.
I can see Stef's pics on my Apple computer and my Droid phone but not on any of my work computers. They just come up as little question marks instead of pics.
I've given up on posting from my phone I'll try to post pics from home till I get a new phone.
@ TDW do you use an app to post pics from your phone.
ok, just tried it on my HP Thinkpad (that I bought at the $99 Crazy Leo price). It does not have a good browser (eg, can't do Netflix movies). Stef's photos on the last few pages show ok.
well that didn't work. just doing a test pic
@mr marv
This won't work for everyone, but it does for me...
After uploading the image to flickr, I've found that I can get to the img src by going to my flickr page, then holding down on the image I want. Holding down on the image makes a new window appear.
The new window has several options (like "open," "open in a new window," "copy link URL," etc) - at this point, scroll to and select "VIEW IMAGE." When you View Image, the img src jpeg info is in the browser URL. Copy it, paste it in the bike-pgh site, enjoy success. Don't use the seemingly-correct "copy link URL."
If you can't get it, we'll meet for a ride on the weekend - I'll show you.
^ thanks I'll keep working on it
@Mr marv, I think that the question marks indicate that the photo has been removed and no longer lives at the src img address, but I could be wrong? As for the posting thing, just do it manually <(no space) img(space) src="typeyourwebaddresshere and then include another ">
In Safari, I can see all of Stef's pics, but in Chrome they sometimes don't show. The most recent example I can find is http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/292701_568529850146_68500135_31912390_5097897_n.jpg on page 23. I suppose that the short and sweet solution is to just just use Safari or Firefox, but I brought it up in case others were having the same problem. FWIW I'm running OS 10.6.5 on a MacBook Pro.
@ headloss
Weird, because I tried almost the exact thing as you have - Chrome, MacBook Pro OS 10.6.8 (yours- 10.6.5 - can't be that much different). It worked for me on page 23, no problem.
That picture works fine for me, it's the one two above it that's broken. When I go directly to the link I get an error from dropbox "It seems this link has expired or become inactive!".
headloss - what error do you get if you go to that URL directly in Chrome? It might not actually be the browser (especially since I, and apparently TDW, have no issues with Chrome), but there might be some other factors at play like whether you're signed into facebook or not (although that link works for me in an incognito window, so I don't think that's the issue).
BTW, that example you show in your post definitely WILL NOT work. When you do "img src" here the URL *must* end with ".jpg" or some other "picture" type extension.
PS: a lot of times you can get from a "non-working" URL (incorrect or missing extension) to a a "working" one by right clicking on the image, and either doing "copy image URL", or picking "open image in new tab" and cut & pasting that URL. That is in Chrome but it should be similar in most browsers.
But, that doesn't work for the thing mr. marv was trying to post because they are trying to "protect" it with javascript. So, then you have to go poking around in obscure places (view source, inspect element, etc) to find the actual image URL, which in his case is: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6153/6205330709_9d348a17d0_z.jpg
BTW, there is a thread about posting images which is also where you're supposed to test... http://bike-pgh.org/bbpress/topic/on-posting-images
"what error do you get if you go to that URL directly in Chrome?"
No error, the image opens right up... It just won't load on the bikepgh page. On the thread itself, the picture is simply missing (no question mark or broken image icon or anything like that). The only way that I know there is an image file, is because Stef will write "New tag" or something along those lines and nothing is there.
"BTW, that example you show in your post definitely WILL NOT work." Now that you mention it... while it's good to be helpful, it clearly isn't being helpful when I'm in dire need of sleep. Thanks for catching that. :p I like looking at the page source info, so I'm clearly way too tired to be on the computer considering that I didn't notice that it wasn't an image link.
@Team Decaf, I'll run the upgrade and see if anything changes.
That's bizarre - if you're so inclined, ctrl-shift-i for developer tools and poking around may shed some light. Or, Tools -> Report an Issue is always appreciated.
"A stern reminder." Good one.
Shocked that Stef didn't beat me to this tag.
Hanging out on the South Side Trail, almost under the Ft Pitt Bridge.
Had I been in town I would have been there by 6am. I am in Vegas! just don't let ahlir catch up to me while I am gone
just don't let ahlir catch up to me ?
Hey, them's bikin' words!
New Tag!
If you get tired of horsing around in the valley, here's a short cut up the hill to the park.
P.S. Hurry up and get this tag, or the deer may get bored and wander away.
Hey reddan - is your bike in that tag image? Just sayin'
Ack.
Bugger...so busy trying to get the deer I forgot the bike.
I will not have time to drop a new tag in the next couple of days...so, I'd suggest that either we ignore my fox paws, or revert to Ahlir's prior tag now rather than wait until the 36 hours is up.
The missing bike was just an observation, I'm not sure what to do about it.
Upon review of the rules... none of them explicitly say that your bike has to be in the new tag. The rules are a bit grey, I see. Hmmm, anybody else want to make a ruling?
[Edit - @reddan - maybe you shot more than one image - one with your bike? I say post it, if so.]
I think the intent is clearly for the bike to be in both the "drop" and "pickup" pictures but you're right it doesn't explicitly mandate the former.
So, I propose we allow Dan's tag and amend the rules to close the loophole.
FWIW, I just assumed the deer-looking thing was some new style of furry-recumbent.
I vote to allow the tag too.
I've edited the rules.
I think I got to bruce Lyle once because he forgot to put his bike in the tag.
I've found all the places the tag is NOT located.
This is also NOT visible on Google Streetview (with or without the deer).
I think its only accessible with a recumbent. The pic does look a little bent.
You've found me out. It's only accessible via the secret tunnels leading from the 'Bentcave hidden under stately Reddan Manor.
I think I know where this is, there is a small tunnel nearby that gets us under our allies, is there not?
I believe I know exactly where this is, and I was thinking about where I would go for a ride this evening, maybe I know now. Could be a nice combination of flats and climbs.
But I don't think that area is lit by streetlights.
I think runners might know where this is too or people dragged along by their significant others
@Nate: nope, no streetlights after a certain point while approaching this tag.
Although I suppose there may be a light or two shining in the city-run facility just outside of the field of view of the pic.
@Pierce: "Honey, you take me to the nicest places..."
I'm pretty sure I know where this is.
I guess you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him swim...
Riverview Park, at the end of Kilbuck Street
This is looking back downhill (it was too dark to take Dan's photo and I didn't see any deer there anyway)
The shortcut road/trail is (IMO) really the nicest way to ride up to the Observatory
You know what? Looking at Dan's picture again, I think my photo is a couple hundred feet away from his. I just assumed his shot was right at the start of the trail but I think it isn't.
@Nate: based on linked map and perspective, I suspect you're about 50 feet from where I was standing. Probably close enough for gub'mint work.
Lunchtime tag:
Non-native stone -- imported from Ohio.
I believe there's enough info in the photo to identify the bridge (try replicating the photo, you'll see) Of course if you can't decide, just tag both of them.
Oooh, I think I know this one. The Ohio rock made all the difference!
bridge in schenley park (part of the steve faloon memorial trail?) between serpentine drive and bartlett playground. theres another bridge behind the visitors center that i went to first, but decided it wasnt it. i tried to match the features as best i could, and im pretty convinced i got it right.
http://www.pittsburghparks.org/park-features-3
this is one of the 'tufa bridges' mentioned in the section titled 'phipps run'
Yep, I wasn't sure if there was enough detail in the picture to tell, but then I rode (after eating) down to the lower bridge and saw that the wall there was narrower, much harder to balance a sandwich and apples on top of.
I didn't think this tag would last very long
sorry i didnt get around to putting this up last night when i took the picture... my fascination with lights continues:
colorful chromosomes in a gene pool!
Pitt Biomedical Science Tower at 5th and Darragh St, Oakland.
It's the John C. & Darlene D. Mascaro Water Wall, "modeled after the genome of the laboratory mouse".
Home of robo-monkeys
tick tock!
Well the board was down for a bit.. And it is still showing up as being down on my iPad, but not my iPhone.
No excuse now! The board is up!!
::crickets::
rule number 2a
EDIT: OOPS! I'm posting this for @Mary I was supposed to log in on her account. Well that's her bike anyway, too small for me.
Wait, did't Ahlir already get that tag?
he did, but according to rule 2a (see enumeration on the first page of the thread), he has to post a new one in a day and a half... its been 5 days! i hope hes ok
Please drop another by 6:15 today
As you wish, stefb ... with a few hours to spare.
Here is the NEW TAG. Nate posted the tag pick-up earlier today on my behalf.
"Doors of Oakland" mural -Oakland @Forbes & Coltart
Awww I was on my way there would of gotten it in 5 minutes.
Beaten
Puta!
I think that's a first group pic with a bent in it
@ Pierce it's the second the first was the gang bang tag
Come on! All tags are free!
EDIT:
Hahaha!! I'm sorry if I bruced Steph, Marko, Reddan & company! I actually knew where the tag was for once in a long time, so I got out of work early to grab it!
Gotta admit, it was fun! Come on!
Plus, to advertise that you wanted a tag set & ready for you to just go and pick-it up by 6:15pm, was but an invitation for someone to come do some mayhem and snatch the tag first The fact that I ran into you guys after having taking the tag just makes this more funny
I will be posting the new tag soon
this wasn't the first time i was bruced, and i have been the one to bruce others, too. i never would have known that mural was there if not for this thread, just like many other things in town. we actually rode right past it and down to magee before we turned around and actually saw it.
I've wanted to come out for this Tuesday ride but this day just wasn't going to work + I had more than a clue where the tag was placed (little bird, otherwise I didn't recognize it) maybe next week.
way to go BG - you're right stef totally deserved to get bruced for the 6:15 thing and i wouldn't apologize about it... but i guess you're nicer than me.
NEW TAG!!
That's a shiny mirage tucked in the distance -I wonder if is for sale....
Aw, I was going to use that tag whenever I got around to picking one up! On the plus side, I know exactly where it is.
Seriously?!? No takers? Do people need additional clues???
Don't be shady!!!
I was thinking the same thing, it's probable because of the rain. If my daughter wasn't sick I would of gone and got it already.
Yeah, I haven't gotten there on account of the rain. That, and I don't know where I'd put a new tag after picking it up.
i wouldve tried to get it in the rain if i knew where it was... but i cant figure it out
a clue may help the game progress a little faster
Ahhhh... really? Additional clues needed?
I could give you a very artsy clue for this, or make it all shady, but are you a'll'worth it?
If you don't get it with that, I don't know how you're gonnna 'mend it 'son!!
Ha.... everyone should know where it is now.
Well the sun is shining now. Someone should get there before I can get out of work.
I spoke too soon about the sun...
twinkly reflective camel hanging on the side wall of mendelson galleries, ellsworth st near tay way
'atta boy! Good job, george! Make it count!!!!
Rule 2a is gonna happen soon....I believe this was posted over 36 hours ago
@stefb - I was riding for several hours yesterday, checking my phone for a new tag. I'm on high-alert waiting for the next tag, or noon, whichever comes first.
If it hits noon then the race is on. Ill take a lunch break an snag it.
Melange396 posted at Friday, October 14, 2011 6:48 PM. (The RSS feed link link has exact post times.) So the last tag went back in play at 6:48 AM today.
@ Steven how do you see the exact times tags are posted? I don't see it
sorry peeps! i got distracted
heres the new tag, i think it should be pretty obvious for most without a clue:
Just above the Reply box, look for a link "RSS feed for this topic", by an orange icon. Click it.
(Firefox and Chrome show the exact time for every post. IE replaces some of the times with vague text like "1 hour", but the actual time is visible if you View/Source.)
End of jail trail.
Tag-O-Ramist #1:
"I got to this tag without riding uphill"
Tag-O-Ramist #2:
"Really?"
Tag-O-Ramist #1:
"No, just bluffing"
Ah I just got home. No time to go out again until tomorrow night. It is a shame. I am doing my dirty dozen training and I am dying to leave a tag on top of a hill.
Top of Logan is in bounds. That's one you can drop & tell everyone where it is & just make 'em go get it.
If I could, I would. Soon!
Well all of them are in bounds-ish... At least the first 7 that I have tried.. And you can get to The top of Logan without climbing a crappy hill
Bridge over Boulevard of the Allies, facing toward the river.
Let's try that again.
I've always wanted to go up there but never have.
What Ryan said. Where does it go on the south end?
It's a cool bridge, love the rounded looking shape. Stairs lead down to the 10th street bridge, on the city side.
A couple images I shot when scouting this location - they may help define where the steps come out. Near the end of the Armstrong tunnel.
Won’t have time to set a tag for the rest of the day so let’s do it now.
Gotta keep moo-ving.
Nice to see a folding bike in the Tag-O-Rama ranks!
damn... if i wasnt in nyc right now, i would already have this
i just can't place this building. i have seen it before, or one similar, but i am coming up empty.
What, we've stumped stefb? Oh, to be 10 miles closer &/or had nothing to do this afternoon.
Yeah I get stumped easily.
Hint: Half the name is the same as our centenarian benefactor. And it's less exciting in the winter.
I know where this is, so maybe I'll snag it in the a.m. Victory would be sweet, so we'll see if it lasts til morning...
Drat, after spending waaaay too much time looking for this on streetview I finally realize that I was two blocks away from this store this afternoon. I wont be able to get it till late tomorrow though.
pro-tip: stef is easily stumped by tags or clues that can not be searched easily on google (things like murals and sculptures are the easiest to find on google)
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.
Hal...?
For about the last month I've been riding up and down radome roads looking for tags and I could of been using google all this time.
From Rule #2: "Remember, the point of the game is not to make the clues difficult to figure out. It is about riding, not Googling."
The game rewards those who always take a different way to get there and always keep their eyes open for new & interesting stuff.
This tag especially rewards those who like to chill later. (hint)
back from ny!
i scream, you scream, we all scream for dave & andys!
Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
FYI, this is the place for the google offers deal today. https://www.google.com/offers/ Coincidence!
Also, bonus trivia, Arthur C. Clark chose to use "Daisy" in 2001 because he visited the Stanford AI lab back in the 60s, where one of the computers performed "Daisy" for him. It was based on an early speech model by Kelly-Lauchbaum and coded by Max Matthews, the godfather of computer music. Here's a version of it which I think is pretty close to it how it sounded way back when: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/wav/daisy-klm.wav
Ahhh now I want ice cream. Mmm bad food. Carried over from the brad Pitt thread.
I don't ALWAYS use google. I recognize a fair number of places, but sometimes I just can't remember where I saw something so I look on google.
> Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
@quizbot when i read your 'daisy' quote, i heard hal singing it in my head, and i even said to myself, 'im sorry, dave, i cant do that'... but i had no idea why you wrote that -- i didnt realize you were leaving a clue. now i feel dumb.
anyway, new tag should be up tonight
> Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
@quizbot when i read your 'daisy' quote, i heard hal singing it in my head, and i even said to myself, 'im sorry, dave, i cant do that'... but i had no idea why you wrote that -- i didnt realize you were leaving a clue. now i feel dumb.
i also had no idea where it came from. and a facebook friend of mine recently changed his name (on facebook) to heuristically algorithmic. suddenly i was being bombarded by hal on all fronts, and i thought i missed some nerd holiday or some news or something.
I snoozed (i.e. overslept) / I loozed.
maybe we should have a bike meet up for ice cream before no one wants any anymore.
Yes! A Brad Pitt Unlookalike Contest!
Nom. How about...next Monday, 5:30p? Or something?
@melange396: I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
i told you all that id put up a tag last night. im sorry for not doing so. i wish it was because of forgetfulness, because then i could say 'my mind is going... i can feel it'.
its really because i was overwhelmed with the bikelust, and spent time going to trek to pick up a new ride. when i was done, it was too dark for my camera to work.
NEW TAG (w/ my new bike! -- an older kona ute that was significantly marked down) :
this bike-shaped bike rack makes me smile when i pass it. its on a well-traveled road, and i think its fairly unique, so yinz get no clues unless you whine hard enough.
^nice bike, I took it for a test ride out of the Shadyside Trek a few weeks ago. It's a great bike but way too big for me to store it anywhere.
i think someone is gonna beat me to this tag... i love this rack btw. your bike is sweet, too.
Dang it Quizbot, I just reread the last page looking for where melange got upset, then I realized it was a quotation from 2001
This is about a block from my house. I rode practically the whole way. Whew!
ETA: It's at the Jewish Community Center, on Forbes Avenue in Squirrel Hill.
Nice! Can we stalk you now that we know where you live?
It is less than a block from my house. Maybe I will count the steps next time I head that way.
^ +1 on Stefb's post!
Oooh, my own stalker, just like the celebrities! I'm gonna need dark glasses and an entourage.
On the other hand, now maybe it's because the Regent Square Cinema's been showing Hitchcock movies this month, but... I can't help but observe that Ahlir was just starting to catch up to you, Stefb, on the Most Tags list...and he's disappeared now from the boards. Could it be that he [cue suspenseful music] Got Too Close?
thanks for the bike compliments. im totally digging it so far. the handlebars need to go, though. they make me feel a little like the wicked witch of the west.
as for storage, alls you need is a bit of wall space, as seen here in my office (not a tag) : 
^nice ingenuity.
Nice wheelie!
And um yeah I am concerned about ahlir. He hasn't posted at all recently. When he comes back, I am sure he will take over the lead. It is ok. He is a nice dude.
Yes I do also love that bike.
Hopefully ahlir is sitting on a beach somewhere.
Bruced! The little wheels were way too slow.
(joking, above is a file photo.. thought it was adorable this tiny bike was locked to a rack)
Ha! That bike as a cute fender.
^ Yes, psuedacris, but it lacks a reliable ULock
you would have to be a scumbag to steal that bike
New tag!
It's rainy today; don't slib on the wet roads!
ah. i am sure i will get bruced on this, as i cannot leave work at least until 2. i would have to circle around to get this on my way home anyhow.
@Dan - It'd be a LONG ride from Boston to the JCC on that bike!
I am just a few blocks from there but don't get off till 6:30
Penn and I think Beatty. East liberty
new tag:
speaking of brad pitt, the part of town at the top of this hill contains the name of a movie brad was in about 7 years ago. i saw this being painted last weekend as i descended the hill on which this sits. if you continue for a mile or so up this smaller hill past this tag, you will come to the top of two dirty dozen hills. if you climb those dirty dozen hills and come back down to get this tag, you may want to reward yourself with an adult beverage.
I get it! Very clever clue, but I'm not feeling up to climbing up there.
Man...it's nice weather for a ride, too. But I should really stay home and do the lawn-n-gardening I promised...
Never been to that neighborhood. Wish me luck finding it.
Gah, another easy-for-me-to-grab tag, an absolutely gorgeous day for a ride, and I'm mired in stuff. I've hardly been on a bike in the past week.
This is much harder on a phone...
Where is the tag?
Troy Hill Road, near the top.
Better size here. Yes, Troy Hill Rd. 40.459281,-79.986482 to be more exact.
Had a new tag ready to go already and I see that it's been done already. Expect another tomorrow.
New tag.
Your wheels won't be the only things spinning when you arrive here. I hear the residents go nuts for this place.
Folks, just a quick note...
Sorry for dropping the ball (and not the tag) on the game a couple of weeks ago. I managed to get myself into yet another accident (on 2nd, close to Greenfield). Sigh. Anyway I'll be off the bike for a little bit while I work on getting back into form.
@ Ahlir I'm really sorry to hear that. That area seems to have claimed a couple people this month. Get well soon!
+1 for a speedy recovery!
Yes, hope you get well soon!
So sorry to hear. I hope you heal quickly.
NOT a TAG attempt.
I was having a rambling-around-looking-aimlessly-for-the-new-tag kinda day. I didn't find the new tag, but I was surprised when I noticed stefb's previous tag from my vantage point on Memory Lane in the Hill District. I didn't realize how visible her tag was - in such an open area. So I'm wondering, would this qualify as getting the tag had chemicaldave not reached it first? Ha! No need to answer that.
@Ahlir - get better soon.
You were looking aimlessly? I thought I at least indicated what neighborhood to look through.
@chemicaldave - I missed that. I was aimless, yes. I had no idea where to look... I was cruising around, enjoying the weather, and keeping an eye out. Twenty+ miles of neighborhoods.
ah. i think get which neighborhood the new tag is in now. we dressed my dog up as one of these for halloween last year.
Jerry's Records on Murray! 
I don't get the "residents go nuts" part of the clue.
It's in Squirrel Hill. Squirrel => Nuts.
duh.
We dressed my dog as a squirrel last year for halloween. Pictures to follow later.
Nice tag. I got as far as "Maybe it's in Squirrel Hill?" and "Maybe it has something to do with DJs?" but I couldn't connect the dots.
I didn't know how to get a shot of the store and the bike without also capturing some of the signs which immediately give away that it's a record shop. I hope you stopped up to have a look around.
You did a wonderful job IMHO. I had it figured out that it was somewhere in Squill, but the "spinning" clue still had me scratching my head. Long-timers on this board also know I'm a record collector, & though I've been to Jerry's many a time, I still didn't get it. (The Troy Hill and Dave & Andy's tags I knew right away. Dunno why I didn't see this one!)
Funny, the "spinning" thing nailed it for me.
New Tag: "William's Rustic Beginnings"
(Was surprised this wasn't on the Tag Map. I want to make sure we "Tag All the Things!!")
Hey, randy is that a se draft lite, I've been looking at them, but am a bit hesitant, any problems? Would u recommend? Sorry all for being off topic
^^^ Board moderator alert! off-topic post!!!! ^^^
@B.S. I bought this bike for my son. He loves it, but loaned it too me while mine is in the shop. The pedals are too small for me. Also, Im a Greenfield hill dweller, so I prefer some gear options! Fun on the flats tho!
Another tag I figure out in a half a second. Oh, to be 10 miles closer, have a decent camera with flash, and not have to be tethered to a wire to do that Internetz thing! Four miles on a bike in 10 days, I'm going stir crazy!
If it's a race you're looking for Stu, you're on. There will be a bruce.
The agony of defeat. I've been Bruced.
Also, Steven, I'm glad someone appreciated my review.
On the bright side, you predicted a brucing, and you were totally vindicated! That was some mighty fine prognostication.
That was your review? Neat. Made me laugh.
New tag Tuesday evening.
I could have skipped my evening class to make the tag, but I'll just bank on you forgetting to post a new one.
New tag!
There's a river at the back of this.
gantry crane at the waterfront
so close to my house, i couldnt resist! the ride down here was fast and easy. climbing back up browns hill wont be so much fun maybe ill catch a bus... is that cheating??
A bus after you take a photo is fine.
#6 The bicycle in the picture must get to the tag location under the player's own pedal-power.
No restrictions on getting back.
for what its worth, i didnt take a bus up the hill. i didnt have my pass or any cash, and none of them passed me on my ascent anyway.
i also wanted to mention that i took this shot from the parking lot of the courtyard marriot, to the left of the crane as seen in Steven's picture. using the street lights there was the only way to get my crappy phone camera to produce a decent image.
stupid rain watch out for puddles... heres a rather large one -- its so big, it has fish in it!
(new tag)
i again apologize for my cameras poor performance in low lighting. i was also taking this shot while getting stormed upon, which didnt help.
ive decided that this picture is substandard. here is an alternate from the same time:
i will try to get a better one tomorrow during the day (unless the weather is totally uncooperative, or if someone out there thinks they can identify the location)
Easily identified, and I ride past it twice a day 5 days a week usually. Unfortuntely, no camera today and I don't carry a cell phone.
so helen, are you gonna grab this? should i drop another clue or pic for the others?
I am not as I work Sunday through Thursday, and have a "hollow" feeling for not doing so on my day off.
There is a bridge from which a person could drop a clue, if they were so inclined.
Someone going to the Keg Ride should get this so we can do another "gang" tag tomorrow.
Like Helen, I looked at it and thought, oh yeah, I know where that is. Sorta surprised it's lasted this long. I've been without a bicycle, daylight hours. I could take it tomorrow, but I hadn't planned on doing the Keg Ride...
Atch-ally, Keg Ride could be fun. Tentatively I will pick up the tag at 8:50 am +/- 10 minutes, with group photo possible.
Or bruce me, idc, srsly np.
If you don't get it tomorrow morning I'll grab it in the afternoon. I went past it this evening actually and sort of assumed someone had grabbed it already.
Nice photo- perhaps my fave of all on this thread.
Where is this? The lake in panther hollow?
Is this a double tag win? The silver bike looks like Pseudacris
awesome pickup! are your bikes actually down in the water???
btw, great reverse kegride. my bike and i ALMOST won the costume prize
Yep, Panther Hollow. The bikes are on the next step down, in the water would have been cool. I found Pseudacris on my way to the tag/keg ride so we put her bike in the picture too. Talked about a group tag, but I didn't have anything in mind at that moment & we didn't get organized, so ...
I ran out to get a statue tag
I have a volume of Lincoln's letters and speeches, and just looked to see if there's anything in it dated October 29th, 1861. Not quite. In October and November: letters to several generals, which reminds us of the changes in communications over the last 150 years; a draft of a bill for compensated emancipation in Delaware; a reply to a delegation from Baltimore; then in late November, the annual message to Congress. "The last ray of hope for preserving the Union peaceably expired at the assault upon Fort Sumter; and a general review of what has happened since may not be unprofitable. What was painfully uncertain then, is much better defined and more distinct now;..."
Right next to the statue is an osage orange tree.
Maybe you can find a use for one or two. Repelling stinkbugs? Maybe?
Don't steal the statue though.
Don't steal the statue though.*snort*
It's been stolen twice!
Gah, another tag I just can't get to!
If that's the Lincoln statue I'm thinking of, it has a neat story behind it. Melange, your costume on the Keg ride was great!
Abe on Penn Ave and Ardmore.
@ TDW did you go out Penn to get there?I couldn't figure out a good route there
i have to go out that way to take a test at the pearsonvue center this week.. i believe it is out that way.
@ mm
I rode with a friend who knows the area (you can see the saddle of her bike on the left of my image), so this is a little foggy, but the route went something like this…
N Highland to
Left onPenn
Left on N Linden (first light after Fifth Ave)
Right on Meade
Left on Murtland
Right on Thomas
Right on N Lang
Left on Meade, past Construction Junction
Right on Brushton
Left on Penn, all the way to the tag.
Then I rode another 15 miles - ambling around looking for a new tag, nice day!
New tag will be up this evening after the Steeler's game.
You can keep climbing up Penn Avenue and at the top go, maybe, right on Greensburg Pike all the way and then to Trafford or McKeesport or whatever suits your fancy or, instead go left further to Beulah and climb all around Penn Hills.
This one is so easy, I aint givin' no frickin' clues!
Very nice pic!
(Stef, forget it, you have studying to do!)
Yeah I do. I can't wait until Wednesday is over
@TDW, you fibbed! that was a clue!
frick park trail entrance on forbes (at the end of the bridge)
btw, thanks @Pseudacris
I walked to work this morning and snapped a picture, too, intending to post it jokingly, then I forgot until now.
I saw five cyclist go by while I was walking over the bridge.
@Nate: yeah, there is a great deal of cyclist traffic past there. i was very surprised to find that nobody had beaten me to the tag!
new tag:
it was only a matter of time. tag-o-rama, after 72 pages, finally succumbed to Godwin's Law. (well... it might kinda sound like it, at least.)
note that there is a bit of treacherous road to get to this location, and the sign pictured doesnt appear to be on street view.
so, um where is this awesome sing?
The location is Frank Fuhrer Wholesale, E Carson at S. 33rd Street.
melange396, you didn't say the tag was right next to a guard station, manned by the nastiest guard I've dealt with in a very long time! I hope nobody else showed up to try to get this!
As to the tag pickup: I barely got out of the place without being detained, and hightailed it to the Crazy Mocha at South Side Works, only to find that their Internet was down. Agh! I had to phone home to have my wife and son get on my laptop, download the pic, upload it to Flickr, and fiddle with grabbing the URL out of the BBCode. With all that, there wasn't anything left out of their, or my, patience, to try composing, dictating and typing any commentary.
And yes, I did bike all the way from McCandless to the South Side to pick up the tag. No buses (on the way there, anyway).
its frank b fuhrer wholesale on w carson near sarah st.
the tag is really more about beer than calling other people fascists.
way to go, stu, thats dedication! sorry about the guard -- whoever was there when i went was a little grumpy when i asked to take the pic, but he didnt ask for my papers or anything!!!?
New tag!
Also goes nicely with our lofty haiku thread.
I hate to be a stickler, but where's your bike in the pic Stu?
oops. Kinda behind the camera. I was sitting on it, actually. Gah, too much of a hurry. Guess I could've turned the wheel just a tad more. Will re-take in the morning.
Let's try that again. Sorry 'bout that, folks!
Oh, man - that's dedication. Nice work x 2, Stu!
If no one gets this later, I may go out. It is nice outside.
...but then I started to watch robocop 2
@ Stefb Robocop 2? Really? The only movie thats worse than Robocop 2 is.... well Robocop 3
@mrmarv: Obviously, you've never seen Dead Alive or Meet The Feebles.
BTW, stef, how'd the test go?
Don't you ever compare early Peter Jackson to robocop!
Well I started to watch robocop 3, which was on after 2, but it was too much robocop. And dead alive is one of my favorite movies. The test was challenging as always. No one I know who takes it ever feels confident that they did well. Score come back in a few weeks.
@cburch: I kid, I kid. Dead Alive is one of the all-time greats.
@stefb: When Robocop started flying, it became too much Robocop in my book.
I actually enjoyed "Meet the Feebles".... the juxtaposition of "muppets" with harsh-life realities was pretty hilarious.
Bad movie, I would say "Troll 2" is utterly incoherent, and I totally despised "The Village" by Shymalan
+1 for troll 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4
dead alive is no bad taste, of course.
If it's the worst movie challenge then Howard the Duck wins, I've seen it 10 times
I loved Howard the duck!!
Evil dead movies are great, too
If HTD is so bad, why 10 times? Videomasochist?
How about Down by Law? I think that was the title.
When a movie is really bad I have to watch it several times. I've soon Josie and the Pussycats (2001 film) several times.
Along the north side trail just past the 16th st bridge
the point of this was to have a pic with the waterfall on, but sadly it was off
This tag would be a lot more elusive with a slight crop
Also, it's cold
Point Park College, Boulevard of the Allies
Yeah well I knew TDW would get it anyway. It was Saturday morning
I know nothing of the historical value or interesting people buried in this biblical saint's cemetery. The unique thing about this tag is it's distant-corner position on the Tag-O-Rama map.
Tough to see, but my bike saddle is at the bottom, between the 2 gateposts.
@stefb - Now that summer is gone, I'm down to riding on weekends only, yeesh!
!! Might have to go out tomorrow.
@ edmonds59 - yeah, reward yourself by stopping in at that Cambodian Thai restaurant while you're in the area (sort of in the area).
TDW, my maternal grandparents graves are along the fence line just outside of your pic’s frame. Unfortunately I’m too busy doing chores for the living relatives today to go get the tag. Edmonds, don’t forget to take some reading material with you.
@Marko82 - Ah, now I know something about interesting people buried there. That's a cool fact - thanks!
I can't believe that no one went out to get this on such a pretty day.
Me neither, and we went out this morning and decided to ramble around town instead of heading west. Since,you know, somebody else would pick it up.
Didn't ride today, ended up playing soccer with the boy for a couple hours, then ran a mile on the track. I'm going to be tossing down some Advil tomorrow, that 81 mg aspirin is not going to cut it. Tag is still out there.
I thought for sure someone would get it. I was ill over the weekend.. I would have rather had my ass glued to a saddle instead of a toilet seat I even had a dream last night that I was out and riding around on my bike. I was so happy. Then I was sad when I woke up and I was laying in bed. I wonder if I was pedaling in my sleep?
that would explain why you were kicking me all god damn night.
I was kicking you cause I dont like you.
Had to do something with those extra lumens this morning
St. Joseph cemetery, Heidelburg. Great little hidden neighborhood. This was on my Carnegie bike tour I did 2 summers ago.
New tag;
I love this building, it's like a little branch of ancient Egypt, right here at home. And not as far from the other tag as you might sphinx.
Noblestown Rd, near Mansfield, across from Chartiers Cemetery.
Oh, it looks like it is melty. This is on my route to work (if it is the melty statue I am thinking of).
If I am correct, that was mr Rogers's foot in your photo. Across from Heinz field. This guy was drunkenly singing and shouting to himself while sitting in the lap of the sculpture. I did not approach.
Nothing like being drunk by 7am
Yep, stefb, his foot.
@Psuda –Thanks, I’ve had a King Crimson song stuck in my head the last few days and now it’s been replaced. Kind’a ironic that both songs are from 1968/69 and couldn’t be more different.
You can never go down, never go down….
Glad to help, Marko82!
Another tag to come after work.
stef sees this link and clicks:
-confused look
-"what, you didn't post the location of the ta..."
-page loads
-"you are such a dick."
-kicks me in the shin
new tag:
i didn't go out of my neighborhood for this one. i meant to post this tag this morning, but i guess time wasn't on my side.
Morningside Mural corner of Chislett and Greenwood
My first solo tag. I'm one tag closer to first place.
@ stefb I made it back up the Greenwood hill.
Nice going mm, I was already planning what time I would get there tomorrow morning, assuming no one else would chase it down in this cold evening.
@ TDW thanks!
Since I'm new to this am I supposed to somehow put this tag on a map or something and is there some kind of chart that keeps track of this. One last thing it seems every tag I want to drop has been done already very frustrating.
New tag sometime after 8PM tomorrow I work 12hrs tomorrow so it'll be a night time picture.
@mm - all you have to do is go out and take a picture of your bike in a new location, then post it.
Steven does all of the work adding your name to the list of tags. Look at the bottom of the rules on page 1 of this thread to see the links that show where tags have been set and where you are on the list of people who picked up tags. Steven adds all of that info. Its a good place to look to see where tags have been placed.
Nice, mr marv! I wonder why there are gnomes rising birds and what that has to do with morning side. And the bird on the left looks like it is pooping
@ stefb you didn't even need to pedal to go post that tag.
It is at the other end of the neighborhood
I'll give a few clues to this. I traveled about the same distance from my house as Stefb traveled from hers. This Tag is very Democratic but if you are not a Democrat don't worry it's being re-named for very heroic reasons. You better hurry if you want to beat TDW or Stefb to this tag they ride at dawn.
Playground (not sure of the name) at the end of Farmington rd in Stanton heights. I recently explored Stanton heights for the first time a few weeks ago and remembered going past this.
@ Stefb It's called the Charles F. Dinan Memorial Park. I din't really feel like riding far to place a tag after a 12hrs shift. Also I wanted to see if you could ride your SS up greenwood.
Ahhh, stefb, you just gave me an excuse to ride later instead of early today. I'm going to wait until it warms up now.
It is plenty warm. Just got home. What a nice morning. Mr marv, I actually didn't think to take greenwood. I live closer to Stanton and just took that.
new tag:
i really do hate how the christmas holiday decorating now starts every year on nov 1. i guess that this needed to be put up early, as it will probably be lit this coming friday.
(on a side note [and not a clue], i do realize how dirty my bike is, and yes i did drop it on its right side. i need to get some stickers for that)
Crap. A tag I could get, but for not having a bike with me today.....!
I'm on my 3rd 12hr shift in a row, I don't even feel like riding home so I'm not even going to try to get this tag.
mr. m it's on your way home if you use the jail tral.
still unlit xmas tree at point state park
@ Stefb is the damage on your bike from a crash?
Nope. Just carelessness. I have leaned the bike on something andit just fell over..more than once. I have pur probably 3000 miles on that thing since I got it in June. It was bound to fall over. I also need new grip tape. It is getting worn. It really is the most fun bike I have every owned.
**crickets**
sorry!!!!!!!!!!
new tag coming very shortly
i was planning to get a spot well outside my 'comfort zone', but my aspirations were dampened by the rain (what a wuss)... without further delay, the new tag:
the rules say something about getting to the tag location by pedal power alone... even thinking about carrying a bike up this city staircase makes me sore :-p
This pic is making me nauseous and dizzy, I don't want to find this Tag.
Also I know how to get to the bottom of the steps but not the top
Well, if you know how to get to the bottom, you know how to get to the top!
would it be in the rules to carry my bike up the steps or do I need to find a way to pedal to the top
i was looking out over this staircase last monday. if you're at the bottom, you can follow a single road right to the top.
You can see it on Google Maps.
VOILA!!!!
Up at the intersection of Bigelow St & Waldeck St in Greenfield, looking down to the Frazier St/Bridge
Haha!!! And I know is dark, but that right there is my new bike "THOR" making its first appearance in tag-o-rama
I went up Waldeck St off of Greenfield ave, but it was pretty steep so I ended up walking 1/2 of the way after I lost balance making the sharp turn.
Gotta say, beautiful view!!!!
MAN! I was on my way there just got off of work and im headed that way.
oops I think I broke the no whining rule. BTW is the Frazier St. Bridge bike friendly and where does it take you?
I'm sorry mr marvelous!! I knew where this tag was and really wanted to get it to get my new bike on the fold! This tag is not on my way home, so it wasn't like I just took it out easy.
I did not take Frazier st this time, but have taken it in the past. Is not very-bike friendly at rush-hour, I would say. If I remember correctly, if you make a right at the end of the bridge you climb up to the edge-part of Oakland ((Parkview Ave)), and close to Blvd. Of The Allies.
@ bikeygirl I'm not really upset I was joking, truthfully you saved me from a hard climb after a 12hr shift at work, I am more than happy to be home right now and not up on a mountain.
nice job, bikeygirl!
this is interesting to me -- ive always called that the swinburne bridge, but google maps calls it frasier st. it does become swinburne st a little bit up the hill.
i took that street and bridge (whatever you call them) into oakland after i snapped the pic. i had only ridden down it in the past, which isnt so bad. you can go pretty fast down the hill and cars without yahoos in them seem to brake pretty hard around the corners. going up is a different story! there is an extremely narrow shoulder, so much so that i wouldnt even call it a shoulder. there are some guard rails with a steep descent on the other side. the curves can obscure you from the view of cars, making a bad situation even worse.
moral of the story / TL;DR version:
avoid frasier st and swinburne st on a bike, at least in the uphill direction
It's a good think bikeygirl beat me there If I got the tag I planned to explore the bridge and swinburne st
Swinburne Bridge, carrying Frazier St: http://g.co/maps/ujknd
nice view from up there but getting down feels kind of sketchy.
Thanks for the link salty. I was just about to google it myself - you saved me a few keystrokes.
I remembered seeing the bridge signs but honestly I had no idea it was called Frazier St., I thought the whole thing was Swinburne.
#6 The bicycle in the picture must get to the tag location under the player's own pedal-power.
Carrying the bike up (or down) the steps is fine.
Coming across that bridge, there is a "No Trucks" sign, probably intended for ascending Waldeck Street, which looks more like it means "No trucks on this staircase."
Maybe we should change rule 6 to eliminate "pedal-", leaving "under the player's own power", if the consensus is to permit carrying and/or walking your bike.
I carried my bike up the stairs of the cathedral for that one tag.
Probably ought to clarify when & to what extent one can use a bus bike rack. I've been riding the bike TO the tag, then taking the bus (partway) home.
this is a very difficult rule to enforce. we can hope that people stick to the spirit of the current wording, or we could go all pedantic with something like "the only energy allowed to be used in reaching a tag must come from gravity or human muscles".
does that make electric assist bikes verboten? i propose they ok if they charge the battery with regenerative braking, but not if theyre plug-in rechargable :-p
The rules don't restrict what you do after you take the photo. But maybe add "You aren't required to use your own power to get back from the tag; a bus rack or other transport is OK." to make it more explicit?
There's some ambiguity in where you start counting. For instance, say the tag's in Carnegie. I think rack'n'rolling from the East End to Carnegie just for the tag isn't OK. But what if you work near Carnegie, and normally rack'n'roll to there? Seems it's OK to ride from there to the tag. But can you rack'n'roll out to Carnegie for lunch, then bike to the tag? Probably not, but the rules aren't explicit as to when you start following "player's own power".
I don't think enforcing the rules is an issue, just clarity, so we're all following the same rules, and new players can too, without reading the whole thread.
The rule is fine. I think it was written because Lyle walked his bike up to the top of the cathedral of learning which is ridiculous. So long as you can ride your bike there and it's is in the picture I think it's fine. If you cheat and drive to the tag then it's your loss for not having fun riding your bike.
^ wot 'e said.
yeah, who called the fun police?
also, CHIRP CHIRP!!!
Allllllrighty, a low-hanging fruit!
This little buddy-angel is not in a cemetery, but close to. Hope this rings a bell -or not!
oh man i know where this is at but wont be able to get there til tomorrow night...
Friendship Ave, Bloomfield
Inquiring minds want to know: is the little Buddy Angel marble or resin?
I think it's obvious where this tag is located even though it's a view seldom seen. And yes, it was 100% pedal power that got me here. No steps, no elevator, just pedal power, cha-ching!
Five other Bike-Pgh members pedaled here with me for Light Up Night fireworks yesterday, awesome view! I came back for the tag today.
@Pseudacris - Regarding the Buddy Angel, I'm not sure because I didn't really observe the material, but I did notice that the Angel's book had little black cracks in it. Cracks that wouldn't be in marble, IMHO.
The last two days I probably ridden past that little angle a dozen times not even thinking about the tag.
Dan, I think I passed you on your way to that (new) tag. I was on my way back from Sewickley with Erin.
Yes, rice rocket, I saw you and your ride group in Point State Park as I was headed to the tag.
Rivers Casino Parking garage
taking a gamble photographing at those heights.
@ TDW I didn't understand the what you meant about 100% pedal power until I rode to the top of the garage.
@mm - nice!
This tag is a place mrs. marvelous spends all of mr marvelous's money getting her Christina Aguilera/Kendra Wilkinson Platinum Hollywood glam. Also you'll notice how "Stinky" it is across the street from this place.
I rushed out to place this tag because I hate making people wait for the next tag and I know TDW and others do most of their riding on the weekends.
Salon Christine, Hatfield St, Lawrenceville
2 Tags in less than 24 hours!
Speaking of rushing out... I raced from home when I saw your tag, mm. As soon as I left home it started to drizzle, but it quit quickly.
@ TDW I expected you getting the tag today I just didn't think it would be that fast and easy. It's amazing how well you know the city.
This is the second tag in a row i got that the same person i got it from got it back from me.
Wow - good one!
Money well spent mr. marv, I'm sure.
Holy display, Pittsburgh! I wonder what big-time business had a [blue] hand in this one.
@mm... I expected you getting the tag today I just didn't think it would be that fast and easy. It's amazing how well you know the city. - I know where you dwell, mm, and your tags are home-o-centric!
@ TDW i think you are right my tags are too close to home I need to get out of my comfort zone.
@ Edmonds yeah she worth it.
Whoops - I just realized that my tag clue suggests the wrong big-time business. The tag is at the competitor of the blue hand business, duh. Sorry to all.
Haha, insurance FLAME WARS!
US Steel Tower Plaza...the Creche
New tag!
I was lazy & this is not far from the previous tag.
Occupy Pittsburgh. Mellon green. Couldnt find the exact signs, but does this count since it is the event?
Dang thassa nice bike. Great build.
I need to find something other than Dropbox to use for photos.
Must be the phone
The phone’s fine, maybe it’s the user who’s upside-down?
@edmonds, That's my 1973 Schwinn Super Sport "Resto-Mod". I convertetd it to a 11 speed Campy.
Yeah. You found me out. I can do a hand-stand and take photos.
@ Greasfoot the bike looks brand new. You take really good care of it.
The frame was media blasted and powder coated. I recently finished it. Actully, I took it to Thick’s and Chris and a few of his guys finished it for me. I could not get the rear drops and rear derailleur hanger aligned. They are the best!
This is what the bike looked like when I found it. The previous owner must have ridden the bike on a freshly blacktooped driveway. The sealer dried in place on the chain, crank, & rear deraileur. Everything was frozen in place.
Greasefoot, are you a native yinzer?
Umm, Yes
Don't take offense, but I knew because my parents also put an "-'s" on the end of names of establishments
Don't take offense, but I knew because my parents also put an "-'s" on the end of names of establishments
this is also common in, say, buffalo, and probably much of the great lakes and upper midwest regions.
to this day, i am the only person i know who says "aldi" instead of "aldi's".
No offence taken. I have MS, and it affects my hands. My fingers are numb, kind of like they are asleep. So typing (especially on the iPhone) is interesting. Sometimes I’m just mashing my hands on the keyboard hoping the correct letters are selected. The auto fill/correct function is my friend and my enemy.
@ Greasefoot the problem isnt you the problem is you have an iPhone and not an Android
^^^Siriously.
My contact is up…
I just got the razer
You're going to want to use it to slit your throat after using it for a week.
Ha
Survey question: what sort of mobile phone do you use, and if you do not have one why not?
Answer: Motorola Atrix with Android 2.2.1 using SwiftKeyX keyboard.
Answer: Motorola Droid Razr The most powerful smartphone in the U.S.
Droids rule Iphone drools.
I have a very cheap, pre-paid mobile phone that I use for travelling (since pay phone are now quite hard to find) and in case of emergencies.
I suspect one reason pay phones disappeared is that the companies who made money on payphones make more with even the cheapest cellular.
I have a cheap land line. No caller ID. No call waiting. No long distance. No voice mail. Just say no, No, NO to everything. ~$16/mo plus another $10 in tax.
I also have an Android.
////// crickets /////// next tag?
^ Ten bucks tax on a $16 item, jeesch, 62.5% !
^ Yeah, but I feel more burned by the "VLD Shortfall Charge" of $6. I hate Verizon. Since this thread has been thoroughly jacked anyway....does anyone have experience with local land line carriers other than Verizon?
I have a rotary phone that I use for a paper weight.
i have had t-mobile (formerly voicestream), sprint, and verizon in the last ten years. now i have a tracfone and i wouldn't trade it for anything. it costs me about $30 per month with the way i use it, and that's $30, not $29.99 that is somehow $46.53.
now, i don't use my phone as an internet provider, or a way to get around. i am almost always around someone who can easily answer my "can you google..." queries, if i'm not at a computer. and i have no need of gps or anything like that. so it provides me precisely what i need at approximately no more than it need cost. coverage is good. if you use you use your phone about the same way, i really do recommend it.
I think that VLD Shortfall Charge is only if you use Verizon for long distance. I have a Verizon land line and pay them $16 total including all taxes and all their surcharges. There's no VLD Shortfall on my bill.
My long distance is from Opex Communication, and is around $1-$2 a month (3.44 cents a minute after surcharges, plus .99 in those months where my usage is nonzero). But many months I don't use any long distance, and there's no charge for that month. On average it's less than $1/month.
I also have a basic cell phone I rarely use. It's $70.60/year.
[Edited to fix numbers]
new tag:
sorry about the quality of the photo. it is dark now when i go to work and when i leave work. anyway, i followed some sharrows to this tag. people at work call her "the prostitute".
Dagnabbit, have bike today but no camera. And I know what & where this is. I also know that it isn't Martha Graham dancing in that bridal gown.
Might snag it this evening, if no-one else has picked it up.
"Bride" Mural by Artist Joy Taylor at California Ave & McCullough St. North Side
I suspect one reason pay phones disappeared is that the companies who made money on payphones make more with even the cheapest cellular.
SBC which is now ATT was the last big player in the payphone game. The problem was that so many people had cell phones regardless of who provided them that you couldn't make money with pay phones. There were maintenance costs, the cost of visiting the phone to collect dwindling stocks of coins, vandalism to repair etc. They may be making big money on cell phones but they'd still have lots of pay phones out there if they made money--they just don't in most locations. IT's a niche market served by smaller companies now.
@Ohiojeff they'd still have lots of pay phones out there if they made money
That is the theory, I suppose. I don't believe it for an instant, though.
This will be a popular place for "Santa Claus" to stop by & stock up his bag for Christmas to fill up stockings.... (that is as-long as one hasn't been knotty, haha!)
I never understood all the "Bride Mural's" with just a bride and no groom, seems like a lonely wedding.
He is waiting in the house. They are gonna consummate. That is why she is giving us that look.
he's gonna tap that boooooooptayy!
Any chance you're willing to provide another clue, bikeygirl?
True. I thought I knew where this was, but when I was Dahntahn for the parade today, I checked out the place & it was not a match.
@Stu: You were close...... I mean, Downtown is not the only place where Santa can stock-up on goodies..... that is as long as one isn't shady and ends up in the "rotten" list
S.W. Randall Ivy St. Shadyside
mr marvelous is gunning for first place just about around 36 more tags and it's mine lol.
Ah, I didn't even know there was an S.W. Randall's in Shadyside. That was the store I checked Downtown.
@ stulnMcCandless it took me a while to figure this one out but after you said you checked downtown and bikeygirl said you were close I rushed from work to get the tag last night.
I'm going to push that 36 hour rule to the max, I'm working a 16hr shift today so the new tag will be Monday morning if thats o.k. with everyone. I'm sorry to the weekend riders I wanted to get it out for you today.
I am fine with that. I am out of town
I actually traveled outside of my neighborhood to post this tag.
Clue #1: I crashed on my way to get this tag, and it's a spot I've crashed before about a quarter of a mile from the tag.
Clue #2 This tag is for the riders who believe do not enter is only a suggestion.
Breakin the law, breakin the law
@ stefb too bad you are out of town I think you and Vannevar are only ones I know that has been to this before.
It's been a couple days -- how about a clue?
^ agreed
**crickets**
And at the risk of breaking the "no whining" rule, something that's directed at certain people but meaningless to everyone else doesn't really count as a "clue".
I think I know where it is based on the second clue, but I'm gonna wait till it's dark for that very reason.
The clue #1 was for everyone, It's a place I have posted about a few times about crashing, salty you even commented on it the first time I posted about it.
Clue #2 has been posted about why is it closed but when I rode past it was finally open.
I am always happy to give more clues if needed.
Giant metal bowls are cool. Semi-finished portion of the South Side trail behind the Hoff.
I was thinking about going out to get this tonight. Drats
Newt aagh retraction...phone/operator error. If only I had an iPhone...
Nice going reddan you found it and didn't even break the whining rule. I love the new trail or the part thats open anyway.
Where is your bike? I am not seeing it
Huh...photo upload glitch...two of the wrong photos hit Picasa. Please hold...
Dammit...I took 4 photos, and two of them (the two with my bike) vanished. Will drop new tag tomorrow.
If you had an iPhone, your pic may end up upside down... Or if you were me using iPhone
What photo sharing app do you guys use to post from your phones, I use flicker and it doesn't post from my phone I still sprint home after I find a tag to post it. I think I need something like photobucket maybe?
Dropbox. I need something different
Damn. Glad I checked before I left. Saved me a half hour.
mr marv, you have an Android phone, correct? Why not just use the built in Picasa upload functions?
@Reddan, I passed you near the Bates overpass today (was slow to realize it was you). Probably right after you got the tag.
[edit]Good tag Mr Marvelous! & I second rice rocket's recommendation of the picasa uploader on droid. You can "share" to picasa, then grab the image URL and plonk it into this bboard.
That tag was fun except I crashed on the way to it. I'm working on getting my picasa working, thanks for the tip rice rocket. That new trail all 100 feet of it looks great
Alright, let's try that again. New tag:
Bit chilly this morning, but the climb to get here helped keep me warm. And I found a freshly-paved (and mildly scary) twisty descent on the north side of the valley...
You posted a generic overpass photo in the CITY of bridges?
/whine
It's a rough life.
it's a man's life in the modern army.
incidentally, it's sufficiently non-generic that i know where it is already.
incidentally, it's sufficiently non-generic that i know where it is already.
And it's a very nice photo to boot. Nice shot Dan! The pleasures of commuting by bike, how I miss it.
@Ohiojeff: Thanks. I've been planning on this tag for a morning drop for a while (was hoping to get a nice sunrise), but got started a few minutes too late to get the best shot; the colors were mostly faded by the time I got there.
I like the photo also, the peaceful bike hovering over the grinding car commute. I too think I know where it is but my schedule doesn't include this route today.
I actually know where it is too, I was being facetious.
reddan, what was the descent? I think there was a Major Taylor Wednesday ride this summer that took us down it, I remember very very fresh pavement. It wasn't too sketchy, other than the streets that T into it in the fastest part of the descent.
@rice rocket: assuming you're heading north-ish on the bridge, the first two rights will put you on the street I'm talking about.
If I was on the 'bent, it wouldn't have felt as intimidating, but I've got this chronic fear of going over the bars when I'm on the Bianchi.
(There's another nice descent towards town a bit farther northeast; that one's far more heavily traveled, at least by comparison.)
Yeah nice photo! I know where this is but I am in Monroeville working kinda late today.
Yay, first tag.
Nice job R.R. Don't forget to post where the tag is, getting your first tag is a great feeling
Oh right.
It's the Swindell Bridge overlooking 279 in Northview Heights/Perry South/Fineview. I'll post a tag when I'm home, I used a real camera instead of my vaseline cam.
Vaseline cam? Dear lord, man! Where do you generally put it?
I like the alignment of the drop bars with the iron curlicue!
Vaseline cam? Dear lord, man! Where do you generally put it?
Generally, it goes in my pocket. Occasionally...well, that's for me and vaseline-cam to know. But chemicaldave is right.
Pseudacris: that was intentional, I swear....not.
Am I supposed to edit the map in the first post?
New tag:
Clues:
#1, there's only one way to get to this tag (on a bike at least).
#2, your legs will hate you/me.
dammit. that's too close not to get... tomorrow.
Ok Sloaps its all yours...but you better not welsh on the deal
@ rice rocket I'm glad you decided to keep riding in the cold weather, I hope you keep riding all winter.
Ok Sloaps its all yours
would that make me a dick if i get it tonight? then again, i might get there and my camera wont take a usable image... that would suck
Damn, I picked an easy one. At least you have to work for it.
@marv, yeah, I'm glad I am too. I still have some things to figure out, like how to keep my toes from freezing. I have thermal socks and shoe covers, but looks like I need to go full boot. I need a jacket with a windproof front too, because right now, I'm overdressing to keep the wind out, which makes me sweat out the back.
@ rice rocket don't worry there will be plenty of winter gear threads on the message board to guide you.
Am I supposed to edit the map in the first post?
I've been adding most of the recent map entries, but it's open for anyone to edit. So you can if you feel like it, but you certainly don't have to. Same goes for the results page.
Big hill, Wesley St, I think. I'll post the name later if that's not correct.
(?°?°??? ???
damn mobile phone apps crapped out all day, so I couldn't post welsh way (see bruce above) and the next tag...
@rice rocket "Damn, I picked an easy one"
Um, no, not easy. I only knew it was on the sloaps, but had no idea where to start. I rode up Barry and Eleanor first - way up to Arlington - tried a few more hills with no luck. Two hours after I started riding, two mailmen, a random south-sider and a cop all gave me their ideas when I showed them your image on my phone, so a shout-out to them - thanks!
Oh yeah, I didn't recognize the Greasefoot clue about "welshing on the deal" - the street name is Welsh. And it's not on Google Streetview.
New tag coming tomorrow, I didn't have time to get a new one after the long ride to this one.
I recognized it as one of the DD hills, and that was enough to encourage me to stay away.......
TDW: Glad you got a good workout on the slopes.
This tag is one of those obscure places that few bicyclists would encounter, so I'm making the clues easy. The only reason I selected this tag is its location.
On the Tag-O-Rama map, I set the farthest south west tag and I picked up abracadabra's farthest north west tag. This new tag is located in another far corner. [ CLICK HERE ] As shown on the iMapMyRide website.
Curses!
Dan is surging in the "corner tag" game.
What am I talking about? At some point abracadabra set a north-west-corner tag, then set a north-east corner tag. Clearly, abra had started a game of "corner tag". What to do? Join in! I picked up abracadabra's north-east tag (sunset view cemetery, at that point the closest tag to the upper right corner). I then set a stake at the Carnegie Carnegie Library, in the south-west corner. Two corners for me! (Well, for abra too.)
And now Dan has equaled this achievement Of course, there's still room to get closer at all corners...
Alhir! So good to see you posting again. Just today, as I was riding, I wondered if you're back on the road?
And yeah, the sub-game of corners is on!
Welcome back Ahlir!
Abt inc. 500 Fountain Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15238
Getting a tag in the dark with thousands of drunk driving Steeler fans FU-UN
Awesome, mm! Join the corner-getters, dude!
@ TDWDefiantly outside of my comfort zone but I couldn't resist following your map.
It's finals week in school and I have a couple 12hr shifts at work so my next tag will be after 8pm tomorrow and because of all the studying I'm doing it wont be in a corner, but I would like to take the challenge of tagging around the borders of the Bike Pittsburgh map.
Good job, marv!
I think it's fair to say that you have legitimately contracted the ToR virus and can now be expected to chase tags down, no matter what or where.
Welcome back Ahlir!!!!!!!! Yes I am completely into this game now, I was sitting around the house watching Indiana Jones.... I mean studying and was compelled to chase this tag down.
I was *this* close to jumping on my bike and getting this, because you know I love corners! But I have tooooo much stuff to do...
This is an easy tag, so easy it should be picked up quickly. Now I know where keanu reeves got the name of his movie.
shenley substation: henry st at utica way, north oakland... right next to constantin garage auto repair.
@marv, ive never seen that constantine. is it any good? does keanu say 'whoah' in it?
Nice going melange396!!! The movie was just o.k. I'm glad my clue helped this time unlike my last tags clue. I really like your bike, It's hard to tell but did you replace the handle bars?
mrs. marvelous watched you pick up the tag from her job.
Constantine: if you've read the Hellblazer comics it's based on, you might be a bit unimpressed with the film. (Keanu does flip off Lucifer while dying, though...pretty ballsy move IMHO.)
I always believed I was the only comic book fanatic on the message board, I'm glad I'm not alone. And graphic novel is not what it sounds like.
@mr marvelous
And graphic novel is not what it sounds like.
Only sometimes it is.
Used to be a serious Vertigo fanboy; now, my tastes run to Transmetropolitan, The Boys, Preacher, and suchlike. (Come to think of it, those are graphic in more than one sense of the word...)
Pretty much anything Warren Ellis or Garth Ennis writes is gold in my experience.
Where is cburch on this?
AHEM.....
Maybe is 'cause I'm a girl, but I LOVED the movie "Constantine" -and not just because of Keanu. And I'll even admit that I've seen the movie tons of times.
Nice tag too!
@bikey: I will confess to really digging the depiction of Gabriel in the film. That was awesome.
@Reddan.... I have 3-cats, but after that movie, I'm kinda-afraid to stare at their eyes, hahaha!
+1 for preacher graphic novels, and bikeygirl how did you post the animated movie clip that looks so cool. You got me wanting to watch it again
Looks like a GIF file. Post it the same way you'd post a JPG file.
EDIT: [img src="http://www.yourdomainhere.com/path/to/the/picture/yourclip.gif"]
only < and > instead of [ and ].
^^ yeap, what Stu said... just a GIF file embedded as a jpeg
Graphic novels are available on the Kindle Fire now, I am accepting donations for my help mr marvelous get a Kindle Fire so he can buy useless comics fund.
I also liked Constantine. And I liked Gavin rossdale
comixology apps (each publisher has their own) on my iPad are only way i buy single issues any more. ill buy TBPs and the occasional hardbound book once in a while, but no more backboards and bags for me.
also:
HEY!!! you cant give me crickets after less than 12 hours on a crappy rainy day when the sun sets early AND its the thread has been far from silent! just for that:
wow, comixology ipad apps...
:-p
but anyway, im hoping for <24h from tag get to tag set.
@mr.marvelous: thanks for the props on the bike. i did, in fact, replace the handlebars. you can see them better in my previous tag. i couldnt stand the dutch-style cruiser handlebars that it had before. they required a posture that was too upright, which raised the center of balance and made me feel like [more of] a tool.
does mrs marvelous work in the sei or something?
i just wanted to use that cricket gif really badly. also, why the hate for digital distribution of comic books? they look great on the iPad and i don't have to store them or recycle anything. i never collected as an investment, i bought them to read them.
+1 on the trade paperbacks. I don't try to keep up month-to-month, and it's really nice to be able to read an entire story arc at one go.
im not actually hating. in fact, it sounds like a fine idea. i needed a comeback for the crickets and the comic art c.s.b was too apropos to pass up. the ipad app just provided some context for it. i probably deserve the crickets now since i missed my self imposed deadline
anyway, new tag!
i saw this giraffe peering at me from another city staircase (i carried my big ass bike up the stairs, i suggest you go from the other direction). something about the area this is in reminds me of the lincoln / kennedy coincidence list.
ps: thanks to the hard work and dedication of the people behind bikepgh, the metal creature can ride from one end of this staircase all the way to the zoo -- with on-street bike markings covering the whole journey:
(well, theres a quick run through the park and a hop over a fence at the end... a giraffe couldnt just walk through the front gate!)
hmm i wonder if this is close to where i live. i haven't been keeping up too much with this game lately. i have been sick and unable to ride a bike at all
Weekend is here people, weather looks o.k. And I don't have a clue where this is.
The clue is very meh..... don't know where it is
I have an idea, but I'm usually tied up on Saturday mornings.
The clue I'm working from is that building whose roof is barely visible, with the fence in front. And there can't be that many giraffes in the city.
its on one of those green lines connected to highland park in the map above. the fence is hard to see on street view and giraffe is not visible, but the stairs and railings are there. if you were a presidential assassination conspiracy theorist, you might be looking on f theatre ave near harvney ave. the stairs connect to andrew ln.
Still having trouble -- I can't find Theatre Ave, Harvney Ave, or Andrew Lane in Pittsburgh. Not to say that doesn't make it more interesting, but there's more here than meets Google Maps, I think.
ive clearly made this too difficult, possibly because i reversed the encoded street names above. it should have read 'you might be looking on harvney ave near f theatre ave'.
you can see the giraffe from a bike lane on a modest hill in a 'windy' neighborhood.
@jonawebb: you should try to find analogues for those names in the lincoln/kennedy page i linked to.
OK, I finally got a tag.
Wilkins Ave in the 6700 block -- across the street from 6704.
Shoot.
I think I know the whereabouts. I'll go check it out tomorrow.
Will I become accused of luring children and land myself on the registered sex offender list if I go during the day though?
Edit: nevermind, looks like someone else just posted! I was thinking it was the park right in front of the elementary school a few hundred feet down.
Wait, now I'm a freewheeler!
I never understood the nicknames under our avatars and what they mean.
Great tag I love the hard to find ones
@jonawebb - you need to change the permissions on your album to "public" or "anyone with the link". i can't see the image and get "permission denied" loading the URL directly.
Sorry, try it now.
Bruced!
Yeah, I know... too cold for me the last two mornings. I'll do it tomorrow, promise.
You may want to read rule #2a before you wait till tomorrow, gotta keep the game moving.
Hey, I rode in this morning. It's not that cold. Some pleasure reading for you here.
I think it was warmer today than it has been all week. Time to open up a can of "Man UP" jk
I did this one kinda fast!!!!
**crickets**
I apologize for my tardiness.
I think this is easy.
Jon, you went to Narnia?
^ haha! Narnia! Awesome!
All seriousness: can we get a word-clue on this?
How cool would it be to have a bike in Narnia, after all?
As far as a word-clue goes, does Orson Welles help at all?
Hmmm...Orson Welles provided the voice of Unicron in the first-and-greatest Transformers movie. I doubt that relates, though.
The matrix solved the Unicron problem. Or earth and cybertron would of been eaten
The matrix solved the Unicron problem. Or earth and cybertron would of been eaten
Let's hear it for Rodimus Prime.
On (magnificent) Amberson Avenue, near Fifth.
To bad the tag got picked up so fast I never completely got a chance to debate with raddan if Rodimus Prime was a good leader or just had one fluke victory over Galvatron. I say fluke
rodimus was a hack, he only won because he had the power of the matrix
+1
I prefer to think of it as a rookie performance. I want to see how he handles the Quintesson Empire before passing judgement.
@mr marv "would of"? Really? I know you're better than that!
New tag!
A big clue: Do everything fast & greasy! Heck, it's just kids. Lettuce, mayo? Nah.
____!
@ cburch I take such pride in using proper grammar I am better than that, "I shudda proof red" before I posted. ha
oh my! its the o!
The dirty O!
i tagged this two nights in a row with two different bikes. i wanted to shoot something else, but the sun set before i could get there both times...
instead, i am going to string bet: i see your beer signs, and i raise you a few more.
I am pretty sure I know where that is, but I thnk I am going to lay off of this game and riding in traffic frequently until umm June-ish. I am nearly 13 weeks pregnant and things are going fine now. I had to weigh risks and benefits when a few weeks ago I was nearly hit twice. If I lose this pregnancy, I don't want it to be because I am hit by a car.
Awesome, best wishes to you!
@ stefb congratulations mrs. marvelous and myself wish you the best. I'll see you on the road Jun-ish, until then 1st place is up for grabs all I need is 36 tags and I'm in the lead
Awesome news Stef! Does this mean that Colin has to grow up? Also, at 13 weeks I think that means the kid has been up most of the DD hills already? Start them young.
Yeah.up Most of the DD hills before I knew. And thanks guys. I haven't been able to progress past 15 weeks before, so we will see what happens this time.. I have to be honest though- I am kinda bored without my bike!
@stefb - Congrats and best luck, be safe. I haven't seen any image posts of pregnant riders on the board - you can be first at that too!
Me grow up? I'm the mature one.
@ cburch maybe its time for you to take over stef's spot in tag O rama
@stef - Mrs. ALMKLM and I wish you the best!
If you're bored you could learn Danish.
Squirrel cage, of course
I got lost on the way to Pittsburgh, but I met my friend and he shewed me the way.
I know where this is, but I don't get the hint. Must be a 'burg(h) thing...
I'd have to say this one is for Pseudacris.
I'm still having trouble posting an image. Does Picasa do something funny?
Ah, sorry about that Pseuda...
I work through Picasa all the time.
1) navigate to the individual photo (down from the album).
2) Right-click and save the URL.
3) Paste into your post. If there's anything after the ".JPG", delete it.
4) Stick in between the quotes in < img src=""> .
One caveat: different browsers do this differently. I use Chrome, which does the right thing.
Whenever your figure it out dstbl, hit up the introductions thread and stick up a pic of your bike. From the fuzzy, enticing photo it looks pretty sweet. Guessing something in a 650B? A Riv?
Thanks Ahlir. I use Safari and that's not happening. I thought the hint had something to with "You can't get there from here" pittsburghese as this is on the Pittsburgh/Wilkinsburg border.
As to the hint: Forbes and Braddock. Braddock died on the way to capture Fort Duquesne. Forbes managed to complete the mission and founded Fort Pitt. Which is why Forbes Ave runs to town but Braddock doesn't go there.
Thanks to Ahlir and Vannevar for help w/image posting.
Wow, you have good eyes edmonds to be able to tell a tire size from that photo. It's a Boulder Bicycle.
This should be a better photo:
Not that tricky, that is a classic randonneur setup. Gorgeous.
Danggit! Right near my house. I think there are at least 5 or so regular posters here who live close to this tag. For some reason I was thinking it was the "Y" near Dallas & Wilkins Even though I like waching that grass in the picture grow back every year.
@dstbl that bike is sweet!
New Tag. I think this should be fairly obvious. If I didn't ride here I could have taken a run.
I have to say that I don't find the clue, if I'm interpreting it correctly, very helpful. Every creek in Western PA is called a "run", so I guess that's one there in the picture. Perhaps it's not as obvious as you think?
I think this spot has been tagged before. Quack?
I don't know if it's been a tag, but it's been a thread.
But how many runs have a bridge like that? Surely no more than ten.
This is the first tag on this particular trail, apart from one near one end of the trail. There was a different tag on a nearby but distinct trail. All these tags were of bridges, but different ones!
If this was a tag before it's not marked on the map: tinyurl.com/tag-o-rama-view.
Mostly I thought it was obvious as it's a well traveled over "run".
Quack? Pretty close to a quack.
I agree with Steven. I'd say it's less than ten.
As a spectator of this game, I think that's a fairly obvious tag.
I haven't bveen there since long before that bridge was there, but the background pins it down thoroughly.
from my ride home:
my camera is a piece of crap. do these count? i captured the ridge in the background (which is what distinguished the original image for me... and maybe mick?). despite living relatively close, this was my first visit.
Location?
bridge on the nine mile run trail, presumably over the nine mile run creek. according to my phones gps: 40.419444° N, 79.912500° W
Nine mile run trail? I'm not familiar with that trail. What neighborhood is it located in. I would like to check it out.
Click on the period at the end of my post, about 9 posts up. It's a link to the old thread. Much info there.
It's a little rough on skinny tires.
^ what rsprake said. the bridge is rather pretty (imho), but it does not match the condition of the rest of the trail (at least out to browns hill rd where i rode it).
link hidden in the period?! crafty, stu!
Looks like my Thick Slick tires wouldn't cut it on that trail.
road tires wouldn't be ideal, but it's not that bad of a trail. it's flaked limestone on the path but some areas do get a little rutted from traffic and water. off the main path are mountain bike trails- those get muddy and check for ticks after going through there.
I actually went down there Sunday night, having a vague memory of the bridge, but the trail seemed so bad I decided it just wasn't heading anywhere good and I couldn't see much in the dark so I gave up.
I didn't want to give away the location, but also wanted to be able to point to it later (like that). I figure anyone who cared to search a little might find that thread, or remember it. Poking around on a map near Duck Hollow shows several possible trail crossings over a stream.
As with all the locations on this thread, one of the purposes of it is to inform others of what some of the rest of us know about.
the trail seemed so bad
Last time I went down there (earlier in this century), passage involved foring the stream, carrying my bike longitudinally across steep slopes and while climbing rocks, and fighting vegation. Although to be fair, even then there might have been a better route than the one I took.
I guess the path is relatively OK, now.
Yeah. I once walked up the run from Duck Hollow, unaware of the sewage I was walking through, and saw at least two wrecked cars in unusual positions nearby. Also retrieved and later repaired a pretty good mountain bike from the creek, which was only missing one crank.
It's crazy what comes out of that creek.
I used to run back in the slag piles a lot- long before there were thoughts of a bridge here, long before the development. I did see a milk snake once near this tag, and there used to be a fox den just downstream from it. I think the numbder of wrecked and/or burned cars got up to 9 in the general area (within 1/2 mile) at one time.
There are some interesting trails just east of this bridge.
so... i wussed out and got a ride to work today. you can consider this tag officially 'bruceable'. if you go out to get it in this mess, you truly deserve it.
if i get brave or if the weather improves, i plan to ride to the bikepgh party tonight, and we can do a group tag. im sorry for being so lame
I would go for it but the trail is pretty muddy now too much for my Thick Slicks. The weather is great a little rain but its almost 60
I believe that was a tag already... Or am I thinking of the bike pgh HQ?
This place and the Bike Pgh HQ have both been tags before. But there's no rule against repeating a tag, and there's been at least one prior repeat.
Folks can use the map, also linked from the first post in this thread, to see if a location has been used before. It may be hard to remember all 345 (!) prior tags.
So, are those colored rims on the white bike in the photo, or are those FIKS?
Or is it the 10th element?
@pseudacris: those are indeed fiks, on the wheels of the kickstarter himself!
which reminds me: nick d, erok, jane (dont know her handle), and patrick (dont think he has a handle) should get a point each for being good sports and appeasing me by participating in this group tag. good times at the holla-day party -- though work is a little more difficult today
@dwillen: there might be a few other elements with full valence shells in there too... maybe even some hydrargyrum?
Bah, I know where this is and I have the bike today, but I have to stay at work until 6:30.
OTB bicycle cafe
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BTW I can't believe this stayed open so long. I guess everybody is in the photo.
OK, here's a nifty animated gif I made from two photos taken in the same location: one from today, and one taken a few years ago by Google when they were mapping the trails, which you can still see on StreetView. Both show my bike at the time (which was made from Reynolds 531 then and a different metal, titanium, now).
which reminds me: nick d, erok, jane (dont know her handle), and patrick (dont think he has a handle) should get a point each for being good sports and appeasing me by participating in this group tag.
I added them to the results page as co-tag-setters, but right now the spreadsheet only awards points for tag-finders, not tag-setters. Maybe I should change it to give a point to everyone involved in either getting or setting a tag? If A, B and C get a tag, then C, D and E set the next one, each gets one point? Or leave it as-is?
Also, I'll violate rule 7 a bit by griping that the blinking animated gif above is really annoying when you try to compose a message below it. I'd much rather see multiple photos than a blinking one. (See also HTML's much-maligned blink element.)
@ jonawebb - So, is the animated gif the new tag?
@Steven - I guess if you give a point for each tag-setter, it would double the points of all past tag-setters, eh?? Sounds like too much math to me.
There are several ways to work it. Say A, B and C get a tag, then C, D and E set one, as in my example.
Current method: A, B, C get one point each.
Alternative 1: A, B, C, D, E get one point each. I don't think this rule would change any existing points prior to the most recent tag.
Alternative 2: A, B, D, E get one point each, C gets two points. This option doubles most everyone's points.
There's also the somewhat related question of points when F gets a tag but fails to set one in time, so G sets one instead via rule 2a. (This has happened twice, with tags 74 and 304, for medical reasons.) Right now only F gets a point. Maybe G should too?
This all may seem unimportant in the grand scheme of things, but actually, it really is unimportant.
Maybe it's just me but all the new rules are a little confusing and maybe bit over complicated. But I'm ok with whatever you decide to do the game is still fun.
I also don't like the animation, I usually look at the tag picture a minute or two trying to figure out it's location, but the animation is like a strobe light to me. so I'll just wait for the next tag instead.
You go right past that tag on the way to the north side, mr marv. I did, too.
ha! maybe if I had actually looked at the picture I would of noticed that. But I wont be going to the North side till after the holidays.
I downloaded the GIF to my Desktop and opened it in a GIF editor so I could study the two images one at a time. I think I know where this is; Stef's clue is a help. If I get out today, I might go do some exploring.
Suggestion for future multi-image GIF posters: How about five seconds per image instead of one. I agree with Steven that it's a little strobe-ish. I think I would simply rather see two static images than an animated GIF anyway, unless they're perfectly lined up.
Re the scoring:
This game is about finding tags, setting them is just the prerequisite (post-requisite?). The tag setter already got their point by picking up the previous one.
Giving multiple points might make sense if two or more people show up at more or less the same time to do a pickup. Each was an independent effort and should be recognized as such. (Yes, sometimes it's prearranged but so far that's been working out reasonably.)
The reward for setting a tag is simply that you got to set an interesting tag and provided an entertaining clue. You can certainly share that with friends. And if you happen to have a list of clever tags to set you might even start to think of the pickups as a chore.
I agree with Ahlir on this one.
Yes it's the new tag, and no more animated GIFs. I promise.
Jail Trail, at Hot Metal bridge
Darn, bruced. Beautiful day for a ride, though.
FWIW, I found this the hard way, by riding, not Googling. It looked like a trail, not a road, so I rode the North Shore Trail from Heinz Field to the Sarah Heinz House, over the 16th St Bridge, did some shopping in the Strip, rode past the Convention Center to (almost) the Fountain, then along through to the Mon Wharf, finally jumping on the Jail Trail.
A nice, quiet, memorable way to spend Christmas Eve Day.
Jeopardy Answer:
What is... "A beautiful day for a ride?"
Question:
What does a bruced rider have to say about their tag?
Sorry Stu. I too had a great ride, but I knew where to go for this one. Twenty fives miles today took me over 2,400 miles for the year - a record in my 4 years of riding.
I picked up a tag in this corner - it was set by abracadabra. Now I'm setting one just beyond his.
I thought that the tag was pretty easy. A lot of bike traffic goes by this area, since it is close to the end of the hot metal bridge. I also know where the new tag is. Maybe I will get out again soon after there are no more crazy holiday drivers out and about.
Getting around was fairly easy today. Everyone was at the Stiller game. The roads were relatively empty.
Yes, my experience too - nobody on the road. Thankfully, because it's a fairly dangerous route to the new tag.
If this is where I think it is I don't even like driving there so I'm to wimpy to ride there.
@ TDW I'm glad you haven't hung up the bike for the winter even if I find your corner tags way too challenging.
How fast CAN you pack? Today will be the first time on the bike in five or six weeks - we'll see if the butt will hold up for a corner tag.
gud gawd, is that where I think it is? new wall and pavement about 500 ft west and a Levi Bird Duff bridge in the background?
No, sloaps, not the bridge you mention.
I have a pretty good idea where this is. Not out of range for me; reddan's closer. In fact it was he who suggested the Better Living Thru Chemistry ride one time.
Not exactly there, but close. You're looking at one of those chemistry spots there, I think.
Holy cow, you did stick it right in the durn corner, didn't ya.
I should have ridden there today, went a different direction.
Rt. 51 past MckeesRocks - above Nevil Island. My legs sure didn't like taking such a long break, but it was such a nice day I figured I'd go get this.
(edit) The litter and trash down that way is awful!
Marko.. Do you know what I am thinking?
Stef.. Yes, but I was too tired to continue. I think I'll wait until spring for that tag. I'll leave the next one closer to home.
Nice, Marko82, I was hoping someone would get it quick.
Marko, what path did you take to get there?
Stu, I did NS trail to McClure up and over to Rocks bridge on the way to the tag; 51 to WEC to Carson coming home. Boy that stretch of 51 from the plaza to WEC is even worse than it was a few months ago - lots of deep holes and recessed grates. Although with this being between holidays the traffic was light.
I thought about how this could be made better re the planning meeting you guys just went to & I don't think there are any easy options other then a single lane each way with accompanying bike lanes and a sidewalk. Or, they could put a multiuse trail down by the train tracks which would be sweet except it would never get plowed in the winter.
New tag:
No kids playing here now, but there had to be a hundred across the street.
@steven (and probably most everyone else, too) : you could do half a point each for setting and getting a tag... or just leave it the way it is. 'keeping score' is really just window dressing for the game, as far as i am concerned. sure, i would love to be on top of the list (damn you stefb!), but the real fun is in hunting down a tag or having the privilege of coming up with a new one. i was hooked before anyone created a map and ledger of previous locations.
@melange396: I agree that the game is not about points.
It's about your knowledge of the city (obtained, implicitly, through cycling), both in figuring out tag locations and in setting ones that are interesting. I've learned a lot about Pittsburgh through this game than I would not have otherwise. Every trip through the city now includes the thought "could that be a tag?"; I see much more than I did before. I like that: experiencing more things (and ideas); that's what life should be about.
When Steven started to document things I realized that I wasn't even keeping track of my tags (I had forgotten some that I'd set). That said, I have no problem with the competition implicit in the scoring. After all there is no prize, just the statement that you actually know the city and are willing to make time for pursuing the game. (I've set out at night, and in the rain: no big deal, that's part of the game.)
I don't in any way begrudge stefb and her (current) dominance. All I know is that I need ~10 pickups to match her bag, and that I have at least that many cool tags that I'd like to set. I accept that @TeamDecafWeekend is set to pass me sometime soon, as he guns for stef. But, so what? Once I'm back on the bike, I'm back in the "game" and I'm back to snagging and setting.
I understand that the folks who set and get tags a lot might be interested in how the points are gained, but as an almost non-point getter (I think I might have 5), the fun for me is in the playing. Being a north/west suburbanite, I don't even chase most tags. But, I follow the game regularly, and enjoy a sense of accomplishment when I know where a tag is. And, I've learned a LOT more about this City we live in than I ever imagined possible.
I hope those of you who are more serious tag getters than I work out a scoring system that makes it remain a compelling exercise for you. (I am certain you will, so my comment on that is rather rhetorical....)
Looking forward to maybe doubling my 2011 point total in 2012!
Thanks for all the imaginative tags set to date!
I like the current point system, as is.
I agree with all of the comments about being observant and getting to know the city better - the game has really made me much more aware. Everywhere I ride, I ask the same question as Ahlir, "could that be a tag?"
My point gathering has slowed and will slow even further during the colder months, but hey, I'll be fired up and ready any time the weather is in my riding range. Awesome game.
Wheelset of Fortune is fun too, and there are no points.
If I wasn't going to ray's today, I would venture out to get this tag. I think I am gonna get back on the bike now for a few months. I love this game. I have learned a lot about why things are where they are and why they exist. I look around more also for potential tags. I think it would take a very long time for us to run out of them. I particularly like the buildings and murals on the north side. Sad to see that parts of it are so run down. Same goes for east liberty.
bridge on the third floor of the ladle parking garage in the southside works.
somehow i never noticed the playground, but the row house facades across the street were immediately recognizable.
(^ ah, probably because of the garbage hopper blocking the view)
Good job Melange. I had never noticed either the bridge nor the playground before, but I rode to the top of the garage to get my Ice-rink photo for wheelset & decided it was sufficiently out of the way for tag-o.
if walter was involved in our scoring discussion, he might say something like 'this is not nam, this is bike tag. there are rules.'
Couldn't see your bike in the photo but I did recognize Forward Lanes in Squirrel Hill.
If the bike wasn't in the photo, I don't think it counts as a tag. I am looking at it on my phone and didn't see it, but I thought it was cause the image didn't load all of the way.
There's a kind of faint reflection. Maybe that's it.
I didn't think the bike was in the photo. I wanted someone to say something other than me first about it.
MARK IT ZERO!
whoops! "there are rules" indeed. i could have sworn it was in the shot... good thing i took another:
does this mean jona needs to go take another picture? :-p
Just an opinion...
melange396's new tag isn't a tag without his bike in the picture. Still, jonawebb did the work of picking up the non-tag and posted his image as the rules state. I would give jonawebb the tag pick up.
melange396 wasn't bruced, so it was still his place to set a new tag. He put up the new tag in the same spot and jonawebb got it, retroactively. It seems wrong to take the tag off jonawebb.
Jeez, I hope this doesn't start another round of rule-making!
No problem here, play on...
New tag. Enough with the easy ones. I live in the east and commute to Monroeville. However this tag might better be described as north-west.
If that is what I think it is, it sure isn't near that north-west corner tag from a few days ago. Let's just say you can't see the forest for the hills, but you might just get a reaction from all the avenues.
I think I've figured out a way of getting there that doesn't involve Ardmore Blvd or Tri-Boro Expwy. PM me if you're serious about grabbing this tag and (justifiably) worried about getting killed on the way to get it.
I have a bazillion things to do on Monday, so am not likely going to bike 20 miles to get this. And my geiger counter isn't working anyway.
Crap, I can easily grab this one in the morning but I don't know if I have time to place another tag!
Yay! Hyman Rickover would be proud of me! Although I'm certain it's empty inside, I wish I could go snoop around the site more. After six years as a nuclear systems mechanic, it's only fitting that I got this one.
West St & North Ave, Forest Hills, PA 15112
New Tag
All of our plots come with a waterfront view.
You must be dying to get this tag if you are willing to venture beyond the edge of the wood to get it.
(larger image Here)
A bit more info on the previous tag:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WestinghouseAtomSmasher.jpg
See summary text at bottom.
I worked for Westinghouse for 13 years, 1982-1994, five of them right in Nuclear Safety, the rest in corporate computer services, where we had quite a few people at the Forest Hills site, all beating on the CDC 7600 and Cray-1, later Cray X-MP, supercomputers I supported.
The X-MP was Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center's first machine, housed at Westinghouse because of its Cray installation, and directly led to Pittsburgh becoming a software center by the late 1980s. If you have a software job in Pittsburgh, you can thank this old reactor for planting the seed that grew that job.
I still use PSCs supercomputers on a daily basis. From what I am told, they are still located in Westinghouse buildings out towards Monroeville.
No offense, but surely CMU being a world-class CS department had something to do with Pittsburgh becoming a software center, too. It attained that status before the 1980s,
BTW, I see that thing every day I commute, and I had no idea it was a giant Van de Graaf accelerator. I never would have guess. It is extremely cool to find that out.
Now, if I can figure out what the pickup truck is doing in there...
@jonawebb - I'm curious about why you described the tag as north-west? I don't get it.
His tag was at the corner of North and West Streets. My clue about the avenues: just west of there are Avenue A through Avenue G.
@jonawebb - No offense taken. CMU and Pitt went third-sies with Westinghouse on getting PSC started, based on their individual and combined reputation with advanced computing. Without all three, PSC would not have happened.
The giant Van de Graaff generator was at the intersection of North & West Streets.
This tag was in All Saint's Catholic Braddock Cemetery, Wilkins Township.
New tag.
I'm stuck on a word clue for this tag. How about this... think of the founders of our country -- which one would be most likely to be helpful if you needed medicine?
"Now, if I can figure out what the pickup truck is doing in there..."
Yeah, that thing may have been sitting there since 1982. LOL
You can sorta see it in one of the other photos I took. The rest of the set is here
I'm astounded that the Van de Graaf thing isn't more of a huge historical deal. I wasn't even aware it was out there. Sadly, most people are just interested in the more remote and "cute" history.
Yeah, I agree completely. Even the marker that designates the site is only a year old!
http://outandaboutintheburgh.blogspot.com/2011/01/westinghouse-atom-smasher-gets.html
Hey, and there are at least eight more markers within two miles of the Atom Smasher for other historical points of interest, according to: http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=47038
More on the Westinghouse Atom Smasher (official name!) is here: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:Westinghouse_Atom_Smasher,_1937
It's really an amazing thing, which I found out about thanks to this game. It turns out I know other people who have been in that facility.
BTW, on the new tag: do yunz need a clue or something? What's up?
Another clue would be helpful. It looks like the side of a residential brick building, which narrows it down to, oh, only about 150,000 possibilities. Something about the front? Something it's near? I might ride past this between Point A and Point B? How long the curious paint job has been there? Historical significance? Is that a bicycle on the upper porch?
I'm guessing it's out in the "extreme East End" like the last couple, but I really have no idea.
"founder of our country" + "medicine" -> Benjamin Rush?
i know where this is.... been too busy to get it -but maybe tomorrow!!!!!!!
I rode past it on the way home from the last tag, but I didn't go back the way headloss did on the way. I took a riskier route.
Also, there is a definite scientific connection between the person the street is named after and my last tag.
I spent a while googling this, then gave up and just biked around TDW style. No luck but it was a great day to ride and I think I found a hidden semi-DD hill!
For the last few tags I've also been riding around TDW style, no success but it got me out on the bike and I've really been enjoying finding places to place new tags
mural by franklin and medicine in wilkinsburg. randy TAGGED along (rdrr).
Are you setting a new tag soon?
@abracadabra and mm - ha ha - "TDW style" riding around. Good to be known for something.
TDW = Tour de Wilkinsburg?!?!
The weather is perfect today. It would be a perfect day to search for a tag, if only there was a tag to find.
^ +1!!!
Now I'm thinking its a nice day for a Bruce!!!
new tag
(again w/ randy)
interesting aside, pal: there was some similar iconography on a previous tag which no longer exists. you win 1 million internets if you can name it
Too bad I'm holed up in the bookstore today. This is one of the few tags that I know the exact location of.
I am almost 100% sure I know exactly where that is, but I avoid that part of town on Friday and sat nights.
uh oh, we are at 40 pages again... are we gonna break bbpress again?
Break bbpress?
I was thinking the same thing. If someone does get the tag, and posts it, but it doesn't show up here, please start another thread so that we all know that you did get it, so there is no confusion.
This message board software has a glitch that sometimes makes it miscompute the last page of a thread. So on a thread that really has 41 pages, say, each page will say at the bottom
<< Previous 1 .... 39 40
as if it had only 40.
So after you post something, if the page number (shown in the URL) doesn't match the last page shown at the bottom, you're hitting the bug. You can get to the hidden page by editing the URL (sticking a 41 in place of the 40, say), and when there are enough posts in the hidden page, it'll start to show up again, but long term, a new thread may be easiest.
We might not be due for it, though. I think it's related to the board miscounting deleted (or edited?) posts, not just a function of the number of pages.
Nicely framed photo, BTW.
Aw man, I was just a block away from this at about four o'clock. +1 on the composition.
My husband worked there when it was a different business. I may have to get this in the morning if it is still up for grabs.
Games 'n' 'At just off of 18th st on the saaaauuuthside
ah, I was just going to leave to get it. glad I checked first.
Eat my shorts!
Sorry. Just wanted to say that. More accurately, this is on Josephine street. It used to be Triangle (the messenger service). I believe there is an old basket bike hanging from the ceiling inside, as the same guy still owns the place.
I will post another tag later.
And melange- to answer your question, were you talking about TMNTs that were on the side of Groovy?
It's good to see that Stef's "parasite" isn't keeping her from going out to get tags. Go Stef!
baby receives no points. let's limit umbilical transactions during tag-o-rama to nourishment and karma, plz.
If it was up to me, they both would get a point for the tag. It's like a group tag with the 2 of them.
Turtles were on the side of Ninja Video not Groovy. They weren't officially TMNTs since they got sued over it. That's why they were all a little "off" looking.
And yes Bill Jones owns Games N'At and was the owner of Triangle. Since he kept the same phone number (481-2000) he still get the occasional request for a delivery and/or complaint about how one of "his" messengers was riding in traffic. A decade later. At least we know our marketing was effective!
Oh. Well I knew there were some turtles somewhere!
Regarding baby points - It seems we need an interpretation on rule #6. I think it’s similar to a rack-and-roll situation whereas the kid didn’t do any of the work to pick up the tag, but since the kid was on the bike he/she did get there under pedal power (sorta like the stoker of a tandem with her feet off the pedals).
Ahh, I love the complexity of this game…
Hhaha it doesn't get any points until it can beat me to a tag on its balance bike at age 1.
ok, so i just don't know how to use photoshop. i had to delete the name of the location of this tag, as it was in the tag. someone up the street from this tag must know how to use photoshop a lot better than me.
panther hollow sign, boundary st at joncaire
@stefb, you placed this tag right down the street from the one i was hinting at... in fact, you were the one who set that tag too! tag 172, the cloud factory wooden railroad trestle, had pacman ghosts painted on it. it has since been dismantled.
Oooohhhh I see what you meant
new tag:
i like this, but sharif is not a fan...
theres also this artsy shot i took, but its probably not very helpful in locating the tag:
If this is the place I think it is, it should smell like truffles around dinnertime this wek.
Rock the Casbah. S. Highland Ave.
Haha great clue.
I sure hope this isn't a repost.
Don't call me Shirley!
Shur-save at liberty and main in Bloomfield.
@quizbot Sad but so true. As a vet, that is a message I keep trying to drive home to people.
riding your bike home is a great way to drive it home! riding other places helps too ;-p
new tag:
whoah, baby! that blue sure is bright in the daytime. i guess it is better than pink. it's a place of business, not someone's crib.. although i might be able to get one there.
Baby Land on Penn and Negley
I'll post a new tag tomorrow.
Gee Stef...
...any striders in there?
@quizbot - that Iwo Jima/oil derrick pic wins the internets!
Can I mail the link to people?
Extremely easy tag. I just didn't feel like riding today. I don't know if this tag has already been done my apologies if it has, the rain made me cranky today and I just wanted to get home.
@mick - email away... I just found it on the internets
@mm - my favorite bridge
@ Dan, really? You like narrow contorted bikeways where a waist high railing is all that separates you from the water 80 feet below?
Opinion is divided on the Fort Pitt Bridge.
I was on a flock once and someone (not Dan) was eagerly anticipating crossing that bridge. Shocked me, because I view it as something roughly akin to an elevated pothole.
For me, "worst bridge" is a toss-up between Fort Pitt and Highland Park.
@ Mick The view from the both bridges is why I like them, both could use a better walkway/bikeway. I also don't like the waist high railing, and the Highland Park bridge could use a better entry and exit.but I still use both bridges often.
I think the homestead grey's bridge is terrifying cause of where the handrail is
The Homestead Grey's bridge is terrifying period. If you are on a bike, car, or pedestrian.
Homestead Grey is pretty ok, on the east side walkway; unless you're a roadie type (or wannabie) and just stick to the pavement on principle (ok downhill but iffy uphill)).
Fort Pitt is ok, though I can see getting freaked by the low handrail; also, the width feels a bit narrow, especially with pedestrians about.
@Swalfoort - yes, the waist-high railing is exactly why I love the Fort Pitt Bridge - nothing separates you from the water and the view.
Narrow and Contorted - I ignore those drawbacks for the view and the feeling I get riding there. I own the world, freedom, pure freedom on my bike - can't get that in car.
@ TDW that was the most poetic description of a bridge ever. And I agree
Ft Pitt Bridge walkway.
That was a fine, brisk ride. And waist-high fences are significantly less appealing than high chainlink ones, when the wind is gently urging you river-ward.
Are we past the message board fail limit?
This thread now has more pages and more posts than the old broken one. But the problem wasn't directly related to such counts, since it happened on some much shorter threads too.
New Tag.
Just a few feet off the beaten path, or trail as the case may be.
BTW, in case anyone (else) is wondering: this is not the Glenwood railroad bridge. I mention this because when I rode there from Duck Hollow I found I was following other bicycle tracks. Cool, I thought. Either those are Dan's or I'll be Bruced. Nope. The growth along the river bank is all wrong. The other tracks turned around the same place I did, so I'm pretty sure they were another tag-getter.
I know where this is and may attempt it tomorrow depending upon how I feel, but i have been such a puss about riding in the cold and snow this year that I wouldn't mind if someone got there before me
I don't know, but spent most of the day nowhere near either a bicycle or Pittsburgh. My hunch is that it's somewhere along the Ohio River. I think the tall building in the background (under bridge, above bag) is the Trimont up on Mount Washington, but I'm not sure.
I really need to take off my Thick Slicks if I'm going to look for this tag on snow and ice, my ankle hurts now. and no it's not near Duck Hollow.
One by one, I'm eliminating the possible bridges. But there are a lot to go. I don't think it's the 33rd Street Railroad bridge, either. I couldn't get the sight line right on the growth along the bank there, either.
One thing that's puzzling for me is that it doesn't appear to be any of the bridges listed as railroad bridges at pghbridges.com. The pier just doesn't look right for any of them.
But I am, evidently, wrong. In any case, if this is on the Ohio, I'm not riding out that far, certainly not during the week, so have away at it.
If it's the one that I'm thinking, it doesn't have an official name on the pghbridges site http://pghbridges.com/pittsburghW/0581-4479/ocrr1915.htm
A clue:
Look on the other side of the decayed wall bearing the thunder god's endorsement of our fair city.
(I like this location because it is right next to a frequently used trail, but most cyclists never notice this riverside grotto.)
I thought for sure this was the bike bridge into mckeesport but I scouted it out today and no luck.
argh. I know where this has to be but I can't ride just yet...
@reddan's first clue is pretty clear (if nothing else it ensures that you get there on the correct side of the river). The snow and ice should be all melted by later tonight; go for it
reddan made this a hard tag to compensate for the incredibly easy tag I left.
Hard tag? There's at least three or four people who know where it is.
Just because everyone is busy, crippled, or lazy, doesn't make it a hard tag...
@Dan - check your messages....
@Sara: assuming you mean me, I suspect the board swallowed it.
dan dot blumenfeld gmail might be easier.
Hey! Who you calling lazy? Oh...
If there's a no whining rule, there should also be a rule against calling folks lazy, IMHO. Especially Dan.
North Shore Trail in Manchester. The RR bridge between West End and McKees Rocks Bridges. Just off the trail.
Edit: Looking upstream. That's the West End Bridge in the background. And yes, I'm pretty sure that's the Trimont on MtWash in the background.
New tag!
Not in the East End, not in the West End. But it is an end, of sorts, for many people, each day, as well as a start, each day.
I thought I'd zoomed out a bit more. This is almost the entire structure. But I didn't want to irritate the occupant. If I get a chance later, I'll run out and try to get another shot.
Fun fact: immediately after I took the photo for the previous tag, my bike started rolling towards the river. I was roughly 1 second short of going for a bike-retrieval swim in 20-degree weather.
I wasn't worried about chasing after a bike, but it was super slippery mud when I was there. Chances were non-zero of taking a swim, sans bike.
I think Nate had a similar experience to you, Dan, when setting or picking up a tag near Aspinwall one time.
Same place, from a couple feet farther out, but w/o the bike. (Sorry, it would have taken me longer to get the bike than to get the picture.)
Parking lot on Cherry Way
New tag!
With a prior tag readily visible, this spot shouldn't require an Ivy League education to track down.
Making it even easier (lest I be accused of placing another hard tag), here's another photo: same spot, different angle. Road maintenance is apparently lacking in this part of the city...
your pics are so small.
I'll never accuse you of leaving a hard tag again. I'll just learn the city better.
your pics are so small
Yeah, I haven't figured out any of the intricacies of the new plusified flavor of Google Photos. I may well switch to photobucket or flickr or some such soon, as I am thus far unthrilled.
"I'll never accuse you of leaving a hard tag again. I'll just learn the city better."
Or just pay attention to what others say, I dead gave it away with the bridge link and Stu said exactly where it was (although dmtroyer might have thrown you off the scent).
fwiw, anything in G+ photos will be in picasaweb as well - i still use the latter for things like this.
just playing around i see it is rather a PITA to get a usable image URL from G+... i can file a bug about that.
@salty I'm guessing they don't want you to have a very usable url
@salty is right, picasa is the way to go if you're going to use a Google product for this.
@mr_marvelous, @reddan's previous tag was easy if you've been down that way and also happen to have noticed that each Pittsburgh railway bridge seems to have a different trellis pattern. "hard" would have meant getting over to Brunot's Island to take the picture. That would have impressed me.
I just want to be able to embed images of various sizes, and optionally link to an image/album. That worked fine for me in ye olde days pre+.
While I don't dislike the Plus, and the ability to easily share photos on it, losing the features I actually used kinda sucked.
Crap...I'm whining. I'll shut up now.
[ETA:] Ah, I see. Picasa Web is still available at picasaweb.google.com; however, the options to link to now seem to be limited to email. However, the images are larger, and the URLs are more easily accessible, so let's try the tag photo again:
Ahhah, and the portion of the URL "https://.../s512/...jpg" can be modified to read "/s1024/" to enbiggen the picture nicely.
G+ photos *is* picasa. The UI and organization are different, but it's the same collection of stuff.
I definitely think "get a link to an image you can use elsewhere" is an important case to support and (speaking completely unofficially and without any inside knowledge about this) I don't think there's any intent to prevent people from doing so... at least I hope not - I'd ditch picasa/G+ for pictures if I couldn't post them on message boards.
Well, perhaps I simply haven't dinked around with it enough, but the ability to get an image link and/or generate markup in order to embed an image at a specific size seems well and truly lost. Or, at least, obfuscated within an inch of its life.
I'm antsy about using and modifying scraped URLs, because there's no guarantee(or reasonable expectation) that the format shan't change at some point.
Not that this is in any way directed at you, salty. I don't actually hold you responsible for every change in the realm of the Big G...
I wish
Seriously, I share your frustration on this, and there should be a way to get the link from G+ - but I don't think anything has changed on picasaweb.com?
I usually just right-click and "Copy Image URL" but there's also the "Link to this Photot" thing on the right hand side (with the "image only" checkbox) that yields the same URL in "official" form.
Anyways, I've probably exceeded my quota of posting on this thread without getting an actual tag. One of these days...
Aha! It appears that the Instant Upload to G+feature on my Android phone has something to do with the problem; older photos accessed through picasaweb still have the "Link to this photo", but the ones uploaded directly from my phone since installing G+ do not. Wonder if it's some album setting...
Anyway, enough off-topic image maunderings. Go forth, tag, and be merry.
At least in Chrome, if you view the high resolution image and right-click, you can choose Inspect Element. Then you can just copy the img tag from the HTML code you'll see and paste it into your post.
More hints!
Hint: the bright blue house seen in the middle of the photo is a tag dropped by Stef last November. I believe the phrase "He's gonna tap that boo-tay!" was somehow involved.
Hey I know where this is!!!! I think you tried to do this tag once before but it didn't work out. The tap that boo-tay clue was a giveaway. I wonder if I have time to get this.
Rolla way. Nice lady offered me a cup of tea as I was posting this.
New tag. I passed this on my way to pick up Dan's tag. The mural is new to me. I used to pass this area every day when I worked in Carrick.
Bigger photo.
OT, but, you have extreme forward tilt on your saddle, do you by chance get excessive pressure on your hands? Seems like you would be constantly pushing back. Just an observation.
It's not tilted as much as it looks -- the top tube is slanted.
Just to make sure this is not too hard -- I live in Squirrel Hill. I tried to take the Eliza Furnace trail on the way down to Dan's tag (but gave up after a while -- the snow was really thick). I passed this tag on the way to the trail. So...
Has anyone even gone out to look for this tag, it's been a couple of days. I have been a little lazy lately.
If I ride in tomorrow, I will look. I have gone past this. I need to think about it.
Sorry stef I spent too long figuring this out not to get it. Houghs in greenfield.
ive been home sick for the past few days, and it took alot for me to resist the urge to roll down the hill to get that houghs tag
Good job. I spent a while looking for this (online) and had it figured out, but I think I have to drive to work today anyway. Glad to see the game moving again.
Glad to see somebody pick it up, thanks.
Sorry, cutting it close on the 36hrs.
Alice Cooper would probably be happy about the fate of this place, but if you get any dirty looks you can take the picture at the other end of the street.
can't believe i didn't know that was hough's. i was there on monday night! not on a bicycle, but one would think i would still recognize the joint.
Salty, I get the clue but I still need a little help narrowing it down because the houses/brick are kinda generic... can you give a bonus clue?
That red brick building would want you to know it's MODERNIST, not generic.
The "other end of the street" is really just a few feet behind me, intersecting with a busy 4-lane road.
I get the Alice cooper reference (we're not worthy!), but I don't know which it could be. I may look around this afternoon, but motivation is low.
FWIW, I have no idea when the schoolhouse that was presumably there closed, but i think it was a pretty long time ago.
i don't know if this tag is too ambiguous or if no one is out looking for it, but I'm going to drown my sorrows in a full bottle of whiskey and hope i don't wake up with an achin' head.
It was ambiguous, but you finally gave enough clues for me, whew. Not sure why i didn't find it with all the other clues, but there you go. It's now targeted at least.
I didn't have the it me yesterday to go for it, and I don't think I do today, either. Busy busy. It's all yours, Nate.
hey stef, dont be giving away my tags to other people! nates going to have to race me there. dont worry, im pretty slow.
school house lane (private rd), off of 5th ave in shadyside
Well. I was thinking about getting it around noon, so, that's that.
Man, what a waste of Googling. I managed to figure out that the van in the original photo was from Lakewood Mechanical, Inc., based on the partial phone number etc. But that led me to focus on the western part of the city, completely ignoring the four-lane road in my back yard.
I feel kind of bad about this one. The tag I really wanted to set the day before didn't work out because it was too dark to get a useful picture, so I had to find something in the morning before I hit the 36hr limit. Last time I went back there was probably delivering pizza in the 90s and I could swear there was an actual schoolhouse that the people lived in, which would have been a lot more recognizable.
Pretty impressive figuring out where the truck was from - too bad i wasn't clever enough to make that an actual clue.
I spent a long long time trying to figure out which closed school it was... no dice.
@abracadabra +1
Weird I didn't recognize that. I know who lived in that house for the past...oh, 5 years? Actually, he's on this site.
Yeah I was also looking for closed schools. I should have just looked at all of the street names in Shadyside/squirrel hill/east liberty. I pay attention to where people live and work and when they post/take the pic for the tags, etc., and figured that Todd hadn't left the area around his neighborhood for this one.
new tag:
(click to enlarge)
i think the location will be obvious to many, but the real challenge is how to get there... i found a path to an open gate, but be warned, this *may* be somewhat unlawful.
extra points for someone who gets this at night?
@dmtroyer: sure, why not!
perhaps i was too vague again... if you ride bike lanes through the city, you might have seen some of that graffiti from a high vantage point
no takers? not even any whiners?? is this thing on???
is this a bad spot? did i make a Gross misinterpretation of the rules in choosing this tag?
I think it's probably a good tag (although I havent figured it out yet). I havent been able to get any fun rides in lately, which is probably true of others here too. I wouldnt worry unless it doesnt get piked up over the weekend.
I don't know where it is, but I am a little put off by having to bend/break rules to get to it. There are a couple of places I disregard rules, but I generally don't go looking for places to disregard rules.
I may have time to get it tomorrow morning if it is still up for grabs.
stu, just disregard disregarding the rules :-p
I don't know where this is, but I'm sure I should.
The previous schoolhouse tag didn't look like Pittsburgh somehow, and I excused myself from not knowing it. This very much looks like Pittsburgh, and I half-think I've ridden across those concrete blocks and just can't remember where.
Can't remember seeing this either.
you can take almost the same shot outside of an open gate using a bit of zoom ...with your bike much closer to the camera, of course
Some weird abandoned site near Gross St and under the Millvale bridge.
Dammit. Bruced. Knew I shouldn't have hit that snooze button.
Nope, I didn't recognize it. Looks like there's nothing there.
Ah! I noticed that site a week or two ago while crossing the Millvale bridge, but did't recognize it in the tag. I'm curious if anyone knows the scoop on this site? It seems like some demo has recently happened there. jonaweb & stefb - love both of your followup shots!
Don't worry, stefb, this one should be easy. Wife suggested something Superbowl-related, so after the last tag I headed down to a place where there's a strip of stores selling Steeler's crap, but I couldn't resist this tag instead. It's the most beautiful mural I've seen in Pittsburgh.
Afterwards I went down to say goodbye to the Occupy Pgh folks, who are just the nicest people.
I've seen this, loved it, and can't for the life of me remember where it is! Oh well, too busy to chase a tag today anyway.
I just got home. Soaked. Feet are painful. I went past that tag on the way to the north side to run an errand. But the ride home sucked without fenders. I will try tomorrow morning if it is still there.
I have a picture of my bike in front of that mural, but it's not one that I took anytime recently. Oh well, I'm not heading back down the hill until monday. /grumpy.
Sprout fund mural on WFH oriental market in the strip
Bruce! I knew this wouldn't wait for me.
for completeness, here is bruce's photo
Sorry for brucing you. My friend from out of town and I got the tag and set this new one. He's the guy I got my first tag with back in the day. He made this new tag look fancy on his iPhone:
Escalate the hill.
Look in a dictionary
to choose the route up.
Whoa, crazy airhorn.
It's the airzound we did a group buy on.
http://bike-pgh.org/bbpress/topic/i-want-a-loud-car-horn-on-my-bike
Still hasn't saved my life but it's a lot of fun to have.
@abra: fabulous photo (I've never seen that district from this angle)...
and enticingly close to the tag from a couple of turns ago.
You will have to trust me that this is Webster/blessing st overlooking the Bloomfield bridge. I think this is considered the hill? I took a few hills to get here anyway
and you can see at least 5 other neighborhoods from there.
new tag:
i thought that the irish said that there was potted gold at the end of the rainbow (not something that looks like a turd), but if you stop at the Inn on the same block, you may get a more authentic irish experience (based on the name of the Inn.. i have never personally been in there).
no takers? the name of the street this tag is on actually takes you in that direction.
@stefb, I know where it is. When I can get there, I don't know.
I can't find "uphill street" anywhere.
Western ave, near the Shamrock Inn
@ jonawebb are those the Fiks Reflective on your bike? Your wheels really light up.
No, they are fancy Schwalbe Marathon Supremes, which have embedded self-reflective material. I have a friend who has a friend who can get QBP dealer prices.
Sometimes I think they won't do that much good. I imagine a driver's last thought before he creams me -- "Look! Circles!"
@jonawebb: my last thought before I creamed you would be WTF is up with that seat angle? It's absolutely painful to look at, and would definitely distract me while driving. Sheldon says...
@jonawebb I've been coveting marathon supremes for a long time but no one carries them in stock and no one seems too excited about ordering them for me, and I'm not too excited about paying full price, either.
I am going around and checking the saddle angles on all of my bikes now. The angle on jonawebb's bike is hurting my wrists and shoulders just looking at it.
Seriously, folks, it's OK. It looks wrong to me, too, in these photos. But it is an optical illusion, because your mind is assuming the top tube is level. This frame has a top tube that slants up from the seat cluster to the head tube. So the seat is tilted appropriately relative to the ground, is comfortable, and I don't have excessive weight on my wrists.
@dmtroyer: Have you considered Marathon Racers? Reflective sidewalls, roll well, and quite puncture-resistant.
Plus, ~25% cheaper than the Supremes...
I got some Michelin City Trekking tires, similar to the Schwalbes, punture resistance, refl. sidewall. Found one on sale at Dick's for $15 (pure luck), and got a matching one $35 full price at REI.
I saw this riding home from my work in Monroeville to my home in Squirrel Hill and I thought, "This is the perfect new tag. I'm a computer programmer, and this street is named after an inexpensive Intel processor!" Have fun.
ok i may have asked you this before, but what is your route from squirrel hill to monroeville? i work at forbes a few days a week and i don't know a good way to get out there. i don't want an answer until after the tag is picked up, as i don't want more clues for this tag, but i may start to do it if i don't have a ton of stuff to haul. there IS a shower in my office there that goes unused.
I'd like to pick up this tag, but I can't because it's pretty much impossible for me to bicycle there. I can, however, walk onto my front porch and snap a picture of my neighbor's front yard.
Sorry about the extra clue, Stef.
Whoever picks up the tag, knock on our front door (house to the left of the tag) and say hi.
@ Nate I'm sure it's legal to step out your house with your bike and pick up the tag. You might even ride to the end of the street and back.
Nah, not gonna do it. Come and get the tag in the snow tomorrow, get hot coffee, tea, cocoa.
Tempted to go get this now.
@jonawebb dude your sattle looks tilted forward JK, also thanks for the PM, I'll consider it.
I'm not letting the saddle angle thing go. Rotated the last tag image counterclockwise 2.6 degrees or so. More or less all horizontal angles are "flat". I put it in a grid.
No longer buying the sloping top tube optical illusion excuse. Back wall cap is horizontal for a point of reference. Assuming bike is flat on the general surface where the pic was taken, saddle is obviously not anywhere near being level.
Sorry for being the saddle angle cop. It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
it's ok quizbot, i thought about pointing out the angle of the saddle relative to the bricks in his last tag pickup, i just couldn't pull the trigger.
long and short! your saddle has a much steeper forward angle than most folks' saddles. but if it works for you, it don't bother me none!
Haah Nate, you should have gotten the tag. I don't think I will be going out this weekend. I have caught a crappy cold. It is the trainer this weekend for me, if I can even use it.
Quizbot BSAI (Bike seat angle investigator)
Try running the grid through the hub centers on the wheels as a better reference. I think it’s still tilted forward though. Sorry jonawebb, but I think you will be getting a citation in the mail for breaking rule #48.
BTW, how long are your socks?
It is tilted forward a little bit, I'll admit. But Sheldon does say extreme angles are to be avoided. He doesn't say it absolutely has to be exactly level. And. looking at the saddle, I think it's designed so the sit bones in your butt rest on the wider part at the back, keeping pressure off your crotch. And it is oh so comfortable. You should try it.
Been riding a long time. For a while before this I had one of those ergonomic seats, but I noticed I lost power in the Dirty Dozen as soon as I tried to slide forward. So I thought, if I adjusted it right, I could get make the Brooke's saddle as comfortable. And it works.
Ok, it's a little better when lined up on the hubs. Investigation over. Time for a donut!
As long as you aren't sliding off the saddle, not a problem.
quizbot, save me a donut!!!
Celeron St in Point Breeze (?). Sorry Nate, I didn't read your note until just now about saying hi.
@stefb, now that the tag is got, I drew my route on bikely.com some time ago, but that site seems unreliable. But if you can get it to load, http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Sq-Hill-Compunetix-northern-route is more or less the route I take there, and http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Sq-Hill-Compunetix-Southern-route is the route home. I use a different route back than there because I must shower at LA Fitness in the morning, so I have to end up north of William Penn Hwy. On the way home I go south and avoid a lot of hills.
If you can't get the site to load, my route there is Wilkinsburg (Ross Ave) to Penn, up Penn to Beulah, then Beulah to Churchill Lane and through Churchill to Sherwood Forest crossing William Penn to Old William Penn. I follow Old William Penn all the way to Duff Road, then up that and a block or two on William Penn to LA Fitness. It is a pretty quiet ride in the morning.
On the way home I head down Mosside Blvd where I work to Wall Road and follow that all the way to Wilmerding, then cross the bridge there and turn left, staying on suburban streets until I get to Electric Ave at the edge of Braddock. I follow Electric Ave but turn straight up the hill to Chalfant before Electric runs into Ardmore, and ride through Chalfant (past the Van de Graaf generator) to meet Ardmore again, riding on the sidewalk until I have to make a run down to Wilkinsburg again.
This gem should be pretty easy to recognize considering the press it has gotten lately.
Hmm, that looks like something that would work for the other game as well, from a smidge further back.
Jon, thank you for posting your routes.
One question: the bit up Ardmore.
I've never had (the guts) to bike it, but I've driven that way a fair amount. I don't recall much of a shoulder or any other cyclist accommodation. Do you just stick to the (practically non-existent) side? Taking the lane seems gutsy (given the speeds when the speed traps aren't active).
Aside: I'm surprised at the relatively short distances to Monroeville. In my mind it's always been, like, way out there... beyond the rainbow.
Jonawebb, does your northern route go right past Udipi?
Yes, I ride past Udipi every morning I commute.
On Ardmore I avoid the street as much as I can. There's a sidewalk up most of the way, built by a bereft family whose child was killed riding to the ball field, I understand. But when it ends I take the lane and go as fast as I can.
@dmtroyer, sorry we missed you when you picked up the tag Saturday.
About the neighborhood for Celeron Street, city maps say we're in Point Breeze and the Post-Gazette thinks it's in Wilkinsburg (or so they printed under my name in a recent letter to the editor). To the good folks who live around here, it's Park Place.
Doesn't hyla live over there, too?
Yep! A bunch of us do. ****Park Place In the House!*****
I've been chauffeuring Egyptians this week and not riding much.
seeing it on a map makes me realize where it is. i didn't know it existed until we did the 5 Boros ride last year.
Udipi = chemical burns in my mouth. Never go with a native Indian, they don't know how to keep it mild!
Maybe I'm just a pussy.
Try the doasi & uthappa without chilis & the lemon rice & careful with the condiment tray. I'm pretty wimpy when it comes to spice, but I find lots to eat there & love the place!
soooo... do you guys need another clue or is everyone (sadly) not biking in snow?
To paraphrase Joey Ramone, I don't know where this is but I know how to find it (because I read the New York Times). I would go out to get it but have to get some work done this weekend. If it's still open Tuesday I may go for it.
I would like to see this in person but I vegged like a potato today.
There's really something Napoleonic about that house. I'll definitely be checking it out when I'm in town!
Not feeling well enough to go out to get it.
In the spirit of the second part of rule #2, I will say this location coveted by at least one new yorker newspaper overhangs a green gem of a custom fab shop. I wouldn't be surprised if Jason Molina took inspiration from one of the adjacent streets when naming one of his most recent studio albums.
Yeah I am gonna try to get there tonight before it gets dark. I didn't have time tomorrow morning before going out of town
@stefb, I may race you. Or maybe not. Fair warning.
Go for it. Not gonna make it before dark anyway. I would be happy just to see it in person
Rich guy owners house behind Emerald Art Glass, Josephine St.
Note incognito seat.
New tag. Not every tag has to be hard. Sometimes you can just be struck by a beautiful view, riding over the river.
If i am seeing this right, it is the Best view it he city!
I'm working from home today, or I'd grab this.
Before the winter started I talked about how I would get tags while it was cold and catch up to some of the warm weather taggers. I think I only picked up 2 tags this winter and really don't feel like doing any extra riding in the rain today. Big talk fail.
I can't believe no one got this yet!
That house is crazy. I figured out where it was after the clue and after I read a Pop City post about it.
@stefb, me, too. I thought it would go right away.
My stomach hurts or I would do it.
Is this on a really steep hill? Jon's saddle looks level.
Sorry for the pic but my phone is low end, and the clouds were falling. It does make for an interesting effect though.
Hot Metal Bridge
P.S. Happy Birthday to Mick!!
New tag:
I think these guys won a ribbon at Westminster Dog Show. Alright, I’m just bluff’n.
@marko82 P.S. Happy Birthday to Mick!!
Thank you. People who come to my parties often take blurred pics like that.
Then they blame it on the weather.
People who come to my parties often take blurred pics like that.
Ah, Mick. We can only speculate on what your own photo might have looked like...
Happy B'day, may all your following ones find you on a bike.
@Marko82 - is that a glove perched on your saddle or are you experimenting with the angle? Paging quizbot.....
^ Ha ha, it’s saddle camo, to protect me from the saddle angle police.
BTW there is some other cool art in the immediate vicinity of this tag - so take a few extra pics because I forgot to.
There's a story about the Emerald Art Glass house in the Post-Gazette: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12049/1211027-30.stm. No mention of our tag, though.
Forbes Auto Body, Gist St
This is my other bike, a fixie built from the first bike I ever bought, >40 years ago. Note Ergo seat, impervious to seat angle criticism.
I'd noticed the plethora of art in this neighborhood while ineffectually looking for an earlier tag, so the hint helped.
Shhhiiiittt you beat me by 7 minutes
And beat me by about 50 minutes, damn!
sorry if the orientation is not great... linking these from Facebook again. here are some of the surrounding pieces of art:
the thing behind the green chair is a huge stone baseball cap, i am pretty sure.
i did not see the dog behind this fence, but he/she barked at me the whole time i was around.
Yeah, I took a few shots of the art too, ala Marko82's request. Same art, different view.
@ stefb - I must have missed you by maybe 20 minutes if you were hanging around taking all of those photos. And yeah, the dog barked at me the entire time, too. I was waiting for someone to come out and ask why all the cyclists were showing up taking pictures.
You have to get up pretty early on a Saturday (well, at least before 10) to Bruce me.
Next time I'll hang around and we'll all go out for coffee.
I was barked at, too. Probably a pretty good day for that dog -- he scared away a bunch of damn cyclists, eventually.
The clay pieces and mosaics are by James Simon. Not sure about the paintings... I love the frog, but I am biased.
@ Pseudacris Frog bias? Been kissed? Your work?
Here's a page with some details on the artworks there. Three or four of these pieces have been tags so far. I think the one with the red frame in Stefb's photo was added in the last year.
I actually was up early. I spent an hour or so wandering around the hill. I had never been through that neighborhood. I stopped and took pictures of all of the art on Webster, wyle, center, etc. I am still a bit slow climbing hills on my single speed still. I went up and down those streets a few times also before I hit Forbes and fifth. At least it was a good workout. I also spent a good amount of time with my fender. My new rear fender bolts on except for one part of it that clips down and onto part of my frame at the front end, but with the crappy roads in Pittsburgh it dislodges and rattles. It will be fixed, but I bet I stopped at least 10 times to push it back down to make the noise stop. What a great morning though. Too bad we didn't all Get there at the same time. That happened to me once before with another tag, and it was cool.
@TeamDecafWeekend - for your reading pleasure (I don't think Hyla will mind if I point this out.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudacris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyla
Thanks to all for pointing out all this artwork! I did not know about most of them, though I might have noticed one as I sped by on Forbes. That's the beauty of this game, going out and finding all the cool stuff around this city!
@ Stu - thanks for the info. I guess I can wipe clean my assumptions that the name Pseudacris is associated with an axe-wielding, modern day conquerer.
Are you certain?
@headloss - Ha - that's nuts you found such an image!
Hey Decaf Dan, thanks for telling me about this thread. You know I just this week gave up pining over the house for sale near Gist (1843 Blvd of the Allies). Gist is a great community. I hope someone cool buys it *hint hint Pittsburgh bikers*.
For those who don't know, kate, ^ above, is the painter of the bananas and is a fellow rider.
Here is your new tag. For this one I made a special effort to tag a neighborhood that had never been tagged before.
Paging mr Marko.
^ I feel like I've seen this, but there are a million strip malls with "signature" landmarks ordered from Sweets. Is it within the territory on the BikePgh map?
@headloss - haha nice find on the frog warrior! No relation to Heket, truer of spoked wheels.
The only person I know that this would be downhill for is mr marko. Everyone else I know, it would be uphill.
It is well within the bounds of the BikePgh map.
Man there's a lot of Rite-aids in this burgh.
I was thinking about how many Rite-aids I pass everyday. I know I've been to this one put all the Rite-aids makes it hard to remember where I've past this one.
Aw man I went right past this earlier today. I think I'll let this sit a few days to allow others to explore.
Hint - a few hundred riders went past here on Saturday November 26th.
My Oliver. In the bounds of the map but not Pittsburgh technically. Corner of Brownsville, bausman, Hayes. Good climb before work.
Excellent, @stefb. I used to ride past that clock every morning when I worked in Carrick.
Interesting fact: I used to go past that clock several times a week on the way to a good friend's house near the vocelli's/McDonald's a bit down the street. At this time I had not yet met my husband, but he lived in a house about 2 blocks away from my friend's house.
Thats kind of funny that you two probably crossed paths several times before you met.
We definitely attended the same shows at local venues. We had mutual friends but never met through them before we did on our own
Ha ha, so much for letting that tag sit. @jonaweb, where did you work in Carrick? Not too much business left up there.
The clock is also on my route to work. At least once, maybe twice, I was riding home late at night and had to swerve to avoid a melee that spilled out of the corner bar and into that intersection. It's hard to judge the trajectory of a street fight and try to swing out around it!
A startup software company called PEP Systems. Pharmacy software for accounting. It was in the old Medicine Shoppe pharmacy next to the Dairy Queen. I think there's one other BikePgh guy who worked there, too.
^ Wow, I would have never guessed there was a tech company in there – way cool. Plus you got to go out for ice-cream at a moments notice. It’s a good thing you were biking or you could have gained some serious weight. This makes you wonder how many other companies are right under the radar in declining neighborhoods.
It was the strangest, most successful (but not quite successful enough, alas) tech company I've ever been involved with. There were some interesting interactions with the long-time Carrick-neighborhood employees of the pharmacy and us high-techy guys in the basement (when we shared the building). Also some amusing experiences with the locals, such as the prostitute that set up business on our corner.
new tag:
i will make this easy. i was going to drop a tag closer to downtown, but it was too dark to use the tag i wanted by the time i got out of work. instead, i trekked nearly the whole way home before i decided to get this one.
Don't see your bike--or anything else.
I'm having trouble posting the pic. I will have to try again
Don't forget to post the location of the tag
pedestrian bridge from ellsworth to east side plaza
welcome to tag-o-rama!
Here is the new tag. This is about the 40th time I have thought about riding down the street to use this location if I were ever quick enough to pick up a tag.
SEAT ANGLE ALERT!!! CALLING QUIZBOT!!!
sometimes the camera adds +/- 10 degrees
Tell it to the jury!
Someday I'm going to meet @SlamSnitch at a tag, and we'll have a great seat angle battle.
That is, assuming anybody can get anywhere with this tag, so the game doesn't just end here. A random red concrete light support with a gray background doesn't bring anything immediately to mind. More cluage would be nice.
i think if you look more closely, you will find more cluage.
I think the clue was obvious as to where it is.
Under the 40th street bridge in larryville.
Sorry to comment so late, but gotta say, stefb, nice photo, really nice. I love that bridge.
And wow, 2 tags in less than 24 hours!
New Tag
The opening of this smokin' set of succulence seems imminent.
Union Pig and Chicken, East Liberty
(The clue referred to Steel City Steakhouse, I think, which is the former name of this location. Restaurant appears to be open now, at least succulent smells were coming out of that converted shipping container.)
I'll post a new tag tomorrow. Rest easy.
damn. so this is how it feels to be bruced! i took the picture at about 7 pm, but my phone is one of those with an iq below 100, and i was unable to get home until now.
"damn. so this is how it feels to be bruced!"
Haha. Is this the place that is on the corner of highland and umm I forget the street name? Is that new? I usually watch the crappy road and traffic , but I just noticed it yesterday on the way home for the first time. I think I went past that about 15 mins after the tag was posted, not knowing that it had been.
@headloss - Aaaah! - freaking hilarious!
Yeah, it's at 220 N Highland. http://unionpgh.com/ says it's not open yet, I guess they were cooking up the meat they will serve.
I noticed somebody's bike peeking out from behind the shipping container -- I wonder if that's somebody we know.
The cross street is Harvard. The clue was meant for Union Pig & Chicken, but may have been a bit cryptic.
Yup, it's Kevin Sousa's newest restaurant. Should be opening any day now.
@dmtroyer, I never would have found the place without that clue. All the S's made me think the restaurant's name must begin with S, which led me to Steel City Steakhouse, then to the (spray painted) tag on the back of the building using Google StreetView. Then I hopped on my bike.
Ok, dudes and dudettes, here is your new tag.
This is from another Pittsburgh neighborhood that has never been tagged before, at least not by us. Since this is a weekday, I avoided going too far out of the way of my commute to drop it.
Very cool - and yet so clueless...that flag though...
Wow, jonawebb really knows the art in the city!
Actually, I didn't know about it until I ran across it. I was actually searching for the school my daughter went to when she was little and studying French, but it got dark and I started feeling like I feel at the end of a randonneur, when I'm lost and well over the time limit and just trying to complete. This seemed like a good, prominent building that people would be able to track down given a little bit of effort.
I guess I'll keep dribbling out clues 'til somebody gets it... let's see, the school my daughter went to was named after the neighborhood, which is a very appropriate name for this place.
Seriously? Nobody?
Too cold for you? Too hilly?
Another clue. There's a joke I once saw in James Joyce, that Christ founded his church upon a pun. This building is named after that same pun.
I'm starting to think that the Brazilian flag is in fact a clue...? Does Roddy Piper like steak, or am I way off?
this is driving me nuts. i can't figure this out. i hope someone gets it.
also driving me nuts.
i am guessing it is in the east hills somewhere, but i don't feel comfortable wandering around out that way. i have a guess as to where exactly it is, but it seems kinda far out there.
From Rule #2: "Remember, the point of the game is not to make the clues difficult to figure out. It is about riding, not Googling."
Even pawing around in various web searches (the images, Jesus, Joyce), I'm still coming up blank. My hunch is that it's in the East Hills somewhere. I know I've seen that logo before, I just don't know what it is. Just art? An agency?
What might help me is to know more about the pavement underneath. Is that a parking lot? A driveway? End of a street? Would the location be visible from StreetView?
My sleuthing has led me to a similar conclusion as Stu and Stef, but I can't find it on streetview.
C'mon guys. This can't be that hard.
I can think of at least one place where this might be, given the clue and the flag. If I'm right, it is indeed a new neighborhood, and it does seem to be roughly on Jon's nominal commute route (East End <-> Monroeville; please correct if that's wrong).
Disclaimer: I could be wrong (and probably am). If I am right, it's not exactly Streetview-obvious.
The only pun I could come up with is something about a rock or the Greek for Rock
Ahlir: Are you thinking about the Green Forest Brazilian BBQ place? I checked and that's outside the game's limits.
@rice rocket: darn!
On the other hand it wouldn't be the first tag that's outside the technical limits. But, hey, good for you for getting out there to check it out. This now boils down to that touch-fingers motif. Given the day and age, that ought to be unique.
Anyway, gotta back to those Zipf equations...
I'm still thinking it must be the Brazilian BBQ place which is technically in ChurchHill? I already would have biked there to check if I was in the area, even though it does seem a bit far out of the grid. Not sure what that would have to do with tagging though. On the other hand, East Hills would be an appropriate name for a neighborhood not tagged (by us) before and within bounds... but then that stupid flag throws me off. LOL
Yeah I was thinking about that place as well. There is also a place that teaches Brazilian jiu jitsu according to google
I didn't mean this to be driving folks crazy. You are right thinking about a hilly neighborhood in the east, near my commute. The pun about the rock might have been too obscure, but the place is named after it--in Jesus's original language. I hope this helps.
I think someone is just gonna have to ride out there. I keep meaning to drive that route out to Monroeville before attempting to ride it. I don't know the area well and I hate getting surprised by crappy roads/narrow roads.
hmm, think I have it... but not sure when I can get out there.
Yay!
You should post it, and then see who gets it first. The point is to get people on their bikes, right?
Definitely want to get people on their bikes in new neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, and I recommend my commute in general, but you might do better to spend some time with the Google rather than just following my route. I had to ride a little ways off the commute to find this place. And it's definitely not teaching a martial art -- it's more of a peaceful spot.
in Jesus's original language. I hope this helps.
A building or institution with an Aramaic name? In Pittsburgh? Wow.
@jonawebb, Does this have anything to do with a church & community center named after a certain mountain peak noted for ark landings? Ten more minutes with Google, and I still don't know, but that's the only thing that seems semi-close and semi-on-topic.
It's such a gorgeous day for a ride, too. (drat, the bike's home)
Drat I am in the OR! No windows even here to see the gorgeous day.
Once you find the right name you'll know, because of the logo. Trust Google. (Though I'm pretty sure the location is not on StreetView -- that place was completely empty when the Google truck was here last.)
I gave up on google and just decided to do laps around the neighborhood until I found it. While at the intersection of Frankstown rd and E Hill Dr. The Large American flag at the top of the hill drew me in.
Petra International Ministries
Ha! I just finally found it on google as you were posting. Congrats!
bugger, but nowhere near being bruced... earliest I could have gotten it was tomorrow at lunch.
Wow, I was inwardly guessing Wilner Drive as a starting point. One street off.
Congratulations, @SlamSnitch -- your second tag, I think. Glad to see this one done.
I have to make the clues easier, or something. It's tricky to do this without giving things away too easily.
Yesterday iI googled Petra but only got the names of people
As a non-participant, I'd guess that nothing in Penn Hills is too easy.
East Hills, actually... Still, not easy. I guess there's the top of the hill to consider, plus the fact that you have to cycle through a pretty skeevy-seeming neighborhood (while lost and looking for this I rode past some streets where it seemed a crack house would be a step up), and then there's the non-coverage of Google StreetView -- all the Google truck saw last time through there was as deserted as a moonscape.
On top of that this whole thing was totally unfamiliar to me and, apparently, us. Pittsburgh's neighborhoods and races, not to put too fine a point on it, keep to themselves pretty much. A tag behind a new restaurant in East Liberty is easy. But was is probably one of the largest, newest, buildings in East Hills? Not easy at all.
I'll bet if you'd just printed out the logo and asked random middle-aged female residents of East Hills where is this, you'd have gotten it right away.
BTW 'Petra Pittsburgh' gets me there as the first match, but maybe that's just me -- user tracking and all that.
i was also looking for aramaic. jesus weren't no greek!
@jonawebb: i like how you cropped your seat out of that tag :-p
I have a love hate relationship with jonawebb's tags, I love how he gets us out of our comfort zones and explore new areas, I hate that I have failed to pick up a single one of his tags.
one day I'll get another tag. I think I've gotten 3.
I have a wonderfully horrible idea for a tag, if I ever grab one again. Hint: It ain't North, but in a part of the city nobody has even gotten close to touching yet. Gonna make you work for it.
Now, to get a tag.
I love the logo, now that I see it.
This new tag is a mural that can be found in one of the city's largest parks.
Mural behind the Frick Park environmental center.
Believe it or not, my girlfriend painted this mural this summer. More specifically, she painted most of it and had the summer camp kids paint a bunch of the animals (which explains the frog with a steelers jersey).
I love that little part of frick!
Didn't they used to have an older mural before? I seem to remember it having smiling little beavers and stuff. Maybe Smokey the Bear?
I think I have pictures somewhere... Are there dilapidated solar panels on the roof?
@Pierce - yes, yes, and yes. It was repainted because it had become kind of dilapidated. There was graffiti which I think said "SMOKE WEED" and "I'M GAY".
New tag:
Just grabbed a bite here.
Kevin's other new rest'rant.
Centennial soon...
yum!
Station street hot dogs broad st east liberty.
Two tags in 16 hours, not bad.
After posting this tag, I thought "I bet this will be really easy for stefb, as she said she bikes by union chicken and pig every day..."
Getting up early is lame. I knew I should have gone before I went to sleep.
My new office, I can see it everytime I look up and it makes me want a hot dog.
Yeah I changed my usual morning commute slightly. I nearly left it for someone else, but I wasn't sure who else would be out riding in the downpour.
im with salty: getting up early is totally lame!
Maybe today, but I get to see the sun rise every morning I commute.
Downpour? Barely noticed as I was riding my bike this morning, as happens nearly every day regardless of weather.
new tag:
doctor, doctor, give me the news..
maybe the recipient of a new artificial heart would finish by saying to his doctor: "i've got a bad case of lovin' you"
Oh, this would be so easy to get, but I can't drop a tag within the allotted time, so someone else can take this one.
I have a test today hopefully this will still be there when I'm done.
Man, I can SEE that tag from a co-worker's window. But, no bike with me today. Drat!
Sara, Stu, one of my looser and more easily accomplished goals for this spring is to get a bike downtown to lock up full time at the Macy's garage, for office peeps and others to use on occasion for errands, like a fat cushy cruiser or something, with a basket. I will let you know when I have accomplished this.
@Edmonds -- I did this once. The bike ended up losing a front wheel after about a month. It wasn't a quick release wheel, so I hadn't locked it as well as I should have. It's a great idea, though. Macy's is close enough that I could volunteer to wander over occasionally to check on it, or even just reposition it so that it looks well used.
Edited to add, I think Stu ended up with the remains of that bike......!
I am standing at the tag but I can't get my picture to upload to flicker soooooo frustrated
Try Picasa if you have a google account
Standing at the window, waving to Mr. Marv at the tag, across the river..... He doesn't see me, of course.
I can see this tag at penn and 40th and from lots of other places. I also see the inside of this place most days of the week.
Note to users: An effective tag does not need to be a mystery.
Working from home today, so all y'uns with a bicycle, have at it!
Swalfoort, the remains of that bike, after I picked it over, went to FreeRide.
edmonds59, sounds like a cool idea, but methinks someone should move it around from place to place every week or so, maybe bring a tire pump, also a rag to clean it up so it doesn't look like it's just been sitting someplace.
Still trying stupid Android
When I do this, it will be where I lock my commute bike when I ride in, so I will be seeing it every time I commute, and will also always have basic tools and a pump with me. Also, I will be nudging the office mates to use it for errands around town or just lunch time toodles.
AGH
I still have not mastered uploading tags from my phone onto the message board, I can't believe the tag was still available after I took my test ate lunch and came home.
I think you meant "ARGH" after the trouble you had uploading, mr marv
What I do on my Android phone is share it to Google+ from the gallery, then browse to my Google+ account (not using the Google+ app, just the browser), view the image, and copy the image URL. This gets posted into a regular IMG tag as usual. One thing, for some reason when I copy the tag it leaves off the JPG suffix so I have to add that.
You didn't see me waving back at you across the river?
@jonawebb you dont need the suffix, the image will still load without it
I'm bringing the tags back home. How many of us pass this and don't even notice it. And notice how the Fiks light up from the flash even in twilight.
I'm am fairly tech savvy but I feel like I'm the only one who can't figure out how to post pics on the message board.
@Mick - yeah, thanks for pointing out... "An effective tag does not need to be a mystery"
I can't place where I have seen this.. Or think I have seen this
no idea on the last tag. spent 10 minutes trying to figure out the reflections in the glass.
but, gee golly, that seat looks awfully far forward.
For Fiks' sake, the saddle is fine!
I can post more pics or give a better clue or just say what neighborhood it's in if you need more help. This place really cleans things up
Full view.
but, gee golly, that seat looks awfully far forward.
mr marv is our resident TT specialist. He needs that forward position to get into his full tuck, to get to work REALLY fast.
All of my bikes have their saddles as forward as they can go. My upper body and arms are pretty short relatively speaking. I had to get tiny stems and straight seat posts (as opposed to laid back seat posts) even for my girl bike. The battery for my headlight is longer than my stems.
Ok, I'll have me seat checked. "there can be only one " is a hint to the name of the neighborhood
He needs that forward position to get into his full tuck, to get to work REALLY fast.
I thought he wanted to go faster to avoid getting rear-ended by guys not paying attention...
mr. marv, I'm just busting your chops on the saddle. and I know the location but no chance to get it til this evening (this one is visible on street view).
Hit by a Rocket haha
If no one gets it by the time I leave work, I cannot guarantee that I won't look for it and find it. Sounds like it is on my way home. And mr marv- when I go past the apts of the same name, I think (or even say aloud) "there can be only one!"
I think the seat is too far back.
And WAY too level.
@ Stefb you live close to the tag, I don't think you pass it often, it's a one way street with a 15 mph limit. I'm never putting my seat in a pic again.
hmmmm...I think I've figured out the neighborhood & that's it's probably near a school. The image is interesting. At first I thought the round object inside on the left was a table top, but now I'm not so sure.
No school. But maybe a playground
And a nice wide bike lane
Are you thirsty
Micro filtration plant highland park.
I knew you guys would figure it out. I have passed that a million times and never noticed it until I was looking for a place to set a tag. I can't see Stafb seat is it level
uggh. bruced.
Sorry, dude.
I think my saddles are all pretty close to level.
I turned around after I got this tag and then saw my next destination: the waterworks. It was pretty neat. I enjoy how much can be seen in Pittsburgh from hilltops when the trees are bare.
I have a tag in mind that I have been wanting to drop on a weekend. It won't be hard to find, the question will be: who wants to go out there to get it?
Is it the same tag as we discussed last summer? You are welcome to use it.
no it is on the other end of the map.
marv, I wasn't trying to be mean, more to get the saddle nazis off your back. Sorry if it came off the wrong way.
new tag:
well i woke up this morning feeling under the weather. i figured i was getting sick yesterday when my legs felt like lead. so i didn't take the tag out to the edge of the map like i wanted to. instead, i decided to use this, which was shot on my way to dinner yesterday. i could see this from the site of the last tag i picked up. i highly suggest taking the sidewalk, though.
I'm half temped to run out and get this right now. I am way to wimpy not to take the sidewalk.
End of Highland Park Bridge
No need for the sidewalk from my side of the river.
New tagg-a-zebo.
The main way to get to this taggazebo is to follow the unlucky numbered street.
Y'know, I just don't know where this is. Zoo? The clue is throwing me off. I can think of only three sets of numbered streets within range of the map and they're all coming up blank. Wherever it is, either I've never been there, or it's been renovated since I last was.
Surprisingly I know exactly where it is. I've driven out that way but never biked. I have biked the opposite direction several times
I actually went out looking for this last night, thinking, there sure are a lot of parking lots at the end of 13th Street near downtown Pittsburgh (now I know where to go if I ever have several hundred cars I want to park) but no luck, of course. There were some benches that kind of looked right, but really, the photo looks suburban. I imagine that gazebo would be a pretty big draw for sketchy characters in any urban area, though none of the other 13th streets looked remotely right to me. Anyway, it was sort of fun riding down there and poking around. Lots of interesting sort of taggable things down there, if I get another tag before next winter.
@Jona did you check the other side of the Mon? just a thought.
Yeah, that's where I kind of thought the 'follow the unlucky numbered street' clue might be intended, but by the time I'd searched all those many lots I was cold and decided to head home instead of finding a way across the river.
I think I know where it is, but I will give someone else a chance
Boat Dock at the end of 13th Street in Sharpsburgh
Nice, mm
It's a beautiful location, I wish I had taken more pictures, the ride up Main St. was also very pleasant.
Yep, the 3rd set of #'d streets. It didn't look like this the last time I was over there, which was, hmmm, 1996?
My wife actually thought it looked like that, but I didn't believe her.
lulz, mr marv cropped his seat out of the shot
Ha you noticed!
I was going to just place a tag in friendship but I think Marko rode past as I was about to place it. So I rode further out to this bridge that I don't think existed about a year or two ago. I will post extra pics and give more clues if needed, I wan't to keep the game moving.
I forgot to cut out my seat
30th st bridge, though looking at it now, mm probably set his shot closer to river ave
I approve of your saddle angle
Um this is uncomfortable but it is NOT the 30th street bridge
Has this ever happened before
yup. i picked a wrong spot on the street for a toynbee tile tag
I'll post a picture from a different angle in a couple of minutes
I'm pretty sure a lot of people know where this bridge is. I think there's only one place in the city with that sheen on the bridge railing.
Two more views of the tag now that it's clear that it is NOT the 30th street bridge. My apologies.
i thought that might be the case when i couldnt seem to match your framing. no big deal, it got me out for the longest ride ive done in a while. the railing hardware is pretty much identical!
There is a 30th street bridge?
@stefb good question. And thanks for approving my seat angle.
In the future I'll take better pictures so the tags will be more recognizable
Haha, how were you to know that there was another bridge w/ the exact same railing construction?
Yes, there's a 30th street bridge - it goes down to Washington's Island - connects at River Road and the end of the 31st St bridge.
The bridge is on the "12 Bridges, Three Rivers, 21 Miles" BikeFest Decaf ride. Pdf here Page 1 - cue sheet, See page 2 for the map.
im pretty sure i know where it is now, though (if im right) it would be hard to narrow down this vantage point from a number of others found in a 1/10 mile expanse. id like to try again tomorrow but someone will probably beat me there, especially with the new information thats been presented. sigh... so close, yet so far away.
@ melange396 sorry.
Ah. I didn't know that was called the 30th st bridge. I think know where the tag is but it is gonna be a warm day. If no one gets it by this evening, I will grab it. So someone please grab it, cause I have two tags in mind to drop.. One of them brand new and the other kinda new! If I am right about this current tag, I do not like how bumpy this is.
redemption!
newish raised section of north shore trail, across from washingtons landing... right near the 30th st bridge :-p
i saw this area last night but didnt really consider it as a possibility. i probably wouldve come to check it out if it wasnt getting so dark
Nice comeback. Have you been to the end of the trail? I was wondering how far it goes. I took it to the train tracks but didn't know if the trail continues along side of them. I'm glad you got the tag
dont be sorry! i should have looked around more. i have not been to the end of the trail -- that tag was the farthest north ive been. google maps seems to think that it ends a little bit past the 40th st bridge, but it looks like theres a muddy path that continues on along the train tracks.
heres a little tidbit i found about the construction at and around the tag site:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014920-147.stm
i was so tempted to get this on my way in around 5:30am.
the trail goes through millvale park, to the dirt path, then stops. you have to ride on those crappy rocks, but it eventually takes you to an area where you can get on a road between the 62nd st and the highland park bridge. i take that route when i head to burgatory after working on the north side. also of note: the 62nd street bridge is going to be closed i think next week.
please set another tag. it is so nice outside!
[Edit] - stefb beat me to this answer about the trail, my post below pretty much mimics hers...
The trail goes into the Millvale Riverfront Park and "sort of" ends at the 40th street bridge. You can continue to follow the dirt trail along the tracks, but it gets very rough after about .3 miles. It's all the typical, large, railroad stones. The "trail" will take you to the 62nd Street Bridge where it then becomes impossible to continue further via trail.
I've ridden on the rough stuff many times on my hybrid, it's not for road bikes at all. Generally, it's so rattling, I'll cross the 40th Street bridge and ride on Butler street to the 62nd St. Bridge. It's longer, but smoother.
Haha cburch rides on those big stones on his fixed gear road bike on 23Cs. He said that last time he rode through there, there was almot a trail pretty worn down and easier to ride on.
new tag:
hopefully this should fall into the realm of mick's "effective tag" comment. less is more; no clues til the whining begins.
Pitt University
Or I should say, University of Pittsburgh
i believe that area is known as the forbes quad
Hey! This sculpture - Light Up by Tony Smith - made an appearance in Wheelset of Fortune last year (somewhere on page 2 of that thread). From this angle it looks like the letter R.
Balls. I Was on my way to get this. Oh well. Weather is perfect.
@stefb - I was riding in the strip and decided to check my phone, see if a new tag was in place. I was so fired up to see one that was so easy to find - off to Oakland and then to the bike-pgh BikeFest meeting at OTB. A good day/evening!
If you want to learn how to ride up and down steps that plaza is a great place to start...
I had 65 other ideas for my new tag, but then this came along...
The weatherman said the rain would start at noon - ha! Jeez, I got soaked immediately after I left here this morning, no fenders, yoi! Or should I say "Scratch my back with a hacksaw!"
timely and cool -- very nice tag. too bad i wussed out and rode the bus today
I appreciate the centred approach of this tag, the trib should do a story on its entrance into our lives.
Mario statue at Consol
Sigh, another angled seat.
The seat is perfectly broken in and feels quite level when sitting on it. I look forward to the day when someone from here gets to see it in person. It looks perfectly level in real life, I swear!
no worries - I was just continuing the other running theme of this thread. my seat is level, yet I always feel that I am sliding forward on it (maybe a problem with the reach). it is great to have another person picking up and dropping tags. it has been a while since i've gotten one.
I think somebody is about to do a detailed analysis on your seat angle, SlamSnitch. Get ready.
I would like to make a suggestion. Could the tags be a bit harder? I am sitting out here in Monroeville and there's no way I'm ever going to get a tag where the point is to get to some obvious location in downtown, Oakland, or Highland Park before one of you guys. Sure, easy tags can be fun -- I'm not whining, or at least trying not to. But it would also be good for them to take a bit of thought, so that it doesn't come down to a race.
That was the exact same tag I was gonna leave had I beaten you to the pitt tag!
Puhlease. I haven't commented on anyone's seat angle in 3 weeks. I think you can let it go now jw.
Sorry, stefb, I'm a Pens fan.
@Pseudacris, if you are sliding on your eat, I would definitely try moving it forward a little bit.
You want a tough tag? Wait till I grab one. I have the perfect spot in mind.
I think that great minds think alike, TDW! I am glad to see that Mario made it into the game. I just wanna go down there and try to slap some statue ass if I can reach.
i think jw is in gross violation of rule 5. which, btw is the only rule i really like.
also the rr access road from millvale park to sssb is prime right now. all worn down into a nice smooth path. i think i only even posted up twice the whole ride last time. and they paved a crossing under the bridge instead of the super deep and loose ballast that has been piled around the tracks there forever. most people will like this, i enjoyed the challenge of riding the skinny wheels through 4-5" of loose ballast and over the rails.
@stefb - ha ha! I thought about all that ass showing too! Here's my butt, now what?
@ jonawebb it's all about riding your bike. It's not a race, but even obvious tags get me on my bike and out longer than I normally ride. I haven't ridden past the new arena and that last tag had me on my bike riding someplace I normally don't.
yeah, I hardly know where anything is in the city, so aside from when the Bike PGH office was tagged, I'd say there is no "Easy" tag.
@TDW-"what?what? In the butt"
@cburch I don't understand how I'm violating rule 5... could you explain?
@jonawebb: if you go back and review the three hundred and thirty nine tags that were set before you jumped into the game, you may find one or two that were difficult.
@quizbot, chill. I'm just asking for a little more of a challenge. I don't think it makes any difference that I'm a latecomer to this game.
edit: I challenge you to stop whining and be patient. More difficult tags will appear. The historical record speaks to this point.
@quizbot, thanks for the edit.
No problemo. I'm sure we're both very nice people in real life.
Meanwhile...
::crickets::
(Translation: It's a beautiful day and I have the bike with me. Sooo, where's the next tag?)
stu, are you using the definition of 'beautiful' that means 'really windy' or just the one that means 'not raining'?
The latter.
Wind is just a flat hill.
My brother, after riding across the country, noted: Hills are better than the wind, because hills have two sides, but wind only one.
The longer this new tag takes to appear, the better chance I'll get a crack at it... worktime is over!
So am I allowed to bruce after around 3:35 a.m.
I apologize for the delay of the new tag. Maybe not the coolest tag, but perhaps the the "coolest" place for having a "cold" beer in my neighborhood.
Good thing you posted, SlamSnitch, mr marvelous was going to stay up late to give you your first bruceing!
@mm - since you were waiting until 3:35 am anyhow... and this is closer to your home than Mario's ass, you might as well go get it now (or wait 'til the family goes to sleep). Good luck! I'll check in the morning to see if you followed-through!
I fell asleep just before the new tag was posted, I had my alarm set for 4am but mrs. marvelous reminded me it's my day off and not to leave the house.
It is yours, TDW. I have a bit of a fever. Probably not a good idea to ride around for me right now
On my way to a Saint Practice Day / Birthday Bash - this one is for somebody else.
[Edit] - note the spelling above, "practice" - you get to practice today, recover for a week and thus, be ready for the real party day.
No tag pickup for me today it's family day my favorite activity
...for some definition of "cool"
outdoor area in the back of wm penn tavern, shadyside (w/ randy)
new tag:
if you make it all the way here, you deserve to come in and have a delicious beer. randy and i did. there are fewer people here drinking miller light than at the last tag, too
Mmm, nice.
Yo, Pinky, want to get in on this?
Ha Edmonds, I thought you might Bruce me on this one. Sharp Edge Creekhouse, Crafton.
I recommend the mussels and bread for soaking up the juice if anyone is coming out for lunch today.
My original tag idea didn't work out, since it's now dark when I leave for work (thankyouverymuch daylight savings time).
So I picked this store whose seasonal decorations are easy to see any time of day.
I know this. No bike till tomorrow.
Sweet lights!
Hmmm...don't know if I have time to grab this today.
Wow, 2500+ posts. 50 pages. And this is on the second incarnation.
Aargh. I know Pinky's tag exactly.
What's worse, I've been by there twice hoping for a good display to use for a tag, but (picky me) ended up not liking the ones up at the time. Suggestion for whoever picks it up: climb the adjoining street (you know, the one with the stairs) and set the next tag way up there... (I've never been there myself. Have you? Is it worth the grunts?)
I miss Ahlir's tags this game was much more fun when he played.
The one that made me first notice the place was a nicely designed "Don't worry, be happy" sign. It somehow seemed like the right take on Tag-o-Rama. On reflection, it might have been the owner's way of saying "you order is ready".
Anyway, I've never managed to get by there when anyone one was in the shop. I would like the opportunity to chat with him/her, though.
Ahlir, I've been up that hill. There's a park up top and then it drops back down on the other side as a cobblestone road. It's been awhile though, so I might detour that way one of these days. The climb just always looks so, well, puke-inducing.
By interpolation I figured that I would die just as thoroughly on that hill as the one I normally go up, so curiosity has not induced me to investigate. Maybe someday.
West end Neon shop
I was going to ask the owner to get into the picture, but the shop was closed. I think this has been there since the mid 1970's.
It's a nice day, so let's keep this moving...
New tag: If you follow Ahlir’s advice, there are several things to see up there – I liked this one
BTW, there is a back entrance that’s not nearly as steep.
West end park
The road is steeper than it looked on Google maps.
Boy that one moves quick. Here's some additional info
Spring 2005, I walked up here from West Main & Neptune in the West End, mainly using steps. No bike with me at the time. I thought at the time, wow, who would even think of coming up here? So secluded, I bet most people don't even know it exists.
Bicycle explorers FTW!
New tag.
This is a crap picture but I'll give a good clue which should make this easy. If you look at the map of Pittsburgh neighborhoods, say at http://www.pittsburghpa.gov/dcp/snap/, you'll see some weird holes in the map. I tagged one of these holes before, this is a different one. When you zoom in on the map, you will see that it is not really a hole at all, but instead a pseudopod reaching into the city.
As you ride to this tag you can get a delicious banana shake, specialty of the house, on the way.
I see exactly where this is. Practically in Marko's backyard. Not sure I want to tackle this from McCandless at sunrise, when everyone on the board is already halfway there, compared to me.
I guess the question anyone would have is, should I go Irvine/Second to over the Glenwood Bridge and back north, or out to the end of the trail and jump the tracks, or deal with a nasty mile of 837 from Hot Metal? Judging by the clue I'd guess the last of the three, but I've never biked it, and I suspect I'm not alone with those questions.
As tempting as this is, I’ll leave it for someone else to get.
@Stu, I suspect that mile of Carson isn’t as bad as what you have done on McKnight, but it’s not the most pleasant that’s for sure.
stu: jump the tracks! my guess is that shortly after sunrise, one direction of all of those roads will be smooth sailing and the other will be a seemingly unending line of grumpy cars. if you dont post a picture by 10ish, i will send out a search party down the trail for you
Call off the dogs. I didn't even get downtown until 8:30. Sorry, but I value my employment more than getting a tag. Chances of getting it at lunch are zero and after work almost zero.
Have fun, everyone!
My guess is riding from the Hot Metal bridge is best. At least there are those 'Share the road' signs, so no worries.
I used to ride past this every day and I got there by the trail -- there's a gate there which was unlocked. It was locked yesterday, so I ended up riding to the end and jumping the tracks.
There is a man-gate about a hundred yards from the double gate that does not have a lock on it. I definitely did not use it yesterday because that would be wrong.
Sorry I missed it, that would have made dropping this tag easier and less terrifying.
Seems to me using an unlocked gate is never wrong. That is why it is unlocked, so people can use it. The moral issue arises when the gate is locked but you can still squeeze through it with your bike, like at Sandcastle sometimes, or when it is locked but you happen to have a bolt cutter with you.
If there is an unlocked gate you should definitely use the trail when grabbing this tag. Much better than 837.
BTW, it might be time to pick up those snow shovels from the Hot Metal bridge.
somerset and susquehanna streets
for the record, i went to the gate on the trail and saw there were a bunch of construction workers milling about. i opted to double back to the office park where the fence ended to cut through to carson, instead of giving them a reason to lock the path that marko doesnt use.
Here is a somewhat earlier picture of the tag site
Now I'm going to spend my afternoon hunting down historic pictures. Thanks for reminding me of that image database, Marko!
Any idea how Allegheny County ends up with a pseudopod reaching the river?
What a pseudopod? Only references on the internet refer to biology.
when i saw it on that map, i guessed that it had to do with access to the river for a source of water. this is based off the pumphouse at the locked gate and associated ongoing 'water st' construction work there.
What I always heard was that when J&L wanted to put their research center on top of the hill (The Acadamy now) they wanted it to be in the city so they only had to deal with one municipality for taxes etc. Baldwin Boro was happy to ‘sell’ this to the city to comply, but they retained some school district rights in case homes or other things were ever built up there. When that developer from Beaver was trying to put a race track up there a few years ago this was talked about among the old-timers. I’m not sure how true it is.
This page notes that Baldwin has had many chunks cut out of it over its history, including Hays in 1901, but Hays didn't become part of Pittsburgh until 1928. I'm not sure how that squares with Marko's story.
Also, I'd think a fairly rural area like Baldwin, at that time, would have lower taxes that Pittsburgh, and no company would want to pay more taxes than it had to. This 1904 newspaper article talks about the fight in Carrick, then still part of Baldwin but not for long, between low taxes and the desire for public amenities like roads and firefighting.
It's an interesting article in general. "It may be remarked right here that in the minds of most people who do not live on the South Side the mention of the name of Baldwin township brings up visions of Sunday beer drinking carnivals, baseball games law-breaking orgies of all kinds and mud roads, cows, roosters, dilapidated barns, country yawps, etc., adinfinitum. Many Pittsburgers, it seems never hear of Baldwin or read about it, either, unless it is in connection with a keg party, pounced upon by a constable or the county detective, or a baseball game that ends in a riot. Of late, however, such things have been rare in the township."
Damn, old Baldwin sounds like the place to party.
new tag:
its kinda nasty down here, lots of broken glass -- i suggest you take your photo from the bridge (and thus also, from the opposite angle)
"fall down rise up" sign under the baum boulevard bridge over the busway!
A page about this sign, one of several temporary art projects by CMU's Jon Rubin (Waffle Shop, Conflict Kitchen).
(ETA: Actually, while it's on his blog, I'm not sure he's the one who actually created the piece. More likely one of his students.)
my original idea was a distance shot (that i did with help from my buddy daryl -- many thanks to him)
but i determined that the full shot was far too googleable (even if the billboards were cropped out) mostly due to the page steven mentioned above
new tag! sorry for the crappy quality. didn't have much of a camera with me today.
was riding around and saw this fella milling about. i'm not sure i really want to grant you any clues, but i think if you're paying attention, the vale will be lifted, and his location will be revealed.
I bet that if I went after this, someone would get there first. I am quite far from this right now..
Grant st millvale. Used to be ???
Gah! Bruced! I left the house when the tag drop said 18 minutes. I was barely gone an hour.
gee dee it! i found a (very short) grant street in swissvale, then looked at miller & mill-somethingelse streets in the same, and then gave up. great cluing, though!
Sorry, Stu. there have been times when I reloaded the page on my phone and it appeared that a tag hadnt been dropped yet. I will stop like 20 mins into a ride and check again and see that a new tag had in fact been posted nearly one hour prior; it just didn't show up on my phone before I left the house.. In one instance, the tag was set and already picked up! I hope to have a new one posted After work tomorrow before the flock ride.
well this may be harder
it says "... be good to each other..."
too bad no one driving a vehicle can see this.
what was that? There was a flock ride?
Yah there was at midnight but I never made it. Too late for me. Not sure why it wasn't posted about here.. I think it was informal.
Is another clue needed?
Yes.
i wonder if a kayaker wrote this on the wall...
Under 6th street bridge
Well-quaffed lion with penis showing eats bug-eyed, but otherwise-patient-looking man.
oooh, I know right where this one is. there are all kinds of other naughty bits to find if you look closely at adjacent parts of this building. bummed I missed the last tag as I did pedal right past it yesterday!
Not too long ago, the directional pylon on Allegheny Boulevard in Verona was set as the tag. At the time, I went out to photograph it's counterpart, on Ohio River Boulevard in Emsworth, and found that it had been removed! Later I discovered that it had simply been relocated. The local newspaper, the Citizen, just did a nice story on the pylons, and the preservation effort for the Ohio River Boulevard pylon. I thought some of you might find it interesting: http://www.thecitizen.us/article/history-restored
The library dog in Millvale's name is Pages.....
sculpture in the alcoves on the front of the college of fine arts (cfa) at cmu
rats, was going to go get that in an hour!
darn, i had a feeling it was there, but a) i was confused by the height, and 2) i never bothered to go check. i'm at cmu now with my bike, too.
sorry pseudacris! i couldnt resist, i didnt even have to leave campus
didja notice the human *ss present in the next column to the left, near the top? i think it's a reference to the Miller's Tale.
A couple other shots... so cool! There's more to see there too, check it out some day.
new tag:
i was diggin on this graffiti, so i decided to tag it. (a) certain shop(s) apparently suggest(s) you test ride their bikes in this area near their store(s).
it looks like this one remained indelible. a little co flow reference there, for your underground rap fans!
this is in the parking lot parallel to forbes, off of shady, in squirrel hill.
new tag!
i figure this one is probably easy. if i give an obvious clue, everyone will be rusyn for it!
St. John Chrysostom on Saline Street.
First tag I've ever gotten! Frankly, I'm surprised...
Welcome aboard.
I was gonna leave that at a tag once... Or did i? Got a pic of my bike in front of it, but guess I changed my mind. Shoulda checked the board before I left for work today. Went kinda near it. Next please! Weather is nice
Great to have a new entry on the People-Who-Got-Tags Spread sheet, Mr. Destructicity^
We now have 63 riders who picked up tags, and a total of 397 tags! Coming up on 400.
New Tag:
It's a bit outside of the box, I know. Sorry. Guess it's just the Blue Devil in me.
(And if folks think it's too outside of the box I have a backup.)
I hope jonawebb is paying attention to this beautiful obstruction of saddle angle! ;p
Far out, man! I think I have seen you on my way back into the city from one of our offices before. I take it you commute?
I do, albeit very very slowly in the evenings. And this happens to be right on my way home...
Whoever picks this up (and it won't be me, at least not before mid-Saturday), please document how you got there and got back. I suspect this is unexplored territory for a lot of us.
Yeah I am curious. There are ways to get there but I wanna know the best/safest route
Without giving anything away I will say that I have found the major roadway this is adjacent to is the best/safest/most direct route.
Mural on the side of Pamela's in Mount Lebanon
OK, I've biked there (via a trip through the Wabash Tunnel and south on Saw Mill Run to West Liberty one day). How did you get from Tahn to, say, the Dormont Eat & Park?
Stu, you rebel!
Dunno how abracadabra does it but my usual commute is S 18th St. -> Warrington -> West Liberty.
Mr d- I think I may see you climbing west liberty on my way home from the bethel office on Tuesday afternoons. I always think "good for him!" as I go past...
I must have passed that mural 100 times over the years and never noticed it! Is it a recent addition, or is this just a case of driving by too fast in the car?
I think it's relatively new... less than ayear old. I found out about where it was from this article http://ebooks.mtlebanon.org/mtl/mtl-062011/49.html from June 2011. This was the perfect tag, IMO, because it only took me about 5 minutes to find on Google and it prompted me to explore a part of Allegheny county that I had never been to, and get out on my bike on a beautiful day.
I took the west end bridge to greentree rd, then down Allender to Dormont which intersects W Liberty pretty nearby. Then I came back on W Liberty, with a brief detour at casa rasta in beechview (highly highly recommended), then up boggs and down william and arlington to w carson, then across the smithfield street bridge. Virtually no part of this was bike-friendly per se, it was all roads with lots of cars, except for maybe allender, dormont, boggs and william. Nothing that made me really uncomfortable but like I said I wouldn't call it bike friendly.
New tag in a little bit...
Yeah, this went up last year. It used to be a billboard advertising Dyke Construction. Made me snigger every time I passed it.
"used to be a billboard advertising Dyke Construction."
NOOOOOOOooOooOooooOoooOoOooO!!!
New tag
You might recognize this sign if you fix your bike, and not at Kraynick's.
(that was a terrible haiku but I'm tired)
I rode out at 1am, got the pics, came home, created a picasa acct., and then made an account here to get this tag. I only hope I got the html right.
sorry about the crappy quality, but it was raining, it was ~1:20am when I got there, and it was dark (obviously). The first pic shows my bike outside the Construction Junction fence (it was locked, so I couldn't get in for a better pic), and the next two were taken to show the sign inside the fence in better detail. On the way home, I grabbed a new tag...
It's another mural! This tag is ~1.2 miles away from the previous one. If you like good beer and hot dogs, maybe you've seen it...
Braddock and Hutchinson
Jesus 2 overnight tags. Impressive!
Jay Sherman, welcome! I dig your bike, 3 speed?
Dont you people sleep?
Welcome to the game Jay!
New tag, in another untagged neighborhood. Besides the view, I thought this little glen was worth exploring. There's some interesting low traffic connections to other parts of the city.
Small road overlooking high level bridge in glen hazel.
bruce't again
Another Shakespearean street, Desdemona
i'll have another tag up tomorrow early afternoon. probably like 12:30-1:00 or so.
Glad to be here, but I'm worried that I may have started something addictive...
As for the bike, it is a 3-speed. You can see it up close here or when I'm volunteering at Free Ride. Sometimes, I like to pretend my bike is a Chicago-made version of the Van Sweringen.
new tag!
this apparently jewish cemetery is nestled near the bottom of one of my favorite climbs/descents, right at the tippy top of the blue box.
904 Geyer Road, Reserve Twp
New tag, from another untagged neighborhood, this time on the bottom edge of the blue box. I hope this photo conveys the panoramic views from this area -- they are really amazing.
BTW, the cemetery in the previous tag is the Machsekei Hadas Cemetery. There are quite a few Jewish cemeteries in that area, making me think there is some interesting history there.
If you need another clue, let me know. I think this is pretty basic, but I don't want it to drag on.
It's a good clue & pic. I just havent got the time to get there. Besides, you can almost see it from your last tag.
I've always loved that cemetery on Geyer Road. I never stopped to really check it out, but it was a highlight of my rides out that way. Thanks for tagging it, HV!
waaaaaay up basic street, near panorama field
Congrats. Yes, it is a ride up Basic street. But aren't those cliffs amazing? I felt like I was in the Laurel Highlands.
the cliffs were indeed amazing. i had to take a few shots on my way back down the hill. i wanted to stitch these three together, but couldnt find an easy way to do it after a quick googling:
jonawebb, i was cursing you for much of the ride up, for making me climb a seemingly unending mountain on a road strewn with potholes and broken glass... but in the end, it was worth it. i saw a pretty heavily flowing creek that goes most of (if not all) the way to the top, large birds of prey soaring on wind currents rising off the peak, and of course, beautiful views. going past the tag point and back down the other side of the hill, i got this picture, where i was lined up with the train bridge below. if you zoom, you can see skyscrapers from downtown!
new tag:
welcome to... the neighborhood where this tag is found!
maybe someone who gets up early will snag a pic of this new sign on their way in tomorrow
It looks similar to an older sign.. I have been super busy lately and I haven't gotten a tag lately. I have one I really want to set, but I can't go looking for this today. I think I know where it is, and it isn't on my usual route. Curious to see if I am right.
And when she's walkin', she's lookin' so fi-yi-yine...
Welcome to Uptown sign right at the end of the Birmingham Bridge.
That looks like the old sign to me...
And when she's walkin', she's lookin' so fi-yi-yine...
I've only been propositioned twice in my life, and both times were within a couple hundred yards of that sign.
I ran inot a young woman - about 95 lbs and cute as a button - in Schenley park in the middle of the night once. She was "desparate" for a ride , to I let ride on the rack on back of my bike.
She wanted to go to a place a couple hundred yards from that sign, too.
I think it's something like a "Free Trade Zone."
> That looks like the old sign to me...
@stefb, i guess its not super new. this indicates its about 4 months old:
http://www.simonsculpture.com/public-art/welcome-to-uptown-sign/
NEW TAG:
Not as delightful as it used to be but still absolutely [neightborhood this is located in].
Ha I always laugh at the spelling of "Dari"... Totally the way pittsburghers say dairy
How else do you say it?
I know where this is, BTW.
Pittsburghers tend to say words with "air" in it like "rrrrrr"
dury.
Warrington and Vincent, Beltzhoover
talk about your potholes !
New tag, from yet another untagged neighborhood.
I'd meant to get a photo of the river but the place is fenced off, as you can see, and I didn't want to break the rules since it is also deserted and there was nobody around to exculpate me.
I am not getting this in the dark! Of course it was much worse a few years ago, but still.
I think when I lived more south than east, my bus used to go around this bend. It doesn't anymore, though.
I was only here once, but got there by bicycle. Then returned toward home via a street with a name identical to where I live now.
RF, that would have been a 51A you rode to get up here, as I recall.
Marko, don't let ths sit. I am not getting this in the dark, either. I don't think the pic would come out
There is an art installation on the 7th (9th?) floor of Pitt's Alumni Hall which shows 365 paintings of Pittsburgh, each with the Cathedral of Learning in the background. This pic reminds me of one of them. You can see the CL from most anywhere in the city, and use it as a reckoning point for figuring out where you are.
I used to bike near here when I worked in Carrick, though I never went all the way up this hill.
I consider this whole section of Pittsburgh to be seriously under-utilized, probably because it's so difficult to get here. It's in sight of Oakland, with what must be an amazing view of the river, and land values that must be rock-bottom, and there's all this empty space. I know about the projects down below, but, frankly, things seemed pretty quiet.
There's a tendency in Pittsburgh to think your neighborhood is pretty safe, but other places you've never been to are really rowdy. Try talking to somebody in Carrick about walking at night in South Oakland, for example. But this has its good side, too. I think that's one reason Pittsburgh did not have the white flight other cities had. Everybody felt pretty secure in their own neighborhood.
@stefb I don't think the pic would come out
Quite possible the camera would not come out...
The old Arlington Projects (Sorry, my picture is a little further around the bend). There were several hundred familys displaced when they tore these down.
New tag: Who wants it?
Let me know if you need a clue
I can't believe no one has gotten this yet.
Many of us were pillaging.
Mt. Oliver? Not sure which neighborhood.
[Edit], a passerby just told me it's Bon Air, duh!
In my world, indie rules, but I couldn't find any in this collection. I took another shot of this tag too. It's here.
hehe, brings new meaning to "vinyl fencing".
S Trenton @ Biddle - w'burgh!
spooky version!
Same block as the old Turmoil Room.
^ Good to see you're back at tag-getting!
^ thanks for dropping one inside my "no excuses" zone.
::::::::: new tag :::::::::::
Behind this window is possibly the shortest wait for the loooooooooooooongest lunch in da Burgh!
Triangle Bar
this one was totally in my no excuse zone.
Yay Tabby!
I can't eat a whole "destroyer", but I did have a delicious "torpedo" sized sub there today. Good potato salad, too.
That is SO funny! I took the P71 last night, and went right past this. did not recognize the tag, but did note the "destroyer and torpedo" sign above the door and thought, "oh my, what a great tag that would be..."
Weird to now find that it WAS the active tag at the time.
that's so strange swalfoort.
I have the new tag ready, I picked it up on my way to work but I can't seem to post from here. My picture is in picasa, and usually I right click to "copy image location" so that I can add that to the code to post on here. My work computer doesn't have that option when I right click. Any suggestions?
What browser? Can you install chrome or firefox?
When you right click is there something open image in new tab/window? If so, do that and copy the URL out of the address box. Otherwise, you can "view source" and go searching around in there for the URL.
it's IE; I can't install anything here. Opening anything is grayed out. How do I do the view source?
ETA: I have to be in a meeting for a couple hours...I'll check back when I can.
Internet Explorer 9, right click, View Source.
thanks Stu, my version doesn't show that on right click.
Try pressing Alt and then use the Source option from the View menu.
Sorry to keep you all waiting on a lovely day. Here's the new tag at last (I borrowed someone's laptop to be able to post)
Find this house. Rules are that you have to bike here, but maybe on the way home you'll go multimodal.
The Forgotten Farm Stand
702 Whitney, Wilkinsburg
I do not have time to ride to an untagged neighborhood tonight and I would like to keep the game moving so here you go with an easy tag in a familiar neighborhood.
Mineos Murray ave squirrel hill
Marko and chemical Dave also in this
I saw you on your way to get this! Should have looked at where the tag was and I would have followed along... or I would have snagged it before you. I was riding past this moments earlier.
Was that a Team Decaf Group Tag?
We went after the team decaf ride. We offered to everyone, but just the three of us went. I will post a new one tomorrow when it is light.
Grrrrr, I had the chance, I should have gone. I was just pooped out - been working too much.
Uh oh, did we not invite you?
He was invited. He decided to go home.
New tag (let's see if I can get this to work from the phone again):
This looks like it belongs on a castle fit for a king.
King estate, highland park
Wow -- I never knew about this structure before. It would be a fun setting for a home movie -- medieval zombies take over the east end or something.
Where in HP is this. My daughter "princess marvelous" would love to see this.
It is on Elgin right off of negley (near where it ends). There was a small fence that appears to have been knocked over by people trying to get to the structure. That is why I didn't lean my bike against the structure, because it appears to belong to whoever owns the King estate (the mansion can be seen in my pic on the left). It is a good place to take your kid sledding in the winter, as I think the hill next to it belongs to the city.
It's for sale. First $2.1M gets it. http://curbed.com/archives/2011/10/13/pittsburghs-king-estate-restored-to-its-second-empire-glory.php
The tower is what remains of a more elaborate "folley" which I think extended across where the driveway is now.
I'll post a new tag tonight.
New tag, in an untagged neighborhood. I had to climb a mountain to get this photo of some Pittsburgh landmarks.
"It's for sale. First $2.1M gets it."
Think they'll give a discount for a group buy?
I'm not sure exactly where this is, but I'm thinking it's somewhere out Lincoln Avenue.
I don't want this to drag on like the East Hills tag.
Sighting on Mellon Bank and the UPMCUS Steel tower, visible in the photo, I don't think you end up on Lincoln Avenue.
Fuck UPMC. that's the steel tower.
Do you guys want another clue?
Please? This looks like it could be anyone's backyard.
i know approximately where it is, but not exactly. doubt i'll get there tomorrow, but the first clue is a pretty good giveaway, as is the orientation of the two prominent buildings in the image.
Well, I'm conflicted, because I like the game to move quicker. So here's another clue. This neighborhood is the remnant of a township that comprised most of the area south of present-day Pittsburgh, including Mt. Lebanon, Bridgeville, South Park, etc. The neighborhood kept the township's name when it was absorbed by Pittsburgh.
Umm I am not gonna stroll around in this neighborhood (if I am right) looking for this spot.
hmmm, I think liking the game to move quicker and liking to post untagged neighborhoods may be slightly conflicting likes.
4 days is a looooooong time for a tag to sit. May be the longest ever in this game, even in the dead of winter.
yeah umm it seems as though all of the neighborhoods south of the city on the map are tagged..unless i am reading the map wrong, which could be a possibility. i agree with dmtroyer.. making a tag difficult doesn't necessarily make the game move faster. hoping someone who is more familiar with that area will get it soon.
I am tempted to say this tag is ungettable. I guessed the NE corner of the city, based on lining up the two tall buildings, looking at a map, and estimating distance, and I was waaaaaay wrong. So if it's somewhere out in Knoxville or Hays or some such, I could spend all afternoon riding around, and could well miss it if I happened to be looking the wrong way at the time I rolled past it. See Rule #2.
i was thinking hayes or beltzhoover. maybe if i found the time to explore, like i have on other tags, and google it, i would find answers. it seems as though the angle is right some place along arlington, but it seems to be more south west than that road. there are lots of hills up that way, so i am not sure what can be seen from which street, cause i am not sure if there will be a hill in the way. the truth is, if i think a tag is in a neighborhood that i hear mentioned on the news in relation to shootings and crime, i tend to find it on google maps first, ride there quickly, get the pic, then get out quickly. paging mr marko.. this seems like a tag you would know...i am guessing it is near your hood
I Google StreetViewed all around near Glenbury and Aaron in Brookline, an area I'm familiar with, but can't line up a clear view of Downtown.
I'm also trying to avoid Rule #7, but after three gorgeous days of riding and nowhere in particular to ride to, I am getting a little antsy.
Yeah I'm thinking it's south, but a quick googles gets me nowhere. The "untagged" and other clue isnt working either. Of course I'm going to do a head slap when I here where it's at.
pretty sure this is off mountain ave in mt oliver given jon's "climb a mountain" clue in the initial post.
I found it. Don't have a camera, but you can see it on Google (only without downtown in the background).
I PMed one player, who I think is most likely to get it. If he doesn't get it by tomorrow, I'll PM another.
Extending Jonawebb's clue:
Next to Clairton works (between the parking lot and the mill) there is a graveyard with some of the folks that the township Jonawebb refers to was named after. The southside was the lower part of it.
Jonawebb, that pick certainly appears to be from someone's back yard (I could give you their address). I don't think that is really cool in that neighborhood.
For the record, longest-sitting tags to date are probably Tag 67 (St Maximilian Kolbe Parish) and Tag 83 (Homestead Frick Park), which each took about 9 days until the next tag was set. I think the biggest factor in the delays wasn't the weather, but that they were just too obscure without clearer clues.
Extending one of jonawebb's other clues, the neighborhood this is in has a companion township that's on the south edge of Allegheny County...
I appreciate the help. I think you'll find, when you go there, that the neighborhood is much more calm and middle class than its reputation suggests. From the look of things there were some projects there some time ago which were torn down and fenced off, like the ones in Arlington Heights. But riding around the place, looking for an identifiable spot to tag, I felt perfectly safe.
@ jonawebb From the look of things there were some projects there some time ago which were torn down and fenced off, like the ones in Arlington Heights.
That's good to know. I might be looking to buy a cheap house in Pittsburgh and reclaqimed neighborhoods are good to know of.
Someone showed me a house in "West Oakland" - just towards town from Treees Hall. I didn't want to drive through there even. When I was young, no one went to that neighborhood, unless they needed painkillers - and they didn't have a prescription.
Still, you have to be careful of going into people's yardes and taking pictures.
@mick, there was nothing to indicate it was somebody's yard. A house used to be there, but it had been torn down, leaving behind sidewalk etc.
@jonawebb there was nothing to indicate it was somebody's yard.
You're thinking the lawn mowed itself?
@mick Grass was pretty long and there was junk around so it didn't exactly look like somebody had ownership. I don't know who mowed it but somebody seems to take care of these things sometimes. The areas that got fenced off after the projects were torn down at Arlington Heights and, I guess, this place, also get mowed by somebody.
> You're thinking the lawn mowed itself?
"i wish my lawn was emo, because then it would cut itself"
i, for one, appreciate the long tag -- it means i missed fewer opportunities while i was cycling on rentals and bikeshares in europe last week.
Umm I climbed mountain and have been tooling around in the area. Can't find the houses. Can find the approximate view, but this is kinda lame... I bet I am close but it is getting dark and won't matter if I get there anyway. It will be too dark for the pic to come out
Go Stef!
I hope someone gets this. I may make another attempt tomorrow with more light. I did go right past where It is believed to be, but I failed to see it. Maybe a bike with gears will make for a more pleasant trip up 18th tomorrow.
Gosh. You might need to consult Pliny for help.
D'oh. So I was about 1/2 block away from the tag. I looked down that Way and didn't recognize it as being the tag. I was standing on that corner when I called cburch and was like "I CANT FUCKING FIND IT! I AM GETTING OUT OF THE GHETTO AND GOING FOR A RIDE". Whoops.
Edit: it still looks like someone's back yard, even on street view. I imagined some big empty lot adjacent to it.
At some yard near the corner of Engstler and Pliny way. Mt Oliver.
Thank you, Stef! I broke a brake cable on my way into town yesterday, or I might've gotten it.
Yay Stefb!
If I keep doing these untagged tags I'm going to make the clues easier. Still learning the game.
well don't call a tagged neighborhood and untagged neighborhood. this is mt oliver, which was tagged previously with the clock. there was a sign on fisher that said "fisher street, mt oliver watch" or something like that.
edit: maybe i am not getting this. is there mt oliver that is the borough and mt oliver that is part of the city?
Good job Stef. That's a hell of thing - go up that hill TWICE for one tag.
I think the clue had to do with St Clair. Although, as far as I can see, you are right - it's mt oliver.
randy, bruce, and i saw stef a few a few minutes after she took her picture in that persons backyard. i cursed at her a little for beating us there (purely for the lulz, stef, dont hate me) -- though she totally deserves it for doing that hill twice on her single speed with a bag over her shoulder.
Thank You, stefb! Jeez!
@jonawebb: maybe next time you could drop the name of the street in one of your clues.
Hey some people live on top of that hill. I would hate to have 18tj street as part of my commute home. Ugh. I crawl up that street on that bike at like 9mph.
The city's neighborhood maps say it's St. Clair, FWIW, which was indeed untagged previously.
But the Mt. Oliver neighborhood was untagged too. Mt. Oliver borough was tagged before, but never the tiny Pittsburgh neighborhood by that name.
I should have taken a picture of the sign... Like I said, the sign on fisher between mountain and engstler (about a half block from this tag) said mt Oliver. There were street signs in the area that said "st Claire" above the street names, but they were not where this tag was. Very confusing.
The part of Fisher Street west of Mountain is Mt. Oliver, according to the city. Maybe the sign was facing east, to indicate to people headed west that they were about to enter Mt. Oliver? Or maybe the sign was announcing a "Mt. Oliver Neighborhood Watch" area or similar (which could surely extend outside the neighborhood's official boundaries)? Or else maybe the city division that puts up signs doesn't talk to the city division that maintains the maps.
Google maps has a hidden feature where is you search on a neighborhood, say "St Clair, Pittsburgh", it shows the border in dashed outline.
Btw 9 mph up 18th is pretty impressive. I'm all about gears.
It feel very slow going up that long hill. The sign was facing east. It was east of mountain. It is a neighborhood watch sign, which can be seen on street view but not readable. No matter..
Anyway, new tag:
I am sure that this place is popular around Halloween. People of all ages strip down to their underoos, dress up and become someone else for a night. I think capt America replaced lady gaga recently. The mad hatter is still there.
Heh...nice tag. I worked there, many years ago. Fun place.
I'll be two blocks from this in about 10 minutes without my bike. Unless I can put my mother on my handlebars.
I would like to see a picture of that.
Another reason to slam the stem...more room for Mom.
I had Cops on the other night, apparently riding on the bars (or I guess anywhere) is illegal because there has to be the appropriate number of seats for the number of riders on the bike. Way to legislate fun out of everything!
she wouldn't hold still.
Costume World in the strip
damn, i knew i shouldve gone for it this morning
This tag is outside!
Too far north and too far east.
Hope this is OK...
But it looks to be
an extremely nice weekend
for getting a tag.
Bring your rollerskates.
Also poboy was there so
she knows where it is!
Ah I have never been inside this place before but I know where it is. someone had better get this soon... I am planning an early ride tomorrow...
How early?
I don't know. Every weekend one of two things happens: I set an alarm, but I turn it off cause I realize I am too tired and need more sleep. In this scenario, no pets wake me up or try to keep me up one the alarm goes off. In the other scenario, I decide that I do need to sleep in and don't set an alarm. This is when the dogs wake me up at 5am and won't leave me alone until I take them out. So we'll see what happens haha
I have a migraine, so I hope someone gets out to get it this morning before it rains today.
Here you go.
Neville Roller Drome
5601 Neville Road, Neville Island
Uh, I think you got east in the clue wrong, I was assuming Cheswick or something. I might have gone for this.
@abracadabra - Too far north, yes. Too far east, nah, unless east is west. Outside of the box, but oh well, an easy-to-get-to tag, no big deal. ;-p
poyboy told me she rode over 500 miles in March - wow!
@edmonds59 damn you're right, sorry. That's a pretty brutal detail to get wrong. My mistake.
I would never have thought Neville Island, but I likely would have done some research with a phone book and/or StreetView before I headed out.
IMHO, the best tags are ones that are visibly obvious but difficult to identify without a clue. I picked up one such tag, the anchor by Allegheny Center (tag 36 in the original thread), and dropped one, a huge painted "@" sign (tag 81).
This is outside the box but such a nice ride I hope someone will grab this new tag this weekend.
Well I am glad I didn't go out to get it.. I thought it was romp n roll
Man I totally blew it with east/west. Sorry. Glad you found it jonawebb.
ha! I must be operating at the same wave length as abracadabra because despite reading "east" I thought west and knew exactly where the tag was!
I read east, so assumed it couldn't be Neville Island. Ah well, no biggie.
This is the second time I got a tag because I misinterpreted or ignored the clue. I think the wording mislead me: "too far east" made me think west.
Like playing Pac * Man?
@headloss
@jonawebb between 16 and 17.
I hope this doesn't sit beyond today. I know where it is, but don't feel like spending most of a Sunday riding out there and back. If someone else doesn't think differently, it's liable to sit until next weekend.
I rather prefer we keep it "inside the box", where we can keep the game moving.
My day is booked and the route to this is probably like wet cement right now.
maybe i can persuade some others to do a gang bang style tag with me after the ms150 training ride today if it's still there... i would also have to figure out exactly where this is first.
Hey - I got holla'd!! Just to add to the photo gallery, I took a picture too. Y'all can admire my gorgeous cross bike
You should be able to get there almost entirely on an aristocratic road without having to take the gritty trail.
Oh, man, I love the ska!
@stef, @edmonds: Great minds think alike regarding tag-grabbing and routes.
Well we broke off from the ride yesterday and started toward it. On our way, we realized that some of us didn't have lights, and that it was taking longer than anticipated to get there. I probably won't be able to get this any time soon.
Wow, I should go for a night ride, but my sinuses feel like an alien is trying to bust out of my face.
I should've grabbed that Costume World tag. This is boring.
Rule #2: Take the tag to a new location, shoot a photo with your bike in the picture, and post it here. Keep the tag within Pittsburgh city limits and the surrounding neighborhoods - a map of the geography the tag game covers is here.
I'm in no way averse to riding, but let's try to play by the rules. Otherwise, small exceptions creep in and become the general rule. In which case, I will attempt to delay the progression of the game for weeks on end. Are there point penalties for delay of game? Maybe there should be
Yeah I am pretty sure this is in sturgeon or McDonald, and if it is, it is way outside the box and this game is just gonna stall out.
yeah... the montour and panhandle cross in McDonald.
When I place tags I try to keep in mind riders of all levels from new to experienced I like the idea of everyone playing even inexperienced riders.
Point taken. I will be more careful in the future.
BTW, the map does say it is OK to place tags outside the bounds of the map.
If people prefer, I could set a different tag tonight.
^ Where does it say it's okay to place tags outside of the limits?
See http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=204034264373521807046.000493617d604f4af9741&z=12, "OK to have tags beyond this"
I'm with quizbot, this gets boring when tags take too long. Outside the limits or too obscure = dull.
"OK to have tags beyond this"
I just added a "slightly" to that text. We've had a number of tags just outside the box, but this is a good deal farther outside than any previous one. I agree that closer is better.
I was already planning to take the T out to Library and bike the Montour down to Coraopolis today, so I'll be passing by this tag. But it's fine with me if Jonawebb just sets a new one.
ETA: And if anyone was planned to head out Noblestown Road to the tag, the PG's reporting a fire closed the road.
@Steven, if you get this tag, I would appreciate it very much.
But if it's still open, say, tonight, I'll set a new one.
Bored? There is a whole wide world out there to see and experience! I am okay with a tag taking a few days.
Go for it, Steven
> I was already planning to take the T out to Library and bike the Montour down to Coraopolis today, so I'll be passing by this tag.
since we are quoting rules, *technically* this violates rule #6: The bicycle in the picture must get to the tag location under the player's own pedal-power.
but now im probably disobeying #7 - No whining.
My first tag was a group tag with the Tuesday Decaf ride, my wife drove me to the beginning of the ride then after about 17+ miles of riding we picked up the tag, maybe it depends on how many miles you put in from being dropped off to the tag.
I'm willing to cut Steven a break on this one. Library to Cpls is close to 40 miles. It's not like he's taking a 54C to get a tag on S.18th St.
i would say that as long as you get out and do some riding, who really cares how far you travel by bike to get it? just because you start from some trail head instead of your home or work doesn't mean you're violating the spirit of the game.
Library -> McDonald is 22 miles on the Montour trail. Seems far enough.
I think we need a rule adjustment. Starting point for all tag retrieval must begin at the bike shop where the bicycle that will be in the photo was purchased. That is the only proper way of ensuring that we use 100% pedal power. :p
@headloss ::gulp::
Many of my posts are made on my Raleigh, which was purchased in a now defunct shop at the corner of Transit and Jewett-Holmwood Roads in Orchard Park, NY. A tad far for a commute, methinks.
the bike must be ridden from where it was built to the shop where it was purchased
With stops where each component was made, from to back.
An ocean is now involved, too.
@stu: you should only need to cross the ocean once on your bike under its own pedal-power, not for every tag... unless you put it on the bus rack for more than a few stops, in which case you need to start over again
Montour Trail Panhandle Connector (obviously)
I agree there's some ambiguity in the rules about where getting their under your own power begins. Can you drive from home to office in the morning and bike from the office after work? Surely yes. Drive to your favorite restaurant and bike from there? How about your 437th favorite restaurant which happens to be 3 blocks from a tag? I don't know what the precise rule should be (or if we really need one).
New tag!
This is kind of the opposite of the last tag.
is that the big dipper??
corner of Transit and Jewett-Holmwood Roads in Orchard Park, NY.
holy dag. that's far out of the way, even as far as western new yorkers go. i didn't even know transit went that far. i probably have a few parts from bert's on transit in "williamsville", and maybe even more from bicycles and more on george urban in cheektowaga/depew.
also, if you're out that way and in need of bike stuff, the folks at both chickluna and handlebars in north buffalo have treated me and my sister very well every time i've been there.
market sq constellations
it[ wa]s 12:18, do you know where this tag is?
Steven, how far out was that tag? Also, nice dropped tag. I was going to leave that as one at some point.
South side. 22nd and Jane. A little before 6am
@melange396: Big dipper and little dipper, as seen on June 2, 1835, the first recorded meeting of the Pittsburgh Anti-Slavery Society. The plaque honors the Underground Railroad. More in the PG.
@stefb: Thanks! I was surprised nobody had used the Market Square one before. The Montour tag is only about 13 miles from downtown in a straight line, but it's about 19 miles from Library via the trail.
It's the first tag outside Allegheny County. Library Station, at around Montour Trail mile post 36, is the red dot, and the tag is at mile post 17.
I like how your South Side clock photo has the stop sign echoing the shape of the clock. Nice work!
Ha I was in a hurry this morning and I actually just needed something to lean my bike against. New tag soon.
New tag:
You may have to circle around to get this, as it is on a one way road. The stencil on the building is new and not visible on street view. I Commonly take this road to work, and like to drop tags on this side of town.
Also, 3 tags were dropped in less than 9 hours (basically overnight) when the tags were in the box (or the county, even)
@Steven, excellent tag-getting and tag-dropping. I am impressed by the tagornucopia which has burst forth since.
I know where this is.
that's a sweet pic stef!
there were 2 murals like this, so I got both:
and a few feet away:
I was too focused on getting home in time to not get bruced to place a new tag, so I'll do it either tonight or tomorrow.
oops, wrong one. clearly, there were more than two
Someone else can get it, I'm tired after riding from bloomfield to the tag and back.
RF, I think it counts if you are only a few feet away, which I think you are. I also love the concept of the graffiti.
Maybe. the toynbee tile tag didn't count because it was the wrong tile and was about a block away from the right one. But I'll leave that the game overlords. Or maybe Stef.
You didn't say where it is, RF
I did originally, but when I realized I had the wrong one, I removed it to keep the mystery alive
It's on East commons, a building near Allegheny Alliance Church.
I recognized it from this blog, which gave away the location:
http://pghgraffiti.tumblr.com/
"Before I die I want to beat up Josh"
i went and retook my 30th st bridge / north shore trail pic when they were (by my calculation) less than 500 feet apart...
That is the same building, RF. you got it. That "before I die" is all over the building. Does anyone know what that used to be? I thought a bath house, but I think I am mistaken.
cool, I'll leave a new tag tomorrow after work.
The building looks more like an electrical sub station, but thats a WAG, especially since the utilities are underground over there.
I really enjoy following along, even though I don't play. And I normally keep my mouth shut - because I figure if you don't get tags, or at least go after 'em, you ought not pop-off.
But... that Before I Die thing is really awesome, so I googled it:
"The 'Before I Die' Project is an interactive public art project created by artist Candy Chang. It encourages and inspires community residents and visitors alike to share their stories and dreams in a public forum. Through this project we can be reminded of how valuable we are not only as individuals, but as united communities."
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deeandrob/before-i-diepittsburgh
Once againd, the value of T-O-R is demonstrated in a new and unexpected (for me anyway) way.
Carry on!
It seems like that Kickstarter page may be for a different Pittsburgh Before I Die project than the one above. The new project wants to make one in Lawrenceville and later other neighborhoods, and mentions in their blog "Well, we may not be the first to bring it to the Burgh...."
I couldn't find much info about the North Side's one on the web. I wonder who made it.
forgot to drop a tag. I'll do it tonight, hopefully. Just too tired, and I keep letting the couch trick me into falling asleep on it.
I have a pic of that from last month and someone filled in "f#ck hoes".
Damn vile gardeners.
I've always thought it was a school building. Whatever it was, it's part of the Allegheny Alliance Church property now...
The County real estate page provides some interesting potential clues (parcel 23-R-340 if you're dedicated): while "Building information" is "not available", some sales info is: before being bought by ALLEGHENY CENTER ALLIANCE CHURCH, it was owned by... MERCY PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL.
Perhaps more usefully, the parking lot to the north, now also owned by ACAC, was from 1950 until 2004 owned by Community House Presbyterian--those who were here then may recall that the church burnt down in 1988--was this the location? The church's history page refers to its having owned well-used "recreational facilities, a gym and a pool" --- could this building have been them?
NEW TAG!!!
I got lazy on this one and barely stepped out of my house. It's right by my main commuting route, and it's definitely my main source of delicious pizza.
I'm like 100 feet away from this right now, but without my bike.
I see exactly where it is, and have the bike, but am 30 minutes away from taking a pic, and 60 beyond that from posting it.
Fazios pizza in Lawrenceville (arguably)
I showed up mere moments after quizbot did but he let me take the tag because my schedule is more conducive to tag setting in the next 36 hours. I'll post a new tag by tomorrow evening.
Grrr. melange398 and I were saddled up to grab this. Well done!
Moments = about 9 seconds. Nice running into you
i think it's funny how people seem to get to tags at the same time or nearly the same time. it has happened to me about 10 times.
Joint tags are fun! I've been in on at least two. Why didn't the two of you do that?
Taking one for the team in the interest of keeping things moving... I'm on unpredictable 5yo time after work tomorrow until late saturday, so it would've been tough to coordinate.
You're allowed to share the getting of a tag, and pick one person to post the new one. It's happened several times already. Then all the folks who found the tag can get credit for it.
That's how I recorded this one (but feel free to PM me if you really don't want credit for it).
I think the thread is getting messed up. I was going to reply to Steven's post (which is showing up in the RSS feed) but it won't show up in the thread... the link on the main message board page leads to http://bike-pgh.org/bbpress/topic/tag-o-rama-2/page/55#post-99439 and so does the link in the RSS feed, but the latest post is Quizbot's and there's no more pages after 55.
Anyways, I was going to say that I thought that sharing tag getting but delegating tag-setting was an option, and I'm happy to be sharing this with quizbot... quizbot if you have any ideas for tag spots let me know. I have a few places in mind for this evening.
Edit: After I posted it looks like I can get to page 56 which includes Steven's post... so it was a temporary hiccup I think.
Seems to me that T-O-R #1 only got to 2000 posts before trouble started - and it started intermittently.
Soon it will be time for TaG-O-RaMa III. Will it Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts continue in this blockbuster series?
Tag-o-Rama III, tag hard with a vengeance.
Tag-o-Rama III: this time it's personal.
Tag-o-Rama 3D: Pittsburgh is hilly.
Didn't a message board admin fix things last time? I emailed the design@clicknathan.com address in the "Having trouble posting" box about the problem. Or did board moderator TeamDecafWeekend fix it last time? I'll PM him too.
New tag
This place has a bank
Where your money earns ice cream
It's name is whalebone
@Steven - I didn't fix it the problem. I don't have user permissions at that level. I can edit the rules/other posts if there are any new changes - that's about the max level of stuff I can do.
I was thinking, and I want to clarify that this photo is of a wall at the back of this establishment... so it might not be recognizable even if you've been to this place. If you think you know where it is, you're probably right, just go out back and you will see this wall.
I haven't been involved in the game recently, but I checked the borad this morning before heading out, and so here it is
I don't really know anything about the place -- internet searching found it for me -- and I really didn't feel much like eating ice cream in today's weather.
Where?
click it
I knew I go past that fairly regularly but couldn't recall where. Is the "ska" found in someone's tag usually? Jail trail graffiti kept coming to mind when I tried to remember where I saw it.
Cool. Could you explain the process that led to your finding it via the Internet? I was completely mystified.
Oh, I see. "Whalebone ice cream bank". Congrats.
It was intended to be a straightforward clue. Oh yeah! literally has a bank, in which you literally earn interest in Oh yeah! dollars, which you can use to buy ice cream.
Yeah, I see that now -- but at the time it never occurred to me to take it literally. So I was parsing the words, looking for synonyms for whalebone, etc. Completely misdirected.
also: oh yeah! is one of the few places around that has actual non-dairy ice cream.
I keep wanting to go there because of the nondairy ice cream! It needs to warm up.
Their soy ice cream is great. Esp with mix-ins, and potentially on a vegan waffle. They were out of it for a while because the owner ran out of money? I think and he couldn't order more. Which is why I think he started the bank thing, because he ran out of money and had lots of overdrafts and got mad about that. I don't know, he's a character.
On an unrelated note, I keep thinking of half-baked when I see your profile name
I wonder if they have vegan sprinkles. Normal ones have gelatin. Although I've never patronized the place, I do appreciate the option
wait.. sprinkles have gelatin? i can't remember the last time i ate sprinkles but nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
OK, I'm slow. I get the bank, I understand vegan, and can appreciate the concern about gelatin and sprinkles, and have even been to the place a half dozen times.
But how does whalebone fit into all this?
btw, props to abracadabra for the haiku clue. We don't have that many of those.
Man I have not seen Half Baked since I was like 13 or something on comedy central. I forgot about that scene. I don't remember oh yeah! having sprinkles of any kind...
Whalebone is the name of the weird bank the owner started:
http://www.facebook.com/theohyeah/posts/10150703731771756
Here's a new tag, with advice!
Considering going out to grab it, since the pens aren't doing so well..
Relax .. with the pens! or maybe that's not quite right.
There is no relaxing during a playoff game
Millvale, North st. Couldn't help but to leave the Pens game. Too close to home!
Sweet! Had I left when I thought about it, I bet we would have gotten there at the same time. That would have been cool also.
@stefb - When I arrived, I checked the thread, saw your posts and started looking over my shoulder I was thinking it was going to be a two-person tag, for sure.
This isn't exactly a new tag. Today is my 34th wedding anniversary and it's also just a few days from the anniversary of my first Tag-O-Rama tag. With those 2 events in mind, I decided to revisit my first tag site. This shot is less than 100 yards away from that spot.
I've photographed this place several times - I love the view from here.
Well happy anniversary! If this is still available after work, I may set out for it. I have always wanted to go up to this spot. Too bad drivers treat the 35mph speed limit Iike it's 65 on a nearby road.
Happy Anniversary TDW!!!!
I've always wanted to go up there too. Scary road.
Not on the scary road, go higher.
I was going to take my new bike and go get it this morning, but I had a splitting headache and wussed out... but it's gone now, maybe I should go play hooky.
Ahhh I think I know where you mean. I explored this neighborhood and took pictures of my own a month ago. I have a picture of my bike overlooking this area (anticipating I was gonna get the tag first that day).. Probably 100yards away facing a slightly different direction, and with trees with less leaves, but nice view.
The hill. Arcina street I think.
New tag:
This may only be visible when this business is closed. there is a rent-a-center close by, but I think you have to buy the wigs from here.
Discount Wig, Penn Ave. East Liberty
I came as close as possible to getting hit by a car on my way to get this tag. I would have been disappointed if I got Bruced on this
I had someone back into me (she stopped before damaging me or my bike) and a had a cop buzz me tonight... Caught on video. Glad you are ok. People were a little crazy out there today. I think there was a team decaf ride tonight that was cancelled then uncancelled, but I wouldn't have made it, as I was getting stuff at thick.
I have the most lit up bike in Pittsburgh, anyone who has ridden with me knows how bright my lights are, plus I have Fiks with lighted spokes. Why do cars still almost hit me
Coming down Stanton taking the lane, car tried passing me but another car was coming up Stanton so he swerved into me so close I could feel his mirror graze my elbow. I panicked and did the wobble of doom but didn't fall
because assholes drive them. also this mural reminds me of akira. he should be screaming "kenada!"
Ha it does look like Akira, glad I'm not alone in the anime and manga world.
+1 on jerks driving cars.
Nice tag-grabs stefb and mm
This place isn't hard to find. If you swing past tomorrow you will see me working out and pumping iron here. If you look real close at the opening of this place you can see the GNC sign on the other side.
2713 Sarah Street, South Side
Lots of people working out here, but I didn't want to photograph them so much as the entrance, hence the angle. There was also a large truck across the entrance (see shadow).
What really made it possible to grab this tag was that I had my work laptop with me, so I simply walked into the Big Dog coffee shop next door (see sandwich board), uploaded my pic, and made the post, all within a couple of minutes.
That is my CrossFit gym CrossFit Athletics. I've been working out there about a month working to become a stronger cyclist and to keep up with reddan.
@ stu nice fast tag pick up.
New tag!
I don't know if Lippert Saw Lincoln, but in any case, these steps did not take him to the apartments.
William. St and Lincoln Ave, Millvale
Try again. Post didn't show.
William. And Lincoln millvale
Yep, looks like we broke the board. You can see the post if you put "57" in the URL. Not that that is going to help anyone here, since they won't see this post, either.
Also, your pickup tag is not showing up, either.
That is the spot, though. Right next to the Lippert Saw Apartments in Millvale, a long staircase to a private home at the corner of Lincoln and William in Millvale. Clearly visible on Google StreetView, and easily visible from the main street in Millvale, 500 feet away.
EDIT: Yes, I can see your pickup tag, but I had to be logged in to my Google account first, specifically the one that's connected to Google Plus, and even then, only after I answered a couple of questions.
Can you post to something other than Google+ for pics? Or is this a Bbpress glitch? (I've never had an issue with using Flickr, FWIW.)
I had no problem getting to this post from my 'recent posts' box on the front page of the board, but maybe it's worth starting a new thread anyway.
Sorry about the URL. I think Google+ changed something so it's harder to grab the URL from the browser on my phone. Here is the photo.
Nathan, the site's web designer, is working on the thread glitch, so maybe we won't have to start a new thread. We should have about 45 more posts until it happens again, in any case.
Yeah, it has something to do with going to a new page. So my first post, which started page 57, didn't show up until there were a few more posts.
New tag this evening.
New tag. The location has something to do with a museum founded by Catherine the Great.
Also, forgot to mention, untagged neighborhood.
Need another clue?
Another clue would help. Also note that half the world was either on the Keg Ride or CtC yesterday.
FWIW, I don't even know what buildings those are off in the distance. I thought East Lib, but they're not matching up with reality.
They are visible from East Liberty. I consider those twin spires one of the saddest sights in the East End, because of their decayed state. But when I rode past them on the way to your Millvale tag , from Monroeville, I found them majestic, and here they look beautiful, I think.
Hermitage street, near westinghouse high school.
Hmm. I figured Hermitage St from the original clue, but pawing around on SV wasn't lining up with anything, and I don't know ELib well enough to go hunting after the Keg Ride. Plus I was freezing. Bah, I'm violating Rule #7.
Good job, TDW. Looking forward to the next tag!
Something strange about my images... On the first post: I think I messed up the code. The second post image appeared on my phone when I first picked up the tag, then it had disappeared by the time I got home and looked on my laptop. I adjusted the code on my first post, just before I posted this comment.
New tag to come in a few hours.
I took 2 views because the dinosaur alone shot (right) could have been too difficult to find. The real identifier of this location is the color of the cafe where the dinosaur roams. I didn't know such places existed in New Jersey.
Wait, New Jersey? I thought we weren't supposed to tag much outside the box anymore.
I bet quite a few people know where this is, even from just the shot on the right.
No? I better try to remember to go pick it up then.
I can't place this. I know I have seen it but I cat remember where. Go for it
I've driven past this like 3 times since it was posted, but don't see being able to get there by bike any time soon.
how about one more little clue just in case nate doesnt remember to go pick it up? i, too, feel like i should know where this is but cant quite recall the exact location.
Yeah I am not busy today haha. Had I known where it was I would have done a post-CtC tag grab. Saddle sores shmaddle sores.
New clue - see my reference to New Jersey from my "vinyl fence" tag on page 52. You'll find this new location very nearby.
Ah I knew it was out that way. I couldn't locate it on street view, probably cause it didn't exist yet.
Not on street view - at least not that color. It would be difficult to identify the place as it existed on SV.
well, there goes my thought--I'd guessed it was one of the handful of neighborhoods which share names with NJ towns...
The clue TDW gave shouldn't make it frickin hard
This is my bike at Biddles Escape. I hope I am not Bruced.
Okay, I've never played this before, but this one was RIGHT outside my apartment. Now let's see whether I got that HTML tag right from my phone to post the photo... (ETA: apparently not, looks like I don't have the right Flickr link, I'll fix that when I get home. ETA Part 2: fixed but JK because JaySherman beat me to it )
This is a slightly different angle to show the building. This (still not yet open) coffee shop is at Biddle at Trenton in the DMZ between Regent Square and Wilkinsburg.
Damn, you win, haha. I didn't see your first post when I was on my phone.
I think our posts were only seconds apart. I'm just glad I made it home today in time to grab my camera and get this tag.
I suppose now I have to find something new to tag, but where...
Literally seconds apart. If you click on the RSS feed, you can see the exact post time, and they BOTH say 5:33 p.m. for their first posts.
Flickr works pretty well for me, but you have to have the photo link that starts with http and ends with .jpg, or it doesn't work.
I still haven't figured out how to use Flicker from my phone. I take the picture send it to Flicker rush home then from my home computer post it on the message board.
Crazy. Would have been funny if we'd both ended up at the tag location at the same time.
Yeah, in theory I knew what link I needed, but I ended up being too lazy to figure out how to get the Flickr app on my phone to give it to me.
Awesome series of events to get this tag - and from new participants - that's cool. I like the shots too.
I just noticed that the rhododendrons have bloomed between my shot on Sunday and the new shots today.
"Awesome series of events to get this tag - and from new participants - that's cool. I like the shots too."
Thanks! This is only my second tag, and as you can see, my bike is not exactly suited to hard to get tags (i.e. anything that requires climbing a mountain). Luckily, I seem to live close to where a lot of tags are dropped, which is why I joined the game. Hopefully, I can find a way to post tags that are easy to get to, but maybe not so easy to spot.
Expect me to drop the new tag sometime tomorrow in the late evening/night time.
@JayShermann5000 - not to get all regulation on you, but there's a rule that says you have 36 hours to post a new tag. You might not want to wait any longer because if you do, as per the rules, pearmask can bruce you for taking too long. Just sayin'
@TDW, I read the rules when I started, but thanks for the tip. I just had plans last night and couldn't go out to set a new tag until tonight.
Now without further ado:
I wasn't sure where I was going when I set out to find this tag. I decided to follow the sunset toward the end of the city. While on the trail, I spotted some interesting graffiti to my right.
Bonus points if you spot this scaredy cat:
Arrrgh! MTCC Wed. ride just flew past that like an hour ago.
"Arrrgh! MTCC Wed. ride just flew past that like an hour ago."
Did you happen to spot a hobo-looking guy with a giant beard and a blue bike? If so, that was probably me.
Not 30 seconds after I took a picture of the graffiti, I saw two guys on a training ride, one of which was wearing a yellow and black Iron City jersey. They startled the bunny.
@JaySherman5000 - Uh, sorry. I read your post about dropping the next tag "sometime tomorrow" and I assumed you meant Thursday because I was reading it mid-day Wednesday. I didn't notice you had posted it the day before. Jeez, dumb. Best luck at this game, it's fun.
I can't wait to get over this cold and grab a tag. I saw a news story about 12-15 new potential creepy looking tags to drop around town.
It's been two beautiful days. Should I give a better clue, or is the weather simply too nice to go hunt for random graffiti and bunnies along the river?
i was going to grab it after work, but i am heading out of town. i am surprised marko didn't get it yet.
Three. Rivers Traul, opposite Brunot Island
New tag, for your weekend tagging pleasure.
I think the location will be obvious to many of you. If not, you might be able to make out a name on the building that will give you a clue. Also, untagged neighborhood.
I was planning to ride up there this morning but I was lazy and slept in... now I'll probably get bruced.
Observatory, Riverside Park. This was also the 200th tag.
Observatory
Bruced again....
NNNNNNNNEEEEEEEWWWWWWW TTTTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGG
One morning away from the board, I miss out on a close tag, and now there's one that I know *what* is but don't know *where* is, but I have a hunch 80 other people are closer to it than me.
I declined Dan's nice offer to do a group tag since I don't believe in group tags, he beat me fair and square... but it was a beautiful morning for a ride regardless and he took me down venture->east st which I never would have considered on my own. NEW ROAD!
I see now, this was tagged before. I looked at the map view on my phone before riding up and didn't see any tags.
Allow me statue behind Wyndham hotel
Oh. I didn't know what it was. But I do know there is another one quite similar to it, quite close to this one. Is this some sort of pre-3RAF installation?
These are the creepy new tags I was wanting to drop.
Also does that observatory hill one count as a tag since it was done? And seriously, the neighborhood WAS tagged.. It was a repeat tag!!!!
The funny thing was, dan and I rode to the north side together then went our separate ways so he could set the tag in peace. But due to my navigational incompetence combined with road closures, I ended up stuck in traffic downtown and he accidentally sort of followed me. I saw him looking around over there and debated being shady and spying... but I did the honorable thing and went on my way.
Btw there's no actual rule about duplicate tags.
There's no rule against reusing a tag location. But when I dropped that staircase tag, that was actually my second location choice. I took another one earlier that evening, but checked first to see if it had been used before. It had, so even though my pose for that spot was entirely different from both drop and pickup, I opted for the steps instead.
Yeah, stephb, I had a feeling you were taking about the people statues when you mentioned creepy, but I think they're cool!
@salty... your'e too good!
Why does everyone insist on misspelling stef's name? Or edmonds' for that matter? It's right there on the left. I got corrected quite angrily when we started dating so I like to pass on my pain
I would imagine people just don't read those names cbirch.
My name is uncommon in this country, so I figure people will usually mess it up. But with common names, people usually have known someone else who spelled it a different way. The only time I hold it against people is when they should really be double checking details, like for applications.
Oh shit, sorry cburch and especially stefb.
I usually try hard to get names right, assuming people like the names they use on the board. No consolation, but I made that comment from my phone and really, it's a pain/nearly impossible to look back at other posts, names, etc while I'm adding a new post. I did it in a hurry on my way to a wedding without my glasses on too - I can't see crap without 'em.
@ StuInMcCandless - The sculptures are an exhibit in Gateway Center. Created by Seward Johnson. 15 sculptures are located throughout the complex - displaying until Aug 5th. More here
Wait, so you were on the road, in a hurry, half-blind, posting on a message board while traveling, and the only damage was spelling-related? No car stuck in the side of a building, even a little? What a refreshing change from the way these stories usually go!
Thanks for the link about the sculptures. Once again, Tag-O-Rama reports on new Pittsburgh stuff before the newspapers get around to it.
I saw those on a wtae news story on Thursday and really wanted to leave them as a tag, mostly just to see them in person. Great minds think alike, TDW. I think this is at least the second time recently that you dropped a tag I was thinking about dropping the same week. I love it. Don't worry so much about the name. I think I actually confuse people because I spell my full name with a PH but I shorten it with an F, as to make it as short as possible.
New tag. Sorry, guys, another Stefb-level tag. In another untagged neighborhood (I double-checked this time.)
This location is hard to identify from the photo, but it is the most tropical location in the whole city.
I was just being a jerk. When I started dating stef she was super sensitive about it. I got yelled at when my family got it wrong a couple times. She's relaxed about it a lot over the last few years. I think mostly from half my family and all her coworkers continuing to get it wrong.
What's with the hard to find, but totally freaking boring tags? More cool art, stories, architecture, hidden gems of the city please!
Hm, only about 17 playgrounds in the city look like this. Rule #2: "Give a few hints so the next person can figure out where the tag is located. Try to place the tags in interesting locations, somewhere historic, etc. Remember, the point of the game is not to make the clues difficult to figure out. It is about riding, not Googling."
I'd aim more for someplace we go past all the time and hadn't noticed. As I mentioned above, I had a choice of using a second tag from the exact same spot as an earlier one, which would have been OK because it was an entirely different view. My steps pic might not have been that interesting, but it was right in line with one's field of view while riding through Millvale, and by going to look at it, finding a cool little neighborhood that's ideal for a cyclist to live in. It's all apartments and single-family homes in a walkable neighborhood on quiet streets.
The protractor game was rather fun, too, while it lasted. It got me (and many others) looking at things I might not otherwise have noticed. (btw I know of three protractors still, fairly close together.) That's the spirit of these games, get us to look at stuff, pay attention; not "find Item X hidden in this picture".
Stu, the difference is that your tag about the stairs had a good and accurate clue.
Now this clue says that it is in the city. Is it in the city? Or the blue box? Or is it even in allegheny county?
I think these are the remaining untagged Pittsburgh neighborhoods (i.e. part of the city proper):
Arlington
Banksville
Bedford Dwellings
Beechview
Chartiers
Crafton Heights
East Carnegie
East Hills
Homewood North
Knoxville
Lincoln Place
Mount Oliver (the neighborhood, not the borough)
Oakwood
Overbrook
Regent Square (the part inside the city)
Ridgemont
Sheraden
Spring Garden
Summer Hill
Terrace Village
Westwood
Windgap
Some of these are arguable, because a tag's on the border. In such cases I tried to count a neighborhood if the photo showed part of the neighborhood. I used the city's maps.
There's actually a really good clue in there, if you look. It is definitely in the city and in the blue box.
When I compare the map of Pittsburgh neighborhoods at http://www.pittsburghpa.gov/dcp/snap/ with the Tag-o-Rama view I always find more untagged neighborhoods than are listed above, and some tagged neighborhoods (e.g., Homewood North and Regent Square) that I've tagged.
BTW, I hate to bring it up, because I've also violated it, but consider rule #7.
what makes it a "stef-b level tag"?
for what its worth, i think ive found it but im not looking foward to riding out to get it (im lazy)
I'm guessing only stefb has the balls to get it. But maybe not -- prove me wrong.
Pittsburgh's GIS site disagrees with its own map pages about whether the triangular block shown in your tag 344 is in Regent Square or in Point Breeze. So this one is unclear.
I believe your tag 427 is in Homewood West, not Homewood North, so as far as I can see, Homewood North is still untagged.
I'd be interested to know of any other Pittsburgh neighborhoods that should be on the above list. I think I found at least one tag in each of the remaining 67 neighborhoods.
I agree that your new tag is in a previously untagged Pittsburgh neighborhood, but it's way too much climbing for me (not to mention finding a safe route). Good clue though.
I meant to tag East Hills but it looks like I missed...
You are right, my Homewood tag was in Homewood West, so Homewood North is still available.
For reference, I overlay the neighborhoods using Google Maps by opening the Tag-o-Rama view and then searching on the neighborhood, then turning Tag-o-Rama view overlay back on. Makes it pretty easy to find the boundaries. But then, of course, you're dependent on Google Maps being correct, which is harder than it sounds.
I am not getting shot getting a tag, if that is what you mean.
If this is the playground I think it is, I more connect that clue with a swamp along the New York State Thruway between Rochester and Syracuse, not too distant from where cburch grew up.
@Stefb, not what I meant. It seemed like a pretty middle-class neighborhood to me. It's definitely not a location I would associate with getting shot. But you might need some biking stamina to climb the hill.
I've said this before; I think Pittsburghers are a bit too afraid to venture outside their neighborhoods. I'm pretty sure that if you told people from this neighborhood that you live in, say, East Liberty they would tell you you are going to get shot some day.
More likely to be assaulted by teens in slibby, though a cyclist did get shot last year, too.
Someone just got shot in Mellon Park in Shadyside, so it's just getting harder to predict where you will get shot these days.
I just saw that, bill. I am surprised that the news didn't call it east liberty instead of Shadyside.
Also I think I know where that tag is, but it is balls hot and I lack an inhaler.
I think that part of Mellon Park is technically in Point Breeze.
BTW, my "safe route" comment about the new tag referred to getting run over, not getting shot. The roads there don't seem very bike-friendly.
not very friendly, indeed!
im gonna go try it now anyway. wish me luck in not getting run over or heat stroked or rained upon.
Go for it! And good luck
tropical park, beechview
Oh, it wasn't the park out by Montezuma Street in Lincoln-Lemington? That would surely have been a fruitless side excursion from Downtown to McCandless.
Good thing I let someone else take this.
I was over there last night, just without my bike. soon as the clue was giving i knew where it was.
Hey, congrats, @melange396. I guess someone else has balls.
Balls? Are we in 6th grade on the playground?
Oh ya, we are.
personally, i am shocked beyond belief to learn there is more than one cyclist in pittsburgh who can ride up a hill. and/or ride on a road.
There are hills in Pittsburgh? I grew up in the midwest & we called them headwinds.
Edit: I lied. Did not grow up in the midwest.
Tropical Park is at 1097 ft altitude. The nearest river is at 710. INSANE 387 ft gain in altitude.
I rode up a hill once.
Not sure if I want to do it again.
387 feet! that's crazy talk!
Yeah guys. Some day you will be able to climb a hill like melange and I. Don't be jealous... Especially you, quizbot. Some day you may be able to climb a hill or two in Europe!
What I find funny is that I am not a fast climber. I am waiting (and surprised it hasn't happened yet) for someone to zip past me up a hill next time I go for a tag that involves any hill climbing.
Just saying... Stefb climbed the hill to the St. Clair Village tag, twice, on different days, while everyone else was sitting back. Melange got the New Homestead and now the Tropical Park tag. I'm seeing a pattern here.
I have seen a lot of the people on here climb huge hills, I might be slow but I can climb the hard long ones also. I think it's more of having the time and free schedule to pick up a tag. It's not about having balls.
I climb Federal St, 345 vertical feet in 0.7 mile, about every other week. I just don't care to chase after tags I don't know where are (Tropical, Hermitage, St Clair). Even when I do know, it takes me 45 minutes to an hour from taking the pic to posting it, during which I have been bruced twice.
@stefb I am waiting (and surprised it hasn't happened yet) for someone to zip past me up a hill next
On hills? I get passed by joggers.
I am often passed by walkers, and I think I walk faster uphill than I bike. I still bike them, I just don't know where most of these tags are.
yeah, it's not so much i can't get up hills--though i'm still overly happy & proud to have made it up Herron to Dobson last week--but i haven't had any idea where some of these are.
which way did you get there, jonawebb? i took this route , which was probably not the best choice. i accepted that i was going to have to play frogger for that block on rt51, so ill take all the blame for that (i actually had great timing and was on the road segment with no other cars). warrington is in miserable condition and includes parallel trolly tracks that threatened to destroy my rims. brosville st and crane ave were treacherous and difficult -- i do greenfield ave from bottom to top pretty regularly, but those two made me get off and walk for longer than id like to admit. i was cursing your name, jonawebb, the whole time thinking "this guys kind of a dick… what does he do, pick an 'untagged' neighborhood and turn on the terrain view to find the highest point??!*"... needless to say, i took the t back into town from fallowfield station :-p maybe you shouldnt be commending my efforts quite so soon... but then i did greenfield without whining
> Tropical Park is at 1097 ft altitude. The nearest river is at 710. INSANE 387 ft gain in altitude.
but theres a bump in the middle! according to the endomondo altitude chart i had two main climbs: my low before mt washington was 741 and the high was 1214, then a low at rt51 of 869 and the high right before the park of 1130 leads to at least 734 feet of climbing. thats like 90% MOAR INSANE!!!1!
(*) if you are doing it just to be a dick, i commend you for successful crossover oti/irl trolling
> Stefb climbed the hill to the St. Clair Village tag, twice, on different days, while everyone else was sitting back.
for the record, i too climbed that hill (with randy), just to see stef returning from the apex as we were about to reach it.
i would also like to point out that i am currently in 2nd place in the tag-o-rama rankings. i am going to enjoy it while i can, as i will probably never catch stef in 1st place, and jonawebb is sure to surpass me in a few weeks.
new tag:
if this structure is not recognizable enough, its location has something to do with the first klingmon in starfleet.
the Mon wharf
Went out early because this is a easy place to find.
I liked the tag it is one of the lowest points in the city compared to jonawebb high tag.
@melange, you went the same way I did, except I got confused where the trolley tracks went off Warrington to the right and followed them down. It was sort of interesting, down there, with the tunnel they take under Mt. Washington. Obviously illegal for bikes, but appealing.
My goal is to pass stefb in 5-10 years.
On the terrain -- I was just trying to find an identifiable point in the neighborhood. The name was appealing to me, and I thought there would be some landmark visible from there, or at least you could see Sawmill Run. But everything is overgrown now.
BTW the run down Crane and the ride back up Warrington was not bad at all. There's still the crap concrete road next to the trolley tracks, though. But it's a little easier to handle going uphill.
I'd better get a tag to start filling in some of those untagged 'hoods, a shameful number of them are out my way.
Although to be honest, there is very little remarkable in, say, Crafton Heights.
@jonawebb: you, sir, are an animal
for those playing along at home: yes, i know its a repeat, but i wanted to make the lt cmdr worf reference
Also, I have a reeeally wide gear range. If you have a triple, I highly recommend replacing the inner chainring with as small a one as you can find, and adding a Deda Dog Fang to keep chain drop from happening. It's not expensive or difficult, and you will find biking in Pittsburgh much more enjoyable.
@jonawebb , I highly recommend replacing the inner chainring with as small a one as you can find
+1
Where does one find the Tag-o-rama rankings? I'd like to know how far back I am at two tags collected.
Edit: nm, i found the spreadsheet.
@melange396 : A Warrior's Drink
@jay check out the first page of this post.
Whoopi was on Star trek?
You missed ST:TNG?
Just in time for the night commute, its no Jefferson airplane but you can "come on and take a free ride" to the city that is.
> Whoopi was on Star trek?
yeah. her name is guinan. she tends bar and she listens.
(nerd alert)
@JaySherman5000: nice!
Not making fun. I'm not sure she missed that much. The Guinan episodes were weak, in my opinion. Mostly. The one were they reincarnated Denise Crosby was good. What a need I am.
Are you kidding me? I was here with my bike at the very moment Steeld was posting this! Crap! Won't be here in the morning, which is my next shot at it! All yours, Stef!
allegheny station, t+ line, north side
Every episode of Star Trek was AWESOME. Never ever say a Star Trek episode was not that good.
Hah the major Taylor ride went past that twice. If we had checked the first time, we may have met you there.
@marv - unless its "enterprise"
@marv - unless its "enterprise"
double post, but it does bear repeating.
Well played cburch, well played.
Hey Mr. M, you gonna ride anytime soon? Hav'nt seen ya in ages & you should be ripped by now, no?
@JaySherman5000 - the lucky 10,000 is funny - great cartoon. Also, I like that you're using a tag for your gravitar. I think you're the only person with a tag image.
@ Marko the countdown to my return has started, I plan on riding in the next week or so. Not ripped yet but much less body fat. I have dropped from XL spandex to medium spandex.
@TDW: thanks! I used that pic because, until I started playing this game, I didn't really have a nice picture of my bike.
Now, I have pictures of my bike in various locales, but I still don't have a picture of me on my bike (or any bike, for that matter).
I did like T'Pol.
I wouldn't call jonawebb a dick. I'd call him adventurous. By the way, if you liked Tropical Park, check out the other sights in that "Seldom Seen Greenway" area. Here's a nice photo essay: http://walkingpittsburgh.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/walking-beechview/
Hey, didn't the old Tag O Rama thread technically crash on page 41? If so, and this is now page 59, we are celebrating our 100th page of Tag O Rama posts!
That's cool!
Yes, and it's still broken. I think we were even able to fill 41 and start a 42, but it was too flaky, so we began this second thread.
Note that we are a couple ticks short of 3,000 posts on this thread, plus over 2,000 on the first one, so we're well over 5,000 posts!
@paulheckert -- when you're in the middle of Type 2 fun, you say and think things that you change your mind about afterwards.
tick tock. that was picked up at 7ish last night, right? i go right past that tag on my way into work in the mornings...
Swalfoort just pointed out that we've had 100 pages on Tag-O-Rama. stefb, your post was number 3,000 on this thread, Stu said it's over 5,000 total posts on both Tag-O-Rama threads - yikes, big, big, numbers!
We are awesome, oh yes, we are.
> unless its "enterprise"
the best star trek was recorded when gene roddenberry was around. the others are still acceptable.
> I did like T'Pol.
she makes me want to enter pon farr
sorry for the delay, i wanted to post this at work today but i kept getting distracted by my normal duties. NEW TAG:
if you prepend 2^6 to the location where guinan bartends, youll get the address of this tag
6410 forward ave squirrel hill I think.
get it?! 64 ten forward !!!
I had to google your entire clue hahah then I got lost in squirrel hill like always.
I got the joke.
@melange396 - I like the upside down bike - that's new to tag-o, I think.
new tag:
this may be so brand new that it might have gone up today, as i didn't notice it earlier this week or earlier this morning, but then again, my head may have been up in the clouds. interestingly, i dropped a tag at this same exact location over 200 tags ago, but it now looks different.
part of the description says: "walking along or driving by at different distances and times, perceptions of the image and memory shift, altering our experience."
"Underpass", Federal at Lacock.
47 minutes from drop to pickup!
@melange396 - Oh, wait a minute on the first upside down bike tag - I forgot stefb posts things upside down, sideways, etc.
@stefb - cool tag. I'm feelin' strong that I know where it is, but I may not be able to get there.
Ha LACOCK
Lacock and 6th, north shore
Correction, Federal St, not 6th on the north side of the river
TDW, you do of course realize you were bruced, right?
Lacock blocked?
New tag!
The photo looks tipped, but really it isn't because the hill this photo was taken on is on a grade that, percentage-wise, is tipped about as much. Good view, though, as they might say in Mexico.
@ Stu - Holy crap, no! I didn't know. I just got back home and found out. When I made my post on the top of page 60 (saying "cool tag" to stefb), I had never seen the last post of yours on page 59 with the tag.
I'm not sure if it was just a weird glitch or I just hadn't noticed. Ah well, as is always said after being bruced... "it was a great day for a ride."
+1 quizbot!
Lacock blocked, for sure!
quizbot++
Oh man, that blows! ha!
could have been the thread wigging out again, it always happens around page breaks. i think we should start t-o-r-3.
I have to admit a feeling certain amount of schadenfreude about TDW getting lacock blocked after what he did to me last weekend... wait, that didn't quite come out right.
Hey nice tag i went to that school when it was under a diffrent name, hopefully I can get there before work tomorrow.
ah i think i am sleeping in tomorrow. should be a beautiful morning and day for a ride for someone to pick this one up.
Its not even 2 miles from my house but i have to be at work at 6am so sunlight might not permit me to pick it up. Also my bike is in the shop gotta use the backup.
you don't need sunlight. i have taken many poor quality pictures in low light. as long as we can see a bike and make out part of or most of the tag, it is fine. just make sure you say where it is.
Sounds gd if i had air in my backup i would be there after work tonight its still so nice out.
Nice morning for a ride getting a few miles in before work.
1805 Buena Vista st. Propel charter school.
In spite of your trepidation about the light, nice photo!
Yea guess they read the posts. they had it Lit up for me.
Great pics, all y'uns!
I think the board is working fine. TDW's "cool tag" comment was made just one minute after my tag-pick-up post (6:16p, 6:17p), so from his perspective, he would have just seen her drop post, not mine yet.
I like TDW's pick-up picture because it shows just how big this bit of art is.
I think that insulation is part of the childrens festival.
+1 on Lacock, that made my night last night when I read it
I think that insulation is part of the childrens festival.
Stu's second photo of Lacock show that the artist's name is Dick!
And yeah, as Stu suggests, I was probably typing my post when he posted the tag. When I finished typing, I automatically went to page 60, never saw his post on the end of page 59. The board isn't broken, yet.
I don't know that it's connected to the Children's Festival in Oakland (presented by the Cultural Trust), but here's more information about the Underpass public art gallery, which is run by the Children’s Museum and other North Side groups.
The first work there was Clouds, which Stefb tagged (#170). The current one has an ID plate in Stu's photo that says
3 THREE ***
distant memory
Dick Esterle
I'm not sure if it's saying that this is the third piece they've shown there, and this one's titled "distant memory", or that the piece is called "3 THREE ***: distant memory", or maybe it's stop #3 on the Charm Bracelet. (Was there a different piece there between Blue Skies and this one?)
I don't know that it's connected to the Children's Festival in Oakland (presented by the Cultural Trust), but here's more information about the Underpass public art gallery, which is run by the Children’s Museum and other North Side groups.
The first work there was Blue Skies, which Stefb tagged (#170). The current one has an ID plate in Stu's photo that says
3 THREE ***
distant memory
Dick Esterle
I'm not sure if it's saying that this is the third piece they've shown there, and this one's titled "distant memory", or that the piece is called "3 THREE ***: distant memory", or maybe it's stop #3 on the Charm Bracelet. (Was there a different piece there between Blue Skies and this one?)
I dunno, because when you bruced me last weekend your post was definitely NOT showing up until I made another post, remember?
Although, in this specific instance I think you are correct - I believe the glitch only affects the first N posts on a page, never the last post(s). I think the current value of N is 1 or 2, although I think it grows over time (as "spam" posts are removed, IIRC.)
[edit: to be more precise, the glitch is that the next page does not show up in the list until it contains N posts, but there are ways to get there, like editing the URL or right after you make a post. So you might see your own post immediately after you make it but others won't be easily able to. Anyways...]
^ Ah, yeah, I see.
I will not be able to post a new tag. On my way up Marshall my crank arm snapped, so I'm bikeless til I get my road bike out of the shop. So stu's picture is still the tag.
Ah that sucks. I hope the mechanical failure didn't cause you to eat shit
Luckily I didn't. I have long legs and learned to bail pretty good.
I'm wondering that since no one re-tagged stu's tag,and that I got a new crank. can I put up a new tag I went out and got on this fair weather day?
@steeld55 - yes, if you get to it before anyone else, it's yours.
NEW TAG!
Visit the king not in Shelby county but at Graceland, and you will be right next to heaven with your bike.
this is awesome! i won't get over there anytime soon to get the tag, but i want to ride over to see this in person. i didn't know this existed.
There is a whole wall of Elvis there.
Ha, I think someone sold Elvis a frame that's a little too small.
Great tag!
Graceland Automotive, 1522 Preble Ave.
Newt Aagh!
Taking the sidewalk on this bridge will keep birds from landing on you, as well as providing a bit of shade...
Baah. You posted four minutes after I shut the machine off and left the house, or I'd've gotten this on my way in.
Oh. That bridge. NOW I know where it is, after checking out everything that crosses I-279. Well, let's see if I get bruced before I get to work in the morning. If I ran out now, it'd be dark before I got there.
Yea i think you got this one Stu. I'm stuck at work til midnight, I didn't wake up early to grab it before work.
I won't get it on the way to work. I promise. You can have it, stu, if someone doesn't beat you there.
Shadeland Avenue Bridge over Jacks Run
Probably not the exact spot as the drop photo. Mine is southbound just at the entry to the "shade". But I'm pretty sure it's the same bridge. There aren't that many two-lane bridges around here with a cage on both sides.
Hey Stu, what kind of bike do you ride? Is that a 3-speed?
New tag!
The color of money may rain down on you.
Not having anything to do with this tag:
@Jay - No, that isn't a 3-speed. 2 front, 6 rear. I do have a 3-speed, though, which my son rides most of the time. It shows up in a tag pic from time to time. I've even climbed Federal St on it. (btw, that's the exact tag location as the pic at the top of this page.)
The blue bike is a Brittany Free Spirit, which I believe to be a mid-1980s Sears model. I got it from marko82 a year or so ago. It's actually my wife's, though she rarely rides it, and my old Raleigh has brake trouble, so this has been the main set of wheels.
@stu Brittany Free Spirit
You go for a quality ride there, dude!
Well, it's kind of the point, too. (Beyond the in-house argument about "spending so much money on bicycles" vs. an L-note a week on gasoline when the car rarely leaves a five-mile radius.)
Not only am I trying to do the unlikely -- commuting into the city from 10 miles out -- I am doing it on inadequate equipment.
If I can do what I'm doing on ancient and/or hand-me-down bikes, sure as hell anyone who bothers to drop $500+ on a decent bike (vs $500/month or two on a car payment) can do it, too.
The other four bikes are (1) My mid-1970s Raleigh, (2) My $20 bargain store 3-speed, (3) Another no-name hand-me-down 10-speed from the mid-1980s, and (4) A Specialized mountain bike that almost never gets used.
This tag's been out there for almost a full day in gorgeous weather. Do y'uns need a hint? Here are two: It's in a central location, and you won't find any bones in honeydews or canteloupes or maybe you might. OK, three: This tag is LOUD at certain times of day.
BoNY mellon painting scaffolding w/ daryl (user ddeeff)
dammit stu, you made me look like less of a riddle solving genius by posting more clues before i could post the pic! i was a little bit worried i had it wrong because the scene has changed a bit since your shot.
Sorry about that. I also didn't realize how fast the scenery changed.
They are sandblasting and painting the entire BNY Mellon skyscraper. It's becoming a shade of green quite resembling paper money. To do this, they apparently have to vacuum and/or wash all the paint fumes and rust specks off the building, so there are these huge hoses hanging off the side of the building. The sound is deafening, and only as I type, about 8:45 p.m., have they quit for the day. (My office is diagonally across the street in the Frick Building.)
I can only imagine how much money they are sinking into manpower, equipment, paint, and whatever-all else, to "paint the house" when the house is a 60-story building.
I thought your clue was adequate, stu. Anyone who spends time downtown lately would have recognized it. I could have gotten it today but decided to work from home.
new tag:
as you can see from the sign on the left, no bikes allowed in this tunnel... but not if stu had his way! (be careful getting up to this entrance)
thanks to b.s. and marko82 for coming along -- go team tagorama-getters in the national bike challenge! #BTWD #btwdPGH
Wabash. Tunnel
Such a nice day to ride and look for a tag
Well, here you are.
This is my second attempt to tag this neighborhood. I rode around for a while looking for some public art, and found this. Frankly, the neighborhood is rundown, but parts are still quite homey.
A nice middle class neighborhood, huh?
(meadows bowling center, frankstown rd)
I was just gearing up to grab this.
BTW, @stefb -- I'm making no claim that this is a nice neighborhood -- "homey" was a clue -- but parts do seem more or less like, say, Greenfield. But in some areas it seemed like something was going on that I didn't quite understand, or want to. Homewood West seems to be in better shape than Homewood North, and East Hills, at least parts of it, are really in the worst shape possible.
So I tagged a place on a major road to make it pretty low risk.
I was using a lot of sarcasm yesterday.
new tag:
i dont know what this is, but i have a few ideas that ill share after its been found. maybe someone knows for sure. youll find it on a sort of 'dead end' (the daring can find a way out, though).
@melange396
http://www.boatpittsburgh.com/page-navigation-charts.aspx and in particular http://www.lrp.usace.army.mil/navchart/al/sheeti.pdf -- look for CHARACTERISTICS OF BEACONS
@melange396
That's called a day marker; pretty much a bouy that's on land. And since it's a red triangle, we're looking upstream, right at that pretty blue bridge....hmmm.
I should have gotten the bridge in this picture. This is at the end of the Southside trail right before you hop the tracks to get to Sandcastle.
well done, mr marvelous!
@ melange396 I found this by mistake. I rode down the trail trying to loosen up my sore legs after I hard CrossFit session I stopped a sat on that rock to drink some water and eat. I looked up and wondered what that thing was and where have I seen it before..... then it hit me.
New tag soon and it will be any easy tag
NEW TAG. As promised an incredibly easy tag. If you are on the Tuesday ride today it along the way. This could possibly be the largest gang bang tag ever.
Ah I checked while on the ride and got home before you posted it. Maybe there can e a major Taylor gang bang tag if it is still available?
^ sorry I tried to post this before the ride ended. I was running just a bit late.
That is fine. We miss you on the rides!
I miss you guys, I hopefully will be back the first of the month.
Park place pub
I waited until after the ride was over before I left to get this.
New tag
This is in reference to Bicycling magazine naming us the 35th best bicycling city in the country.
See http://m.bicycling.com/ride-maps/featured-rides/35-pittsburgh.
Bonus if you can explain why we're almost,cut not quite, as good as Miami
Is there a list of the new rankings (i.e., actually listed on one page) somewhere? I wanted to see it, but the clickthrough slideshow things like Bicycling magazine has for the rankings make me furious, especially when it's a list that long.
Biggest Challenge: Pittsburgh’s charm—old, narrow, winding streets—requires creative installation of infrastructure.
reeeaeally? biggest challenge? makes it sound like we're in italy somewhere.
Holy shit! An easy one! Is your bike one of the two down by the river?
@jonawebb Bonus if you can explain why we're almost,cut not quite, as good as Miami
How much salt do they put on their roads in January?
Similar to how much salt washes and blows in by itself all year round near the coast?
@Stef yes, the one on the right.
Miami must have horrible bike infrastructure, that's all I can say. It's flat there, you can bike all year without changing your tires or clothes, and they have a beach.
Well if I wasn't off today I would go right past this on my way home.. Dang.
If I had biked today instead of running, I would go past it too. Double dang.
OT It's not the salt that kills road, it's a cycle freeze-thaw. Salt slightly moves freezing point down the scale melting snow/ice. as soon it diluted significantly/washed out -- back to freeze.
the salt may not destroy the roads, but it can cause horrible corrosion on drivetrains
Edit: never mind.
Anyone wanna get this tag after the major Taylor ride tonight if it is still there?
I'll go with you.
Maybe the ride will go past it and save us a trip? If not I'll add a few miles with you.
its way too beautiful to wait til after the ride... ;-p
under ft duquesne bridge, near pnc park w/ randy and ddeeff
(sorry stef and marko)
(and mikhail)
Better framing than my photo..
Fffffffffuuuuuuu
I snooze, I lose
@ stefb, two tags in a row!
I have been kinda unmotivated to go out and get tags. I have also been doing some home improvements. Meh.
new tag at a record distance in 'moon' township:
trololololololol jk, its inside the bounds of the box
randy and i found this lunar module descent stage (mockup) near a circular automaton home. there is a novel way to reach it, if you feel like being a trailblazer.
@melange396, I will kick myself and be red in the face if this turns out to be obvious, but is there a way to get here that doesn't involve riding past "no trespassing" signs?
EDIT: Whoops, never mind, found it in another thread.
Edit: Never mind.
i am also gonna kick myself for not being able to figure this out. it is nice outside. i hope someone picks this up. it sounds like some CMU shit to me or something. thanks for leaving it in this county.
Dang it. Just tried to grab this again on my break but could not get close enough on account of the actual trailblazers. Third time's a charm.
I know exactly where this is. Wish I would have checked the thread before I RODE RIGHT BY IT LAST NIGHT!
Well, since enough people know where this is that it sounds like I won't have a crack at it, I thought I'd mention: it's visible on Google Satellite View.
Whover gets it, PLEASE give a good description of the way to get there.
I want to be able to tell a fellow rider, "Hey, let's drop by where my car's parked," sometime.
There are directions in a recent thread in which I participated.
@destructicity: dont get Red in the face, he might get you back!
@stefb: its indeed cmu shit
@rsprake: i took the pics right around sunset and then posted after i got home, so it might not have been up yet when you rode past
@jonawebb: you mean this? http://www.google.com/moon/#lat=0.655673&lon=23.471040&zoom=19&apollo=
Seems to be some inside CMU humor going on here...
Not really.. Cmu does some creative things, especially with robots
@stefb Cmu does some creative things, especially with robots
I totally agree!
Although I would would be a little less extreme in my description of their students.
Well, this may have to sit for a while, because as of 3:00 there is now a fence across the trail preventing you from getting within about half a mile of this tag.
Either that, or someone who cares less about trespassing will have to go get it.
Was this not already trespassing? I'd rather not just go trying to find a tag and end up having to turn back because of some signs.
shiiiiiiiiiiiit that sucks. i didnt think it was trespassing last night, as there is an obvious trail leading from the street through to the tag with no signs or barriers. we saw othes biking on it as well.
whats the best way to proceed? i suggest leaving this up for another day or so to give someone else a chance to brave it (or be lucky enough to find the fence removed). if nobody goes for it by then, i will put up a new tag.
Google lunarX prize LEM simulator, near Robot City Roundhouse.
NICE! howd you defeat the barrier?
Second avenue, through the gate, ignoring the signs.
New tag, in another neighborhood I narrowly missed tagging before.
I found this place in a photo on Google maps (but not on Streetview). I kept to the lowlands this time in the hopes of luring Stefb and her fixie out of her apparent semi-retirement. But if someone else gets it, it'okay.
Pretty sure Stef could kick your ass on any climb you want to try. on her fixed gear or any other bike she decides to ride.
Undoubtedly.
Edit: dude, she completed CtC. Her biking skills are beyond question.
I think that may be an exaggeration.. I haven't fallen over going up hills.. Yet. I am pretty slow at hills, but I can do all of the ones I have tried.
I am disappointed that this photo was not taken from inside the building.
Tag is probably in Erie Pa.
Wouldn't that make it harder to identify?
Edit: entirely in the blue box!
Tokay street, homewood
A little odd story about the pic^
To find the location above, I called the number on the sign and asked "Where are you located?" The guy who answered asked me what kind of car parts I need. I said "I might stop by and I want to know where you're located," he tells me. We hang up.
I arrive about 90 minutes later, take a picture, and as I'm standing outside his place, uploading to flickr, my phone rings. It's the number on the sign. I guess he sees me outside, assumes I might be the guy who called, and is wondering what's up. I try to answer the phone, but my phone is acting wonky and it won't pick up. I decided it's time to leave and look for the next tag.
next tag...
If this is still here tonight, I'm totally getting it.
I was thinking the same thing
Edit. I work till 10 so it'll be close
I thought about calling the number also but I didn't want any odd interactions. I also didn't think that it was located in such a great neighborhood either.
Nothing but a vague idea where this is, but I appreciate the composition, especially the line from the graphic continuing in the photo.
BTW, East Hills not Homewood.
Iron Eden Liberty Ave Bloomfield.
Ah, I think I saw you riding down liberty earlier. I still have an hour or so to go, wouldn't have made it.
@ RubberFactory I looked in the window as I flew past and you were still there bike locked outside. I pushed as hard as I could. Before you got off. I still can't post on here from my phone so you still had a good chance of Brucing me. One day I need to stop in and say hi.
haha, nah, I'm still here now. Closing takes forever.
Now I feel bad.
heh, don't! I'd rather be here than at my paying job. But that's a different story.
I'm sorry no tag tonight. I was just heading out and I saw lots of lightning. I have some strange lightning phobia so I'm back at home.
(edit) I work till 6pm tomorrow the new tag will be after that sorry to spoil the holiday tag
jonawebb is gonna get someone shot eventually, if not himself.
Dude,it was one block from Frankstown Road.
One block from frankstown is an excellent location in which to be shot.
Speaking for myself, there are parts of town I feel comfortable passing through but would probably opt not to wander around looking for a tag. I would say the vast majority of people would eye with suspicion [with good reason -- and including people in the poorest neighborhoods] any stranger casing the neighborhood on a bike. How are they supposed to know we're playing "an innocent game of tag-o-rama" -- casing for a photo op as it were.
For me Tag-o-Rama has been a lot more fun than Machis-mO-Rama. YMMV.
Jonawebb's tags are everybody's favorite.
And Scott Bakula is everyone's favorite star trek captain.
@cburch I just busted out laughing loudly at work after that
cburch++
Just think how great it will feel to have tags all over the city, in every neighborhood, making Tag-o-Rama truly a Pittsburgh game.
Yeah, think about how leaving a tag in another county made it a truly Pittsburgh game!!!!!!!1111!!!! Derp.
Now stef it wasn't that far away, just in Youngstown OH
Sorry I took so long but I had to ride out to Idlewild Park to get this tag. everyone should know where this is so have at it. If not I'll give a clue tomorrow.
I interrupted a party. They kindly invited me for a drunk.
Mellon park
This was already a tag btw. But it is a cool sculpture.
wow, this thread got really stupid in a hurry.
@ stefb I did a quick check before I left work and didn't see it was already tagged. My apologies I shall be more careful next time.
wow, this thread got really stupid in a hurry.
+1/2. Spent some time today reading through the thread history--learned some great things about the places this group has visited, but the thread seems to get stupid in a similar manner every few pages, really.
In fact, a lot of threads on this board seem to get stupid occasionally. I'd like to think it's a feature, in that it showcases that the board attracts a lot of people with some pretty divergent views, who aren't afraid to express them. On the whole, though, it seems more like a bug, one which is more likely to discourage than encourage participation from newer, especially less self-confident, individuals...
(what i really came in here for was to see if there was finally a tag i could get. oh well, I seem to have missed that window. hopefully i don't get my fingers slammed. going out for a ride anyway...)
On the whole, though, it seems more like a bug, one which is more likely to discourage than encourage participation from newer, especially less self-confident, individuals...
unfortunately this bug seems to be pervasive across all of humanity. i think we can just invoke rule 7 at this point and move on.
(note that this is not directed at anyone in particular, and is especially not directed at buffalo buffalo.)
I sure wish Ahlir would play this game again...
And mr marv, no worries. I think that the map may only display 200 tags at a time, but I may be mistaken.
Edit: i do want to add something about the homewood tag(s). It was last year or the year before that we did a flock to BBQ in homewood. we passed a group of guys who said to us "they ain't no bikes in homewood." it didn't sound friendly. there are some cool murals over that way and just interesting things that would make great tags. i have seen them from my car. however, my husband doesn't feel comfortable with the idea of me putting myself in dangerous situations. he was not pleased that i was riding around in mt oliver a while ago, and i don't blame him. so oh well, whatever. i am just gonna stick to common sense. i like seeing the city, and i like games, but i am almost fed up with this. i may head on over to the wheel set of fortune game.
Roughly drawn tag heat map (blue box boundaries). No socioeconomic or geographic factors taken into account unless reflected naturally by placement.
I found a script that will generate heat maps given long/lat and a score. Just for the sake of curiosity it would be interesting to see how things look given different data:
1) proximity to each other
2) relative to gradient of hill where it was dropped
3) relative to incidence of crime
Just need data sources for 2 & 3.
I guarantee you're more likely to get run over by a car than shot while playing this game regardless of the tag location. Can we stop this already?
At first glance that map resembles a macro photo of a food stain on some Deadhead's t-shirt.
IMHO, I kinda like the back-and-forth among the participants. Anytime Star Trek is invoked, that is good stuff.
I have to google all star trek references.
@quizbot, cool map. Do you know how to make a Google Map overlay? Because I would really like to use it when tagging.
BTW, I am trying to take concerns about safety into account when tagging. I can't do much about the hills, and a poor neighborhood is still a poor neighborhood, but some spots are safer than others, and I do think about that when setting tags.
EDIT: One other note on cycling in Homewood -- when I set my first Homewood tag, whih turned out to be Homewood West, I noticed a guy cleaning a bike as I rode in. On the way back, stopped at a light, we spoke. He was an enthusiastic cyclist with, he said, 13 bikes. Which is taking the N+1 rule a bit far, I'd say, but it proves there are definitely bikes in Homewood. Though I can certainly understand the anyone's discomfort riding in that area.
-1 being compared to Scott Bakula. I mean, come on.
+1 Star Trek references.
@stefb - yeah, Ahlir is missed... and there are 2 maps - one that shows the last 200 tags and one that shows all tags:
If you want to check out the Tag Map, you have two choices:
1. All tags shows all the tags at once, and displays quickly, but can't be edited.
2. tinyurl.com/tag-o-rama-map is for editing the map. It loads slower and displays in multiple pages of about 200 tags each.
@pseudacris ...macro photo of a food stain on some Deadhead's t-shirt.
Great imagery!
Anyway if you think the message board occasionally dips into stupidity, go to the Bike Portland site and look through the comments for the occasional bitter and scathing discussions of some inane minutiae that our friends in the country's no. 1 cycling city get into over there. Oi. Better yet, don't. BikePghers! are relative paragons of online civility.
Yeah, most message boards, even those that are more of a community, get like this, or usually worse. While it is annoying at times, it happens everywhere. And edmonds is right, This board is full of perfect angels compared to a lot of others.
New tag. I know, this is obvious, but I didn't want to ride far in the rain. This is a neighborhood I arguably (barely) missed tagging before.
Slightly OT, but for the heck of it I decided to see if the San Diego tag-o-rama thread was still going. Someone from here started the game there at least a year ago.
It is still going - YEAH!
It is really funny to scroll through their parallel universe:
http://sdbikecommuter.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=524&page=31
EDIT: Actually they have two regional games going, this is the earlier of the two: http://sdbikecommuter.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=544&page=1
@ Pseudacris mrs. marvelous and myself have considered moving to San Diego in a few year. I have alway wondered how their bicycling community is compared to Pittsburgh and if it is on the same level as Pittsburgh. It's good to see a Tag-o-rama game there.
^ see edit above
I wonder why it didn't make the list of top cycling cities
From what I hear San Diego is not very bike friendly... although it might be getting better with their new mayor.
@jonawebb: More like this!
Hutchinson and Lancaster, about 4 blocks from my back door.
The link http://tinyurl.com/tag-o-rama-viewer to display all the tags at once on a Google map has stopped working (at least for me). The list of tags shows up, but not the marker icons that show you where they are. I suspect Google changed something that broke existing links.
Here's a new URL that works correctly, displaying markers for all the tags:
http://goo.gl/maps/149f
I saw that too starting yesterday. Thanks for the replacement link. Maybe somebody should update the page...
I know this violates rule #7 but I am thinking that some of the recent tags are a bit lacking in the clue department...
EDIT: Erg, not in the "get a clue" sense but more that "everyone should know where this is" and "this is obvious" are not exactly helpful to people who aren't already familiar with the tag locations...
@Mr. Destructicity I agree the clue was non-existent but I didn't expect the tag to last long enough to give anyone who didn't know where it was to have a chance. I have a vague idea there are several taggers near or in Regent Square so they would be on it.
For once I actually had an idea of where this had to be, but I just couldn't figure out exactly where in Frick Park it was. I am determined to actually get a tag one of these days (especially since I ended up on the Tag-o-Rama team for the Bike Challenge and feel like I need to earn my place, haha), but my lack of knowledge of the locations that are "obvious" definitely presents a challenge. (But I am aware of Rule #7, so... yay challenges!)
I edited the page one introductory area to include the new link to the "View All Tags" map so we won't have to search for the link later.
Obviously, this the new obvious tag. It's obviously on my commute home. I ride my obvious steel horse through what is obviously a pleasant shortcut and it's obviously my favorite part of my commute. With the all the rain we've obviously had recently, there's obviously some obvious plant growth making this a now not-so-obvious sign.
You ever say a word so many times that its permutation of syllables are no longer recognizable as a word?
Damn I've been playing with Street View too much today--I just tried to zoom out on that picture (to see what the sign says, natch...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation
It's obviously a thing.
I suspect I live really close to you based on your Frick Park and Biddle's Escape tag-getting, so maybe I can track this one down... hmmmm
Cowboy hill, Frick park.
New tag, untagged neighborhood. This is not a wealthy part of Pittsburgh but this spot is one of the quietest places you'll find anywhere, also one of the best views.
Obviously a cemetery, but which one? This neighborhood has lots of them. But this is the only one named after an angel.
There was a tag directly across the street from the cemetary entrance so I dont see how this is a "untagged" neighborhood.
P.S. - I helped to put those flags in last Saturday.
The map marker for the tag directly across the street from the cemetery entrance was one street off, and just over the neigborhood's boundary. It's now fixed, but perhaps Jonawebb was misled by it. (It's very easy to accidentally drag a tag out of place when dragging the map to navigate.)
However, going by the city's maps, there are at least three other tags in the neighborhood already. So I agree, looks previously tagged to me.
TDW: Thanks for updating the introductory message with the new link!
@pearmask: I live on the same block as D's 6-pack & Dogs. I think we definitely share the same neighborhood.
I was also hoping to see you get your first tag, but I should've known the nice weather would draw Jon out to pick up an easy one and close the gap with Stef. (I think he lives around here, too).
Yep, not far.
Oh well. Somehow, despite riding through that area plenty of times, I had never noticed the Cowboy Hill sign, so I wasn't gonna find it anyway. My observational skills mayyyyy not be the best, but I am determined to eventually recognize SOMETHING in a tag that I have seen in Pittsburgh before, haha
I've been going by the list someone posted a few weeks ago -- this was listed as an untagged neighborhood.
Edit: Just checked; at least according to the Tag-o-Rama view and the Google Map neighborhood overlay it does appear to be untagged.
Edit again: whoops. Took another look. Missed again. I did check the neighborhood overlay on my phone, somehow it misled.
> and close the gap with Stef
hey! hes got a few other gaps to close before he closes that one.
Yeah, but Stef is the big kahuna.
I've got a long ways to go in any case. Don't worry, relax, you're safe. Just pay no attention as I sneak up on you...
BTW, I'm liking the Captain Jonathan Archer comparison more these days. One of my sons pointed out that of all the Star Trek captains, he's the one you'd probably like best to have over to your house, drink some beers, and watch football (let alone water polo).
Updated list of untagged Pittsburgh neighborhoods:
Arlington
Banksville
Bedford Dwellings
Chartiers
Crafton Heights
East Carnegie
Knoxville
Lincoln Place
Mount Oliver (the neighborhood, not the borough)
Oakwood
Overbrook
Ridgemont
Sheraden
Spring Garden
Summer Hill
Westwood
Windgap
This tag's a few hundred feet from an untagged neighborhood, but definitely over the line.
Personally, I prefer tags that are interesting (visually or otherwise) and easily reachable by everybody, since it keeps the game moving. If hitting a new neighborhood requires a tag that sits around for days, it's not worth it.
Something I've thought about for awhile, but never made any effort to figure out... until now...
The blue box, as measured using google's 1-mile key, is about 11.75 miles east-to-west and 7 miles north-to-south. 82.25 Square Miles. I'm not sure how accurate that is, but pretty close, I'd say. I'm a bit disappointed, as I thought it was both wider and taller. Still, 82+ square miles sounds impressive, eh?
Hmmm...two of those neighborhoods contain tags I was thinking of dropping sometime. Must keep those in mind.
BTW on Arlington -- there's a tag right on the border (#201) of an Arlington mural. I would argue the intent was to tag that neighborhood and if it missed it's by just a few feet.
@jonawebb I would argue the intent was to tag that neighborhood
My impression is the intent of most tags has nothing to do with the neighborhood the tag is in.
Tag 201 shows a building on the north side of Arlington Avenue. That street is the northern border of Arlington, I think. So the "Arlington Memories" mural isn't technically in Arlington. (Like many memories, it's a bit fuzzy.)
On the other hand, you can see a bit of Arlington in Stef's photo, though her bike in the photo is technically in Southside Slopes.
On the gripping hand, the city's PDF maps don't really have sufficient resolution to show if the official dividing line is in the middle of the street, behind buildings, etc. Even supposing there's an official dividing line. And other info sources like Google get their data from who knows where.
So assume there's a great big disclaimer for all this data.
Does anyone really give a shit? Just leave a tag and and accurate clue. If you can't be accurate about a neighborhood, don't mention it.
"Does anyone really give a shit? Just leave a tag and and accurate clue."
+9001
I don't care if a neighborhood has been tagged 0 times or 100 times, just set the tag and let the game run its course. The more debating there is about which neighborhoods have technically not been tagged, the less fun the game is.
Yeah It seems like a waste of time to do something that isn't enjoyable.
Engaging in a debate over whether or not a neighborhood counts as "untagged" seems like a violation of rule 7 to me.
seems like different people enjoy the game in different ways.
Some people might even think riding your bike around Pittsburgh, taking pictures of it in different neighborhoods, is kind of silly. Weird, huh?
I definitely enjoy riding my bike around Pittsburgh and taking pictures of it in various locations.
What I don't enjoy is having to sift through 20 or so posts bellyaching over whether or not a neighborhood has been tagged just so I can find the actual post with the new tag. It just comes off as people complaining that someone is wrong on the internet.
and don't think the irony of complaining about people on the internet complaining on the internet is lost on me.
Can we please move the game along now?
and don't think the irony of complaining about people on the internet complaining on the internet is lost on me.
this is why i am always hesitant to point to rule 7.
I'm also tempted to leave a tag juuuust beyond the north edge of the box in the center of the map. East Carnegie and Overbrook might be inside the box but they're damn hard to get to, whereas the spot I have in mind is less than 10 minutes from the 40th St Bridge.
That said, I think a useful variant on Rule 2 is "Try to stay within the box, but if you do go outside it, don't make it so difficult or distant that nobody would want to go get it."
The map rule 2 refers to says something about slightly outside the box is OK. So I think you'd be fine.
> seems like different people enjoy the game in different ways.
my ocd tendencies help me to see what might be so alluring about trying to TAG ALL THE NEIGHBORHOODS. within reason, theres nothing wrong with that. its not my '-ism' (believe me, i have plenty of my own), but i can totally respect it.
> BTW, I'm liking the Captain Jonathan Archer comparison more these days.
perhaps archer was not the best congruence... how about this?
jonawebb : neighborhood tags :: a ferengi : latinum
@melange, haha
st michaels cemetary, top of mother licking s18th st
@melange, good work. Great view, eh?
it was a pretty magnificent view, yeah.
heres the new tag. i took these last night, but neglected to post them. sorry for exceeding the time limit. i couldnt decide which to use, so you get them all:
i hesitate to say that this location should be obvious, but i think it really is (maybe even more so if youre new to the city?). im kinda surprised these stacks havent been tagged before, but there was one very close and in full view of these before (which i picked up). for the requisite clue, lets say that these are near to a 'great' trail leading out of town.
i couldnt resist taking a shot with the el-wire lighting on the bike and the moon in the background
I think the first picture was good enough, the second and third picture really give it away.
I thought they were tagged before. I might catch a movie after work if I venture over there!
I may try for it if the tag is still open for my ride home from work. It's not too much of a detour.
Waterfront smoke stacks at homestead.
Lot steeper than I remember...
Did you hop the tracks or take a different route
I rode on the worn down rocks next to the tracks from the south side trail and the gate was open at sandcastle even though the park was closed. Saw snow white and the huntsman. Kristen Stewart cannot act to save her life!
great tag...wish I would have bike commuted today...to the waterfront...ugh
I have been waiting for a tag I could figure out and get...crap..
Where do you live?
@Stefb - I live in Jefferson Hills. I have been lax on the bike commuting lately...no excuse for that...
I have yet to tame Streets Run Road, but I found that following the end of the Montour Trail puts me on 837 and I can follow the Steel Valley Trail right to the waterfront.
If anyone's interested Biddles Escape is open for business now (I assume they have been for a few weeks). Nice open space, excellent chai, plenty of cool art to look at, and free wifi.
^ Plus there's an awesome reptile, and a vinyl fence about 100 feet down the street. See tags 409 and 429
I'm pretty sure there at least a dozen tags within about a mile radius of Biddles Escape.
Speaking of #409, this seemed almost sacrilegious at first, but I assume the records were damaged prior to mounting:
ok sorry for the delay. i didn't put much extra effort into this.
i think if i had a different angle, i could have possibly saw the last tag from up here. but instead, i can see the way to DC.
edit: i know i need to re-wrap my bar tape.
Ha... sneaky sneaky. Well I work 12hrs tomorrow so I can't get this, even if I know the EXACT spot this was taken.
i wanted to zoom the tombs earlier today, but i had a work thing to go to.
being deep in a moonlit cemetery alone can be pretty sp00000ky. i wish i took more pictures of the tombstones, but im too afraid to go back in there right now.
cavalary cemetery is pretty much the only cool place i can go from my house without dealing with steep hills
That is a great picture! Wow midnight tag.
mr marvelous and I watched stefb take the photo while on the Decaf Zoom the Tombs ride. We decided it might be cheating to take our own shots and wait to post ours as soon as stefb posted - ah well.
@melange396 - agreed - cool cemetery photo
I was tempted.....
Great photo melange! Does anyone know what the streaks of smoke are from?
I wasnt sure if I was going to use another place as a tag. I didn't come across anything interesting on my way home though.
thanks yinz! this was the first tag i took with a 'real camera', cuz i didnt think the phone would do any of this justice. i propped up my slr on a tombstone to steady it for the long exposure.
@pseudacris, based on line of sight, i think the billowing smoke is from this plant: http://goo.gl/maps/OIRr
can you all see my wheels in the shot? it looked good on my laptop at home, but the dark stuff isnt coming through as nicely on my monitor at work.
I messed with the brightness -- where's your bike?
EDIT: O, I see, upside down at bottom. Cool.
Upside down
[edit]
Thanks for the link melange. What an oily mess that site is. & I had no idea that Braddock had locks.
Isn't that ET? AKA Edgar Thompson Works, located off Braddock between the town of Braddock and the Tri Boro Expressway?
one of these days i will post a new tag in a timely manner
untimely new tag:
you wont see this one on street view, its a relatively new installation. its extremely close to a previous tag i left, and slightly less close to a pgh bicycle institution.
i like the duct tape around the mounting site...
Bench & N Winebiddle
ABRACADABRA & BIKEGIRL TAG
Bam! fast!
Now I way Spak, but I already ate. I also suddenly want to pimp my ride..
Here's a bonus photo I snapped right before bikeygirl showed up, featuring a posing local.
NEW TAG!!!!
Hey, you B'ums! The following tag is one of those hidden in plain sight and rather easy -hope you find it Groov'y too!
You might think this clue is somewhat square, but is rather a 3-sided affair brought to you by the number 5. But if you get this in 2's, you can play a game or two!
Enjoy!
Chess table @ Baum Grove. S. Friendship & Roup.
ToR history quiz: this new tag is just around the corner from a previous one featuring blue birds.
3, 5, 2?
Guessing:
3: Baum Grove is triangular. 3 sides.
5: 4 benches + table = 5 square objects.
2: 2 person tag... and takes 2 to play chess.
Right you are Quizbot!!! -mostly!
In the tag clue I included the words "B'ums" and "Groov'y" as in: BAUM GROVE
Square: the benches are cubes/square
3: The park is a triangle
5: The park is surrounded by a 5-way street intersection
2: Yes -it takes 2 to play chees, aptly for a tag that was dropped by 2-people
31St and Mulberry Way
The clue referenced tag 128 by Stefb. And it's appropriate I get this one since the graffiti references my tags.
New tag
I believe this is the last untagged neighborhood between the Allegheny and the Monogahela. And I don't care what you say, this is a beautiful neighborhood.
Hill District, Bedford
Is this on Bedford Avenue? Or some other street in the Bedford Dwellings neighborhood? About where? I didn't spot the distinctive railing on Street View.
I don't know about you, but when I ride, I feel like a kid. Bonus points for getting a curious squirrel in your image.
The squirrel followed me and my bike as I walked along this wall. I took 10-12 shots in different locations and he's in all of them, checking me out.
@ Steven - The location is on Memory Lane at Reunion Street.
The Bedford Tag has actually been pictured on Tag-O-Rama in the past, by me. But it wasn't a tag attempt, just a shot to show that I could get stefb's colorful wall tag from across the river. I was facing further left, but I shot this image from the same location on Memory Lane. 7 Months ago.
I think the place was under construction when the Google truck came through last time. It's an impressive development, new townhouses, nice lawns etc.
I LOVE The squirrel and the cartoony squirrel! FOMF.
Thanks, TDW! (Now to puzzle out "FOMF". Google's suggestion "Friend of Millard Filmore" seems implausible.
So, I thought I knew where the tag was, but I think I overlooked an obvious clue. I'm just glad it cooled off this evening before I set out.
luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuulz
A couple local names that come to mind that would provide a clue to this location: Fred and Andrew.
Carnegie childrens museum.
No squirrels around today
Where specifically is that? I think "Fred and Andrew", I think near WQED in Oakland. I think "Children's Museum", I think Nor'side. (And would be kicking myself since I biked right past it four hours ago.)
Is Northside on the wall facing the museum. At the ridge ave intersection.
I didn't get it til i put the Feel like a kid and carnegie clues together and i recognized the stone wall.
Fred Rogers = Children
Gahhh, I sat through an entire cycle of that light. I'm further amazed I didn't recognize it; I've been going past it almost daily for 20 years.
The Children's Museum isn't part of the Carnegie Museum network. I tried to see if it had any ties at all to Carnegie, but it's history was some stupid link to a crappy looking facebook page
Hmm i just figured Pittsburgh museum, it's linked to carnegie.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I rode out to the Children's Museum yesterday and creeped around looking for this tag. I didn't see any walls that looked like the one in the pic. I guess I should've checked the backside of that wall?
Then I thought maybe it was the Children's Academy in Squirrel Hill at Shady & Northumberland (hence, "overlooked an obvious clue" (the obvious clue being the squirrel)).
I have to admit that I went to The Children's Museum to get new shots of the image below (Mick's other car, I presume). I was going to use it as my tag, but then I spotted the back of the wall. It's a place you don't see from the road easily.
When the squirrel got in the act, I was compelled to use the back of the wall shots instead of Mick's car.
The image below was shot a few weeks ago as I was collecting possible tags.
¡NEW TAG! 
Riding in the Burgh you cross many bridges. cross one and you might find your self on the St with Malia and Natasha.
901 pennsylvania ave... cool clue
(w/ randy)
I have another tag that was Longer ride but i had to go into work tonight. i was gonna tag the burgh on the side from the bridge but then i saw that old school Alarm, and had to tag that instead.
new tag:
this one may or may not be in an untagged neighborhood... though i guess its tagged now. we saw this section of fuselage on a team decaf ride several weeks back.
heres a view straight into the cockpit:
also, sub-36hr tag turnaround. im improving.
Don't let the thistle and fuselage fool you... This is not Lockerbie Scottland, it's actually within the map limits!
our clues are virtually useless -- this isnt just a random nosecone, theres a purpose to its presence.
By any chance is this a place Isaac Asimov would have found interesting?
@edmonds59: i dont think so, but i cant say for sure.
Wow, this tag hasn't been picked up yet, I'm surprised.
im surprised too. it might be because the airplane section is not found on streetview or satellite view.
what kind of company would only want the cockpit of an airplane?
@edmonds: i was thinking about your asimov question... if you were referring to robotics, i think you could consider some of what they do 'robot-like', as it involves computer controlled actuators and such.
"what kind of company would only want the cockpit of an airplane?" <---that
That lot looks horrible, someone should plant a garden there.
Edit: knowing what the business is makes this much more understandable. I mean, who needs to keeps an airplane piece in the yard?
marko, i know you know where it is... go get it!
I'm feeling lazy!
My ass hurts.. As in I need to get out of te saddle for a day or two so I don't get skin breakdown. I am tempted to sy screw it and get it.. But I think Marko should get it, as I am still at work.
:'(
did randy and i kill the game?? do you guys need more clues??? is jonawebb out of town????
I know of a few that knows where this is but have yet to pick it up. I have a feeling tomorrow will be the day
You didn't break things. You just posted a slightly hard tag and right now only you, me, and. Stefb are getting these. Stefb's ass is sore and I was out of town.
1476 Spring garden road, in the strange, penis-shaped extension of spring garden between Troy hill and spring hill city view.
So why is there (evidently) a cockpit in Spring Garden?
Good question. Had I taken the time to think about exactly where along that ride I saw that, I may have realized how close it is to where I work and gotten it today. D'oh. My skin thanks me for not going out of my way though.
I had no idea where that was to pick it up. evidently 2 miles from my house.
@Mick, it is apparently a relic of Fidelity Flight Simulation, which is listed in Google Maps at that address, which is how I found it. I couldn't find any evidence on the building that the place was still in business. But if this review from Google Maps is accurate we are better off without it: "Inept engineers, corners are cut despite quality/safety, and their mechanical/manufacturing abilities are grossly maladroit.. Beware ... Also, on a personal note, I have never met a more arrogant, condescending, stuck up elitist as Graham (the president) ....."
Edit: they seem to still be around: http://www.fidelityflight.com/
In the 20 years I've lived north, I think I've only ever been in the Spring Gardens area about four or five times. There's no way I would ever have found this tag. I'm glad someone finally got it.
I'm a little bit disappointed that there wasn't a pic from inside the cockpit.
@joanwebb - please go back out of town.
@Tdw, what'd I do to you?
Anyway, tomorrow looks like a good day for tagging, so here is your new tag.
The location should be familiar from other tags. It's been referenced but never tagged so far as I know. This is an untagged neighborhood despite my previous attempt and Stefb's near miss.
He's still in town.
I really don't like riding on this road.
If you go to this place and tell the owners son you know me he will give you free ice cream after he spits in it.
@TDW, I thought he WAS gonna go out of town to drop a new one.
@mr marv, that road may be safest..err low traffic.. tomorrow morning.
Good idea then I can get my spit filled ice cream
Why would they spit in it!? you should put dog poop somewhere on something that belongs to the owner. The poop rule should go into effect.
The owners son and I were co-workers at WPH and had a disagreement.
Poop rule!
I think we need to unlock this side quest "tag all the neighborhoods" achievement before the game can be friendly & open to all players again. At this point it's like a 5 person game and though amusing to observe all the dick waving, it's really gone astray from anything resembling fun.
I sorta agree quizbot without knowing what was and wasn't tagged you are lost on that last tag. Was there even a clue in there.
Yes, could we please stop with the "untagged neighborhood" clues? Especially since so many of them have been incorrect (including this one, I think).
Let's "turn the page" on this kind of clue, and use ones anyone can figure out just by studying a post. Also (per rule 3: "Make sure to let folks know what riding conditions are involved to get to your tag."), be careful getting to this tag via road. Like they say, "An accident doesn't do any body good."
And since I'm already stomping all over rule 7, let me also point out that clues like "Near Mart's house" or "We passed this on that ride last week" are only clues to those who know where Mart lives, or who were on that ride. Avoiding such clues as much as possible keeps the game more open to novices.
I see where this is, and while my chances of getting this are close to zero, I'd be happier if we could end some of the drama on this thread, and instead try to figure out real ways to deal with traffic situations in difficult spots such as this one.
When I picked up Tag 318, I wondered how one would get from the trail by the river out to the street, from anywhere past that UPMC sports medicine place. I still don't know.
I'm hardly a novice at either this game or riding on the street, but one of the things deterring me from jumping on the bike at 4:30 in the morning to take a 15-mile ride out here is the very real chance I could get killed just in this last mile of road. I'll ride McKnight, but I won't ride outer East Carson, and I simply don't see an alternative.
Up a hill to a "middle class, hard working neighborhood", down a hill to the tag, then back up to safe neighborhood, and back down to safer roads. That is how you can get there.
Also, I wanted to add that saying a tag was on a ride that was spoken of in another thread seems ok to me. There were clues that have referenced other threads (wheelset of fortune, hazelwood trail), that were easy to figure out because the info was in previous threads. And clues can also be found in the intoductions thread. I have guessed where several tags were by figuring out neighborhoods the tag droppers live or work in. But I can see how a clue would be bad if only 3 people rode together and it is mentioned as a clue not spoken of on here.
I haven't played much mainly because I don't feel like the effort of figuring out where to plant another tag, eh, too much work. But IMO I find tags that show unusual, interesting, and surprising Pgh features much more attractive to find (and worth effort to pick up) than ones that are simply technically difficult to identify or get to.
Also I think that the Ultimate Pursuit of untagged neighborhoods will lead the game further down the hole of ultimate boredom. I've said this before, but there are several neighborhoods where there is nothing of remote interest. Esplen for instance (apologies to Esplanites).
It's a game people. My 2 cents and then some. Going for a ride.
@Stu, I ride this stretch all the time - yes it sucks. I think it is safest during rush hour though when you can take the lane and crawl along with the cagers. At other times if you take the lane they just cross the double yellow with oncoming traffic in the classic game of chicken with you in the middle of it.
There is a gate in the fence on the trail here which brings you out at a traffic light, but you have to cross very active RR tracks; please be careful regardless of route choice.
Becks Run@East Carson
I've never been in this place, but then again, maybe my other personality has and I just don't realize it. The medieval doorman is lookin' like he needs a new suit.
I used to cross those tracks all the time when I worked up Beck's Run, and went that way yesterday. Both gates were open. I did have to walk around a parked train, but then it's down a trail behind that building at Beck's Run and 837. It's not a bad ride.
As to the game, I would estimate the vast majority of the tags in this game are within 1 mile of, say, Stefb's commute. Can't a few of them be outside of that area? But if you want to change the rules, I'm fine with that.
There are a lot of interesting things on my commute. I have several others that I have yet to leave along the way. I think it is common knowledge that they are along the way, or else I can't keep to the time limit.. I do pass through many neighborhoods: morningside, east liberty, Shadyside, Oakland, (the jail trail,) downtown, the north shore, the north side, and occasionally Bloomfield, Garfield, the strip, and the south side. There are other neighborhoods within a mile of that.
So TDW, I nearly used this as a tag before, but only I was a few feet off to the side. Is this the doorman in question? This is NOT a tag pick-up.. Just an additional clue I wanted to share, as I am still tied up with family activities today, and I liked the photo I took a few months ago:
That's the doorman, yes. I've shot this tag many times too - it's been in my archives/references file, waiting to get back to it some day.
I never noticed the door before.. I like it. I honestly never noticed the name of the place either. Good one!
Am I a little crazy or does it seem creepy that Joanwebb mentions stefb in 90% of his posts.
Fathers day tag pickup with my son @PghIke. South Side/18thStreet / Jekyll and Hyde's bar.
...and since this topic has deteriorated into non-stop trolling: Check out my son's saddle angle! What a dummy!
Ouch, my balls.
@marv to paraphrase one of the great philosophers of our time;
"he see her rollin. He hatin."
(Laughing out loud, Stef. That made my day.)
Taint that the truth.
jekyll and hydes?? moar liek jekyll and DIVES, amirite??!?
nice one, randy and ike. if i werent dealing w/ a radioactive cat, i woulda beaten you there :-p
for those scratching their heads, the cat just got home after receiving treatment for hyperthroidism
i knew it was jekyll & dives from tdw's pic... i blame stef for tipping off randy with her 'extra clue'
Actually:decaf's original multiple personalities hint did the trick.
Oh, gosh. I've just realized Stefb is my Moby Dick.
He still can't help himself.
Melange, my grandma had treatment for hyperthyroidism and had to flush twice, throw away any glasses and plates she used, and was supposed to stay away from other people.
That's so awesome that it was picked up by a father/son today! Nice randy and ike!
"don't kick the baby"
@stefb & melange -- the amount of iodine they give a cat is usually small enough that with half-life decay you are generally past the contamination issue in 3-4 days to a week. Urine is the big thing as they excrete most of the iodine that way.
Caveat to this is: if you have an affectionate cat. Which I do -- obsessively affectionate. Mine has had hyperthroidism twice (joining the elite 1/2 of 1% that have a recurrence). The first time when I got the usual song and dance about what to do when she came home, it included the usual "limit yourself to 20 minutes a day with her." I told then we would be done with that in the first half hour after I was awake, so tell me what I really couldn't do. I got this long sigh (as in "oh, one of these people) and the tech asked, "Does she like to snuggle?" "Yes." "Don't do that."
The cat came home. She totally ignored everything I was supposed to do, including snuggling, and neither of us have died of radiation poisoning (so far).
We now return you to the original topic of this thread.
NEW TAG
A local musician's record which debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 has a song about this street.
Warning: this is one of the sketchier sections of road to be on at rush hour, but this tag is totally achievable via the back streets of Slim Shady.
5th Ave near Chatham
@randy
Both the knight and your son's seat are going after grundel
Whoever named this place might have benefited from spending a bit more time spent next door researching. The shape is missing a side and the tree is missing as well.
Hey, I think this might meet the overall criteria (new) that all tags should be within one mile of Stef B's commute route!
Fountain at Baum and Whitfield. The great bidet.
Whoa, nice bike. It's so coordinated.
Also close to cburch's house!
@pierce- there is his fixie.
I know the sculpture is Cantini's "Joy of Life" but I don't get the square/rectangle/tree reference in the clue.
Almost makes me want a fixie.... almost.
I could swear there is a street sign there that says "Baum Sq." but I don't see it on street view... and Googling for Baum Sq. puts a marker over on Highland, so maybe that refers to that whole area and not just the little triangle. I dunno, the point is moot now.
Duh! I just got the tree reference! I am SO slow it is sometimes painful.
I still don't get it.
"Baum" is German for 'tree', and "Square" is 1960s East Liberty Redevelopment for 'stub of road that used to go somewhere but doesn't anymore'. (Baum Square I think is the alley that extends Baum Bv on the other side of Highland, but I could be wrong.)
new tag! sorry, it took me a while to get over to it. i wasn't able to go drop it the first time i was out today, but i've wanted to drop this one for a while.
Fans of the Tick will totally understand why i exclaim the name of this business whenever I am about to do battle with cars on the streets of Pittsburgh.
I don't get it. Look I'm just the sidekick.
"Spoon" restaurant @Penn Circle & S Highland
Bruced!
Colin told me where he was leaving this. I had to restrain myself from getting it, as I was waiting at the light at the intersection a half hour ago staring at it. I wonder if the patrons were confused as to why people were coming by to take pictures of their bikes in front of the place.
Hahahahah -Sorry Quizbot! We must have missed each other getting the tag by a minute!!!!
Although, I did-ride my bike 'Thor' to get this tag, and Thor is the God of thunder, AND I kinda-stole your thunder
Your wheels look huge on that bike.. Only cause your frame is small by comparison.
Whoa bikey, love your bike, but it doesn't have an Asgard, er, fender.
Thanks Edmonds! That's my Vintage 1970's Concord Freedom Deluxe
Fenders? No fenders! I don't fancy much fenders, but who knows later on....
...crickets...
come on, 4 tags in 1 day would be awesome.
Sorry salty... new tag tomorrow. I'm exhausted from traveling all day today and seriously got lucky at getting this tag ahead of others..... tomorrow
and another one in east liberty, please.
@edmonds-Lolz Asgard.
What's the record on # of tags in a 24 hr period?
NEW TAG!!
Let's see, I must point out that you will have to climb a set of steps to get this view -true, but the tag in-itself ain't that far to grab, the breeze is good, and the view behind the trees quite tasty & refreshing....
Additional clues:
Below is East;
North of L'ong;
Next to West...
South of ...Wood
Good luck!
Oh dear, and I have to go riiiight past there (almost) within the hour.
Get it stu! I am off to the decaf ride..
bridge over tracks & busway w/ stu
he got here first but graciously let me join the tag with him!
Which busway? Which bridge?
Enquiring minds want to know.
oops, i thought i typed that in... my mind moves faster than my fingers. the above should read: "bridge over tracks & busway near westinghouse park w/ stu"
its the east busway and the bridge lines up with s lang ave
er, maybe its north lang
Good job, guys!!!
Clues dropped in the clue I posted:
POINT.... BREEZE
TASTY VIEW BEHIND TREES = East End Brewery
Below: EAST Bus Way
NORTH LANG st
Next to WESTinghouse Park
South of HomeWOOD Playground....
Am I abit crazy? Or wanna be clever?
@bikeygirl: maybe a bit of both? :-p
new tag!
i believe this depicts a scene from a fairy tale or nursery rhyme, but maybe thats because of where its situated... which also happens to be on a shadowy named road!
Children's institute on shady (I think): Nimick family garden
ooh, fancy new bike
What's the record on # of tags in a 24 hr period?
The spreadsheet shows 5 tags set on the same day on two occasions: starting with tags 5 and 29. But dates from that period were reconstructed from various hints, so may be wonky. We've had 3 tags set in a day, many times, but I don't think we've ever had 4.
new tag:
yes, this is megaman. it may be one of those hidden in plain view tags. there is a cross street nearby that would suggest that it is in a country-like area, but this is most definitely part of the city. also of note, there is a business that i tagged in the fall/winter that was around for 61 years and finally closed recently. it is in a building the same color as megaman's helmet.
I see you took my request into account...
Yep. Either you, mr marv, or quizbot are going to get this, I am guessing. Maybe Lucia.
I should go get this NOW
Whoever gets it, you may want to walk your bike. There were a few pieces of broken glass in the abandoned lot.
No shit, I was thinking about that one for a few weeks, cropped down a bit. If it's there in the am I'll stop by to fuel up.
I am guessing I won't be up early enough to get this...
My work computers block flickr so if I can figure out how to post from my phone I'm grabbing this now. If not quizbot I'm guessing it's all yours.
OldTexaco gas station on Negley next to the Sunoco
Last night I noticed that there is a tiny mega man on the yellow utility box at the corner or rural and negley outbound. Unless I was seeing things.
Is this at the northwest corner of Negley and Penn?
I ask because Google claims there's no Sunoco on Negley, only a "Nagley A Plus", and Street View there is wonky. Traditional Pgh directions: Former Sunoco next to former Texaco.
Oops it's an A Plus not a Sunoco.
I think that's relatively new, or I've just been passing it everyday for a long time and never noticing
I found an angle in Street View where you can see the A Plus was a Sunoco at the time. Guess Google updated their business listings but haven't sent a Street View car there recently.
Thanks for clarifying. So then the tag is the building at the corner.
A+ is just the brand name for Sunoco's convenience stores.
So, it's both!
New Tag tomorrow I promise. I can't make it out tonight.
::crickets::
hahahah... joke, mr POTFOC!!!
On a side note, I spotted a former player, Ahlir, at Thick talking to Chris about bikes on Satuday.. Unless he has a doppelgänger.
Sorry for the delay I've been riding to all the bike shops looking for a single speed.
I wanted to make it to the big event today but was too late. So I decided to tag outside of the event. When I noticed Thor locked up there, I had to get it in the tag.
Poor Thor. Locked up with a cable lock it seems.
I doubt this tag will last until it cools off a bit.
Also does this mean that Lucia can't pick up the tag?
I posted this after she was gone. I guess if she returns it's fair game.
@ stefb Bruce Campbell lol
Is this the first time another message board members bike was used as a tag?
Who's in the coffin to the right? Enquiring minds want to know!
@ Pseudacris the candidate running against me for President.
ha!
hamburgh all, cmu
somewhere super steep! this alliteratively-located road-separating fence / railing is also a historic landmark
(new tag ^ )
ps: youll be a 'star' if you get this one
A little blurry with my crappy phone, but split street on Sauside Slopes.
Ah I was just about to leave to get this. Good one!
Getting this out early since it’s such a nice day.
NEW TAG:
You could wait and pick this up on August 5th, but you’ll probably get Bruced if you wait that long.
P.S.- be careful on the glass
Glass run and joseph, baldwin
Damn, Marko82 - long-ass way up the hill and long-ass way from home too!
Ha! TDW, that's at the bottom of the hill. And at least you could have cooled down some if one chose to.
What was your route? I was gonna head out early and go up and over 18th and down beck's run road to get there. I figured you would have picked this up on my way there
New Tag
I decided to post before I got back home, thinking if I post an easy one, we could set a record for most tags in one day. Hoping this hasn't been posted before.
My route to glass run... Sixty second st bridge to morningside (right past stefb' s - praying I wouldn't see her leaving ahead of me), through shadyside, oakland, squirrel hill, beechwood to brownshill, cross bridge, through sand castle, left to glass run!
Grrrr, still not home, but just checked my last post and discovered no image!
Clue - had a grand time tagging this one.
Grrrr, still not home, but just checked my last post and discovered no image!
Clue - had a grand time tagging this one.
TeamDecafWeekend's new tag image:
(You just had an extra space encoded in the URL.)
Thanks, Steven - I'm having an ID 10-T error day with my phone! So much for hurrying the tagging, jeez.
Outside of the grand concourse, station square.
I like how on Street View, Google has blurred the statue's face.
Marble-Americans have privacy rights too!
New tag:
Quack quack we have a moving tag. I guess you don't have to get it while it's moving, though it is more fun. And you will probably be able to get a less crooked photo than I have.
Good tag. So all I have to do is find one of theses anywhere or wait for one to drive by the same spot?
I think they have five of them. Do we have to get the yellow one, or will any of them do?
I've seen three in a row roll up Grant Street.
per rule #1 the location is the tag not the object in it.
I actually wanted the object to be the tag. It can be any of them anywhere. Obviously this one is on the north side trail.
Object it is then
I missed the last one of the day by 30 minutes. Maybe tomorrow
Hah, I went looking for this thinking I needed to find the location. Found a zillion duck boats, couldn't figure out exactly where this was on the trail, gave up and went exploring elsewhere. I need to learn my trails and bridges better. But it was a fun adventure anyway.
Decided to post the picture I got anyway it's the yellow boat across the river. I must have just missed it does this count. Just Duck Tour North Shore
Hear is a white one that was right behind the yellow one
I say this counts!
If that's a Just Ducky Tours amphibious craft, I can't tell from these pics. I know of blue, green, gray, red, yellow, and a white one. [from website]
I thought they had an orange one, too, but I don't see it on their website.
Now that i'm home I can tell the story behind this. I got to Station Square right after the last 3 left at the same time. I cased them all the way down to the North Shore. A yellow, Blue, and White craft. But just as I got to the North Shore the Pirate game let out and the Shore was way too crowded for them to Dock. So they went to the point. I took a Picture of the Yellow and White one (very difficult to get my bike and the crafts in the picture because of the distance) then I tried to make my way back to the Point to get a better picture. It was too crowded and I never made it. Spent an hour doing this. I say it counts also
Well I gave it a couple hours to see if anyone didn't like my tag pick up. No objections means NEW TAG.
There are plenty beds but none you can sleep the night in.
UPMC South Side
Nice job. I can't believe it sat half the day
Neither could I.
However it is gonna go right back to being open as I fell off my bike and broke my wrist so I won't be able to set a new tag.
Perhaps you could walk your bike somewhere?
Sadly I think that violates rule #6.
Sorry to hear about your wrist, man.
That sucks. Really sorry about your accident.
Ouch! Sorry to hear you got hurt. Man is this game getting competitive...
"under the cyclist's own power" means you can walk a bike. Know anyone with a tandem, and you can be a one-handed stoker?
After permission from mr. Destructicity, hope your wrist heals quick. here is a retag
Nice shot!
They have me scheduled for surgery tomorrow afternoon. The good news is that I can start using my hand for menial things right away. The bad news is I will be off the bike for the rest of the summer. And that fourth beer was oh so close...
New tag sorry for the delay.
If you go out the golden State you may find some enchanted people in this inn.
It has been awile, need another clue? When you go IN you won't see Sabrina, or Matilda, just maybe a local brew.
I might grab this tonight
strong emphasis on might
stone front (which way inn) on california ave
i nearly died from heat exhaustion after reaching this place, but the bartender kindly hooked me up with some cold h2o.
You could of brought your bike inside real friendly people good hole in the wall.
new tag!
free yoga here tomorrow (and every saturday until the middle of september) @ 10am, courtesy of citiparks
Schenley Plaza in Oakland. Gotta love the 15260.
New Tag:
These narrow lanes will take you somewhere to lift your spirits, nourish your body, or maybe just get some air. The best part is you don't have to worry about crazy drivers while you're on this "roadway."
I had an idea for a tag, but when I saw this on my way home from Oakland, I had to get a picture. I hope this keeps the game moving over what promises to be a hot, wet weekend.
Bridge (name=?) @ Ellsworth and Spahr
Gotta thank my tubez (all of 'em, even the spare) for failing during the underwear ride and forcing me to walk across this bridge to catch the bus home, thus giving me the opportunity to notice these adorable mini lane markings.
Bonus shot:
I am not digging the ugly blacktop on the bridge.
Of note, this is the second location that has been tagged twice after their appearances have changed.
I'm baffled by those markings. I guess I'm double-salmoning in those photos.
New tag:
I didn't see this on the tag map, but I could have missed something. But I think these things are pretty new anyway
@stefb
Yeah, I'm kind of doubting whoever designed that bridge intended there to be a garish fake blacktop underneath it. It totally doesn't match the aesthetic of the shimmery mirror things
Local artist Sheila Klein designed the bridge, including the asphalt and lines, which are her homage to the "random yet exquisite pattern of overlapping yellow and white stripes in a Liberty Avenue parking lot where street-line painters test their equipment." (PDF on her website of an article in Shady Ave magazine about the bridge)
Plus it's black and gold.
I think a random pattern would have been more appealing. I don't remember the lines in the artists' rendition of the project, but I could easily be mistaken again.
It does have a cutesy look to it I suppose, while at the same time, I don't especially value blacktops and line markings. They'd make me want to rush from one side of the bridge to the other, but maybe that's intentional.
I'm a non-native; black and gold does nothing for me
@pearmask, was that your first tag pickup? I hope that made up for the Biddle Brucing incident a while back.
I think the most peculiar thing about the bridge to the liquor store is that the little lanes are too narrow for a bike. Are they drawn that way intentionally? Are we not supposed to ride our bikes over that bridge? Do pedestrians really need 2 marked lanes in each direction; I mean, can't they share the road with us? Cyclists have rights, too! Let's paint some sharrows and...
holy shit, did that just happen?
posting for randy:
he says its on the southside trail at the train crossing (4th st?)
also note his sweet new masi cx bike fron iron city!!!
Thanks, bro. I need to re-read the "posting from iPhone" FAQ when my battery is charged again.
Also: holy freaking bugs on the SS trail! I need a mask...
@Jay: Yep I feel like I have redeemed myself haha
@randy: Oooh, I like those Masis. I thought about getting one of those from Iron City as well before I settled on the bike they're building for me now.
I just had to tag that (the Dasani Blue Bikes lockers) because I happened upon them the other day and it seemed like such a weird bikeshare/bike rental situation. I hadn't heard about it at all, and they're located in such a weird place... I don't get it
NEW **3am** TAG
I spotted this and immediately thought Berlin 1941, but melange396 reminded me that it was probably a Polish thing. It's definitely closer to Allies than Axis.
i thought it looked like this, but in hindsight that doesnt make a whole lot of sense...
also, two new bikes in this tag!
On Forbes. This is where blvd of the allies passes over I believe. Oakland.
On second look, I am wondering if there are more than one of these and if I got the correct one. Can I get some verification?
Yeah, thats the spot: Ophelia St. Good work, stefb!
new tag:
this is close to a previous tag whose number is actually on the street with the same name, as listed on the map of all tags.
when i lived in lawrenceville, i watched this place undergo a transformation a few years ago.
Sculpture at the UPMC Children's Hospital
Would've been nice to get a close-up shot of the plaque. It's just a bit too small to read.
New tag:
Shadowed by the lofts,
can't smell ketchup here today
just kids having fun.
Sarah heinz house
New and easy tag!! 
Got plans later so a quick turn over.
If you are looking for a save, or just a measurement stop here.
Is this where Sarah Jessica Parker and Bruce Willis worked?
@ stefb yes it looks like thats where it is. I'm feeling lazy so you should go grab it so I don't have to.
nah. someone else should jump in and get this. perhaps on the way into work tomorrow i could alter my route to get this if i feel like it. cue melange.
There are so many Tags I pass on, not because they are to difficult to get but I just don't always have time to make on extra trip or change my route. I usually pick up the Tags along my route for that day.
River safety center along north shore trail.
New tag:
You are not trippin'. I think this was Shepard Fairey "artwork" before someone decided that it looked kinda like ths image associated with the Misfits. Last I checked, the Abominable Dr. Phibes is not on staff at the nearby medical facility.
i used to pass that place almost every day. now it's just someplace that i used to live...
(sorry (no i'm not))
unfortunately I'm not likely to get to it. ultrasummer and i do not get along, so i'm not likely to ride much until the temp goes down a bit...
hmmm, this is strange. i think this is it, on east st between triopli and thropp... but the face is (now totally) gone!
i dis-OBEY'd the no trespassiing sign to snap the pic (lulz, do u c wut i did thar?!). the whitewash is very fresh, as evidenced by the paint-spattered leaves:
so either im wrong, or we have a strange coincidence on our hands
No. You got it. Vanishing tag!
I was headed down there after work. In the dark I wouldn't have noticed all of that, thanks for making the trip for me.
That is crazy! Sorry it disappeared. There was no sign that it was going to be painted over when I was there between 630am and 7am. However, I am glad I got a picture of it before it was gone!
Wow, it was painted over by about 6:45, then. I rode right past it, looked right at it, didn't see it, didn't recognize well enough the wall in the background. Ended up riding way up Spring Garden Avenue in search of it.
So the Tag-O-Rama game continues the tradition of taking pictures of things before they disappear. Remember the big sand sculpture a summer or so ago?
Do you mean the one at the regatta? There is another one this year.
new tag w/ my new bike!
in keeping with stefs movie references, this location was (unbeknownst to me (thanks randy)) part of the opening scene of zack & miri... and it even features a bike!
I HATE KEVIN SMITH!!!!!!!
@ melange396 nice new bike. What is it and are those disc brakes?
Everyone is getting a new bike! I love it.
Is that a Vaya? I seriously considered those when I was bike shopping. I might have ended up with one if I hadn't been iffy about them having 26" wheels in my size. They are awesome. And orange is clearly the best bike color.
Keystone church in Hazelwood
In case folks missed it, @quizbot's shout out is an interesting one.
@melange - ha, lolz! check the link above!
I also hate shepherd fairey, for the record! Dude is an unoriginal talentless POS!
New TAG!!
Over the river thru the woods to the THOR tag we go.
Roger will lead the way.
Also where I will be enjoying tonights fireworks.
http://bike-pgh.org/bbpress/topic/where-are-you-watching-the-fireworks-tomorrow-night#post-106310
yes, my new bike is a salsa vaya, and it does indeed have disc brakes. i didnt want to spend as much as i did, but after test riding it, i couldnt resist... its great! the orange somehow reminds me of the chartreuse (neon yellow) nishiki cascade i got in junior high. i loved that one to death -- literally. i was riding it down wilkins ave when corrosion finally ate through one of the chainstays :'( it only took 14 years
you may have seen this very same vaya on display at thick. chris gave me a pretty sweet deal on the bike+fenders+racks+bags. i will be taking this down the gap trail this weekend. nick should be happy to know that i also purchased a set of matching orange fiks reflective stickers for the wheels
TL;DR: yay salsa vaya, yay thick, yay orange
I got lucky - just cruising the trails assuming it had to be near downtown - happened to notice the old rail. great spot for fireworks!
Where is that exactly.
^About 100 yards down river from the casino.
New tag.....................
Right near the post gazette distributing warehouse
Yes, orange is the best color for bikes. Irrefutible evidence: 
BAMF. Note what is probably 53x12 gearing.
This is gonna be a vanishing tag also after tonight I think, but I am sure someone will pick this up today.
Sand masterpiece @ Regatta -- pt state pk.
closer
Hope I dont short out my touch screen w/sweat.
It is certainly a sweaty day.
:::NEW TAG:::
The people's parsley.
This is hidden in plain sight. An overtagged part of town.
Hope you made it home safely without dehydration
Thanks, stefb. I brought lots of sunscreen & water. I decided to take the bus partway home. The heat is a lot harder to deal with than the cold & it stresses my lungs out, too.
Same here. My asthma does not like the heat and humidity.
Note what is probably 53x12 gearing.
Although I suppose this could have been a pursuit or something, it just looked like an photo from the hour to me.
Wow, amazing write-up. Thanks.
cool article although I had to go look up his actual distance: 49.431 km (30.715 mi)
Wow! A quick calc means at 52x14 he would have had to hold a 105 cadence for an hour to reach 30.7 average. Mind blowing effort!
(best tangent we've had in this thread in a while)
this man is the reason i laugh at and pity people who seriously think armstrong is the greatest cyclist of all time. one look at his racing records is usually enough to convince them.
Wot? No one has grabbed this yet? It's a public garden with many living examples of plants The Bard made reference to.
" I know a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit."
(Nothing to do with the post, but, ya gotta love the Bard...) "I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aquavitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with herself."
Maybe tonight, if it actually cools down. Heat, humidity, and I don't play well together.
Wow, still here. Guess it's thyme for a ride!
Elizabethan herb garden, mellon park.
Thyme to head home. (i'll try to post a lighter version later, but I haven't enough battery now...)
Looked for the last tag at Octopus's Garden and the Union Project. Obviously off base.
Also +1 for the bard, even though he was a misogynistic prick going by today's standards.
Better version of the pickup:
new tag!
high above the 'road that was scene of one of pittsburgh's most infamous acts of violence, and not far from a memorial to a victim of another of pittsburgh's most infamous acts of violence, a request to knock it off with the lesser-known but just as deadly violence.
[you won't find this on street view. mind the glass and grabby vegetation, and don't look down.]
I'll have to get back to the Elizabethan garden sometime when the sun's up. Couldn't see much, but it sure smelled nice.
I love this kind of tag. Stuff we can learn about, and probably an exploration into a part of town we don't frequent that much.
Now if I only knew where it was! But with the heat index in three digits, I'm not about to go exploring.
I am with you, Stu. I may venture out at 6am tomorrow morning for a ride. I don't do well in the hear.
I thought I had a good idea of where this could be. But after riding up and down throughout the neighborhood in upper 90 degree heat I came up empty.
Are you referring to a natural disaster more than a man-only event? If so I think I was on the wrong end of the street, but didn't think to try there until I was half way home.
My initial thoughts were either on the Homestead High Level Bridge (not far from the Pump House riot) or the McKees Rocks Bridge (not far from the 1909 Presston riot). But my chances of getting out to search either one today is minimal, and to look in both places just isn't going to happen.
Could also be I'm totally off the mark with either guess. This is a big town to look for a little tag.
We could use another hint, I think.
@stu, I was thinking of the three cops that were shot. Or the last flood deaths?
Jonny Gammage? That was on a hill. Is it near where one of the wife-beating cops lives?
There are a couple tags fairly near this one--horizontally, anyway. It's hard to say what neighborhood it is; this area is somewhere between a borderland and a nowhereland.
One of the incidents referenced was well over a century ago. One was within the last decade. Both are nationally famous.
The problem with your clue is that Pittsburgh has a lot of acts of violence and a lot of roads/bridges to look down upon them on
Maybe it's Jerry Jackson
http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/cprb/assets/05_was_justice_served_10-4-05.ppt
http://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/upon-further-review/Content?oid=1335835
Or not; I was writing this while BB was replying; then it's probably somewhere around where the Pinkertons beat up steel workers in Braddock
Where was the 1877 railroad strike? I know there's a plaque somewhere -- perhaps near the Amtrak station, perhaps near Klavon's? If the latter, I might be tempted to look near the 28th St Bridge over the tracks and busway.
@pseudacris Is it near where one of the wife-beating cops lives?
Yes.
All the tags are.
@Mick: maybe not all, but... (from the Google machine, and courtesy of the National Center for Women and Policing Web site):
"Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence, (1, 2) in contrast to 10% of families in the general population.(3) A third study of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24% (4), indicating that domestic violence is 2-4 times more common among police families than American families in general. A police department that has domestic violence offenders among its ranks will not effectively serve and protect victims in the community.5, 6, 7, 8 Moreover, when officers know of domestic violence committed by their colleagues and seek to protect them by covering it up, they expose the department to civil liability.7"
http://womenandpolicing.com/violenceFS.asp
w/ randy
bloomfield bridge anti-hate stencil
the memorial mentioned is surely the shot cop thing in front of the church on liberty... but whats the other act of violence???
The explosion at the Allegheny Arsenal on 40th Street in 1862?
> it's probably somewhere around where the Pinkertons beat up steel workers in Braddock
It's within the city.
> Where was the 1877 railroad strike? I know there's a plaque somewhere
The relevant incident has several memorial plaques, official and unofficial, but none near this location. However, you can see several related locations from 'here'.
ed: melange got it. stu was on the right track (heh); the older incident referred to is the 1877 railroad strike, part of which took place on and around the tracks below you. the newer incident is the shooting of the policemen in Morningside; if I'm not mistaken, the baseball field under the bridge on the Bloomfield end was named after one of the officers involved.
Stanton heights. Dont be giving my hood a bad rap.
Boooo - I think those clues suck for this location. And what's with the glass and vegitation reference?
Good pick-up melange
BTW, it's beena while since I was a pedestrian around that bridge, but it used to be dominate by "Rook Boys" grafffiti. My impression (could be wrong) was the Rook Boys were the racist variety of skin head.
I like this new graffiti better.
I saw some Harry Potter graffiti nearby. Perfect little stencils. The times they are a changin'...
test
[hmm...I can't seem to post on another thread...just ignore this]
"My impression (could be wrong) was the Rook Boys were the racist variety of skin head."
is there such a thing as skin head that isn't racist? I mean, every self-proclaimed skinhead I've ever met has also been a racist prick, but I suppose that could just be an unfortunate coincidence.
self-proclaimed "skinheads", perhaps, but i've known an awful lot of people without any hair, of several races and nationalities, that i would not consider to be at all racist. does that make them not "skinheads"? i don't know, but i'm sure some could see it either way.
I could be way wrong about either the appearance or the attitudes of the Rook Boys. I'm just guessing from my adled memory of old graffiti.
Umm yes there are skinheads who aren't racist.
Lots of them in fact. Really the vast majority are apolitical or anti-rasict. It's just that the boneheads tend to get all the press. You guys do know that the whole skinhead movement started in Jamaica and was an integral part of the first (pre reggae) and second wave (British two tone era) ska scenes right?
Simmer Down
new tag:
we didnt move the tag very far. some people say this pgh institution has the best jukebox in the city. those people probably have lots of tattoos and piercings.
When did they paint the door? I don't remember it as being red.....
gooskis!
I wasn't sure if this was Gooski's or not - I've nver gone there in the daylight.
dammit, I wanted this tag... also, note the swanky new bike rack (finally)!
@Pseudacris nice bike
haha thanks. no laughing but it's actually my "slow bike" ( an old schwinn i use to go the library & co - op with). i was at the library today when this tag was dropped. they have a nice display of bike- themed "zines" on the 1st floor in the "new & featured" section.
Not a tag:
are those uterine handlebars w/ fallopian grips?
@ melange are those uterine handlebars w/ fallopian grips?
I'm guessing that says "Clitical Mass."
You are both correct. Its a zine by Andalusia, who I' m pretty sure was one of the early people to have started free ride. The cover of the zine in the foreground is a takeoff of the classic feminist health tome " our bodies ourselves" and has some interesting stuff about riding that is unique to ladies.
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Fake leather meets the real thing!
This is another piece by probably one of the most well-represented sculptors in the history of Tag-o-Rama. This is an easy one to overlook because it's near an intersection where you should keep your eyes on the traffic. If you need another clue, I'll give you one to morrow.
typo or clue??!?
statue in morrow park, bloomfield
both!
Who's the sculptor?
Frank Vittor. Love those feet. So ordinary, but in stone.
Those look like Uggs. Dude was a trendsetter.
new tag:
i chose my handle as an homage to the most valuable substance in the known universe. on the other hand, this place was almost certainly named after something french.
Melange bistro bar, 138 Sixth
fun is over
this place was almost certainly named after something french
Great clue. (Not only is "melange" a French word, but the space the place occupies was previously Frenchy's.)
Dude, if your drop and your handle are a reference to Dune, we should talk
I don't think we've had that many, if any, sci-fi related tags
@steven: hah! i had no idea... perhaps it was prescience
@pierce, surely you cant be serious! page 58 is full of scifi references!
also:
+3 points for a kara thrace coffeeshop tag
+10 points for a tag w/ a tardis in it
+42 for the rest
Dune is a move I have not seen. I usually fall asleep after the first 10 minutes, to cburch's dismay, as it is one of his favorite movies/books.
I tried so hard to watch Dune, but it's just so long, and I have no attention span.
Dune is such an awesome movie. How could anyone fall asleep.
I keep tellig her that the sleeper must awaken. Doesn't help though.
@cburch: Perhaps you're not using the right Voice.
[Edited to add:] I wish I hadn't lost my copy of this:
Epic novel.
Watched Dune when it first came out, liked it, watched it again with my sons a year or two ago and was appalled by the end. It's like David Lynch just lost interest in the movie and slapped on a few scenes to finish it off. The battle scenes with Paul are dark and fake looking.
Anyone who wasn't familiar with the book would find the movie mystifying and probably boring, I think.
Dune is a good, though somewhat problematic, book, but a dreadful movie.
Dune is a good, though somewhat problematic, book, but a dreadful movie.
I find that both are enjoyable on different levels, so long as you disconnect the part of your brain that expects the movie to be anything like the book...
Yeah, I totally meant the book;
the movie(s?) are crap
Doon... Dessert Planet... Inspired parody!
Besides the David Lynch adaptation, there's a more faithful version the SciFi Channel did a decade ago. It's not bad. There's also a sequel that's over 4 hours long, but I never saw it.
i like the movie as a way to experience the story without the time commitment of re-reading the book, but it does totally pale in comparison... i tried watching the syfy (wtf?? who came up with that name?) channel mini-series, and while it was a more accurate and complete adaptation of the book, i found it unwatchable.
melange, I couldn't agree more with your disgust over the "syfy" name.
I'm not sure what they thought they accomplished with the SyFy thing. Anybody ever see the series Lexx that used to be on? That was some bizarre campy stuff there. Drives me nuts when they put on this "ghost hunter" nonsense all the time, I've pretty much stopped even channel surfing over there.
lexx is on netflix now. stef could not understand why the hell i was watching the entire series. i wanted to see if it made more sense when viewed all at once. it doesn't.
The intentionally half-assed production reminds me of old school Star Trek, old Dr. Who, or ! Batman! Cracks me up.
Don't ever include Star Trek in a statement about poor production quality.
Seriously?
----spits coffy on computer monitor----
Hahahaha!
---- falls over anime style
It's a big, big universe. Probably there's a planet somewhere just full of utterly unconvincing low-budget aliens in gold lamé dresses.
The clue for this tag is a picture:
(Not the tag. Note absence of bike.)
The idea is that patrons of this establishment found relief last week, while I was following TDW's suggestion, in the new tag location, below:
This is not an untagged neighborhood, thank God, or maybe I have that backwards. There's another tag practically on top of it.
Oh i know! but i ride a road bike and dont wanna go there. ugh!
@ W Roger it would he awesome if you joined the game.
Definitely road-bikable.
im there 1st in the morning then
Dog tag!
Hot dog dam, Frick Park.
@ rice rocket nice mountain bike.
@ joanwebb - how was this tag "following TDW's suggestion?"
The first photo was a dog boarding place. Where dogs go when you leave town for a while.
Oops, sorry, I didn't mean to discourage first timers and swipe this from under W Roger, I checked last night at 1 AM and didn't see any other post than jonawebb's.
Marv: you should get one too and join us on Friday nights.
New tag:
This is a not oft seen view of the Mon, you may need to cross a Lawn to get there. (I wish there was a little more visibility today so you could see some landmarks...maybe I'll grab another photo later)
I get it TDW told joanwebb to go back out of town. It actually worked.
Well, TDW is the moderator, so of course it worked.
Ooh, I've been promoted to Bossanova!
@rr: nice touch getting a dog in the photo!
^ Ditto, that.
Lawn street, Oakland
Justice to the Peoples.
County courthouse corner of Forbes & Ross St.
New Tag!!!
It isn't easy being green!
^ Amazing, Greasefoot. You photographed the exact piece of chain that I chose - there's a lot to pick from.
I was lucky, I just happened to be on the jail trail & stoped for a drink if water & to checked my messages. This was only a few blocks away.
PNC building, Wood and Fifth. tagged with newbee campV
That is pretty sweet. Never saw that building before. Don't spend much time downtown.
@greasefoot, watch out for geo tagging--made it too easy.
I know exactly where this is, but I think I'll stay off the bike a couple more days.
Good to see the Downtown tags, though!
Oh I forgot to turn the GPS thingy on my phone off. I'll remember next time. Thanks
They claim that is the largest "green wall" in North America and it reduces the energy cost of this building by 10%
Looks like a billboard to me. Lol
I had no idea where the Greasefoot tag was - I felt that it had to be downtown, considering that he picked up the previous tag and set the new one within 15 minutes of each other. campV and I had been riding all through town looking around when I spotted the huge PNC living billboard and said "check out how cool that it is" (I had never seen it). Then she said "what's that below it?" Ha - she found it. The wall is awesome, huge - probably 7-8 floors tall.
Regarding geotagging - I've heard about it it, but I don't have a clear idea of how to acquire and use it.
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This bird is a bit stiff, compared to all of his like-type rare neighbors.
This tag set by me and newbee campV
If you click on greasefoot's picture it goes to a picture sharing site and if you look at picture info on the right it tells you the exact location the photo was taken at. I was on my way there when you Bruced me.
Wondering if it is behind a locked gate this time of day? Not seeing it, but then again, not very observant.
National aviary behind locked gate
Stefb kindly gave me the tag
New tag. These are some paw-paw trees I planted over 15 years ago when I worked at CMU. This is actually the smaller of two stands of paw-paws I planted in this park. Paw-paws are delicious, the largest native American fruit, and will be ripe in about a month.
George Westinghouse statue near CMU. I think this is off of the road that goes past te golf course. I also think the other side was previously tagged.
OK, but you missed the paw-paws.
@jonawebb: Very cool that you planted paw-paws there. I've always wanted to try one. I like the idea of being able to forage in the city.
If you want one, come by my place (5839 Douglas) in about a month. I have two trees (the ancestors of the trees in Schenley Park) in front of my house that are full.
Edit: Sorry, I just remembered this is only July. Two months.
Ah well if someone wants to get the plants, that is fine with me. The picture never loaded completely for me on my phone so I assumed it was the Westinghouse thing, cause that is all that showed up. I don't even read your clues anymore.
stefb's image is clearly in the same spot that the tag was taken. i can't imagine it not counting.
Of course it counts. Everyone would agree this is the same location.
Rule #1 says... same location (as best as possible)...
#1 - Find the tag and get a picture of your bike in the same location (as best as possible).
the other side of the memorial was tagged previously... in fact, it was my first grab
as for rule #1: does it mean the bike should be in the same place, or the photo should be taken from the same location, or even that the subject of the photo should be the same location (or some combination thereof)? in most cases, the difference is small enough to be negligible, and of course the rules are somewhat flexible.
im not questioning validity here, especially because i suggested this course of action, but on this tag, only the subject of the photo is the same (and id call this a non-negligible difference of distance).
There was also that tag #474, a mobile tag. Perhaps we will have to come up with a more existential definition of what it means to get a tag.
Rule #7. 'Nuff said.
I'd be up for trying these mysterious non-marketed fruit
Please forgive me I have not been following this game for a while and I’m kind of confused? Did anyone get the TDW bird statue tag yesterday?
i think jonawebb got it, but we might have to take it away from him for whinging about stefs treeless picture
is this better?
Perhaps not getting the paw-paws in the photo was a faux pas?
New tag:
My friends Carrie, Lee, and Jay suggested that I head up to watch fireworks from this spot, as it has a great view. You can catch a great view of a pickup softball game from here as well. Sorry, you will likely have to climb.
Mmmm, not all of us have to climb. But getting down the hill might be troublesome with only one brake.
*makes note to set the alarm for early*
It's interesting that when joanwebb is on vacation the game is fun and runs smoothly but when he comes back there is always drama. No reason sefb had to retag that when I joanwebb didn't pick up the exact spot of the tag at the aviary.
I checked - there's no ToR rule that says you can't be a prick about things in the pursuit of some sort of imaginary glory. Continue play.
With StuInMcCandless
Fineview overlook. Catoma and Meadville
Damn, I was waaay off. Couldn't quite nail the vantage point. This is also the ending point for the Fineview Stepathon, where I came in third place last year
(much to the annoyance of my fSO who had actually done a little training, whereas I more or less rolled out of bed, and waffled on going)
My pic from the same spot:
He messaged me overnight, then we arranged at about 4:45 to meet there 6-6:30.
You can also see how different cell phone cameras made in 2004 vs. 2012 take photos.
I do appreciate the re-tag. But I agree, the original paw-paw tag pickup was legal.
Blue bikes and blue trees!
Joni Mitchell wrote a song about seeing trees in a tree museum, and one of Joni's fellow folk-rockers wrote a song that Positively identifies where to find this tag (close to it, anyway).
(Expect a clearer photograph from steeld55 shortly.)
Glad you are back on the bike, stu!
FWIW, this is the 500th tag. Woohoo!
@quizbot: "I checked - there's no ToR rule that says you can't be a prick about things in the pursuit of some sort of imaginary glory."
I'm pretty sure you could replace "...ToR rule..." with just about anything, and your statement there becomes a universal truth. Well played, sir.
500th Tag - Yeah, baby!
Long live T-o-R
When this started, I never thought it would work. I figured there every other tag would be one that no one could figure out and it would die out.
Shows what I know.
Yep, now about ten people keep it going
Three Rivers heritage trail, near (Positively) Fourth Street
New tag. Since we've been talking about Pittsburgh's history of violence, here's a guy behind a lot of it -- industrialist, robber baron, terrorist, philanthropist, benefactor, and a victim of an attempted assassination himself. Have fun.
I'm pretty sure that I've attended a festival that celebrates the life of this man's would-be assassin, if I'm correct about whose grave that is.
too bad it's closed for the night
Closed but not locked.
Yes because that's a great way to continue to engender the good will that has allowed us to rise our bikes in there.
I think I know who it is, I just don't know where it is.
Additional hint: There is a building Downtown with his name on it.
(Nice tag, Jon.)
@Stu you and I should know exactly who it is
@stu -- if you ride through the woods on your way home from work, you can find this person buried in this cemetery.
Helpful resource: http://www.findagrave.com/
this mother fricker was a little tough to find! henry clay frick & family graves in homewood cemetery.
Still love your orange bike.
Mr. Frick may not be pleased to know that the door to his office is now the door to the company kitchenette.
**NOT A TAG PHOTO**
thanks mr m!
@melange, good work.
I also had a hard time finding the grave -- he's hidden up there next to Mellon, which is a much more prominent site. Frick is still kind of an ass.
BTW, while searching I ran across another prominent name: Pinkerton, Frick's private army.
^^^^ yeah, love orange
If anyone reads Cracked.com, you can read about Frick in the article titled "The 6 Most Horrific Bosses of All Time"
"BTW, while searching I ran across another prominent name: Pinkerton, Frick's private army."
That makes Pinkerton make complete sense now!
Also, nice tag.
sorry for the delay -- i blame the rain. new tag:
this might be a little tough to get to for the next few days, depending on your direction of travel... probably pretty loud, too. im not sure if the thing at the end of the tunnel will be open, but if it is, it can help you cool off after a long ride.
Tunnel to Schenley Park pool, under the Vintage Gran Prix
Panorama shot to show one of Pittsburgh's secret beaches.
You might want a trail bike to get here, unless you like riding on ballast.
Edit: new tag, of course.
Your bike's somewhere in the tiny panorama shot, right? My enhance button must be busted.
Sorry, when I post from the phone it scales the image to fit the phone and you can't rescale it. My bike is on the right.
In case you need a clue: the trail on this side of the river is narrow and short but the one on the other side is wide and runs for hundreds of miles.
duck hollow "beach". took a bit of a wrong turn on the way here, and i really hope i avoided all the poison ivy. fun expedition, though.
and thence to my destination. new tag:
i busted a grip on the way to the tag, so i headed here to order a new one and say hi to max.
Maxxis???
developer of simcity???
Iron city bikes. Handlebars are in lower left hand corner.
damn! i should have known that id miss it if i waited to finish my beer at otb.
I finally left the house after being ill with a flu. First time since Friday. Glad it was close to home. Sorry, team ToR-getters, for lack of bike challenge miles since Wednesday.
Edit: sorry, George. FOMF
New tag:
This walkway connects one place to another. You may not have ever come across it unless you've explored a bit, but I am sure some commuters ride past it regularly on a popular commuter route without knowing it is only a block away.
its cool. you got there first, fair & square. NBD, HAND, FOMF, YMMV
ps: welcome back to the road!
walkway from amberson ave to pitcairn place. i immediately recognized this, as i walk or bike past here several times a day. but i never knew this path connected the two streets.
new tag:
this little goldfish pond lies just off one of the most underused trails that i know of in the city. i think robots built it or something.
Next to NREC near the 40th Street bridge.
fucker!
Hahaha
Sorry. I have to start hanging around longer, meet some of you folks.
My my. Melange, I hope you wrote that with a smile on your face. And Mr. Webb, no need to apologize. I think people apologize too much, especially women.
maybe a grimace, not a smile. should i be happy to ride down to a tag, upload a picture, and load up the tor thread to see ive been scooped by 8 minutes on a tag that sat for 32 hours? but there was no real maliciousness intended, and (as you said) theres no need to apologize. i enjoyed my ride regardless.
however, i think i would be far more nonplussed to arrive and find someone waiting to meet the sucker that they beat to the tag. chance encounters are one thing. sticking around is another matter -- itll feel like gloating.
OK, got it, I won't stick around.
Here is your new tag. Sarapgh2 told us about this house on the Bakery Tour last fall, the fateful day I first heard about Tag-o-Rama. (But if she won't tell there are a lot of other women who could point you in the general direction.) I still had to grope around a bit to find it. The place isn't as famous as the owner, frankly, would like.
walter gropius house, inside or near chatham. cantilevered bauhaus steps and all. probbly slightly trespassy, but whatevski.
i wouldve given you mad props for waiting outside your own (yet unclaimed) tag
haha, stalker.
That second photo has a nice Prypiat look to it
Nice and fast.
Is that house unoccupied? If the owner doesn't have the money to maintain it properly they should donate it to Chatham or something. That is bloody criminal.
They (Frank House Foundation) are trying to make it some sort of public thing. I don't know how much progress there's been, but there are news stories etc.
Cool tag -- I had no idea this was there!
the house has been deserted for a while, afaict. an architect friend took me there many years ago, and it was in pretty much the same condition. however, there is now some scaffolding around part of the structure (not captured in the photos above), so hopefully it is being restored or something. pierce, i forgot to bring my dosimeter, but im not glowing... so theres that.
new tag:
maybe they should rename this 'trench park'
Know, exact where that is, was just checking that out the other day. Cool sight that is never usually seen. But no bike today.
Crap! I know this one, and have a bike, but can't get away for another hour. It's sure to be gone by then!
I was kinda stupid today - I stopped somewhere and was like "I'll take a picture for that game thingy!" and I did....until I realized I had to find the place posted first. Dag Nammit.
@ Italianblend: check out the other game, "Wheelset of Fortune." I have a feeling you could pick up on that one pretty quickly. The current themes are doors and animals.
It is supposed to storm badly, so I hope someone gets it soon! I wouldn't be able to get there until this evening.
I forgot how to pus from my phone.darn
img src!
I suppose the location is obvious, but neither one of you posted it.
that looks like my bike on the southside near REI
^ what's up with your seat angle? //kidding//
How do you like the Brooks Saddle so far?
I was helping marv post his pic, I'm nowhere near a bike.
I love the saddle, but you are right i need to adjust the angle.
@Rice Rocket thanks for the help posting
That doesn't look like your new bike...
Anyway, that's "Tunnel Park" without its roof on, visible for the first time in about 100 years, and shortly to be re-roofed, after they raise the height of the tunnel. Between Hofbrauhaus and REI in South Side Works.
2:20 p.m., big honking storm front rolling in, you have maybe an hour. Everything north and west of Pgh is under a storm warning.
I wanted to try out the Brooks saddle why I have the old bike, new bike will be in the be tag.I'll switch bikes and post hopefully today
@stu thanks for letting me know about the storm, i better get
This is awesome haha.
Posting again because you know Joanwebb would make a stink about my earlier post.
@ Quizbot that is the most epic awesome thing I have seen in a long time. Thanks for the approval.
It does appear to be violating #49 though.
lulz
I just can't win
Ha!
Scary ass storm hitting Robinson right now - if you are out somewhere right now get your ass in somewhere quick!
On a related note, I went outside to feel the wind, but it was too windy to stand outside under the building overhang and I got wet
Some folks have expressed interest in having more accurate set/get times in the spreadsheet. I recently used Google's cache of the thread's RSS feed to grab more precise times for about 180 tags. They're on the new Times page of the results spreadsheet (select it at the bottom).
Only tags from around June-October 2011 and April 2012 to now have times, as Google doesn't seem to return more than a few months of data, and I only found one saved snapshot from 2011.
(Any Google experts who can get a URL like this to return older data? Or message board experts able to get precise dates out of the message board directly?)
So far I just have the raw times (ISO 8601 format) and from that, calculate the number of hours to find each tag.
Initial fun statistics (though perhaps "fun" and "statistics" don't really belong in the same sentence):
Of the 180 or so tags for which there's data, the quickest turnaround was Tag 455 - Bench at Spak Bros Pizza (32 minutes) and the slowest was Tag 285 - Aspinwall Dinosaur (113 hours).
steven++
very nicely done, sir
^ Ditto that, thanks Steven
I wanted to post the Tag this morning, but I have been waiting since 8am for someone from PWSA to come and fix a leaking water meter the soaked my basement..... sigh
NEW TAG!!!!!
This is a Center not a college!
yes that is my daughters pink rear blinky on my bike.
new tag, new ride! sweet set of wheels mr marvelous!
^ thanks
is that a belt drive???!!!!! shit, im jealous
This is a Center not a college!
not a university.
Haha I forgot it's a University now.
And yes single speed BELT DRIVE.... boooyaaaa
sweeeeet biiiike!
Chatham center (two) near Consol.
@ Stef nice early morning pick up.
And congratulations on your 60th tag!
new tag:
i don't even think the kids in this building could tell you what a rotary phone is.
EDIT: my grandma still has one!
Old Bell telephone building, 201 Stanwix
New rag. Speaking of Queen Anne's Lace, you don't have to go to Georgia to find a field of it. And you don't need all the gold in Fort Knox to afford the Rentz in this neighborhood.
Former Knoxville middle school as seen from Rentz way. This used to be a really nice neighborhood, but has fallen on hard times the last few decades.
Yay, Marko!
Q: Hey Glen Wood you know what bridge that is?
A: No, but I'll bet you'll get muddy getting there. (enter via Agnew)
I am already muddy but don't know if I can make it there before nightfall.
Marko it does not look like you used the same bike in both tags...
^ yeah I went home in between tags and switched bikes. You could probably get the tag with skinny tires, but you will have to walk around/through some rough spots. I have smooth tires on the MTB I used, and it wasnt too bad. This does NOT require first rate MTB skills so please dont feel intimidated to go explore.
I attempted this. Ran out of time exploring. Got muddy. Thought inbred mountain folk were ginna kidnap and torture me on the access roads.
did you hear banjo's playing?
It's always been my hope that the inbred mountin folk take Sunday mornings off of torturin'. That's usually when I go to Bavington.
haha no banjos. i think i was on the right track. saw some previous bike tire tracks but then kinda lost them. i think i went right when i should have gone left. oh well. it was an adventure, and then i showed some people how to get to the south side trail from sandcastle. time for actual mountain biking and (hopefully) a chance to get muddier.
Insane location, at least 3 or 4 miles into rough trails. Picked up with campV
Now trying to figure out the best way back - jeez! Muddy spots, rough terrain, no skinny tires belong.
posting for randy, looks like he got bruced
XO-5! always nice to see a bridgestone!
Wow. That was fun. Wish I would of saw Decaf up there. I took an equally insane route to and back. There was mountain climbing and death defying stunts. ...and the CX finally got a mud christaning.
I did that on my fixie, dudes. Did you make a left or right when te road first split? I went right and eventually got to an opening (near abandoned couches) and hiked up a muddy ATV trail and it kept going and going and I had a prior obligation and had to be home, so I turned around. It was pretty close to glass run.
Edit: After the ATV hike, I had to spend about 5 minutes digging mud out of my cleat to clip in again.
I rode over and saw TDW & campV on their way out. I think they had a good time exploring, regardless of what they actually said. Great job to all who ventured forth. And stef, you want to go left at the split.
Damn. I usually pick left, too!
Bummer we missed you randy - you too stefb.
New Tag to come tomorrow.
NOT A TAG, just a sample of the terrain, and one of many left or right decisions to get the last tag.
Any more details on the location? Maybe on Google maps?
I put it on the map at my best guess, based on the angle of the bridge. You can see the various utility poles in aerial view, but I might well have picked the wrong one. (I picked one in a cluster of 3+ poles about 10 feet apart, but the tag could well be the solitary pole 200 feet closer to the bridge.)
Corrections welcome as always.
I guess I don't need to post screen captures of my contour footage. That picture is clearer. That was actually fun to do on my bike! I'm ready for cyclocross now.
@Steven - I'd say you nailed the spot - exactly where I would put it on the map.
New Tag:
This one is pretty easy, I think. The fountain is fairly new - I haven't been riding on this street since they built the glass circles bridge. Set by me and campV.
I go past that every day on the way home. I was going to use that for my next tag! I am at work late tonight though is that a house or a group house or apts?
now i know where this is, I'm working late also
Posting for b.s. 
Sry for the small pic. But its on alder st in Shadyside.
B.S. and marko82
drat. bruced by ten minutes. i blame work, for making me wait while crap downloaded.
New Tag: set with B.S.
For those who like Ketchup on their Mulberries…
I must say that the sculpture & house in the last tag is u.g.l.y.
13th st & mulberry way, behind heinz history center
Fun fact: The fountain on Alder was the first tag set by a group and found by a different group. Or equivalently, this was the first time two tags in a row have been found by groups.
And now back to the play-by-play....
I wish I would have looked at the board before I left work. D'oh! I took smallman home.
@Steven - that's amazing - the first time - cool to be a part of it.
new tag:
i bike-salmoned to get to this iguana. and no, it doesnt have an ion tail, but i can see how you might think so.
My son used to have an iguana. It would occasionally escape and end up in a tree or on the roof of a nearby house. I never knew they could grip onto a wall like that.
im quite certain this one is bolted on
Belvedere between Comet and Howe
well, kinda, except s/belvedere/bellefonte/
comets have ion tails, hence the clue. if i keep making things this nerdy, is jonawebb gonna be the only one who gets them?
also, bellefonte is one way, and i went 'against the current', thus bike-salmoning
i didn't get the clue, but knew where this one was. stuck at home today or I woulda grabbed it!
Sorry misread the sign then I had to hunt around for Wifi because 4G wasn't working and couldn't double-check.
did you goto the apple store around the corner? im pretty sure they have free open wifi internets
@jonawebb HOW DO YOU FIND EVERY SINGLE TAG?!?!?!?!?!!?!?1?! lol
Seriously. Either you're retired or you have a very flexible work schedule and limited family obligations.
I just find the tag amazing. More like this, please! What other weird stuff is out in plain sight?
Or a really fast car.
It's all about the Google. Actually, I'm at a disadvantage, because I work in Monroeville and can't get to tagging until at least I get home.
Edit: Walnut St is full of free open Wifi. I ended up using Sephora's.
lulz@mr.m
New tag. One of the things I like about Pittsburgh is all the bizarre intersections. Here is one of my favorite. You might recognize it but if not, it's at the edge of the woods.
I recognize that. That would also make a great topic for Wheelset of Fortune, too.
greendale ave & parkway ramp
i spent an hour looking @ google maps for this, couldnt find it at all. i guess im just not that familiar with the east end of pgh.
if youve got a bike, thats fairly easily remedied!
does anyone on the tag-o-rama-getters team want to ride Pdl Pgh together on Sunday? Or anyone else for that mater…
Yeah I plan to get to the south side at 6am. I am not a fan if mid day heat. I don't mind being dropped either. I am doing it fixed. And I hope to not feel as bad as I have the past few weeks. I struggled to get home today.
the current weather predictions are less on heat and more on raging thunderstorms.
I am fine with storms as long as it is not cold and rainy like it has been in previous years.
I think moving the event to August solved that problem.
No shit.
Yea, I'd like to meet up.
mrs. marvelous and I plan on getting there at 6am and riding the 60. We plan on riding slow and I'll have the single speed I won't mind hanging out with you guys.
I haven't figured out what I'm doing yet - I want to ride the 63, but I'd have to bag the whole family. I could dial back a little and do the 30 with the boy. Or bag what I want completely and just do fun riding with family and acquaintances.
Too much deciding. puh.
edmonds, you can ride 60 miles any day of the year, there's nothing that special about it. Might as well do it w/ your whole family and enjoy the scenery/pace/bickering.
Maybe the bickering is just my family...
i'm doing the 30ish with a few friends. i plan to arrive around 8:30-8:45. though i'm still not sure how (that's earlier than i have to get to work).
I would love to meet up with anyone who wants to ride the 63-mile route in a slowish fashion. My plan was also to get there around 6 (bleh).
@ pearmask we are with you
http://bike-pgh.org/bbpress/topic/pedal-pittsburgh-slow-group-ride?replies=1#post-109817
I'm a marshall, 9-1 pm. Looking forward to the party after!
Where my tag?
sorry! ill have one up very soon
I was going to go out this morning and Bruce you on it, but I don't hate you
thanks stef, i appreciate it even though i probably deserved to be bruced.
new tag:
wait til tomorrow and this bike lane will stretch to fill the whole road!
Birmingham bridge.
I dont think I am in the same spot, but I hope it is good enough. I hate riding this bridge.
.. Oh and there is a lot of glass that should be cleaned up on the 5th ave side before the bike yields to ramp traffic.
Birmingham bridge
To make it fair I took my fixie
Bruced! Fair enough..
Someone needs a faster car.
Someone needs to shut up.
@mr marv, too funny! Lmao
mr marveLOLs!
stef, you get extra points for getting a bike lane icon in your pic. i realized i didnt get one in mine right after i hit 'send post'
i hope to start at 6 tomorrow, but i have trouble doing things on time, so who knows...
Now I do regret not pointing and laughing at you when I saw you going to get it.
@ stefb he can't hear you laughing with the windows up.
Oh marv hahaha he was actually on Carson on a bike. I Passed him on my way to REI. I happened to check my phone before going down panther hollow and saw that the tag was on my way to REI if I took fifth. Thanks for leaving it at that exact time. Worked out for me!
To be honest, I am and have been running out of ideas for new tags. I have one in mind for tonight, but I have to wait until it happens. The place will still be a valid pickup even if it is not picked up when the event is happening.
also, this is in response to the fixie comment:
This has been one funny thread today
too bad the person who made that photo misspelled schwartz, but it was the only one i could find.
I lied. I have one for the morning.
I also am having trouble placing new tags, not that they are out there but making time to travel further out than the overloaded east end and rushing back to Family, work, and school responsibilities. Because of my schedule I place tags around work, school and home... and those areas are getting boring.
meh. my last tag that i left was i think exactly where i worked. and i thought it was a pretty cool thing to have found, even though i left it immediately after i picked up the tag. thing is, there are so many interesting areas that if you just go on a ride for more than an hour, there will come a spot where you say "this would make a good tag." so do that and leave it there. even if you have left 20-40 tags previously.
New tag:
Maybe if you drank a lot beer, you would fart all night. This is on the pedal pgh route. You will probably go slowly past it.
Liberty ave near 40th
That is my son Peter, who found the tag.
What is up with the saddle and helmet angles in that picture?!
@Stefb I don't know. I think it's because there's a lot of non-conformism in my family.
Here is your new tag. Peter has an association with this place which was started by his girlfriend's dad. I like it because AFAIK it's the only religious institution named after a stage in the manufacture of steel (also a cool bridge).
one of these days i will win this thread. no Brucing required.
Hot metal bridge church 2700 Jane st south side
Cool.
New tag:
I wonder if gene Kelly Played bocce ball here? Probably not. These look too new.
I probably won't be grabbing new tags for a while. I want to encourage others to play.
@ stefb no more Tags???!!!!
Nope. Unless there is one i am dying to set, I am gonna take a break. It is fun, but whoever said that there are like 4 people playing the game still was right.
Today is a sad day for ToR.
It's always more fun when we get a bunch more people into it. Stef, try your hand at the Wheelset game. Less pressure, more chance to be creative, the more (people, pics) the merrier.
john l del signore bocce court, morniingside
lotsa old men playing here tonight, speaking itallian.
stef, i hope you at least follow along and make snarky comments. if/when i ever find myself in the first place spot for points, i will probably slow down too. too few of us have been monopolizing too much of this game
Aww I missed you. I had hoped to see someone ride behind the school across from my house to get this as I sat on the porch, but I just got home from the team decaf ride.
I would have picked this up and then head to the ride but I feel awful right now.
@ stef retiring as the greatest ToR of all time. It was a great to witness history.
I just don't have any kids or any commitments outside of work haha that is kinda sad. But I really think that some other people may have more interesting things to post than me.
FOMF FTW
i dont want to stop playing, i really enjoy this game... its fun on many levels: it gives an excuse to ride, often to places you might not normally go, so it also lets you see new things. its got a competitive aspect, with the 'points' count and racing to tags to not get bruced (and we have definitely had some close ones). theres an artistic/creative side with how you choose your tags and frame your pictures and craft your clues. and perhaps my favorite part, theres a puzzle component in figuring out where tags are given limited information.
new tag:
to get to this tag, find a blue arrow and (*) go in the direction it points. continue until you either find the tag, or find another arrow, in which case go back to (*).
clue: i didnt move the marker very far
for what its worth, the mural is not visible on street view (it must be too new)
oh hell i just saw that in the last three days and have no idea where. oy.
@melange396
Where the heck in Morningside is that? Never seen it. I thought it was in Hazelwood
@buffalo: you probably saw it almost exactly 3 days ago, in fact
@pierce: behind st raphael elementary school on chislett
Auburn and Larimer
Dagnabbit. I need to get one soon. I have an untamed water tower in mind.
Here's your chance. New tag. This is where Peter and I went after the City Tour Sunday. It's also a place Starbuck and Ahab would have found Friendly Society.
^ Ditto what mm said about stefb - and yeah, I agree with all of melange396's reasons why this is fun.
Dammit! I'm pretty sure I rode past the new tag location about an hour ago, and now it's raining...
quaker house on ellsworth.
Yay HV
Feeling your oats, HV?
You've got a Friend in Pennsylvania!
i hope you dont mean kara 'starbuck' thrace, she was a pretty firm believer in the gods.
new tag!
this bridge won't get you across the river all the way, but where it goes, you might once have found george washington sleeping after swimming ashore.
Another beautiful view of the city skyline that you can only see on bike or on foot.
I know exactly where this is, and it's on the way home, but it's going to be dark before I get there, let alone get to someplace I can upload and post. Enjoy!
bridge to washingtons landing off ?allegheny river trail (northside) w/ ddeeff
^ One of the Bridges on the 12 Bridges, 3 Rivers, 21 Miles Ride.
Yes, a shameless pitch for my ride on Saturday, 11:00 am. Tazza D'oro, Highland Park
Ahem.....
@Dan... I'm part of the Bridges Ride too, remember??
Of course, bikey! Sorry.
Oh snap, thanks for the reminder TDW. I was looking fwd to that ride.
Oh snap, thanks for the reminder TDW. I was looking fwd to that ride.
@melange I watched the first year of that show but could never get into it. I prefer the original, with Lorne Greene.
the battlestar galactica reboot is incredible, i urge you to give it another chance (and everyone else should give it a first chance)
new tag:
they kicked out pavarotti tonight for some awesome party
oh man, nobody's ever gonna find that place
The BSG reboot is all kinds of awesome. Up until the last 10 minutes of the finale. If they had just ended on Adama ending and left the rest out it would have been unfuckingbelievable.
Pittsburgh opera
@cburch, melange: absolutely agreed. the only thing i really hated about the reboot was the final moments that involved starbuck. i don't want to give anything away to those who haven't seen it yet, but that bit didn't satisfy. the whole rest of the series, however, with edward james olmos (or EJO as he is known amongst my friends), is some of the best television i've seen in the past two decades.
The Bike Fest Party really brought us all together Jonawebb took a picture with me at the party, and then I helped him put his bike on his car after he got the tag. I love this family.
Haaaaaaaaaaaa!
@mm you were there?
Lots of people introduced themselves to me because of my original use of my own face as my avatar, but not mm. Who I kind of wanted to meet to find out if he really is nice in person or still sort of obsessed with me.
Also, I ran into Jim Martin, who I knew at CMU. He built the goldfish pond outside NREC and was really happy to hear about the tag.
We took a picture together
(edit) stefb, marko, you and I, and a few others. I said hi to you
Someone should get that picture and label it.
You are always welcome to come on a Flock ride with us.
Aww you at nice. But flock is too early to get to from Monroeville.
Drive faster.
Haha
All are welcome at Try-A-Bike tomorrow 10-5 @ the Cycling Track.
+1000
luuuuuuuuulz @ mr marv
@ melange did you enjoy the beer tickets?
Another PP refugee. Saw this guy just before Peter's sharp eyes found the tag we picked up.
New tag, of course.
^good one! I wish I had time to grab this today. Who the heck shops at this place? I want to know where the merch ends up!
I know where it is but I eneded up riding 15 extra miles after the team decaf ride. Too tiirreeddd (and to think this could've been my first tag!)
& luuuulz @ stef
i thoroughly enjoyed the beer tickets, thank you very much!
@ melange we are a bunch of comedians on the message board. I'm glad you put the tickets to good use and found the beer a good home.
I can't wait to see our picture.
@ stefb lol. Someone is in for a BIG surprise. You always get me in trouble.
Hopefully no one gets this before me. Is it against the rules to send the picture to someone and have them post it here, or should I just take my laptop to work with me tomorrow and try to steal some wifi?
@RF: there is some precedent in the game already for "proxy uploading": not everyone has a smart phone or internet. So long as you got the tag & are the first to post it (even if someone else posts it on your behalf), seems fair to me.
Rice Rocket helped me post my last tag because I still have problems posting from my phone. So you're good to go.
Nice. I'll take my laptop, but if I can't find any wifi, I'll send it to someone. Only problem is that most people are fast asleep when I"m leaving for work :p
They have huge Xmas decorations there in the winter.
I love that place; one of that hippo's bovine playmates has appeared on an icon of mine somewhere.
I really should go out and get more tags. It's just hard to find the time
RF, I feel your pain. But if you're awake right now and send me a link, I can post it for you. Are you on Twitter? "D" me: bus15237
hot frank's has free wireless, accessible outside the place:
my camera can't take good night photos, but this was at 32nd and liberty in the strip. Now I'm a little later than I'd like to be for work, so I'll be back in 10 or so hours!
New Tag!
This is across the street from one of the first 30 tags in the game. I recommend coming here tomorrow morning, walk behind the counter to get your coffee, chat with the line cooks while they make your food, and let some new friendships bloom. If there's a special containing the word "smothered," order it!
The last sentence is not part of the hint, by the way, it's just something you should do.
mama ro's sandwich shop in bloomfield on liberty
i dont typically get up early enough for what most people consider 'breakfast time', but thankfully, they serve breakfast all day
and on weekends, from midnight-4am as well! Love that place.
Tag post: 7:54 p.m.
Tag pickup: 8:29 p.m.
Elapsed time: 35 minutes. Is that a record?
I can think of two that I picked up that may have been good competition for it - one at salem's market in the strip, and one at the Bike-PGH office. I lived between 3 and 15 minutes away from them.
per Steven on page 73:
Of the 180 or so tags for which there's data, the quickest turnaround was Tag 455 - Bench at Spak Bros Pizza (32 minutes) and the slowest was Tag 285 - Aspinwall Dinosaur (113 hours).
pretty close, though!
Someone said that my last pickup was really quick but not sure how quick.
Yeah, I noticed that stefb's tag on the Birmingham Bridge was only 18 minutes.. The Saturday before Pedal Pittsburgh.
*crickets*
Shit, I might bruce you and I'm in Lake Placid!
^Alligators
Better. Rock gardens.
I have seen the pictures.
jeeez, i STILL have like 8h left...
new one:
its been a while since i did a tag with some sweet lighting fx in it, so here you go (did someone say lasers??). this one is so iconic that it was even depicted on a previous bikepgh map, so i think im justified in calling it 'obvious'. if youve never been here, youre doing yourself a disservice -- even so, you should know what it is.
Debating on getting this one now or a early ride. Did you go see the laser show melange? I just found a ticket stub from when I went back I'm may.
oh, you're lucky my ride for tonight ended up not happening
I'd have been leaving now, and actually planned to go out that way tonight.
i havent been to a laser show there since nin in 1998
go get it now!
Didn't go right away but still got it.
Carnegie science center.
Whew! Thought about taking an early lunch to go get it, but figured I'd be bruced anyway (which I would have).
But, what really kept me from going to get it was the lack of time to set the next tag, truth be told. I'd have risked being bruced, otherwise!
I figured by the time I got up it would of been gone.
!GAT WEN OR NEW TAG!
This bird is our nations bird it stands for freedom.but if you kept going down the road your on you will end up at a place with no freedom.
i got this a few hrs ago and then my phone died, i almost forgot to post it: pittsburgh eagle, eckert st.
is this place still open? it looked pretty dead
huh. looks like it might be dead. website hasn't been updated since march, FB & Twitter pages are both gone.
Apperntly its only open on saturdays.
i was going to do the dinosaur for in honor of tonights flock ride, but it would have been a redux... this one isnt too far away, though:
the glass is so organic looking, you might think it was grown this way
You can get in there with a bicycle? Hmm, didn't know that. That alone is cool info we find out in playing this game.
I'm not grabbing this tag, though. Have fun, guys!
@stu i didnt get in there w/ a bike...
Phipps Conservatory - Oakland
NEW TAG!!
If you were doing the "Pool Ride", you would know where this misty concoction is at...
Children's museum cloud sculpture
New tag. After the all neighborhoods ride, the tags I could do...but those will have to wait, i'm pooped.
I think you can figure out where this is from the background, bit if not--I didn't mice it far.
Police memorial across from the point
Congrats, steeld. Nice to see such a quick pickup.
Thanks waited til after work and it was only a couple miles away.
Sorry for the 39 hour delay.
Here is a New tag!
Back in '79 when the French oven bakery opened it had nothing like these.
Good smell tanks, Breadworks
Edit: changed 'angel' to 'smell'. Swype keyboard is funny sometimes.
I was looking for a good night time tag on the way home from Breadworks and found this place. I think it's the "coolest" place in the neighborhood.
Oh, if I didn't have to get up in the morning, I'd grab this right now...
I'm gonna get this when I'm done with work
d'oh. i thought that looked familiar, i work in the building across the street.
Energy building on s commons
#3// 7@&
This knocker is not on bubbles or blossom but on the other puff.
Where's your bike?
The handle bar left side of the screen its red
Where the lock is far left little bit up from that
Ah, I see it. I mistook it for a tiny light
Yea it was hard getting the bike in the pic and getting it the way i wanted, then a neighbor came out and questioned why am i taking pictures lol.
So there is a cool new tag on the south side that I believe just went up today but I haven't seen it in person.. Just throwing that suggestion out there...
911 Buttercup way
Sorry for no flash. I'll try to boost exposure when I get home.
Here's a photo with the exposure pushed to max. You can make out the knocker.
New tag. BTW, sounds like someone's getting that tagging itch once again. Stefb, I am sure everyone here would be happy to have you rejoin the game.
This is a place where I looked for a fountain shown in a previous tag that was a "center, not a university." But I was looking in the wrong place. This is a university, or at least it claims to be one.
I already tagged this.
Tag 320
Rule #2 - Take the tag to a new location.
dun dun duuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnnn
No, I think it's OK to recycle tags, and in a previous discussion we decided it would be OK. Sitting here at 3:30 a.m., I don't feel much like pawing back through 120 pages of posts and 500+ tags to find the particular discussion. My take on Rule #2 is that the next tag simply not be the same as the previous tag.
I don't know where Jon's waterfall is, though I am sure I've seen it before. Hey, this game is difficult enough for those of us without portable Internet.
Yes, we've had several recycled tags before. For instance, 118 and 154.
If we decide to change the interpretation of the rules to prohibit recycling, it would be fairer to apply it starting with the next tag.
If we do change the rule, then how much of a place has to change before it's OK to tag again? If a building gets an interesting new door, can it be retagged? Is a different part of the same structure prohibited? A different part of the same mural?
My opinion is the rule should stay as it is, and we should accept recycled tags, but grumble about them if they're insufficiently different or interesting. We could add some text to the rules like "Try to check the map before placing a tag. Reusing a previous tag's location is discouraged."
I second Steven... Pittsburgh is big enough to continue enjoying new tags as it goes along, plus is not that hard for people to look into the Tag-Map to make sure a place has not been tagged -plus there is 36hrs between tags to go ahead and check prior to just dropping any place/ tag.
Bottom line: Don't pick a Tag if you're not prepared to drop a unique-new Tag.
I say that Joanwebb still is within the 36hrs ((from picking steeld55's tag)) -to correct this. OR someone can go ahead and bruce him by picking steeld55 tag if Joanwebb goes over the 36hrs maximum
I was just pointing the fact that it was already tagged. But what bikey said.
FWIW I wanted to drop the tag quickly to keep the game moving. I agree we decided to accept repeat tags in the past. But I accept the grumbling.
dissent. revisiting places and reusing tags is positively good imo. requiring people to review hundreds of posts before they post a picture is dumb. again imo if you find a place or image you think is neat, tag it. of course the game is doing fine without my participation so w/e.
How about this. I actually had another tag in mind when I was struck by the night-time beauty of the waterfall. But I can't drop it before my commute home tonight. So if anyone grabs the waterfall today, fine, they've got the tag. If not, I'll drop a new tag tonight, and that will replace the waterfall.
BTW, one more thing -- paw-paws are dropping. If you want to try one come by my house at 5839 Douglas St and pick one up from under the trees or if you can't find any there are some on the porch.
I planned on grabbing the waterfall last night but i knew 6am would come quick so sleep sounded better. After work if it is not grabbed I will pick it up.
Just to settle the debate... Tag #320 was the waterfall next to Point Park. THIS is the waterfall next to the Osteria restaurant.
Right on!
Glad to see you on a bike again Mr. destructicity
I'm probably bruced here (hey, it takes over an hour to get into Tahn from McCandless), but here it is anyway:
Point Park *University* waterfall, Wood St by Blvd of the Allies.
Edit: Yep, by about an hour. Well, 45 minutes, anyway. It took me about 15 minutes to get to the office and push the buttons. I left the house before 8.
Go Mr Destructicity!!!
BTW -I don't think is dumb to check/review previous tags.... The excell sheet & google map make it easy.
Personally, while I'm not picking up tags all the time, I do keep an eye of what goes here & what is been taged so I don't repeat.
If tags start to get repeated, it kinda-takes away part of the excitement of this game IMHO.
@bikeygirl agree it's not as nice to repeat tags. But it's not necessarily easy to determine if a location has been tagged before on a phone. Mine give up displaying tags on the map after a certain number so in densely tagged locations it can look like a tag is new.
I just don't want to have to go crazy verifying that a tag is unique before posting it. Sometimes a certain location can strike you as interesting, even if it has been tagged before. I'd never appreciated that waterfall much before I saw it at night.
just testing.
Testes.. Testes.. One .. Two.. Three?
One - Lance
Two - whoever
Three - Chuck Norris
Now I can't stop thinking of the terrible spy novels I used to read, where the main character carried a gas bomb in his pants. It was always described as "nestled comfortably between his legs, like a third testicle", and I always wondered what the hell could be comfortable about that.
@Vanevvar -I agree. If something is within the vicinity of another tag that is cool but isn't the same thing, it should be fine. If is the same thing is taged twice, then it breaks Rule #2.
My method is that I have several potential-tags in my mind rolling just-in-case I'm able to jump in the game. When I think of a new place I wanna tag, I check the map in-advance first to see if the place has been tagged before -is that easy.
Maybe I'm being OCD about it.... whatevers.
To finalize my s'pill & like I said before. I think that...
If someone is going to pick a Tag, be prepared to:
(a) Be available to drop a tag within the 36hrs allowence.
(b)Have a new/unique enough tag in mind of ready to be dropped.
Simple...
ok -I'm done!
The testes thing was from an old episode of Beavis and butthead. Bill Clinton visited highland high. That is all I have to contribute. You're welcome to some of you, and sorry to others.
I'm totally cool with tagging a place more than once.
Some places deserve a few views, angles, repeating.
Some places should be buried into obscurity.
Tagging a place more than once gives it more value.
Some places deserve more value.
We've gone over 4,000 posts - damn impressive!
/agree with both teamdecaf and nate. sometimes it's astounding how startlingly different a place the world is when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.
^^^ FTW
NEW TAG!
Somebody better call Cesar Chavez 'cause I think we got some migrant Workers down south that need his help.
Southside public boat launch. Next to New dog run.
Cool. From the article I read yesterday I thought these sculptures were going to be behind the Hofrbra House – I like them in the park better.
These are about 50 feet from the boat launch. There may be plans for additional works down @ the other end near pavilion though.
I thought the same thing Marko. Colin was looking for them yesterday. This is the tag I wanted people to get. Glad to see it was. I need to see these in person.
NEW TAG!
Over the river, but skip the woods, we're not going to Grandmother's house.
Back in the day this place used to rock, but now it's only the windows that roll.
tag clue edit (because i dont want to stall out the game.)
- its a nice place to go when you're thirsty, but you cant park anything inside, nor will you find any old lawn mowers.
Atwood st, oakland.
Huzzah!
Now I can enjoy my coffee on the carosel lawn in peace knowing I didn't break the game.
Good clues, soon as I realized what building it was.
I was thinking Nor'side. Great tag, good (enough) clues. Yep, ya just gotta ride all over, and know where the cool stuff is.
EDIT: The view-it map appears to be broken.
@Steven - can you have a look?
Are the windows from garage doors?
i made sure i checked the google mapped tags before i posted.
there's a large number of heavily condensed areas, so i went with a spot that was relatively empty for a few blocks.
yeha, when the weather is nice, the owners roll them up. nice & breezy.
First place I thought of was the Decade (that, or the Electric Banana or the Raspberry Rhinoceros) but I waited too long for the extra clue. Ah well.
I knew it was the garage door saloon! Harry's WEINER is next door!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH, you meant Philip Weiner's Business Machines.
NO, that place is gone, closed last year, Its a mini-mart now.
Yes Phillip S. WEINER. That was it. I also dunno why my iPhone is capitalizing WEINER. I went to many shows at the garage door saloon. I think it was formerly Cumpies? Seriously.
Yeah, that black and white guy above is the clue.
It was cumpies for like 6 months, the historical significance is that it was The Decade.
cumpies... damn kids.
stefb's phoner has a boner.
Tee hee.
U said boner.
So many good shows at the decade (and when it was the next decade) this is the only venue I miss as much as graffiti.
/sheds single tear.
its almost as bad that The Upstage is now a grocery store.
Iron Eden, Lorigan St, Skunk Hollow
BTW this is one of the more interesting tags, so thanks, TDW. Somebody has been playing with iron down there as freely as if it was willow.
Can't help but show a few more images from this very cool place...
For those who don't know where this is.. look up, it's the Bloomfield Bridge.
Roof of the building.
Closer view of roof sculptures.
More iron railings
Bug railing.
The place is loaded with iron art. I talked to the owner, he's opening a place called the Joe Mag Project in his building (formerly Iron Eden on Liberty Ave - a place I've tagged before). It's heavy metal furniture and decor. Check it out here:
http://joemagproject.com/Design_Objects/Design_Objects.html
Also interesting, Joe Magerac, the Pittsburgh-steel-industry version of Paul Bunyun who the store is named after:
http://joemagproject.com/About_Joe_Magerac.html
I haven't had time to really follow ToR in a while. Seeing this awesome tag is a pleasant surprise. I think I'll ride over there to see it when I have time. Thanks TDW
i have been meaning to tag that place for good long while. when i discovered that secret back way through bloomfield, this was the real gem of it.
@stu: The view-it map appears to be broken
Yup, the link for viewing the map was broken for a few days, but seems to be working again. Looks like Google fixed whatever was broken.
Interesting story in Pop City about the owner of Iron Eden.
New tag. This block has been tagged quite recently but nobody ever got thu for, I think.
awww crap, i know exactly where that is, but im stuck at work. booo.
I know exactly where this is, too. I was going to use it as a tag. Let's just say, if you could find your way to the last tag (or #308), you can find your way to this one, too.
tic toc, who can beat the clock?
Atwood street again, less than one block from the garage door saloon. I was riding in northside, venture outdoor guy under the bridge knew where this is. Thanks! I didn't see it yesterday.
Clock stopped.
If you purchase a product from Tag #308 and sit on the bench outside to consume it, you are looking right at this tag.
1 hour, 43 minutes from drop to pick-up. Good work!
bah, i woulda had it if i wasnt stuck @ work.
blast you pesky kids, and your annoying dog too.
The only thing I really like about this tag is the color and graphic shape of the lettering. I guess that falls under one of my typical tagging themes: artistic.
On second thought... I like the name of the place too - it's kinda inner-city sounding.
The place is definitely not historic or terribly unique.
@pbeaver - maybe I'm missing something - I don't understand your reference to the canine, but it seems that influenced my choice of tags.
Pbeaver referred to Scooby-doo.
Yes,yes I did.
And now for something completely different....
I have no monkey flipping clue what/where the new tag is.
Urban dog, 5601 Butler
What do dogs do at a spa?
they raise the woof.
This corner must have very high tagensity. There are two tag within easy sight of this one. And if you're not familiar with the area you might have seen this little cupboard in the newspaper.
The Word House
Take one: Leave one: book exchange on Biddle. Near the coffee house!
pics or it didnt happen!
geez, sorry for the 60 second lag.
ha i thought maybe you accidentally messed up your link or something. plus i never get to say that here.
why i oughta...
OH SNAP!!!! IT'S ABOUT TO GET REAL, YO!!!!!
Love that fast pickup, also trash talk.
::::::::::: New Tag ::::::::::::
This is not far off the beaten path. Finding it should be a breeze.
lighthouse, 600 s linden ave
That was so fast, I almost feel Bruced!
Haha - time for Pseudacris to expand her territory and find some more challenging tags.
it might not have been super-challenging, but it was still pretty cool. ive almost used it a few times
Is it my imagination or were the windows painted red rather recently?
Go further west or north, those tags last.
its not your imagination, they were not red a month or so ago
Go further west or north, those tags last.
I've got an idea for one in the hopper....hopefully I can pick up a tag on a day where I have time to place one further out.
I'd be happy if someone would set a few a bit north. It's nice to get into the game as a participant every once in a while.
I have so much going on this semester that unless a tag is on campus my doorstep or in-between I'm not picking up any for a while.
There are a lot of untagged neighborhoods west, and one left up north...
^ sigh
Ha!
Just put 'em out there, make 'em interesting, and identifiable, and there will be no grumbling.
Did someone say Untagged neighborhood? This is what we think about Untagged neighborhoods.
Not a tag:
Ha!
Very funny.
Ok, now label that photo, please.
Wow it seems they really like you.
i label that "luuuuuuuulz"
It is really touching... but the only two other people I recognize in the photo are stefb and melange. Wouldn't one of you please provide me with a guide?
Um...... no, you really need to participate in more group rides/ cycling events.
Well, I do, just not the same ones as you. A 6:30 or 7 pm start is just too early for me.
Edit: thinking about it, it's actually a little weird that you don't want to identify yourself.
L to R: pearmask, marko, stef, melange396, Mr Marvelous, ieverhart, Erica/RF, you. I think I know everyone's actual name, too.
gee thanks stu
Tnx. What's the big deal?
Yo, I want in on this game. Are we waiting for the new tag?
Yep, melange has it. He has 15 hours left.
mr marv likes to maintain an aura of mystery
because he is a bike spy
and the hub mafia has a hit out on him, apparently
Ah...
But now his cover is blown, just because he wanted to participate in the group boning of me. Ironic.
It's true. People have tried to kill me in the past and I suspect bike sabotage as the means.
Why do you think two of his hubs broke in 2 months.....
The quick release on the Portland was loosened also. Two bikes 3 incidents.
@ jonawebb completely worth it.
these two andrews can be found above a somewhat humorously named shop
I met jake te snake 2 years ago in wheeling. After a wedding. In a vfw. He got wasted after the fire marshal said that they ciuldnt have wrestling there. There are pictures of him drawing a sharpie beard/mustache on my face.
Above Weiner World, Smithfield Ave & Strawberry Way.
hee hee, weiner is a funny word.
I am still completely stunned that no one picked up on "bone shaker".
New tag!
You don't have to be a small man to play hopscotch, or between 15 and 16 to write poetry.
btw, there are several of these at this location. Any of them will count. Props to you if you can manage to get the whole set well enough to be able to read them!
awww dang, if thats where i think it is, i just rode past there around 2 hours ago.
i knew i shoulda checked the board from my phone.
If you want to try to get the whole set, it helps to wait for day folk to go home. I managed to get this shot only because someone drove away just as I pulled up.
Also note, this thread is now TWICE the size of the original thread when it started becoming difficult to use.
Weiner world is my favorite place.
holy carp. nobody got that yet?
i may have to hop on the bike.
seems fishy, doesn't it?
Man I hope I don't get bruced, can't figure how to post right with the iPhone
I'd,ur lucky I just ordered another beer....
Slack qzz monkey flppers.
Slack qzz monkey flppers.
FTFY:
Thanks man!! Smallman by 16th St bridge, behind the building with the big wholey's fish sign!
Oh thankn goodness QB tagged it:, I can ride home inteqd of goin from otb to the strip.
/alleymonketflippinleiuya
Alright time to bring yinz up the hill a little. Sorry to put you in a grave situation. If your thirsty afterwards go see Darbea.
Also if your a city fire buff don't let the number on the helmet mislead you, it's in 32's still district.
Firefighters' Memorial, Voegtly Cemetery, Troy Hill
Woo hoo! Two tags in two days!
Ugg stu, i'm headed up that wayy got side tracked due to the 31st bridge i was gonna see if i could go up Rialto.
New tag! Technically this is outside the box, but only by about two miles, and not at all difficult or distant to get to.
There are only three of these left, and this one just changed ownership.
nailed it.
Rule number 4 no file photos
oh.
what gave it away?
Google is big brother didn't you know.
oh, you noticed that, huh?
ROFL!
This tag is also only about 200 yards away from a pretty good bike shop, the only one nearby, as good a reason as any to go a bit off the beaten path.
I broke a brake cable on my way to get the Troy Hill tag, so I was a little less adventurous in trying to seek out the next one. (Try coming down Troy Hill sometime with just one brake!)
In all seriousness, it's possible to get here without dealing with a lot of traffic or a huge hill. Consider approaching from either the west, or from the intersection just north of this. Either would be a pleasant ride.
"(Try coming down Troy Hill sometime with just one brake!)"
Done
I had to do that for about a month before I could buy some new calipers for the bike. The quick release on my front break kept popping off when I applied pressure. Was a fun month.
West view, route 19. Tagged with campV.
Jonawebb just showed up behind us! One minute after posting.
And hey, stu, more than a little off the map!
As much off the map as the length of Negley between Centre and the park. About as far north of Penn and Stanwix as Forbes and Braddock is east of Penn and Stanwix. It's a very wide rectangular map.
What way did you use to get there? I'd've used either 40SB/Babcock/Rochester/Perry or come around from Bellevue. Perry itself can be a bit daunting, especially up by the bus garage.
I hope you got a picture of him getting Bruced. I have one on my computer at home.
I took Perry.
@stu - gee, that's way too much explanation. It's cool.
I live in Shaler, so the tag is fairly close to home, but I met campV at Tazza in Highland Park before deciding to chase this tag. So it was actually further for me to get there. We followed the exact route you suggested (40SB/Babcock/Rochester/Perry) - 10.6 miles from Tazza.
I used 2 images for this tag... I like the top shot, but felt as though the site needed a little more explanation, thus, the second shot...
Tagged with campV
Hey TD, I've got no clue. Another hint would be nice.
I'm drawing a blank, too. That "Hahn, Prop.", the "E" at the end of the name, and the recent paint, all would seem to narrow the field some.
I guess I'll just have to get back out and ride some more!
Not in a dull place.
Jenny's Hotel Lafayette, 3rd and Main, Sharpsburg
Found kinda by accident. I'd guessed Sharpaburg. Riding in from the railroad ballast trail I came across it.
New tag. My wife's been after me to tag this place forever. It's a mural she pained on the garage behind our house. And while you're here, you can pick up some delicious paw-paws!
Can I get to that from the street?
Yep
I probably wont get there in time for the tag, but I may stop for some paw-paws. I tried the trees in Schenelythat you mentioned, but there wasnt any fruit - are there male/female trees? because the trees seemed large enough.
You are welcome to the paw paws. The trees in Schenley do bear fruit but not as much as the trees in front of my house for some reason.
yeah, i stopped at the schenley trees on thursday and couldn't find anything. but you've still got enough to feed pittsburgh cyclists hungry to try some paw paws?
Yep, come on by.
I also tried the schenley trees. I did find a brochure that says a group is trying to get the pond restored at the Westinghouse memorial.
Can the latest tag be accessed via a public right of way?
Yes. Geez, stop making a, big deal about it. Pick it up!
Found my first tag! Thanks for the challenge and paw paw!
Douglas St. Squirrel Hill
Excellent!
I edited the google spreadsheet, but couldn't figure out how to mark the map. As the tag finder, is that my responsibility?
No, I've never done it. I think TeamDecaf does it.
It's great to see a new tagger.
To add a marker, sign in to Google, go to the map, and click the red Edit button on the left. Then click the blue marker button in the upper middle. Then click where the marker should go. No need to bother with linking the photo; I've got some Javascript that does it easily.
I put the latest marker in the middle of Douglas Street. If anybody wants to move it closer to Jonawebb's specific address by clicking Edit and dragging the marker, I imagine any paw-paw-seekers and/or Jonawebb-stalkers would appreciate the help.
Edited to add: OK, I see Jonawebb has his street address on the web already, so I moved the marker to match. But if anybody knows the exact location of tag 544, the hopscotch paving in the strip, feel free to adjust its marker. I just guessed which parking lot.
Done. Wow, stalkers, hmm...
I set the tag. I'll adjust 544.
EDIT: Done, but it's not real obvious how to save the changes. Anyway, it goes between 15th St and the 16th St Bridge, on the side of Smallman away from the river. The big building shown as taking up that whole block is the building with the lighted Wholey Fish sign on it. The whole back parking lot of the building is filled with these.
Thanks.
To save the changes, click the Save button on the left (or it may say Saved already, in which case you don't need to), then click Done right next to it. Or that's how it works for me. On a mobile device/different browser maybe Google makes it work differently.
New Tag:
Been meaning to check this place out for a while, so I figured this was a good excuse. I think this may be similar to a previous tag, but not in the same location.
jessicas labyrinth, chatham
hey! matches your chain ring! (the center of the labyrinth, that is)
Cool tag brybot - we don't get many looking down.
Thanks . I'm hoping to get more involved in this game.
whats all the buzz about???
@pseudacris: i didnt even notice! it woulda been cool if i lined it up better
To All...
Since there was some discussion about how to add markers on the Google map, I decided to copy Steven's instructions and paste them on the first page of this thread with the rules. I've tried to break up the rules and instructions so they're more readable too.
The info for this game gets deeper and deeper. It's awesome.
Thanks to Steven for all of his work on the record-keeping tasks.
indeed, steven++
Burgh bees community apiary
nice shot! its on susquehanna st across from east end brewing in homewood
do apes live in a beepiary? why isnt it called a ceepiary??
Thanks. I'm going to have to revisit that place. Apes.. I mean bees are awesome.
Just to keep things rolling I'm posting a new tag. Not the most creative, but I should probably get back to working
Edit: Photo updated. Hope nobody saw the first. The new one I like much better. I had to disassemble my bike and reassemble it to fit between the front legs. If you are curious about the previous photo, you can find it here.
damn, i was gearing up to go get it
If you consider the time evolution of my posting, editing, and bike deconstruction, you should still be able to find it pretty easily
do you mean like, this lies roughly in a line that connects the apiary and previous pic? 
edit: oic, i missed the part about your bike deconstruction in between your edits... i think i know where it is now
I'm not sure how much hinting is allowed in this game, but I did read that it was about cycling, not googling. So when I took the first pic, there was a cop hanging out. I think he was looking for wild things.
hints are an interesting sub-game of the overall meta-game. recently i posted what i thought was a good clue, but the tag lingered. So in the name of thread progression i added a second clue 12 hours later.
It is a bit of a coin-flip, some tags have been picked up within an hour, and some stretch close to the 36hr deadline. in some ways its a matter of personal judgement, you dont want to give away too much, but yet you dont want it to be nigh-impossible either.
my bike is assuming the position of america under romney. the background features elements of both of brybots pix. the first one inspired my next tag...
some tags have been picked up within an hour, and some stretch close to the 36hr deadline.
For the record, there's no deadline when picking up a tag, only when setting one.
The slowest pickup among those tags for which there are precise times was 133 hours, for tag 285, Aspinwall Dinosaur. But it's likely that the slowest pickup overall is one of the tags for which the records are fuzzy, like Tag 67 - St Maximilian Kolbe Parish or Tag 83 - Homestead Frick Park. Those took about 9 days from one tag setting to the next.
(The quickest pickup among those with detailed times was Tag 517 - Birmingham Bridge bike lane, which Stefb got in 17 minutes 31 seconds.)
Beat that, joanwebb!
Also, Lolz at melange. MAGIC UNDERWEAR, THOUGH!
Brybot, love the spoke lights.
my bike is assuming the position of america under romney.
Your bike's too far back. You need to be directly under the elephant if you want to catch the trickle-down.
hee hee, melange took a picture of a butt. ha!
Yay, you found it!
@stefb Thanks. You might be surprised to hear that they aren't lights. They are actually reflectors. They work great even with my little phone flash. But they are highly directionally dependent. Unless the light shining at them is in roughly the same line that the viewer is with the bike, you won't see a thing.
Your bike's too far back
too few of us will get the trickledown, most of us will just [continue to] get crapped on by the elephants.
ive been meaning to do this one a number of times. if you look up on a night with low-hanging clouds, you can see a faint bluish glow above this location.
here you can see hue increasing in the t- and x-axes, respectively:
clicky for biggification! making the gif took way longer than i expected, and the file size is still pretty high despite its size. im not quite sure it was worth the effort.
Worth the effort. That's cool.
I think melange is the new stef in this game! though not as cute...
I guess I could've picked up this tag on my way in, if I'd biked it. I try to adhere to the letter of Rule #6, and bike the entire way to pick up (and set) a tag. It was so tempting to dash across the river from busing the bike Downtown this morning, though.
Somehow I thought Stef would grab this on her way in, though, so I didn't bother.
@ Stu I guess it depends, I was driven to a group ride from home and then picked up a tag after 20 miles of riding, another time I was driven into work then rode about 10 miles to a tag after work. It's a grey area.
i heard driving yourself to tags is all part of a winning strategy?
Driving only gets you third place.
For now...
Oh boy. I know EXACTLY where that is.... I work there ha. Maybe I should have gotten an earlier start
I really do want more people to play. I am sitting out and I am not sure if I will play again just out of lack of interest and motivation to come up with a good clue/tag or to even find something interesting to tag. I do admit that I have known where most tags were and have passed some by. but I do still follow and would not be opposed to a gangbang tag again if the opportunity arises.
CMU Hunt Library/Hunt Botanical Library
Lights are neat. This is what it looks like during the day. Tried to get the signage in the pic, but it just turned out ugly.
@cburch We should consider doping as a part of wining strategy too.
Its the melange and brybot game right now. I don't have enough free time to make it out that way to pick up a tag, Or the time to set a new one.
I just rode through there half an hour ago and totally forgot to pick up the tag. Such is life.
Oh. Huh. I thought it was MLK Elem School by Allegheny Center. That building has a changing-hue lighting setup at night, just like in the GIF.
I knew I should've checked the board this morning. That's about half a mile from my office (at the _other_ oakland university...).
(duplicate post deleted. Lousy tiny mobile phone keypad.)
Hell, I've lived in Oakland for 12 years and I've never seen that building before. But then again I don't really go to cmu too much.
It's the one building on campus where the donor(s) made the university agree that nothing be built in front of it so it could be seen from Forbes Ave.
its pretty far back from forbes... i think that agreement has a term, as well.
but its made of beautiful alcoa aluminum, who wouldnt want to see it?!
i knew it at a glance, and silently chuckled to myself when stu thought it was near downtown. but now i work for cmu in larryville, and i'll be damned if i've had even a second of free time in the past two weeks.
also: brybot, have i seen your bike around? the blue (jamis?) frame and natural-color-wrapped handlebars look familiar to me for cmu bikes.
(i also wonder if you took your lock attachment positioning from me, or if you came up with it on your own!)
@HiddenVariable It is possible that you have seen my bike, but it would not be on CMU campus. I always bring it into my office. You may have seen it locked up somewhere around town though. It is a Jamis with cork handlebar wrap. As for the lock attachment, it is the only way that seems to fit and not break itself. I broke the first one in a different configuration . So what do you do at CMU?
New tag coming in the morning.
i'm a programmer at nrec, which is where i thought i may have seen your bike. i use that same u-lock configuration on my road bike, and i once posted a picture here for someone else who was wondering how to attach their lock without blocking their bottle cages and such.
New tag is hear!
@HiddenVariable That is awesome! I'm an RI PhD student.
what it says ^
near alder and shady, shadyside
Nice work! Set the next one near otb! BTW... Where is everyone?!
Cheers for pittsburgh's Leading national bike challenge team: tag-o-rama-getters!!! Finally, our mission fulfilled! this picture features me and Five of my fellow teammates in a 'gang-bang' tag with our trophy.
Future observers might find this shot more amusing:
thanks to a Few other magnanimous figures: b.s., stu, hiddenvariable. and reddan, for contributing to our point total, and randy for taking the picture.
I call it an Eiffel tower. That may actually happen inside that establishment. I apologize for using the trophy as a wiener. That means I love it when I do that. Thanks bike pgh. This trophy may appear in future tags and/or pictures involving bicycling.
if it wasnt raining i'd go nab that tag, but unfortunately i dont have a cool major award to put in the photo.
(if only i hadn't broken that lamp while watering the flowers.)
So I have no clue where that is. I guess I saw you all at OTB on Friday night but didn't know who was who. I was expecting people to look like their avatar pictures!
its not raining now... but maybe you could "make it rain"
ps: i look nothing like my avatar
also, the neighborhood this is in will seem very appropos.
I could grab this tag, but since I was in (to some extent) on where to go to set it, I'll sit this out. I got a phone call while we were getting ready to set out, and had to run home sooner than I'd planned, so didn't join them on the "gang bang" tag setting.
What happened was that my son (who's 23) flew over the handlebars on a ride late Friday. Single-vehicle, nobody else involved, but like me a couple months ago took an asphalt bellyflop. Hit a hole or something, lost control and/or couldn't stop. He's OK, just has a lot of bandages and is quite sore. I trued his wheels and tightened the brakes; the bike seems fine.
hmm, i might snag it on my way home after work.
I Wanna head after work but midnight might be too late to pick up the tag but it might be the right time too really go.
Cheerleaders, 3100 liberty ave
Bow chikka wow wow.
Ha! That's what I was guessing given the eiffel tower reference. I've passed the building and never seen that green awning. Street view doesn't seem to show it either. Sounds like a fun night
I was contemplating on getting a tower while I was there, but unfortunately the atm was out of order.
So I got a quick (REDACTED), snapped the pic, & left.
Street view for that location hasnt been updated in a while, its still shows the place as Bare Elegance (which is coincidentally the same type of establishment.)
#New tag.
This is near a place that's kind of crusty, but you can get a room if you're feeling rusty.
Across the street is a place for the ladies, which doubles as an excellent spot for the babies.
Be alert when going this way, a downhill "pgh left" can make you go astray.
++ poetry. All clues should be poems.
Quality Inn, Halket & Allies, near Magee Hospital.
bravo.
although i personally think of it as a panera with a hotel attached.
true.
New tag.
I suppose it's not terribly special, but I thought it was neat.
Neat telophone pole at dithridge and filbert
Filmore, not Filbert, but yeah. There.
Someone must have moved it!
I was totally bruced on this, rolled up as he was posting the shot. I was looking for it off of 5th ave near soldiers & sailors.
So in the spirit of keeping the game moving fast I'm posting another picture that I took preemptively a couple of days ago while returning from a training ride. Is this allowed? If not, I'll make a new one.
Forty-second Street got big Jim a-Walker
dang, i'd go grab that now if i hadn't just sat down with dinner.
Low-hanging fruit
Easy, yes. But maybe it will encourage a newbie
I would say that tag is not valid - you have to take the photo after you pick up the old tag.
Yeah, sorry. You have to grab a new photo.
I'm with salty - party foul!
We would never have known if you didn't say anything!
Agreed! Re-do tag!!!!
Ok. I'll post a new one.
@stefb That would be true if I waited till tomorrow, perhaps. If I had posted it tonight without saying anything, someone might have questioned the sunlight and change of bike.
It's high time all you nuts had a hard one
Hrm.... do you know how many "PM = Pittsburgh Marathon" signs are spread throughout the city? You need to include a written-clue to be more specific, otherwise any PM decal goes, and I personally know where all of them are..... specifically the 5-6 that are within 2 miles from my house....
I gave you a very good clue.
I'm getting lots of tag-o-rama hate tonight
It ain't hate! Is just the way the game goes
I'm going to guess that stripe is the marathon starting line? I'm not getting the written clue (high, hard, nuts). I guess it helps to have participated in the marathon, which I haven't.
I'm pretty sure it's hate.
It's a great clue - if I'm reading it right. But it might not be the only footprints, only rideing over and looking will tell - and I'm too busy today.
Hate must be earned.
the fact that it's facing traffic, rather than with traffic, is probably a significant help. most of the marathon decals are on the right side of the road.
the wavy pave makes me think of Butler St., except the marathon doesn't go down there.
I get the "high" clue, but is still open to interpretation, I think....
Don't know if I'll have time to swing by this today, though...
The clue is actually pretty good...
Corner of HIGHland and walNUT. I am hoping this is right..
On my way home
The tag appears to have the large line on the other end of the feet, so this does not appear to be the correct place. Nice interpretation of the clue though- I did not think of it that way.
bruced!
There is a line on the other side. There was sun glare.
Sorry, george.
Good work!
That's the one. So what were the other interpretations of the clue?
Retired? Don't call it a comeback you've been here for years.
Yeah I can't quit you, tag o Rama.
Momma said Tag you out.....
Stefb gonna tag you out....
good to see you're back, stef.
Yay!
boo!
Oh..... nice!
My interpretation for the clue was different as-a runner -and SORRY if I went all mental on it!
The part of "high time" made me think of "noon", and noon is "12". So I though that this tag was around mile marker 12 on the marathon route.
Also, the part of "you nuts had a hard one" reinforced my belief that this was around mile marker 12, since in the marathon route that's around where the Half-Marathon runners and Full-Marathon runners are split. And to reach mile marker 12 you have one of the worst "hills" on the route.... so, you have to be "crazy=nuts" to want to do a full-marathon and you get started on the way to it by climbing a technically "hard" hill....
I actually went on my bike and rode around Birghmnham Bridge, and up to Forbes, and looping through Fifth Ave twice aroud miles markers 11-13, to see if I could find the Tag, but nothing..... oh well! It was fun still
@brybot, I call that a Very successful tag. Your clue was good enough that several people knew about where it was but still had to look for it; and you sent others out on a wild goose chase miles away at the same time. Well done sir!
I went by there after work, but too late, of course. The RSS feed is somewhat deceptive. It sometimes delays or appears to delay on my phone. The only sure way to know if a tag has been picked up is via the message board.
Hooray! I'm glad people enjoyed the tag
I had 100% no monkey flippin guess to where that was located. /merp
@marko82 Well done sir!
As a spectator, I agree.
And Brybot, those guys that appeared to be haters were simply violating the "No Whining" rule. Nothing more.
FYI, today is Tag-O-Rama's second anniversary. Jason started the game on September 13 2010. 557 tags, 76 players to date.
Woohoo!!!!!
so is that a subliminal msg that perhaps the next tag should be of a cake?
People need to relax. May I suggest a refreshing cool shower? Or possibly a nap?
HAHA! I get it Colin! That's where you want the next tag to be?
There may be a few people that he wouldn't want to find that tag.
mmmm, phantom cake.
Happy Birthday. I'll pass on the cake - potato chips for me.
its no lie:
@helen s - I'm a well-oiled machine, I guess. ha.
@rice rocket
Is that from Half-Life? For a few seconds I thought it was a photograph and was like "WTF is that thing?"
Dude. Portal. Companion Cube is sad now.
New tag:
Sorry this took so long to post. It is hidden in plain sight. If you are on a bike or in a car, look down. If you are on a bike, look up. It is commonly found in BMX videos.
seriously, portal is awesome. the video game i play most often is probably dr. mario, and grouchy and retro as i am, i must still recommend portal to anyone who might even have a chance at trying it. it is tremendous (as is its sequel, incidentally)!
I have yet to find someone who can beat me at dr Mario
you probably haven't tried hard enough.
"old" fort pitt, on the other side of the ft pitt bridge from the museum
w/ pearmask, pbeaver, and joined by (almost bruced by!) steeld
Quad tagged ftw!!!
Sons of bitches!!!
btw, i beat the co-op portion of portal 2 by myself (with two controllers) while the playstation network was down
For a second I thought the gun in the first portal screenshot was a strange bike handlebar and thought "Wow, there's a lot of portal graffiti and sticker on that utility box"
I knew you guys were following me!
Doh, I should have stayed at OTB a litte longer. Or just stayed on stef's wheel.
I love this spot.
According to the board time stamp you guys got this at 2 am? Geez, don't people sleep?
I got 3 1/2 hours of sleep and then had to go to work. The gold sprints were last night. After that, it was a perfect night for a ride. I will be dragging ass by 11am. I am too old for this.
it was closer to 1:30am.
Nobody was followed, hell, we spent 20 min riding around the point trying to figure out how to get up there.
Well maybe you guys had one too many PBRs last night.
Maybe, maybe not.
It's a funny lil thing, this whole "life" schitck.
one pbr is too many ;-p
pbr is not a beverage one drinks for flavor.
pbr is a beverage one drinks due to increased economic pressures.
(or they are trying to hard to act like they don"t care.)
pbeaver, are you gonna drop us a new tag??? one of us should post a pic before time runs out...
I got a new ride, and been chomping at the bit for a new tag!
ahem, champing.
alright, im gonna go pick a place since we are past the time limit
sheet, i shoulda checked the board when i was out on my ride. Go for it.
new tag! i didnt go very far for this one. i did some carrying of the bike, but i think itd be ok if the tag getter took their pic from the bottom of the steps found here.
I am at seven springs right now....too bad. Sad face
poor stef... you should know better than to go have fun when theres tags to be gotten!
Filthy open mountain fun!
damn you trees & muddy funness.
Magee playground, Greenfield
I'm going to start getting Bruced on melange's tags just so I can steal them. He's gotta stop this slowpoke shit.
No whining.
Read rule 2b, motherfucker.
rule 2b doesnt negate rule 7, motherfucker
i propose rule 8: joanwebb needs to quit being a douche-face
HTH, HAND, FOMF
Actually, it does, and consistently calling people by the wrong name is kind of douchey in itself.
Well I did change my post from "shut the fuck up" to "stop whining". But if you want to continue to be a whiney bitch about it, then I want to point out the tag you left wayyyyy the fuck outside of the box. What rule is that? Eat my shit. Again, go watch Wapner.
stef, he gets his underwear at kmart. also hes a very good driver. very good driver. hes got lots of experience driving to all those tags, after all.
Also, if joanwebb sets a tag and no one bothers to get it, his head may explode cause then he can't be in first place or tag all of the neighborhoods.
Wait did he just call Stefb an MFer. Crossing the line don't you think.
First, the correct spelling us WAPNER, and second, here is your new tag.
When we talked of delicious Tag-o-Rama birthday cake, this us the place that made my taste buds ache, to meet the mensch (hint he's French) who makes the macarons and eclairs drenched in chocolate ganache
This is going to be one of those tags where I see if I can get there and back before someone else with portable Internet can just get there.
Good luck I planned on going out after work but that's another 2 hours away
Better watch how you talk to my wife. Good natured trash talk is one thing but you're pushing it.
oh man you guys must totally have a duel. black and goldsprints?
Way too gentlemanly. I'm not much for being a gentleman.
You can't use a gas pedal when you do the gold sprints.
Just poking my head in because it's getting heated.
Hi!
Jean-Marc Chatellier's Bakery, Millvale
[shameless plug]
btw, I love the yellow sign on the door on the left. Something to the effect of "Don't even *think* of sitting on these steps!" (door to upstairs apartments)
I waited too long - ^ this one is so close to my roam
New tag!
My daughter's name is Amy, not Erin. And if you go looking for any sort of Equity on StreetView, you will not find the monument, but you will see someone else getting a different sort of equity in the form of a speeding ticket.
Additional hint: I didn't move the tag very far, and yes, it is inside the box. Barely.
Knights of Equity, Millvale, Babock.
Tagged with new player, LindaP
The StreetView mentioned above. I don't think I've ever seen one of these from the Googlecam.
@cburch, I'd love to play this game without the whiny bullshit I get, a fair portion of which comes from your wife (I didn't start this latest kerfuffle). But as it's there I'll respond to it occasionally. I didn't intend my comment as anything more than trash talk, though I can see how it might get interpreted that way.
No you started it. Now you're scared.
"She started it! Don't beat me up!"
Sorry, I try not to get too involved in the whining on this game, but this is all seriously turning into a schoolyard name-calling match.
I'm feelin' like this page of T-o-R is pretty amusing.
Also, jeez, my pick-up of the tag on Babcock is just about the worst photo, no, it IS the worst photo I've ever published on the bike-pgh site - even Stu's shot is more in focus (sorry Stu). And another dumb note... my son's bachelor party was held in that building. I'm pretty sure the last guys who left the party were thrown out. Ha.
reddan's "Newt aagh" has always stuck with me, so I decided to use it on my tag and give him credit. Now that I've uploaded the photo, I see that I spelled it wrong. Oh well.
So anyhow, I'm not a church-goer, but I felt like one today. This tag set with new player, LindaP
In the immortal words of pbeaver, I have no monkey-flippin clue.
whoohoo, i'm immortal!
imma live forever.
You poked fun at george for taking too long in a slightly less than jovial manner so she told you to stop whining. Your reaction was over the top. It's not the first time you have taken the shit talking entirely too far. I tell her not to encourage you all the time as it seems to me that you lack the proper social skills to participate in good natured smack talk and keep it within appropriate boundaries. If you have some sort of developmental issue that's fine, but if not, you're being an ass to my wife and that is conduct which I will not have.
Yeah! Only my husband gets to swear at me and call me names!
@cburch, I'm actually OK with that. Thanks for trying.
No. All your friends get to do it as well. But just your friends.
Really? Even me? Unfortunately I don't swear! I sound stupid when I do.
@jw As a rule i never talk disrespectful to a lady. I don't swear or insult. Talk to a lady the way you would want someone to talk to your wife, sister, daughter, mother. If you feel like a woman's comments push you to doing something offensive step away and say nothing. It's a rule I live by and good advice to keep you out of trouble. I have no problem with trash talk, just respect the ladies.
Mrs Marv has it made.
I do have it made, and I didn't even teach him that. mr marv is a good man, he also considers some members of this board the best friends he ever had even if he gets beat up on Facebook because he likes Androids over Iphones.
Hahah if the iPhones were carbon I wonder If he would buy one.
@mr marv:Unfortunately I don't swear! I sound stupid when I do.
Perhaps you simply need to expand your vocabulary, you nugget guzzling knobgardener.
how do you mount an aerospoke on an iPhone?
@ stefb yes, and maybe thats why I'm slow I need a carbon phone.
@ reddan I tried saying blathering blatherskite and I turned into Gizmoduck.
@ pbeaver isn't it enough I get beat up on Facebook
@ mrs. marv skeeeet
I love Mr Marvelous, good answer
From another observer's point of view, and previous tag setter, before the three or four people here that keep this thing going went nuts, I see jonawebb taking a lot of shit, but I don't see why.
My general impression is that people don't like when he places tags that are hard to get to, but within the square, or tags that are in neighborhoods they don't like.
The most important rule of all is Whil Wheaton's:
"Don't be a dick"
Thanks. Could we get back to tagging? Like, another clue, please?
Guys. It's a game. A fun game. A competitive game. But it is a game. On the Internet. With bikes. Chill out. No ones pride and masculinity is on the line over a digital scavenger hunt. It's all for fun. Just let it be that. Seriously.
But gender based notions of masculinity and etiquette are still in play
Hmmm, another clue. I've been trying to decide what kind of clue doesn't give it away, but pushes people to ride, not Google. The street view image probably won't help anyhow as I can barely tell it's the same place.
This place is loaded with churches and christian-sounding names. And like you might expect for holy places, it's in a high(ish) location.
Interesting to me, was that the light was on at midday, as decoration, I guess. It looks great.
Team Decaf riders might have an advantage, considering recent routes.
@Marv I don't swear! I sound stupid when I do.
So does everyone else.
That is where I thought it was...
i spent waaaay too long exploring every nook and cranny of the saintly-named streets surrounded by churches on the other side of 18th, until i decided to go down mission st for the 'hell' of it on my way home. there it was, across from yet another church:
strangely enough, the sun had set but the light was off!
Glad to see you got it. I am waiting at the bottom of 18th in case you come by.
ah, from the new clue i thought i was over in that are, mission, pius, 12th, all them religiousy streets.
Nice melange396. Strange... the light being off. Why.
heres a screenshot of my endomondo trip from last night. it looks like i spent >7 miles going up and down the southside slopes, so id say you got your wish of pushing people to ride, dan:
Hahaah sorry that sucks. I did that once trying to find a tag up there.
you should have just ridden straight to the tag & saved yourself several miles.
thanks, guy. i wish i had thought of that 
Yeah. He makes a good point.
LindaP and I actually rode about the same route as you, George, while looking for the tag. We shot a few locations (many you would have passed by earlier in the route - ha!). We rode 26 miles that day... ridin', lookin' chillin.
Bruced, of course, but i'm hoping this will motivate melange to tag with greater alacrity. Otherwise I'll de-Bruce myself around 8 tomorrow.
I recognized the house once I got there. It's the former residence of a fellow Quaker, who I helped move a few years ago. He must have planted the pawpaw trees you see in the photo.
^ Oh Boy, here we go.
I was thinking the same thing.
hey, good find, jonawebb. i think youre the first to bruce a non-injured player but not locate the tag yourself. cheevo unlocked!
Come on! Drop a tag! The night is beautiful for a bike ride!!!!
aaaaaah, ok. i was gonna make jonawebb sweat it out til the last moment, but thats not fair to everyone else.
this is a spoooooooky bar. when you see the sign, i think youll agree. theyve even got jack-o-lanterns in the window (see above). its so spooky, ive never seen it open. their customers must all be ghostly stiffs!
I can see a bruced pic being relevant an hour or two after the picked up tag... but a day later? That just seems like desperation and unhealthy life focus on something that's ultimately completely meaningless. Seriously. This game has become such a weird and exclusive circlejerk that there's no way it can ever really be fun again.
"This game has become such a weird and exclusive circlejerk that there's no way it can ever really be fun again."
this is terribly and unfortunately true, though i wish it werent. i feel some guilt for the current state of the game and have considered going the stef route of non-participation. i would really rather not because i dont think id ride around and explore as much without the game as a motivator.
Jeez, dude.
Are you saying that weird and exclusive circle jerks can't be fun?
Ma-an, I can't go with that.
lulz @ mick
"Are you saying that weird and exclusive circle jerks can't be fun?" says the non-player casually observant armchair quarterback.
"Yes".
Edit to include: this is a very serious game.
"this is a very serious game."
wait... tag-o-rama or circlejerk?
Yeah!!!! Thanks!!!!
"Graveyard Grille" on Penn Ave, across from the Allegheny Cemetery!
I've stayed in the sidelines since I don't care for much of the drama going-on in here, just care about participating/picking up tags as I know them/are able.
HOWEVER...
"...Bruced, of course, but i'm hoping this will motivate melange to tag with greater alacrity. Otherwise I'll de-Bruce myself around 8 tomorrow..."
Ok, Jonawebb, this is just douchy and really unncessary! Are we not grown-ups**? I was giving you the benefit-of-the-doubt, but this just demonstrates that you sort-of deserve all the bad-rep I keep seeing in here!
This game is AND can continue being fun if people just stop being so competitive in such a... such a douchy way!
Allllrighty, back to the sidelines!
Will drop my new tag tomorrow!
Goodnite everyone!
EDIT: **"grown-ups" only in the sense of respecting each-other and let be-gones be be-gones... or something of that sort.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I was thinking maybe if we stopped keeping track of how many tags everyone gets might stop some of this. I don't play for first place just for fun.
It would be nice if he could play well with others.
(edit) I also have stopped playing as much because of the drama, it sucks the joy right out of the game.
I agree. Could we get rid of the score keeping?
Geez, just play the game, or not if you don't like competition. Get a tag, drop a tag within 36 hours. It's not that hard!
The thing is it's not a competition. It's a community builder
I say we vote. Do we keep score keeping, or not. I vote no score keeping.
There's a different game, I can't find it in the top posts right now, which also involves taking photos of your bike and is non-scored. If you don't like competition I would think it would make more sense to play that.
It's not a competition. we will just vote
You guys alllll need to chill.
I think I saw a shark back there a ways.
Better put your helmet back on, Bill; that shark may land on your head.
I propose a new rule to take the current edge off of the game: You cannot pick up two consecutive tags. Or more precisely, you cannot pick up the tag of the person who picked up your tag. I’d make an exception for group tags, since they are too fun to pass up.
That seems fair to me.
/popcorn
I have been following this soap opera for some time. Seems like only one person is causing all the problems and calling someone a MFer is defiantly a party foul! Maybe it’s time to vote someone off the island…
All you guys should meet face to face, with some beers, and if you sock the shit out of each other, then so be it. At least we won't have to read about it online.
What will most likely happen is you'll get along better though.
Some thoughts (and I'll shut up thereafter):
1) Competitiveness is not a problem. Acting like a jerk is a problem. Talking trash, while sometimes fun, can easily cross the line, especially when it gets habitual.
2) It takes two(at least) to tango. Everyone puts their foot in their mouth on occasion...apologize, accept apologies, and move on. "He/she started it" is playground B.S., and merely justifies continuing the bickering.
3) Part of being a community is a willingness to work through problems. One of the things I've always appreciated about this board is that it rarely falls prey to the clawing-at-one-another-for-entertainment syndrome that is so prevalent in so many other fora.
Let's do our best to resolve problems directly: PMs, emails, or hashing things out over a beer beat public scoldings and pilings-on any day.
I wouldn't mind a beer at OTB, say Friday or Saturday night, some time. I'd even buy a round.
@jonawebb: You are not offering competiton in here. Competition is not bullying people. Competition is not using unnecessary foul language. Competiton is not posting threats agaist other players so they'll post with "greater alacrity". Personally, I don't think you like competiton!
Sir, I seriously think you've just been such a baby!! I've been playing this game "since the beginning of time", and you take the cake in animosity! Why are you so proud? And why can you be more civilized?
I feel sad that you feel compelled to behave that way JUST for a game of tag....
EDIT: Reddan speaks with great wisdom.
@bikeygirl, I think you're genuinely interested in offering dialog, so I'll respond.
I see thing very differently from you. I think I've been bullied here, been pushed around etc, and have responded only occasionally.
I think that if you go back through the posts and just count the times I've been insulted, called names, made fun of, had obscenities thrown at me, etc. -- even by people not playing the game -- you'll find that I've actually been pretty restrained.
And I would like to point out, once again, that rule 2b explicitly calls for giving people who are slow to post new tags a hard time. That is all I was doing with melange. I'm not breaking any rules here.
But I understand different people can see things differently, especially in an Internet forum, which is why I think the beer suggestion is a good idea.
Edit: forgot to add, drama aside, all I want to do is play the game -- according to the rules. If we decide to erase rule 2b or add a rule as Marko said that's fine with me. Let's just play the game, by the rules.
Aw c'mon everyone, sounds like we all need to chill. I pick up a tag every once in a while, I drop one somewhere else. I avoid the drama.
FWIW, I do like keeping track, but I don't think of it as a score, just a record of what I got.
But I'll take anyone up on the beer offer.
I agree that the Jonawebb's language went too far, but like he says, various people had been teasing him for weeks before that, accusing him of driving to tags and calling him Joan. It may have been intended as harmless trash-talking, but the current situation seems like an escalation that arose from that. Let's stop jovially accusing people of cheating, OK?
@Jonawebb: I appreciate your answer & point of view
Although, you must admit that whole "alacrity" post & pic was ill-timed given the tensions in here... (shake you head "yes, ma'm" -you have to admit to that!!)
I'm sorry if you feel bullied, but bullying back is never the answer...
You wanna play the game, we all wanna play the game! So let's just do that!!
I think rule 2b should stand, but contingent that rule 2a is reaching critical time (meaning 36hrs) -sounds good?
I don't think Marko's proposition is neccesary if we all behave like goody-two-shoes (or tires!)
Sounds good?
I hold the tag now!!!! Better get outta here and tag
AND whatever happened to the non-threatening form of telling someone to hurry up with a tag?
":::crickets:::"
@bg Yes, ma'am, I'm raring to go.
Edit: uh, that's actually a grasshopper.
EDIT: Miss-fire!!
BRB
EDIT: Edit that out, jonawebb.... :p
And I would like to point out, once again, that rule 2b explicitly calls for giving people who are slow to post new tags a hard time.
I think you've misread it. It calls for giving a hard time to people who take more than the allowed 36 hours to post a new tag, but eventually do so after they've been bruced.
Hour 0: Player 1 gets tag
Hour 37: Player 2 bruces player 1, posting another photo of tag.
Hour 38: Player 1 finally posts new tag.
Hour 39: Player 2 is about to post his own new tag, but notices player 1 finally got around to posting a tag.
This is the specific situation where rule 2b encourages "giving the overdue tag-holder a load of crap", as the price of accepting their overdue new tag. It's not intended to bless all preemptive crap deliveries.
Oh, I did misread it. Thanks.
Edit: in that case, I should apologize to melange, for the premature crap-giving. Sorry, buddy.
@edmonds59 I think I saw a shark back there a ways.
From another forum:
Very egalitarian, nurturing society, sharks.
A lot of people don't know that.
The wise matriarch sharkesses dole out crystals and healing balms, and raise the sharklets in a communal and whole-being focused way, while the adult male sharks are shunned and castigated, as all males in every society should be.
Except when there is a spider in the bathtub.
I've posted this before, but I just love it.
This exotic establishment always stands-out to me when I go by because of its nice & different exterior design -mainly the hexagon tiles. It seems very out of place on this thoroughfare.. maybe one day I should stop-by and make myself at home!!
sorry, i couldnt resist. i did wait an hour to give someone else a chance though...
khalils ii, baum near millvale
the next tag is this hip-looking new(-ish?) cafe. if you Scope out a street that shares a title with a broadway musical, you might Collide into it. the name is also carefully encoded into the mural
whiskey tango foxtrot?!?!
It's actually not that new. been there a couple of years at least.
i wish i was smart, then i could figure out where this place is.
I could have sworn that this was already a tag, but a quick look at the map sayes it hasnt been. Maybe it was in a mural thread or something.
It was probably in the mural threal, its got some muralness about it. a bit of muralosity as it were.
Place seems to have good reviews.
alright, maybe its not so new-ish: looks like a little less than 2 years old. new to me, though!
bah, stuck working from home for a few hours today or i would have gotten this already.
i may grab it after lunch if its still live.
agh. meant to hit it last night, got distracted by work etc.
I've known where this is from the start but have been polite... come on folks, don't make me come and get it!!!!!
:::crickets:::
Im aboutto be there soon....
Dun dun dunnn
Nah.... I'm on "official bizznezz" so go right ahead!
Now, am I bluffing?!? 
Dun Dunn dun!!!'
Bluff called.
I'll see your "official bizznezz", and raise you a "bored day off"
Kaleidoscope Cafe. 43rd & Willow. L-Ville.
Well, if it's off 42nd Street that explains why I wasn't able to find it on South Pacific...
> I'll see your "official bizznezz", and raise you a "bored day off"
thats a string bet, and in most places would simply constitute just a call.
New Tag.
The hounds are kept at bay, Duchess' your chariot awaits nearby.
holy cow, that kaleidoscope cafe is probably the closest restaurant to where i work, and i bike or walk past it occasionally, and i still never knew it was there. certainly didn't recognize it. thanks tag-o-rama!
To step back a second, and then go back into the present, I question if alacrity and bullying can be used in the same sentence.
Don't ask.
"Cease your pot-stirring, lest others begin bullying you with great alacrity."
That wasn't so hard.
^Nice, reddan
Deep fried gnocchi sounds really interesting. Has anyone had a meal there?
Went out yesterday looking for this thing, based on a couple of clues that seemed to fit together, but couldn't find it. As far as I'm concerned, it's monkey flippin' time.
16 hours to go.
Tic.
Toc.
Clue?
Pbeaver’s mighty stingy with the clues, but after a few libations I managed to get “between Oakland and downtown” out of him.
Lies. It's all lies.
And.its soo nit betwenn Oakland & dowtown.
And its not.colegate, or is it?
Dun dun dunnnnn.
Lies. It's all lies.
And.its soo nit betwenn Oakland & dowtown.
And its not.colegate, or is it?
Dun dun dunnnnn.
(Damn you pbr.)
duquesne university parking garage
With new tagger shayness
ooh, double post & a tag.
New Tag
Many sisters and a father founded this only universal institution in Pittsburgh.
@shayness, congrats. Good to see a newbie picking up a tag. You also have to post the location.
Edit: Oh wait -- is that just another photo? Confused.
@jonawebb, thanks. Just a different picture same tag. Kinda learning the ropes here, was told to post a picture of my own
Jonawebb, note that steeld55 and shayness found the last tag together.
Previous group taggers haven't generally posted separate photos of the same new tag, but there's certainly nothing wrong with doing so. If the group that picks up the tag decides to let one of their number handle setting the tag, that's fine too. It's up to you.
Yeah, I know. Strangely the second photo didn't show up on my phone so I thought somebody had beat me there. But the bikes make it clear that the two photos were taken at the same time. Sorry for the confusion.
Mercy Hospital - a fountain I've wanted to tag myself!
So thats what that is. Almost thought it was salvation army or something.
And welcome new player Shay.
Awesome job @teamdecaf!
Thanks @pbeaver:)
I'm having s great time so far. This is fun.
I don't get the clue. How is this Pittsburgh's only universal institution?
Catholic=universal
@cburch.... catholic = universal?
Nahhh..... Universal=hospital/medicine
Maybe you are kidding, but cburch is right, Catholic does mean universal. But this is not the only Catholic institution in Pittsburgh. But fine, whatever.
Mercy--to the extent it still counts as a Catholic hospital, given the UPMC tie-up--is the last Catholic hospital left in the City limits.
This tga is so aesy - in such a well-traveled place - I don't think a clue is needed.
I can't spell toady!
today
not too AEsy, behind american eagle, near hotmetal and carson
Oh, that must be in the other ae building that isn't on the river.
Who did you tag with george?
That was me w/ George. I'm his trustworthy tag consultant.
He didn't even give you any credit tisk tisk.
i was gonna! besides, hes riding my bike!
come on dahn, these folks'll cook you a burger. participation may vary. coupons no longer accepted at shadyside location.
randy helped me frame the shot thanks d00d
yeah, nice shot. @randy - trustworthy photo consultant too.
Max and erma's dahntown
with shayness
w00t
we have a fun one for you guys, but it won't be set until tomorrow evening. I'm so excited! The lighting wasn't good enough to capture it this late.
Dun.
Dun.
Duuuuuuunnnnnnnn
Two, three tags in a day? Now we're rolling.
New Tag!!
These two sisters were never meant to travel the ocean blue the way they did. One sister is simply known as the girl and the faster sister is known for her excessive use of make up. (Go figure right?)
I saw this on a fellow taggers Facebook.
Oh dang I wanted to go check that out last wknd and forgot all about it!
Cool tag. I shot a few images of that tag last week. Maybe I'll post 'em after someone grabs this.
If this is still hanging around during the Team Decaf ride Tuesday evening, maybe we can get a gang bang tag. (seems unlikely)
dagnabbit, i jsut rode by that an hour ago.
merp merp. maybe on the next one.
La Pinta, next to Dwl Monte foods
Edit: I'll post another tag tonight.
BTW the Nina and the Pinta are unguarded so far as I can tell. There's a radio playing to scare people away, but anyone with a little moxie, a good crew, and a fair wind could sail down the Ohio.
Here is your new tag.
Vincent Vega:
[Y]ou know what the funniest thing about Europe is?
Jules Winnfield:
What?
Vincent Vega:
It's the little differences. I mean they got the same sh** over there that they got here, but it's just, just there it's a little different.
Jules Winnfield:
Example.
Vincent Vega:
Alright, well you can walk into a movie theater and buy a beer. And, I don't mean just like a paper cup, I'm talking about a glass of beer. And, in Paris, you can buy a beer in McDonald's. You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
Jules Winnfield:
They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?
Vincent Vega:
No, man, they got the metric system, they don't know what the fu** a Quarter Pounder is.
Jules Winnfield:
What do they call it?
Vincent Vega:
They call it a Royal with Cheese.
Jules Winnfield:
Royal with Cheese.
Vincent Vega:
That's right.
Jules Winnfield:
What do they call a Big Mac?
Vincent Vega:
Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it Le Big Mac.
Jules Winnfield:
Le Big Mac. What do they call a Whopper?
Vincent Vega:
I don't know. I didn't go into Burger King.
I'm just going to kick back with some popcorn & see where this goes.
Les Manor. Where you can now enjoy cold canned beer before your film.
...and during, in a glass.
Edit: all right, it's plastic, but still.
Cool tag! I was about to chase all over, checking out every fast food joint in town. I had no idea it might be an actual theater, and I had no idea there was a theater that actually sold beer. The First Niagara logo further intrigues me. Is it just an ATM, or is there a bank branch there? Also, street address?
Or maybe I just don't get out much.
Still, this is the spirit of the game: Go find interesting things, take pictures, leave just enough of a clue to get us guessing, and someone will figure it out. Well done, jonawebb!
The ATM is a reflection from across the street.
This is a nit I'm picking here and it doesn't invalidate what's been done.
But was there a bike in the the original La Pinta tag? Does Shayness know that you have to go with your bike to mke a tag, not just post a pic?
youre looking through her spokes in the pic
::::::::::NEW TAG::::::::::
People: we know it takes a village to keep tag-o-rama going.
This tag is dedicated to the ladies.
I guessed the Manor tag because I was bummed when they ripped the decorative tiles out and reinstalled retro blah. jonaweb' s clue was pretty funny though. Their beer list stinks and is a disincentive to try the cocktails also on the menu.
@melange youre looking through her spokes in the pic
D'uh.
Have I ever mentioned that I'm an idiot?
@Shayness
I wholeheartedly apologize. What a wonderful tag!
@Stu - The Manor Theatre is the one on Squirrel Hill close to Forbes @ Murray. You can also have a brewski at the Waterfront Loews if you buy one of the fancy seats in the back.
No Worries @Mick. Glad ya liked the tag.
@Shay, don't let the haters bring ya down.
Lol I try not to let anybody bring me down since I have no control over their actions. People are people and stuff happens. Sometimes people project their own feelings of inadequacy by picking out the flaws of other people. I've been guilty of said charge, so I don't begrudge others of their coping mechanisms. I can't say that's the case here, considering I'm a newbie and haven't met/become acquainted with really any people other than the boyfriend here yet, but I'm all for giving the benefit of the doubt. Whatever ya gotta do to be happy, right? No worries, stuff happens, be happy. It's all good. And I'm not saying that in a condescending way
^Give Mick the benefit of the doubt, it took a second look for me to realize the spokes are in the image - a "duh" moment.
I had a spokes picture myself a few weeks ago, also concerning an older form of transportation. [link]
Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? Lalala Lol. I'm just here to play a game, meet new people, have some fun, and learn my fair city. No bickering, nit picking, or judgment on my end. It's fun, I enjoy it, and I hope to share that joy with other people. I'm not looking to make enemies or rivals lol. As Far as I'm concerned I have no problems with anybody at this current time and I intend to keep it that way. So let's forget it and Let's play!
^Ditto that
Not a Tag
A little late on posting the images, but worth a look if you haven't seen these to-scale-recreations in person. I can hardly believe people crossed the ocean in them... without knowing there was land on the other side! Many boats on the river are far larger. It took some big ones to make that voyage.
without knowing there was land on the other side!
incidentally, the topology of the planet has been known since ancient times, and even egyptians knew that if you traveled far enough west, you'd come back east. indeed, eratosthenes calculated the earth's circumference within about 2-16% around 240 bc.
still, those ships do look scary small for ocean-going vessels!
Yup. As much as we celebrate him Columbus was actually a colossal fuck up. He thought the calculations of the earths size were wrong and that it would be faster to sail east to west. They weren't and it still isn't faster to go that way.
That's why the smart world travelers.fly.
If only he'd thought of that.
@Erica If only he'd thought of that.
Or talked to Leonardo.
Need more clues?
Yes Pseudacris
OK, Village People, you wrote a hit song about this place's sort-of brother.
Is it fun to stay there?
I don't know if that's possible at this location. Many decades ago, I'd tell you the Vancouver, BC location was loads of fun and the Seattle location a depressing dump...it was just a few blocks and a couple of years from where Streetwise was photographed.
OH MY GOODNESSS FIRST TAG FIRST TAG FIRST TAG!!!!!!!!!!! I FINALLY DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!
YWCA on Frankstown ave.
Yeah! Welcome to the Game -- now go set us a good one!
Congrats, W Roger.
I hope you have today as a school holiday? Otherwise, that sign should read "eliminating flowers, encouraging truancy" lol
Yeah we had today off (religious observance). Which reminds me: Shouts to all the Jewish cyclists out there!!!! wish you all a great Yom Kippur!!!! (I have 36 hrs to pick a new tag right?)
haha, i love the excitement. congrats on your first tag!
Two new people in the game in a couple of days! This is a Good Thing™.
Oh I was wondering why I saw some many high school aged kids in Giant Eagle today. Now it makes sense.
Yay, Roger!
BTW, @W Roger, don't forget to turn the GPS off on your phone when you take the photo. O/w makes it much too easy (edit) to find. Your YWCA photo has the GPS on and you can see the exact location by clicking on it and then viewing photo details.
oh crumbs, thanks for the warning.
it there an easy way to edit the meta data other than through photoshop or bridge?
now everyone probably knows what kind of phone I have
[edit] nevermind: i see that the comment was for @wr, not me.
@wr: since you have photoshop, you could have fun with the cheaters and edit your GPS coordinates to be different than the photo location. Oh yeah!!!!!!
Who looks at that stuff anyway?
Not to cop out, but I had school and a soccer game (and all CAS homework) today, so there wasn't time for me to bike. Can I get a baby extension to tag in the morning? (sorry so much guys! If I can't it's cool if I have to forfeit my tagging rights for this one)
I think the hour and the crummy weather are probably in your favor. I'm guessing that you' re unlikely to be bruced tonight .
@steeld55 Ever heard the saying, "He who smelt it dealt it."?
It's just a click through on the image. It doesn't require any special software or effort so it's something to think about.
Help! I'm not sure how to interpret the. rules of a lapsed tag. ahopfully @wroger can post one this morning, but if not, and since no one bruced the current tag, we "revert to the previous tag" of the manor. Does that mean I should set a new tag or ????
I think we should give wroger every chance to post the next tag. I have been hard on melange in the past for not posting promptly but wroger is a new player, and was so very excited to get the tag I'm rooting for him.
Please, wroger, post a tag. It doesn't have to be anything fancy.
He might be in school all day. I am fine with an extension, though.
+1 on welcoming new players.
im pretty sure that "revert to the previous tag" means your ywca location stands. if someone wanted to be a dick (ahem, jonawebb), they could take a pic at ywca and then set a new one... unless roger beats them in setting a new one of his own
Let's not go there, melange, OK?
swordfight!
i agree, 'we' should not go there and steal the tag from the new guy
I meant the name-calling. Lay off.
@Jonawebb I think we should give wroger every chance to post the next tag.
+1
IMO - Since he's a new player, we relax the 36-hour rule on wroger. Post a new tag AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, wroger. Another 24 hours should be plenty.
melange396 is correct that the "revert to the previous tag" means your ywca location stands." Typical brucing would allow for anyone to go get the YMCA tag and post it, thus becoming the new tag-holder.
No need for Pseudacris to do anything.
Hey guys, I have too much stuff to do today (soccer, work, being in high school and being around other people) so I don't think the I'll be able to set the next tag. It's cool if you guys Bruce me, and set a new tag. I won't be upset. (at least I still found it!)
Yeah, but you'll lose it if you don't set a new one. Your name won't be on the board.
WHAT?!?! Okay I'll set one before dusk because I want my name on the list über badly.
Actually, in brucing situations I've been recording the original tag getter as well as whoever finally wound up setting the new tag. So W Roger would still get credit even if he's bruced. See tags 74, 304, and 476.
And melange396, please don't call jonawebb names.
Nice pic! Now where is that...
I know where it is. There is a song about it
who sings it?
Not just a song my friend. An album. A whole album...
I thought this was going to go quick that's why i didn't get it 2 hours ago.
^ I agree, but my life is to busy to play ToR right now. I would have time to place a new tag. Things will not slow down for me till the summer. No ToR for me.
We figured it out last night but it's entirely too far for us to travel in between other obligations. Awesome for you east siders!
East sliders?
Don't forget you cardboard
Okay, this is going to take a few tries until I get this to post, I know it.
^blue slide playground, Frick Park, Squirrel Hill. Yippeee!!! I was going to get it last night but I figured someone would beat me to it.
Edit: sorry the photo is so big--gotta work on my image posting skills.
W Roger, as the mother of a CAS student, I commend you for doing your homework. Also, nice job with the tags!
Holy Crap - another new player? Nice!
Apparently we're all lurking, just waiting to strike!
Yeah glad you joined the game
Thanks! I'm excited. I'm getting ready to post the next tag now--went out and got it right away since it's such a nice day.
This looks like someone's strange little private shed, but it's not--it's public property:
The "door" is actually just painted on:
I've been thinking about this tag for a while--it's a weird little hidey-hole at the Edge of the Wood.
(edited to resize the giant photos)
^ So your bike has only one front fork? I've never seen that.
@Mary
CAS CREW ALL DAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!
@TeamDecaf, it doesn't seem to handle any differently than my two-fork bike. I ran into someone at the Bike Pittsburgh Parking Day spot who evidently knows the guy who designed these--he said that the forks they wanted to build would have been too bulky and heavy, so they just made the left fork 10% stronger.
Cannondale came out with a mountain fork in that style around 10 years ago.
It still blows minds away.
A single MOUNTAIN fork?! That does seem pretty crazy!
Edit: should I post another clue?
I've been thinking about this single fork thing all weekend and can't see how it can possibly work. Even if the fork is Ok the hub has all the weight on one side. So either the bearings wear out at least twice as fast, not to mention the stress on the axle, or the hub is over designed on a normal bike. It doesn't make any sense.
no more clues! i think i know where this is, but i was out of town all weekend
@jonawebb google "cannondale lefty"
@jonawebb, it rides beautifully--time will tell on the durability front. It's a 2010 model, but I've only had it since January (picked it up on clearance).
OT, 1950 Imme 100 motorcycle. Nothing new under the sun.
Prior art ...and they still make them that way:
I see -- it's not a normal hub either. I can see how that works.
east hutchin st, next to the busway. i fell in love with a house on this street, until my agent showed me the view in greenfield
thats east hutchinSON st, for the record
Nice! It is a neat little street.
Apparently that little building leads to a long-closed tunnel under the busway. I bet there are C.H.U.D.s in there.
C.H.U.D. part 1 or 2?
mos def part 2.
its got more Electric Boogaloo.
> OT, 1950 Imme 100 motorcycle. Nothing new under the sun.
Nice, but... either i'm blind or they forgot the engine. where'd it go?
See, I had C.H.U.D. Classic in mind, not realizing there was a C.H.U.D. 2. But C.H.U.D. 2 would indubitably have more Electric Boogaloo.
That crazy one fork bike also boggles my mind. How does it not wobble! And it just has a normal front wheel? It would be pretty cool to bring that to next year's Try A Bike Jamboree
It is not a normal wheel, the hub/bearings are completely different.
C.H.U.D. = Canibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller. C.H.U.D. 2 Bud The C.H.U.D both classics I watched at the old Bloomfield movie theater.
got back home a little while ago from a sweet ride. this is from the beginning of it. with pearmask, steeld55, stefb, and of course, erica
I'm going to ride past this in 10 minutes. No time to set a new one so I will pass on this.
dang, i knew i shoulda went on that ride.
thats what happens when i dont respect Rule #5.
I'm on two wheels today, but the motorized kind. Go for it, guys.
Friendship Park @ Millvale!
bruced! i knew i shouldn't have stopped to get a sandwich on the way back to work.
::::::::::::::::::: NEW TAG :::::::::::::::::::::::
Other side of the tracks from Chudboro.
This is kind of fun to look at (not a tag).
I think I see some untagged neighborhoods.
lets not go there, ricerocket, ok?
new/old bike pseuda? bridgestone??? sweet!
I am going to be so fast now!
heck yeah Pseuda, rickybobby that ride!
Milton and Henrietta, Frick park
Path of the turtle, for you Dark Tower fans. New tag tomorrow.
I really like the photo there Pseudacris
Thanks! I had to close one eye to do that
I was hoping for a punchline effect when you got to see what it was. Nyuck Nyuck
i, for one, was mindfracked ;
excellent composition, hyla
@Pierce, I will try to bring it to the next Try-A-Bike--I'd be interested to hear what other people think of it. In the meantime, if you do the Flock rides I'm usually there--you're welcome to take it for a spin!
New tag.
Pale-skinned C.H.U.D.s may dwell,
In this man-made cave,
Ride the burning trail,
And your flesh they'll crave.
Oh snap, this tag is between me and OTB...
Creepy-ass maintenance cave/tunnel on the Greenfield end of Second Ave, a click or so from the Eliza Furnace trail head.
So it's on Second Avenue, a kilometer east of Swinburne? I think that would put it on the portion of the Hazelwood trail that runs on Second Avenue. about half way between where the trail turns onto Second Avenue and where it ends at Hazelwood Avenue. No street view there to confirm, sadly.
If that's way off, maybe somebody could drag the marker on the map to the right place? Go here, click Edit, drag the marker, click Save.
I moved it. It was on the other end of Second Avenue, nearer the Hot Metal Bridge. I used to ride past that place before they put up the bars to keep the C.H.U.D.s in, when the Hot Metal Bridge was still incomplete.
I'm glad somebody found it creepy.
Edit: I never knew you could move the tags in StreetView, cool.
Looks like someone fixed it on the map already. Its on Second Ave, about 3 telephone poles down from the Eliza trailhead between Greenfield Ave and Hot Metal. Now Im off to set a new one!
Randy, I like your night time photo: it looks like a proto-impressionist painting (if J.M.W. Turner was into bikes instead of ships...).
New Tag:
You'll need to crest a hill to find this Pittsburgh fortress.
Not clue related: there are a tons of homeless cats up there. Crazy.
Dang, I knew I bailed for the strip dist too soon.
Boom! Tag get
Pitt field, hillcrest ave, upper upper bloomfield.
Bruced!
I do have to toss out special props to miss Amy D. For the tag assist.
(Not a board member, but was insistant I give co-credit.)
FAKE TAG!!!!!
Go on a casual ride with the intentions of bailing early, then get suckered into riding a century.
After about 2 hours of climbing you may see this sign.
(Joke post, I'm just damn proud of this pic. Real tag to be posted soon.)8
^WOW! Nice!!
pbeaver, did you see the big coffee pot?
Marko, did you meant this coffeepot?
Why yes. i do recall seeing one.
(still not the tag.)
repost of earlier tag.
(lousy mobile phone tiny screen online photoalbum permissions nonsense.)
Fort pitt field, Hillcrest upper bloomfield / greenfield.
Huh? Wha? Bloomfield Greenfield? Where is that?
I think it's actually Garfield. Fort Pitt Playground, next to Fort Pitt Elementary School.
its about 5 blocks north of Penn Ave & about 3 blocks east of Allegheny Cemetery.
so yes, it would be Garfield.
Ft. Pitt Elementary.
NEW TAG!!!
(real tag this time.)
We've all wanted to be his neighbor, no matter what side of the boulevard we're from
But first we need to change into our sneakers before we head into the land of make believe.
Firstside Park
So that's where that was... pretty impressive.
Nice pickup Shay.
(I was worried I would have to drop another clue again.)
I can't quite make out the entire quote. What does that say?
"[It's] from the people they love the most that children acquire most of their long-term values." - Fred Rogers
Sorry guys this tag is going to take me a but to post. It'll be within the defined limits but there's only a slight window odd time between the two jobs and school.
Jonawebb - check PM. Trying a second time since I was told that format doesn't always work.
From a Google+ post I made yesterday:
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?" - Martin Luther King Jr
This is probably my favorite bench in the city due to the outstanding hypocrisy of having that quotation attached to a bench that's designed to prevent homeless people from sleeping on it. I only hope somebody along the design process realized this.
Pierce, that was more than likely a deliberate design descision.
oh, it's definitely designed as an anti-sleeping bench. the question is, did anyone notice the irony of putting that quote on it?
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?" - Martin Luther King Jr
"Keeping them from sleeping here." - Bench Designer
@pbeaver
Ah yes, maybe some conservative designed it and didn't want to enable homeless people to sleep when they should be out getting a job. So the bench really is helping people!
Oppression of the homeless.
Remember, it's just as illegal for a homeless dude to bribe a third world dictator as it is for a billionaire corporate executive to bribe a dictator.
Equal rights and all.
[edited to make pbeaver's smart-ass comment meaningless.]
Yeah, and neither one can sleep on this bench. Fair is fair.
Though I suspect with a little creative application of cardboard the bench could be made sleepable.
wait, what homeless guys are bribing billionare corporate executives?
@p beaver wait, what homeless guys are bribing billionare corporate executives?
None, of course.
That would be illegal.
@Pierce:maybe some conservative designed it and didn't want to enable homeless people to sleep when they should be out getting a job.
Nah, it was some liberal wanting to force them to go to shelters where they can be properly looked after.
I think the homeless need to have some sort of protest of this bench design.
"the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." -anatole france
this bench is an asshole, and my wife needs a little empathy.
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence."
I betcha someone was told to order some benches from a catalog, and someone else was told to come up with inspirational phrases to put on 'em, and a third party, who actually received and installed them, never bothered to check the finished product for traces of irony.
Speaking as someone who has slept on a bench or two, I heartily disapprove of the design.
*~!¡New tag¡!~*
Red on black, the ivy's at your back.
A great place for courting, granted you're savvy enough.
Dang, I know exactly where that is, but am stuck @ work for the next 12 hours.
/booooo.
'chinatown inn', court place
shay, you didnt move the marker very far
also, mornings SUUUUUUUUUUCK
Melange is now tied for first. Congrats!
Crap. Bruced.
This is about three blocks from where I work. This exact spot was also the first thing I ever saw on StreetView. My son, who went to the Art Institute (and so ate there a lot), showed me how to use SV by pointing to this restaurant from up on the Blvd of the Allies inbound ramp, which offers a much better view of the top of the place [link].
That's not where I took my picture from, though.
Malange, I know. There was actually one basically on top of the last one I decided not to do because it was just too close. I rode around the jail trail then into down town trying to find things that piqued my interest and wasn't completely obvious but wasn't having much luck with things that spoke to/of me that hadn't been tagged. I was hoping to find some water based anything that hadn't been done to no avail. Also, I'm actually a stranger to the city of Pittsburgh basically prior to starting this game/ getting involved in biking/meeting the boyfriend, so this truly is a scavenger hunt/riddle game to me. I'm learning a lot about a lot as I go. I've passed a few things on rides that I have in mind and taken note of for future tags, but my horizons are ever expanding. I hope to become more involved in the future by going on group rides actually meeting you guys/gals and what not once I feel more confident, but for now I'm still learning A LOT so I'm kind of embarrassed/shy/insecure. haha. I was proud the other day that I learned to jump a very small curb..as pathetic as that is to the seasoned folks, it's a small victory for me. So. I'm hoping to continue to learn, improve, and hopefully one day challenge you guys with these tags a little more maybe one day this pup can run with the big dogs
george is a hater. this tag is sweet.
wait, theres running involved?
and dogs?
/sigh.
i am a hater, but i wasnt hatin on this tag... just observing :-p
I guess I'm the only person here who's impressed that a newbie has grabbed three tags in less than four weeks while also working at two jobs and going to school.
I am impressed, my excuse for not getting tags has been because I'm a full time student and work full time, but it seems not to be a valid excuse. I guess I'll add full time father to make myself feel better about not getting tags anymore.
Good work, Shayness. Keep droppin' those tags! It is a fun way to get to know the city. Every now and then I peek in on the TWO Tag-o-Rama games in San Diego (someone here started it there...I forget who). It gives me a sense of the vicarious fun that can be had by the non-players, too.
At the risk of ruffling feathers: it's nice to have another female playing Tag-o-Rama. There are just a handful of us and hopefully our presence will encourage others to give it a shot.
Bike on!
Shayness, and any other newcomers (both to the game and/or to Pittsburgh itself), see if you can find the time to paw through the original ToR thread from the very beginning. It got rolling in September? 2010, and I think helped cement the sense of community that was developing here. We learned a lot about each other, we learned a lot of cool, out-of-the-way places, we learned about surviving thunderstorms at the tops of hills. Some amazing stuff went down.
And I'll second what Pseudacris said about getting more women in the game. Women are the "indicator species": The more women that are riding (and hence playing this game), the more healthy the riding environment. So, ride on!
another thing to try is to scroll around the googlemap on the first page of the thread that shows most of the current known tags.
i like to peruse it on occasion to find areas that are lacking tags and which are over-congested.
uh oh, not another "untagged neighborhoods" player!
#Muhuhuahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa!
ever thought much about the packaging for your scouring pads?
earn your 15 minutes of fame by winning at trivia tonight!
(w/ randy; we stopped for a beer after work)
Oh my god my flesh itches. I want to pick this tag up so badly but I'm working at the hospital, NOOOOOOO!
im sure there is a dermatologist there who can help you ;-p
Different kind of itch lol
Be nice to the new girl, bully
if u're lucky.
/wink.
This previously tagged bench isn't very homeless friendly either. Where was the outrage?
According to the Oct 2012 Bulletin (local neighborhood rag for Garfield, Bloomfield, Friendship, S'liberty, Larryville, & Stanton Heights) it took 2 years and 20 volunteers to realize this vision of a bench being more than a bench.
The bench also has some sort of artisanal traffic calming abilities, I'm guessing due to it being more than just a bench.
Possibly the most pretentious bench in Pittsburgh.
But the Firstside Park bench has its uncomfortableness cruelly added on via separate bars, while the uncomfortableness of the bench on Winebiddle is a natural and organic consequence of its attempt to accommodate groups that include one very tall individual, one individual of average height, and one individual of shorter stature, all of whom wish to sit at that corner at the same moment (possibly while waiting for a blonde girl with no respect for private property to finish sampling porridge).
In fact I suspect it's not a bench at all, but an artistic commentary on the Platonic Ideal of Benchness. You wouldn't want homeless people sleeping on Art, would you?
I could totally sleep on that. Sleeping is like my super-power.
my friends run an art gallery down the street from that bench, they were involved with design, fabrication, and installation of the bench.
It was installed with the intention of being as public beautifiction art as well as a place to sit.
TAG GET!!!!
Brillobox Penn & 40th
pbeaver, nice Bomber shock! I have one from the 00'-02' era. And it still works better than some of the brand new stuff imo.
Mine the 02, came with the bike.
Frame, fork, bars, and deraileurs are the only original parts left.
But then again, it is 10 years old.
haha. sounds like my bike. Frame, stem and seatpost clamp are the only original parts.
On mine it's just the seatpost.
oh yeah, the pedals aren't technically original, but i had the shop swap out the clipless for the platforms when i bought it so they are as old as the rest of it.
Paul, stop drinking and start riding/tagging!
Chinatown Inn, Ming Na's fam's place. Nice.
C'mon dude. I like to start my weekends with some tagging! Don't make me Bruce myself to get it!
@pbeaver you still have time. Post soon.
ok, ok, give me a couple min.
somehow my chain was on backwards when i woke up this morning, which explains why it was really difficult to climb 5th ave last night.
new tag emminent. (just as soon as i can find my liver.)
besides, i still have like 3 hours.
Really? I thought your time was up at 2 am. But I'll wait. See how nice I am?
You're thinking it's 48 hrs but its 36.
New tag
It's not really square, but now there's plenty of parking.
Station square, and we're getting soccer.
New taiku
An elephant's tusk
Touches the blue box in a
Distant neighborhood
I wish we'd start calling it football
It's a much superior sport to the one that we call football here
is that a library book?
"The rise of Roosevelt"
Oh crap, I'm fixing a flat, and this is soooo close, comparatively.
Ivory ave
wpxi
W/ shayness
Oh scat, I need a new saddle.
I interrupt this thread in celebration of Zombie Fest
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watch out! You have to be KEAN to see these pens fan.
Need a 2nd clue go take a second and you should arrive south of your destination.
I'm still coming up blank, here. There's something about that word KEAN that just leads nowhere. I would appreciate another clue, if you're inclined to give one.
hey, look at that, i know where this is, and even have time to get it, assuming i don't get beaten over there.
Modern Reproductions, 127 McKean near South 2nd, 15203.
NEW TAG!
Always a good idea when you wiggle your way up to a big cement block...
Just biked in circles where we thought this might be. Not at the obvious spot, drinkers...
Randy I too biked in circles for hours to no avail -_-
Can we get another clue buffalo?
Ah, I have an idea. I had a hunch at first it was where I think Randy was looking. But if that's not it, then I move to Plan B.
Now if I can haul my lazy butt out of bed early enough...
i thought the clue was pretty straightforward, though it wasn't "up", where the wiggle normally takes you.
not quite sure how to describe where this is. at the end of like 38th ish? it's in lawrenceville, about a 45 second ride from where i work, through the jersey barrier and parking lot, down where the school buses are.
Well, now I can sleep in. Yes, that's where I was going to look.
Good to know about the little "notch" under the 40th Street Bridge. That's how I knew where this was.
Well, congrats. I went out looking for it, too, but I have only a vague idea of what the Lawrenceville wiggle is, and didn't have much luck, though I did get some biking in. The photo did remind me of the concrete barriers under the 40th Street bridge. I should've just gone with my first thought.
BTW is the Lawrenceville wiggle described somewhere?
jonawebb, I believe Stu posted a description a couple weeks ago. But basically I just go to the end of Smallman, turn left, and look for a parking lot that looks like it goes all the way across to 40SB.
What's the Lawrenceville Wiggle??
i always thought the lawrenceville wiggle was a method for climbing up into bloomfield (go up a street, turn and go flat for a bit, turn and go up some more, etc.). i just assumed the wiggle in this case was pointing out that the tag was in lawrenceville.
I found this: http://bike-pgh.org/bbpress/topic/sf-wiggle#post-109535
There's a more easterly version of the Lawrenceville Wiggle, somewhere around 56th St? (sorry, I'm not real familiar with that part of town)
Also, the only thing I was alluding to was a space between some jersey barriers directly underneath the 40SB. Note, they're erecting a chain-link fence along the tracks directly opposite the school bus tag, so it's going to be a bit of a squeeze getting through there in the very near future. (Today is 18 Oct 2012, for the record.)
EDIT: Another version is to follow the white stripe through the cemetery.
Lawrenceville wiggle: I just zig and zag on a rarely duplicated route. Just point up hill from Butler and start wiggling.
BTW I think a friend of mine, another Quaker, moved those barriers to create a gap for bikes.
that gap is pretty sweet when i want to head in that direction after work. which i suspect i will be doing today.
OK, apparently my brain cross-wired a thread on how to get from Central Lawrenceville to the Strip without using Butler with the SF Wiggle thread. Sorry if that confused anyone.
new tag!
i was trying to decide between two churches. i chose the one that worships something other than god.
One of the worst bike racks in the city...
> the one that worships something other than god
you mean, like lord xenu or something?
I've heard of Quakers, and Shakers, but I've never heard of "Hoppers".
church brew works w/ randy
they really are horrible bike racks... we brought ours into the foyer and locked them up on the side and out of the way
with this, i think ive set a new record for number of bikes used in tag-o-rama: 6
We love beer related tags. Moar please.
Damn u headed up liberty now
Also you are now the leader.
Congrats on both, melange396.
I also used 6 bikes in tags. cayne uno, SE lager, big block, Fiji supreme, Fuji mtb, and conquest classic. Also, that dildo can obsess with trying to beat you now, george! Congrats!
i stand corrected! looks like i need another bike...
You can never have too many bikes (I don't even own all of those bikes still)
Does S-1 even apply, if you're both into bikes?
I think it does. I just don't care.
Good question. I only get mad when it isn't my turn to buy a new bike.
Ps- cburch is sitting on the top of the staircase. I wonder if I am strong enough To push him down the stairs. Then all of the bikes will be mine. Muhahahah.
I would imagine that those contemplating spousicide for such reasons should really make a point of taking out additional life insurance on said spouse first...makes it easier to buy more bikes.
You know, hypothetically speaking.
I agree with this idea.. Hypothetically.
Poor cburch
Jokes on her. I'm not worth anything.
But if she gets that insurance policy that reddan suggested, you will be. Hypothetically speaking, of course.
You are worth a lot to all of us
my wife doesnt know that ive procured this most recent bike... she thinks im borrowing it
i own 5 of those 6. the first one got stolen :'(
the ute is for sale, though, if anyones interested -- and then ill have room for another!
I've only used 4 bikes in this game. Which is probably why I linger in 6th place and slipping fast...
Gahhh, another ute for sale. Why won't these utes just leave me alone?
Cburch has probably taken bigger falls than that in Frick park.
specialized rockhopper (rest in pieces / fuck you thief)
kona jake the snake
gary fisher aquila
kona ute (for sale)
salsa vaya ( <3 )
craptastic vintage schwinn ("loaner")
new tag coming soon
mr marv, heres your chance to get back in it:
quack, quack! you can see a duck butt on the right edge of this "lowland" scene
Sorry I'm out enjoying family time.
Highland park duck pond
New tag
Twin spires reach into the sky
If I pick a flower do you think she'll cry?
I was less than 5 min from the duck pond but spending time with family beats ToR every time.
Need help?
No headed there now!
Cool
Larimer st and omega
With shayness as allways
Haha, you're a bag filled to the top, overflowing even..with tools. Haha!
I really like the mural on that house, BTW. It is the best non-Sprout mural I've seen. Very fresh, bold, and well executed.
Crickets
Man, this was a fun ride
And to top it off I
Coasted down a
Killer hill.
Thanks to a certain bee, he named this ave for me.
Transedge Mack Truck Center, 1501 Bee-ver Avenue
If anyone's interested, the mural above is an MLK (Moving the Lives of Kids) community mural project and it depicts the story of Persephone - a Greek goddess. Very, very cool mural. It wraps all the way around that house.
@srpit, that's really interesting. Planting the daisies under Persephone's nose makes sense, then. I wonder who the artist was?
New tag this evening.
@Jonawebb Here's what we know about this mural so far:
Title: unknown
Location: Omega Place and Reiter St, Larimer
Artists: Eddie Rawson/Lucas Stock/Bonnie Schindler/Chris Rubisch/Sarah Altwerger/Shelly Steffey/Kristen DeGiovanni/Kyle Holbrook
2009
MLK community mural project. Wraps around entire house - see following two photos. This is a "Green Mural" that will incorporate live plants. It tells the story of Pesephone.
Photo of the back of the house:
photo of the opposite side/front:
I suppose I should post the full photo of the other side as well, since you really don't get the effect from the original tag photos:
Mural depicts the story of Persephone who ate seeds from a forbidden pomegranate and was forced to spend three or four months every year in Hades.
BTW - Hope yinz don't mind my jumping in on your Tag-O-Rama thread with misc. information like this.
Go right ahead! This is a wonderful tag, and it's great to know more about it! That's the spirit of the game.
Yes, please jump in any time!
BTW, the adjacent mural house visible at the edge of your photos was tag 282.
Wish I could tell you more regarding tag 282. So far we haven't been able to find information on it. We suspect that it's also an MLK mural, but no confirmation yet. If we get the story on it I'll let you know.
New tag
Live in Pittsburgh, but not the city;
Fly a kite, but not for fun;
Win a war over electricity,
Make steel cheaply, by the ton.
(I'm sure I don't understand this game, if I've done a faux-pas I apologize)
The tag picture reminded me of this picture.
The Afghanis who were part of Ronald Reagen's group of "Freedom Fighters" against the Soviet Empire were originally motivated because the Soviets had (shudder) dorced 10 year old girls to go to school and were teaching them to read.
When the "Freedom Fighters" stopped interacting with the Soviet Union and started interacting with the U.S., they kept their motivations and tactics. Their label changed, though. The tag "freedom fighter" was changed to "terrorist."
@Vannevar, I just got it. Ha.
JonaWebb, I hope you don't mind.
Not at all. I'm glad to know someone figured it out.
"Present Tense" Bessemer Ave, East Pittsburgh, w/ Vannevar
Is East Pittsburgh even in the city limits?
Nope -- "In Pittsburgh, but not the city". It's in the blue box, however.
Excellent work, btw.
Nate posted a photo of this mural back at tag 56, saying that he wanted to use it as a tag but couldn't because it was off the map. (It's still outside the blue box, but nowadays the rules say that's OK.)
Great mural.
You are right. Damn, I thought it was inside. But it is not far outside, so OK.
@steeld55 -- slightly outside the blue box is OK according to the rules.
Its still outside the box, but the rules are not followed any more.
East Pittsburgh is an independent borough--at less than half a square mile, small but not the smallest in Allegheny County--about 4 miles by the shortest route southeast of the nearest part of the City of Pittsburgh.
East Pittsburgh is only a mile or so from East McKeesport. As near as I can tell, that is also as close to "nowhere" as you can get without actually ceasing to exist.
New Tag.
Hope I did this right. Checked your pin map and I didn't see it already on there, so here goes. Warning - I'm pretty lousy at this clue stuff.
It's going to be hard to shake things up here. Needs a few more artistic touches before it'll feel homey, but general-ly it's a Super project.
Wow, this is one of the most interesting tags ever. And welcome new tagger.
I can't wait to find out what the heck that is.
I'm so glad you like it! Really deliberated on what to choose.
I think I know what it is, but I'm clueless to it's location.
I'm new here, so you're going to have to tell me when I need to give another clue.
Well it's been a day and no one seems to know where it is, so another clue now would be appropriate.
Ok, if you're Jones'n for another clue...
Super Adobe makes a Super Abode
that might make you Swoon (or might be made by her)
Looks like an Earthship. Those walls look thick enough to contain stacked tires. Any pictures from inside?
Sorry, Quizbot. I actually think I do have some video of the inside from two weeks ago when we rode by there. I stopped to talk to someone working on it and happened to have a helmet cam running but I never processed that video into any clips or uploaded it anywhere. I promise there were no tires. I'm about 100% sure this is tire free. In fact it's 90% dirt.
Srpit, I think this is outside of city proper. Tags are, from my understanding, to be in city proper.
Not necessarily. Here's the map showing the box tags should fall into.
In any case, I'm sufficiently curious about what/where this is that I personally wouldn't care if it was a bit out-of-box, but that's just me
Oh joy! You just opened a whole new world of opportunity for me pear!! I'm pretty sure it's the something called "Konbit Shelter" apparently somewhere in in Braddock, probably off of Jones avenue near the Carnegie library of Braddock and near the church. It very well may not be, I'm just speculating and pulling together clues. I could be wrong. anybody willing to hightail it out there and go on a wild goose chase, rock it!
I did check the map before I posted it and it was inside. Not by a lot - but within bounds.
Pretty fascinating stuff, srpit. I'll pick it up tomorrow if no one else gets it.
BTW, on the bounds issue -- the tag map says "OK to have tags slightly beyond this." (Slightly was added after I posted an out-of-county tag.)
So, all these tags are OK.
I'm pleased that everyone is finding it as interesting as we did.
"slightly" is not a well-defined term. ymmv, fomf.
this is not 'nam, this is tag-o-rama. there are rules
This curious photo is certainly "inside" of the previous tag and the blue box.
The Dude Abides. Abodes. Adobes.
There should be a variation on Godwin's Law--the longer any thread goes, the more probable it will take a turn toward the Lebowski.
Not that there's anything wrong with that--a few Lebowski quotes really tie a thread together.
(edited to correct my poor grammar. I'm a nerd.)
Joanne, I'm inclined to think (although I have no empirical support at this time) that invoking the Dude tends to preclude the ugly situations described by Godwin. I think the Dude centers us holistically.
It might be an interesting PhD thesis to identify the inverse relationship between the presence of the Dude vs the Nazis in online texts.
Hey, I've got a beverage here...
I think the Dude centers us holistically.
well, you know, that's just like, uhhh, your opinion, man.
It doesn't have to be Lebowski, but it does seem to be a given that every conversation of sufficient length turns to a cultural touchstone I've never seen...
Deprived? Depraved? Your choice.
@Vannevar, I know what you mean. I think a lot of people agree: http://dudeism.com/
@Marko, I haven't been able to hear Singin' in the Rain without flashing to another scene in that movie since I saw it years ago!
Buffalo--yeah, but that means you were out doing all sorts of other interesting things while the rest of us were lying around watching Lebowski and A Clockwork Orange. (They are both worth seeing though)
So I was thinking that it was the weather that was making this one take so long. Am I wrong? Should I be providing more clues?
I would've gotten it yesterday, but overslept and had to take the car. I plan to get it on the way home.
Superadobe dome, Jones and Hawkins, North Braddock
Excellent job. Jonawebb! Isn't it cool? It's supposedly an earthquake proof shelter made with poly-propaline tubes, dirt and a cement covering. The folks from "Transformazium" across the street are building that one.
Yeah, it's interesting. I wasn't sure it would still be there after the rain etc. lately but it looked in pretty good shape.
New Hallowe'en Tag!
Gorgeous George
The Lady in White,
Weeping Eleanor
May give you a fright,
John Johns
The Bouncing Red Meanie,
You may find them
Behind the scenery.
Ah, I've got it. Very crafty of you.
Wish I had a bike with me today.
Ok, maybe I don't. But I love it when I know a location based on the clue. Great clue, Jonawebb!
To Play this game, part of the fun of is figuring out the location, even if there's little hope in getting the tag. Then add to the clues.
+1 to that, Stu!
Can't believe this one is still out there waiting to be grabbed.
i believe it... this weather suuuuuuuuuucks
I know where it is, and my bike's around the corner. Y'all have three hours till I get off work.
Pretty Crafty...
Pittsburgh Playhouse, Craft Ave btwn Forbes & Allies.
¡Tag de nuevo!
A number of Pittsburgh places have evolved in purpose and use through the years. This one went from being an ice house to what I hear is a pretty cool place.
I'm pretty sure your bike is immaculate after leaning up against that thing.
I did have pretty good reception down there.
heinz history center / sports museum / three rivers goalposts
i was looking in the wrong place til i got the immaculate reception clue
only slightly out of season, this one deserves to have its picture taken in the dark
2422 E Carson
New Tag
Who's that masked man?
Not the Lone Ranger
Not Lancelot
Not sure what he's guarding
Not sure where he fought
Between Penguin ice and the Panther's lair
They dress him up funny
He just doesn't care
Looking south toward the clock
(Though he can't tell the time)
I'm out of ideas
To put in this rhyme
Sit Samueli, Tustin and Seneca, Uptown
The article at http://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Pittsburgh-Magazine/March-2012/The-Green-Knight-Rises/ says the statue is called "Sir Samelot" but the nameplate on the statue says "Sir Samueli" unless I misread. Anyway it is an antique-store statue the former Allegheny County Chief Architect bought and had installed here, in this neighborhood that is full of interesting public art.
You snagged that a lot faster than I expected! I think you misread it. The plaque does say Sir Samelot.
i spotted that on the 28x on my way out of town on saturday afternoon, and thought it would make a great tag. great job reading my thoughts!
I work near ther and have been wondering when it would make it to tag-o-rama.
New tag
Looks like a dollar bill in a butt, which is kind of funny,
Since you can get a bike near here without any money.
Huh. I'd never noticed the dollar bill before.
wtf jonawebb, you trying to get people killed?!
Shady Lane School, corner of Penn Ave & N Braddock.
Unfortunately, I have to navigate this corner often since I do most of my grocery shopping nearby at the East End Food Co-op.
Is this the right one? Originally there were three of these pink dinos sponsored by Dollar Bank.
New tag mid day tomorrow.
AAAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!1111
I just got home from passing by this silly statue not once, not twice, but thrice today. If only I had checked the TOR before I went out to run errands, or before I came home.
So. much. impotent. rage.
I will capture another tag. My lurking will not be for naught...
I love this game.
That's the one. I didn't know there were others. Originally that was the site of the Three Rivers Community Foundation, which is why I think the piggy bank dino is there.
BTW, definitely thought JaySherman5000 would pick up this one. Surprised.
Oh, crickets!
you cant bruce this one, jonawebb! lulz
Sorry dudes, I got stuck @ work. I have a night shot in mind if no one bruces me first.
::::::::NEW TAG::::::::
This is not left over from Halloween. ¡Viva Aztlan!
Mexico Lindo, on Murray Ave around the corner from my house.
This is a really cool Mexican store, left wing politically. They always do a nice Halloween/Day of the Dead display. This one references the dead from the various wars we're fighting -- Iraq, Afghanistan, drugs.
isnt there some rule about not being able to grab every other tag? i believe it may even be because my dear sweet wife was hogging all the tags by doing that...
@cburch: there was an agreement a few pages back in which we (the participants of TOR) agreed that if you set a tag, you could not pick up the next tag (i.e. you can't pick up a tag set by the person that picked up your tag).
That said, I had no idea where this tag was, but I'm totally okay with jonawebb taking it if it keeps the game moving.
I'm enjoying being in 6th place in this game.
No there was no agreement. Someone, I forget who, proposed a, new rule, I said it was a good idea, no one else did.
but if you thought it was a good idea why are you violating the principle?
I don't care who gets the tag. There are so precious few that I have a fighting chance at getting anyway, I figure I'm doing OK by figuring out what it is and maybe dropping another clue if it isn't immediately obvious.
That said, I do have a couple ideas for tags, in the unlikely chance I do manage to grab one, which seems to be once every six weeks on average.
I'm just being difficult. I seriously thought that was a rule from like 2 years ago. When I tagged the history center the first time...
I do have one tag I've wanted to set for a long time though. I just forget to pay attention to the thread to see if there's one I can pick up until its way too late.
I'm just following the rules, man. I do think we should add the no-tag backs rule Marco proposed, but until then...
HAHA. Let me remind you of the tags way outside of the box you left. "I'm just trying to follow the rules, man!" ROFLCOPTER
Oh c'mon, guys, let it drop.
Speaking of dropping, can we haz nu tag plz? (Yeah I know it's only 13 hours so far, but the weather is soooo nice...)
Not 'til tonight, sorry, unless you want one way outside the box...
I'll wait.
Like I said, I was just being a pain in the ass to be a pain in the ass. No malice intended. My wife however knows how to hold a pointless grudge like few people I know.
i propose we add a condition to the no back-to-back rule, such that it only applies to the "top three", or anyone 20 points or fewer away from "first place", or something similar... that way the most rabid players dont hog so much, and the n00bz can have a chance to build their tag score
I second melange's suggestion of no back-to-back for 40 tags or more
Sounds good to me.
Edit: thinking about it, let's make it apply to anyone who is in the top half of the maximum tag count, instead of having a fixed cutoff like 40. If this game keeps going on 40 tags will seem like a small number for a lot of people. And a cutoff at half is easy to remember and yields about the same result.
lets make it so points have a half-life of 2 weeks and anyone with more than the median amount (not counting those less than 1) cannot do back-to-back tags, except on alternate wednesdays unless that alternate wednesday happens on a date that is prime or a perfect square.
Better get this new rule ratified as official ASAP!
If it’s only a suggestion some people are only going to take it under consideration...Then when a few weeks pass go after back to back tags again and say “I'm just following the rules, man.”
Trying to avoid another kerfuffle...
returning to seriousness, how about:
a player cannot do back-to-back tags if they have been classified as a "rabid player" by themselves or by 3+ other participants
i will claim that jonaweeb, stef and i are rabid players. anyone wanna second this idea (and my rabid player claims)? its fairly simple, not too mathy, and crowd-sourced... and we can call it "the rabid player rule"
I don't see what's wrong with the top half, it's simple and easy to remember, but I'm OK with any reasonable proposal. So that would be fine, too.
Using the "rabid players" technique sounds a little too arbitrary and too tough to keep track of who said what about who. I'm semi-rabid (I am still in 4th place, ya know? but I've fallen way off the rabid time in my TOR career. I'm thinking the top half is easier.
Still, I'll draft a rule (I like the name "rabid player rule") and post it here first. Anyone can add comments and propose updates before I change the official rules on the first page of this thread.
rabid rule post coming soon...
i think looking at the "top half" is too time-consuming, technical, and intrusive for a fun game. also, based on the distribution of points among the players we have seen (with the long tail and otherwise hyperbolic growth of the curve), "top half" may not even be all that relevant.
on the other hand, if too many people think that you need to chill back with the tagging so others can get a chance, then the rabid player rule will slow you down.
so youre agreeing that youre a rabid player, jonawebb??
Maths!
Sure, rabid as charged, if you're talkin' to me, melange396. I'm beginning to reconsider the top half already - any other thoughts?
if you wanna make it mathy, we could kindly ask steven to add a box near the top of the spreadsheet that shows the average plus two standard deviations (currently about 32), and make that be the "rabid player" cutoff.
i was talking to jonawebb, and i edited to add his name shortly after posting... so i think you get to rescind your rabid player admission. ;-p
I'm going to go eat a burger and watch the new Bond film. Gentlemen, I leave you to sort this out.
"Yawn" - the Masses
How about this...
Using melange's (and supported by bikeygirl) proposal:
No back-to-back tags for riders with over 40 tags (there's only 4 of us). For the future, we agree to move the number up whenever it becomes an issue. And honestly, it takes so much effort, and rabidity, to get to 40 tags that it will probably be a long time before many others can get to that level.
Given that I think I have about 4 tags, and none in the past year, probably, I realize this is a silly question, but......
Can we get a reminder of who keeps the score, and where it can be found? I don't really care about the points obviously, but if we set a rule that refers to points, there should include a reference to where the point tally can be found, right?
I have no problem with the rule as proposed by TD. Let's do it.
And here is your new tag, which is definitely inside the box. Sorry it is so dark and shady, I get home late:
@Swalfoort - Steven is the chief scorekeeper.
Go to the first page of this thread. You'll find the rules and links to the spreadsheet of participants, tags and tag maps. Lots of great info - it's fun to check out the previous tags.
How about just applying the rule to the top five or top ten players (inclusive of ties)?
@swalfoort, it’s in the spreadsheet that steven meticulously maintains on the first page.
Some helpful links from page one of this thread
If you want to check out the Tag Map, you have two choices:
1. View All Tags shows all the tags at once, and displays quickly, but can't be edited.
2. tinyurl.com/tag-o-rama-map is for editing the map. It loads slower and displays in multiple pages of about 200 tags each.
The Tag-O-Rama spreadsheet, showing who got which tag
The original Tag-O-Rama thread
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When you mouse-over/click on a tag marker on the map, a pop-up shows the original image - it's cool.
Thanks, guys! I should have remembered where to find it. And I do occasionally take a stroll through the tags of days gone by. This is a fun game to play vicariously!
But, many thanks to TeamDecaf for recapping all the critical information above. I think we should probably repeat that every 90 pages or so, just to keep everyone current!
That is tag #149
And we're just 2 tags from #6-frickin' hundred!
Shady Ave between Kentucky and Howe.
Edited: I had installed myself on the couch, but this is four blocks from me--I nearly went in my bathrobe.
Good work, if a bit rabid
Haha! Indeed.
Jonawebb, two of the last three tags you set were duplicates or semi-duplicates of previous tags.
As Stefb said, your 598 was a duplicate of 149, and your 592 was a different door of the building in 283.
While there's no rule against duplicates, I think it's more fun if people make an effort to tag new places. I suggest keeping a list of potential tags, so you can easily check beforehand if they're dups (instead of trying to check using a smartphone, or just guessing).
As to the rule change, I think having it apply to the top 5 players would work OK.
how about this as a rule? if you think you are spending too much time grabbing tags, you let others have chance.
otherwise, who really cares? there are still new people joining and dropping out on a regular basis. the game is most fun when we aren't so meta about it.
It seems to me that the game has been going on long enough that duplicating tag hundreds of tags back isn't that bad, especially when there's a good reason to do so (Playhouse/ghost, box/man in the box).
I don't like the idea of labeling people as rabid players.
As a society we have a responsibility to offer players help address their addiction. Possibly a 12 step recovery plan?
Certain players need to recognize they have a problem and really want and need to change.
Shady ave at kentucky.
^TD, I picked it up last night...new tag soon!
#bruced!
Every time I see this thing now I think about @edmonds' comment from long ago about ding dong ditching ....hehe
What's ding-dong-ditching? I must know!
1.) spot house.
2.) ring doorbell.
3.) run away.
4.) snicker @ person standing in doorway.
(this activity may or may not involve flaming bags of dog poo.)
Ohhhh, I think I knew that at one time in my life. Until now that information had been replaced by more important things, like internet memes and the particulars of the legal battle between the two Galleghers.
Edit: But apparently not the spelling of "Gallagher."
Duh
Could it be that these proposed rules constraining the top-5 high performers (who you might call rabid-taggers, but who I prefer to respectfully refer to as tag creators, thank you) in the name of fun and fairness are really just a microcosm of the "i am the 99%" mentality so much in vogue today?
Who are these people shouting, Occupy The Tag Space !, and Increase Taxes On Quarter-Millionaires!
Can it be that there are two types of people, tagCreators and tagMoochers? Where would Society and all the Moochers be without the Bruces and the Jons, I ask you? Where would we be if they withhold their creative genius until everybody else gets a few points?
Who is Jon Webb?
(sorry, been reading too much about Eyeiiinn Rand, Job Creators, etc, just had to. Cheers, V)
It’s a changing game, the demographics are changing. It’s not a traditional Tag-O-Rama anymore, and there are 50 percent of the lurkers who want stuff. They want tags. And who is going to give them tags? …..
Atlas Shrugged, best book ever.
New tag, for this holiday weekend:
In a land of mighty trees, a memorial for small men of bread.
veterans memorial, schenley park (circuit drive)
sorry for the craptastic photo
That was fast!
That's what Mrs marvelous said
Atlas Shrugged, best book ever.
if it's the only book you've ever read, i'm sure it would certainly seem that way.
Pseudacris: It’s a changing game, the demographics are changing. It’s not a traditional Tag-O-Rama anymore, and there are 50 percent of the lurkers who want stuff. They want tags. And who is going to give them tags? . . .
very nice, Psue... took me a while to figure this out, I had not heard of the original reference (Bill O'Reilly). Well played indeed. cheers, V.
Atlas Shrugged, best book ever.
No maps. I was way disappointed. Worst atlas ever.
children's books usually have pictures. its missing the pictures.
all the good kids books have puffy pages and a lable on the back that states "This books is non-toxic and chewable."
Sounds like the same target market.
Rule #8
No back-to-back tags can be picked up by the 5 riders with the Most Tags. See the spreadsheet for the list of Most Tags.
I'll add the rule above, as stated, unless someone has any new objection or addition to it.
new tag!
walk up to someplace devout.
(btw, this is awesome and must be seen in person at night.)
I'm pretty sure I've seen this before and have a general idea of where it is. I'd go look, but I have a lot of work to do tonight
Wrong side of town. For this guy at least.
I'm sorry but I think this is BS:
"It seems to me that the game has been going on long enough that duplicating tag hundreds of tags back isn't that bad, especially when there's a good reason to do so (Playhouse/ghost, box/man in the box). "
About duplicating tags... not to be bitchy, but I think that people have gotten lazy at looking at the map to make sure tags are not been repeated. It is NOT HARD to look at the map located here to make sure that the tag is new. There are many amazing places in the city that can and are waiting to be tagged.
And I'll repeat again what I've said in the past: If one can't be original about a tag, or doesn't have a fresh idea about where to drop a tag, *don't* pick the tag...
I have about four potential tags in mind for the next time I grab one. It all depends what part of town I'm in, since my biggest race isn't getting the tag, it's getting to an Internet connection after taking the picture.
@bikeygirl, I recognize that having unique tag locations is important to you, but it's not required, nor does duplicating a tag reflect laziness. I soletainly don't do it lightly or inatunatively.
Edit: to add fish pun.
Those steps are a really cool tag. Also, for what it's worth, some good opportunities for tagging can be found if you climb those stairs and keep going up the various roads:
1. The Zone 3 Police Station;
2. The mural for the old Knox Incline and the one across from it on the retaining wall;
3. The fancy Italian restaurant on Warrington;
4. The mural on the wall behind the clock tower on Brownsville in Mt. Oliver (the tower was a tag, but I'm not sure about the mural);
5. The abandoned bridge on Brosville over the abandoned Knox Incline grade;
6. The ball field on "Billy Buck Hill:"
7. The many churches along the hill.
Melange, I love that tag. It's beautiful, isn't it? Whhyyyy can't I be out riding my bike today???
I wish to humbly propose an additional rule (and as I'm a noob, feel free to ignore...): every time this thread takes a turn toward the acerbic, fish puns must be used to steer us away from the carping. There could even be some sort of meta-tag-o-rama award for the first one.
@joanne: I applaud you for angling for some form of diversion from the bickering.
Any attempt at diverting bickering is a red herring.
was @jacob suggesting that someone SCALE those steps, or did he have a premonition that @reddan would take @joanne's BAIT?
*sigh*
i feel like im beating a dead horse by adding any more to this, and increasing the complexity of an already overly-complicated situation, but... i approve of your rule #8, teamdecaf, however i might add "unless the tag sits for 5 days (120 hours)" just in case one sits too long and stalls the game. looking at the times on the spreadsheet, none has made it that far yet -- the longest gaps have been 91 and 97 hours.
im glad you guys like this tag!
As another who came relatively recently, I don't have the time or inclination to paw through six hundred or however many it is tags so I know what has or hasn't been tagged already. It's hard enough to come up with something that's interesting in the first place; I'm not going to waste my time worrying about whether or not it's "new". I'd rather be out riding.
You know, I think I might actually prefer the bickering.
Just saying.
personally, i really don't see the need for a new rule. i see no evidence that tag-o-rama is floundering, despite the occasional bullheadedness from the sharks in the game.
also, from my perch, i didn't really notice any sort of consensus for a new rule.
At this point, adding new rules feels akin to spitting in the ocean. No reason to get crabby...it's just a game, ya know?
Of course, one could argue that this is just trolling for a punny response, so I should probably just clam up now.
the shark has been jumped
I've been thinking about what a pain rule #8 is and I've just about decided to give up on it. If you want to get tags, get your butt out and ride. The top 5 have no more advantage than anyone else, so why constrain any segment of the riding population?
I agree. There is already a super fun less-competitive "game" called Wheelset of Fortune that was created in response to the perceived competitiveness of Tag-O-Rama. Quite a few people play both. It also provides a nice prompt for exploring new territory on your bike and showing off nooks and crannies of the city.
Lucia, I agree. That is all.
@TeamDecaf -- +1. Holy Mackerel!! From someone who follows this game from afar, your post above is the best reason I've seen not to try to fix something that ain't really broken.
Play on, guys and gals. It's a lot of fun to watch.
@reddan almost everything you say is too deep...sometimes it's stuff I just can't fathom.
I don't think a new rule is needed...people should remember the rule about no whining.
People who post duplicat tags should be Bruced!
People who post duplicat tags should be Bruced!
Now there's an interesting idea!
just because a tag is in the same location doesn't mean it is the same tag, for what that's worth.
I was just going to lurk on this one, but i have to bite....
We have been on this, the new page for Tag o Rama for ayear now. That's a long time, and there have been those hundreds of tags.
While repeat tags may be an issue for some players, it may be a game evener for others. Not riding much in the east end, i would never have known where to look for ding dong ditch, EXCEPT that I remembered seeing it on this board somewhereat some point.
I play this game mostly vicariously. Duplicate tags several.months or longer apart don't bother me at all. Nor do i think it makes the game more ir less challenging. Ok, you may have seen this tag before. But, how is that really different from me unknowingly setting a tag around tge corner from your home or office? Ok, might make it easier for YOU personally, but not for everyone. And, someone still has to go out and get the tag.
It is my hope that the number of people who play this game increases, or potentially increases with each new tag. For newcomers, a tag from months ago is not a repeat.
Final comment....if a location looks significantly different due to seasonal change, time of day, redevelopment or other readon, is it still a duplicaye tag? Is the tag an image or a location in that case?
Perhaps there's room for sportsPersonShip? Good Will?
If you're a tagNinja and you discern a dupeTag, mightn't you just sit back and allow the noobs to work the opportunity?
Fewer Rools, More Big Spirits? Because this is about fun and inclusion, right?
Rools 2b,4,5,6,7 are all negative and assume the worst.
Remove 2b,4,5,6,7.
Replace with TagO'Rama 2.0, Revised Standard Version (TOR2.0, RSV)
#1 - Find the tag and get a picture of your bike at the the same location. The first person to post a photo of their bike at the found tag is the winner and gets to choose the next tag. Try for interesting locations or artifacts; the intent is to encourage riding.
#2 - Winner takes a photo including their bike at the new location and posts it here. Keep the tag within this geography (LINK). Give clever, effective hints.
#2a - Choose visible tags in safe locations. Let folks know if unusual conditions are involved in getting to your tag.
#2b - New tags should be placed within 36 hours, or let the board know what's up and that you're OK. We worry.
nü3: If you know this tag from a prior post, sit it out and let others play. Kibitz with effective hints if it goes stale.
nü4: Represent Well, Pedal Proudly, Enjoy.
Wag More, Bark Less.
Peace Out.
Oh, man! It's getting too competitive. Is it time to use EPO in order to be at top 3?
@Mikhail
"Take a pic of your bike and your dope at a site around Pittsburgh!"
For some reason, the rules of Tag-o-Rama seem to be fixed by some natural law. We cannot change them no matter how hard we fry.
"WAG MORE, BARK LESS"
Deserves to be retweated!
While I like lurking here and dreaming of participating, I like it a whole lot more when there's less whining and bickering to sift past and more tags to see.
Also, I like the TOR 2.0 RSV positive spin.
delete them all.
start over.
scortched earth this monkeyflipper.
nuke it from orbit. its the only way to be sure.
Double tap.
Steps to Pius St, Josephine and 18th
New tag tomorrow evening. Js5k, watch for it, i'm rooting for you.
Ok, here we go. New tag.
There once was a cyclist named Finn,
Who, while taking his bike out for a spin,
Discovered this trail,
Through a woody dale,
Now Finn won't ride Penn, again.
There once was a man named Enus,
who had a rocket ship for a uh, wiener.
The intersection of Hawthorne Trail, Richard Lane, Kensington St, and Undercliff Rd.
It's Common knowledge:
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
My phone told me this place wasn't tagged yet. If it has been, suck it.
MLK school, Northside, with Major Taylor group.
Awesome!
Riders in the above photo:
Bruce, Janie, Pras, TeamDecaf, Rodger, and Mikhail (yes, Mikhail, who has been lurking here, but hasn't picked up a tag until today). All of the others are Tag-O-Rama newbees too.
You mean, THE Bruce?
Yes, THE Bruce, Pres of Major Taylor Club
sweet pix!
THE Bruce wasn't with me when I photographed this tag, so I hereby set it in his honor. Oddly, he was represented here though.
[edit: new tag, in case you didn't know, ha!]
garages on bruce st, somewhere between bloomfield and lawrenceville
Bruce Street - gotta love it.
@Steven - any chance you know how many actual bruce's have taken place on TOR?
This was the first guy with a screen name including "bruce". If "actual bruce" means getting bruced within the game, I haven't kept track of that. (Kind of funny if spending your whole life being named Bruce isn't sufficient to be an instance of an "actual" bruce; you have to be late posting a photo.
So are we tracking only the self reported Bruces/Brucing? What about those NOT actually admitted to on the board?
Many flavors of bruce, it seems.
be careful with this one, it stretches to the other side where a somewhat famous accident happened
woot! tunnels
nobodys got this yet?? its a favorite place to hear your voice echo on group rides.
also, im very proud of myself for catching a shot when car headlights were shining on my bike
I hate when I know where the tag is and don't have time to get it!!!
And yes, you got a beautiful shot!
Armstrong tunnels
That is Jacob McRea's bike
New tag, in honor of Les Miz:
There is a place I like to ride,
I go there on my way to school,
No cars to break the four foot rule,
Not on my path in _________.
Jon, it's difficult to tell just what that is. Any chance you could get another picture in daylight?
@stu, I'll try tonight if I get home early en4ough or tomorrow morning if it's still open.
Thanks. I'm at work now, and even on my bigger monitor, I still can't see what that is all that well.
Is that white post next to your bike a permanent fixture? And those spiky things off to the right, are they part of the tag? I just can't make visual sense out of what's down that trail in the background. Although, now that I can see it a little better, I think what I'm seeing are three consecutive (and presumably identical) lights.
Yeah, the posts are bollards to block access to motorists. The spiky stuff is some plant. There are lights along this pathway.
New photo, same tag. Lots of folks out riding this morning. As additional clues the last line rhymes with the first, which should give you a clue to the neighborhood, and the school is definitely the kind of place Cossette would have gone after she got out of the convent.
Do you need another clue? Or is it the holiday and the weather that's making things slow?
No clue needed! If no one else gets it this morning, I'm going to pick this up this afternoon.
When the dirty dozen is over, i know a few people are going after it.
Well, the Dirty Dozen folk deserve the tag more than my lazy arse. I'll go after it tomorrow if they change their minds.
You are too kind Joanne. The Dirty Dozen folks have their own glory. Seize the opportunity.
Ah, it's all in good fun!
Here's the tag--Shady Avenue bike path to Chatham campus:
Edited to post a smaller picture.
Yay!
New tag! By way of a clue, I offer an apology: I had hoped to post a tag in a different neighborhood than the previous tag, just to keep things interesting. Late coming home from work + sinus issue = lame tag.
hunt armory. i voted here a few times
I rode past this 30 minutes ago I was so tempted to pick it up.
Yay! I vote there too--it's a neat place. It has an interesting history--until the Civic Arena was built, it was the biggest auditorium in Pittsburgh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_Armory
Edited: @Mr. Marv, are you not playing these days?
mr marv, you shouldve! why didnt you??
i need to remember to check the weather forecast when i get tags... if i didnt have to take another picture, i would have rode the bus this morning to avoid my least favorite precipitation: the coldest possible rain mixed with the warmest possible snow
then to add insult to injury (maybe closer to adding injury to insult), i got passed with a foot of clearance on two-lane panther hollow road (while trying to take the rightmost lane). and the car had a 'clergy' sticker on the back! maybe jesus is watching out for you, buddy, but he sure isnt for me!
anyway, new tag coming soon...
Feel free to take a break, melange -- Tag-o-Rama will still be here in the Spring. As will I.
Funniest sticker I've seen on a car lately -- one of those oval abbreviation stickers like "OBX" but this one said "FK U". Took me a second to get it.
@melange my schedule is so crazy I don't want to pick up a tag and not have time to drop one later, also working full time and going to school makes me want to spend free time with my family not chasing tags. Fear not I shall return to the game when I'm done with school.
ooh! pretty cars! id rather have some artistic vandalism here instead, though :'(
^Yes, I miss that artistic vandalism.
Oh oh, I know that spot. Bummer I'm stuck in Moon.
That blue Ford GT has been there for two years now, i bet i can talk them down in price
Auto palace, Baum Boulevard
damn, and that was on my way home, too.
...aka club graffiti or graffiti showcase
Nice color matching with the car.
Thanks. I didn't know Ford made such fancy cars. When MM said it was a Ford I thought he was joking.
http://youtu.be/2Yd88whKZ28 Popular Ford GT video.
The one at Auto palace, Baum Boulevard is one of the last ones made and mrs marvelous asked me to buy it for her for Christmas.
I've always wondered about that building - the landmark Rock venue Graffiti ws closed down so that Richard Mellon Scaife could store his car collection in that space.
I always thought the building would burn down somehow.
I remember grafitti in that location, but never knew the evolution to auto-palace. Interesting.
And, according to my webcounter, Mick gets post 5000!
those new GTs are sweet but i'd much prefer the original ferrari-killer.
New tag
A neighborhood nursery is just the place,
To get a Christmas tree, Scotch Pine or perhaps Blue Spruce.
To get this tag, however, you must race,
Unless cold weather keeps home Bruce.
The guy who used to own the Auto Palace and the rest of the building was Tony (who ran Graffiti)'s cousin. Scaife bought the dealership and building in the late 90's and so Graffiti got the boot too.
There are few things in Pittsburgh I miss more than Graffiti. Tony was definitely the nicest and most honest and fair club manager in the city and he did a hell of a lot to support the local music scene, including my own bands. And, I saw a lot of great shows there over the years. Every time I ride by there (like I did tonight, twice) I reminisce and it makes me sad...
And to be clear, the Auto Palace was there when Graffiti was there. Graffiti was upstairs. That is supposedly where Scaife's auto collection is.
Todd, were you in a ska band?
I was never in a ska band, some friends of mine had a ska band called the B-3s though. My main band was the barefoot serpents - not sure how to describe it other than "rock". Although I apparently also played graffiti years before in a band called halo effect - amazingly I have no recollection of that but the drummer sent me photographic proof... heh.
The B-3s! With Bill Fulmer and later, Jordan Harrison nee Valentine! Small world.
@ salty I have no recollection of that but the drummer sent me photographic proof...
True rocker.
Swineburn Street, south Oakland, with campV and newbee, molly.
After picking up the Sestili Nursery tag, we headed toward Mt Washington to photograph what we thought would be the new tag. On the way, we passed this place and couldn't resist using it instead. None of us had ever seen it before.
Great day to skip work, ride, play games.
Tag set by me, campV, molly and Janie.
So I just realized that this place has been tagged before, about 30 - 50 feet away, same building.
Should I leave it or post another location? Any thoughts?
We shot another tag location that's pretty cool too. I'd be glad to set a new tag, instead of an old one.
I thought that's where it was. I say leave it - the weather should be nice tomorrow and maybe a noob will get it.
oooh, im a noob, but am working till 4pm, so i'll probly miss the chance.
@ pbeaver - note that the tag says "great day to skip work."
Well, that's helpful, as I'm otherwise clueless. That just narrows the choices down to 608 from 1,000,000.
And even if I do figure it out, and drag my butt out of bed at 5:30 a.m. to ride 12 miles into the city somewhere, it will still be at least 8 a.m. before I can post it (the earliest I can bus back home). So, my chances of getting this are not zero, but not great.
I'm pretty sure I spent a lot of time inside this tag before I temporarily moved back to New York.
'N'at
I picked this one up last December or January.. Pretty sure it was January.
Nobody wants to grab this? Don't wait for Napoleon's first wife to play games with you. It should be pretty easy.
(It won't be me; I'm on the motorbike today.)
nice one, stu.
It is right down the street from me right now. And from a few of us. Seriously I can't believe this hasn't been picked up yet.
Look what you guys made me do
Games n at on Josephine.
Yup, made ya do it.
seriously. i never even thought about trying to get this because i was sure it was gone any minute the whole time. it's amazing it lasted so long.
They removed the "Throw Your Butts Here" ashtray! Hmmmm, must be a daylight-only add-on.
I threw my butt there. And I only did this so that I could drop a tag with a new bike, bringing total bikes used in this game to 7. You're move then, george. Mwuhahah.
its your move now... get to droppin!
like its hot?
yeah. or like a deuce.
Like a deuce. Definitely like a deuce
a deuce... coupe?
I'm just mad that she got that bike before I did. I really really want her new bike.
I believe it is a bit too small for you, marcel. I got the XS.
New tag:
Well this is the best I could do.. Sorry it is dark. I won't have a chance to set a tag while it is light. Anyway, this place used to be very glorious from what I am told, but it is even more glorious now. I always wondered where I could get "I *bicycle* PGH" tshirts and other awesome Pittsburghy clothing and accessories. Now I know. Steevo knows what I am talking about.
1806 Chislett
That is garbella's design studio http://www.etsy.com/shop/garbella. Just the place to pick up a Christmas present for a Pittsburgh cyclist.
New tag
Another place that you may find
A Christmas tree is the School --- ---
Western PA School for Blind Children
NEW TAG (Can't believe nobody's done this one yet.)
Has Tik-Tok stopped tocking?
Is Robbie unwell?
Or perhaps R. Daneel
just tipped over and fell?
If your wife late of Stepford
Or Bishop, or Ash
Has come down homicidal
Or does naught but crash
Then head down to this store
With your Gort, Trurl, or WALL-E
And that First Law malfunction
They soon will make jolly.
Fix your Marvin or Artoo
(Especially your Bender)
And avoid a long talk
with the public defender.
So pop down to this store
With your bot on a cart.
(Oops, ignore, never mind.
It turns out it's just art.)
fraleys robot repair, 6th st
on my newly converted fixie... saw jonawebb roll by as i was posting
Shoulda taken a picture of that, too!
Damn, I shouldn't have stoppped for coffee.
Darn it Melange! (Posted from robot repair)
Cool so many people are out biking. I much prefer the weekends, you can set and get tags in the daylight. BTW, excellent poem and tag, @Steven.
Thanks. I wanted to get it tagged soon because it's officially a temporary exhibit (though it seems to have already outlasted its original end-date). Nobody ever tagged Arch, that great yellow Transformer guy made out of bridges who used to sit at the corner of Ft. Duquesne and Seventh Street, and now he's gone (for possible restoration someday, I think).
new tag:
there once was a man from nantucket
who loved his bike so much...
ah fuck it, im no good at poetry
theres a pretty good clue in the image
CMU Bikeshare.
damn that was fast!
New Tag.
(inspired by the last tag)
it smells like bread and its not round.
Quickest tag pickup. Hmmm coincidence you two know each other haha
excellent tag, paul. great minds think alike... bksq bikeshare station!
daaaaaaang. fast turnover tonight.
ive got thin slicks on that bike... makes it wicked quick
I didn't know we had Bike Share! What is this, Portland?
you need some sort of cmu+google affiliation to use it, and those are the only two stations.
Previous record: 17 minutes 31 seconds, for tag 517 - Birmingham Bridge bike lane
CMU tag: 58 seconds
BkSq tag: 2 minutes 7 seconds
Must be really good slicks!
One thing that would be really cool is if somehow CMU and Google made it safe to ride between Bakery Square and CMU. That would be totally awesome.
The BkSq Bikeshare page I linked to has a map with a route marked out. Seems like a pretty safe route already. The most hazardous part, I'd say, is the short stretch along Forbes, and CMU's already working on that (long term, as it's a state road).
Quick? are we going to have to start drug testing?
No to drug testing!!!!!
Is caffeine allowable?
just as long as pbr doesn't end up on the list.
I was thinking safe by say Bob Firth standards. Safe by the standards of someone used to riding in a small town. Forbes and Morewood definitely aren't.
new tag:
you might notice my bike above the tunnel. trains come out of the other end of this at the busway.
Cool tag
Some one told me something that I'm not sure is correct.
They said the rails used to go through a valley, but then the steel millionaires decided to fill valleys along 5th ave (and under Schenley plaza) with slag. So the railroad was there bfore the tunnel.
Here's what Schenley Plazza use to look like:
NOT A TAG.
Don't have a pic for what the railrway currently under 5th looked like.
Not sure about 5th, but Schenley Plaza was filled with dirt (though not from the Grant's Hill flattening, as it's often told). The bridge in the middle of that photo is still there, under the Schenley Fountain.
Filmore St above the train tunnel
I'm posting this new tag
Hoping someone gets it very soon
With the beech woods nearby
A bike lane to steer by
It should be picked up by noon
Bump, but also, do you need another clue? I'm assuming its the cold weather that's keeping people off their bikes, but just in case.
Sounds like it is on beechwood blvd. I just haven't cared enough to grab it. Though I wish I had it cause I am at the airport.
i went and took pics of this last night, but when i got home and tried to post them, i found that they had been corrupted maybe ill give it another shot
Ahh, the melange photo corruption device works. Excellent!
beechwood at hastings. sorry for the rotated photo, ill try to fix that when i get back to a computer. jon, your corruption device must have run out of batteries
Still rotated the photo.
(i.e.: Melange left the lens cap on)
fixed!
you found your lens cap app?
speaking of beech... new tag:
this location has been taggged before, around the corner. i couldnt pass up this sweet light and bike store-window display. (w/ b.s.)
Looks like you finally woke up from last night, nice.
Thick bikes, 15th st side
Nice shot of the new helmet!
What??????? We were there together about thirty minutes ago and didn't see it. I left and pbeaver went back to get it on his own! Sorta bruced!
@TD, We didn't see it as a group because there were large trucks parked in front of the windows and the lights aren't turned on.
^no worries, I just can't believe I missed it! Jeesch!
yeah, especially since there was 4 of us looking for it and we rode right past it too.
Anywhooo...
NEW TAG!!!!
Go to the boarder to see this tribute.
It's below the educated, and I've never seen any jungle cats down there.
Streetview is two-wheel cool! (but I cant get there tonight)
Tribute to the founding families of Panther Hollow
I have to give credit to my wife for figuring out the clue. Pbeaver's clues are often opaque to me for some reason.
OK, I see what it is, but where is that? I thought I knew the area, but don't recall seeing this.
It's a gazebo on Boundary St, in Panther Hollow. There is the small park near the intersections of Boundary & Joncaire. We've all probably passed it a couple hundred times.
I was kind of surprized that it had not been tagged before.
Oh, there! I usually go past it after dark, so have never really noticed it. Great find! Thanks!
Is that gazebo new? I thought it used to be wood and was wondering where the heck there was plastic fencing in Panther Hollow
I could have sworn either stef or I tagged this park before. The EYEtalian benches and tables are a sight to behold.
if it was tagged begfore, it was not listed on the googlemapped sheet at the beginning of the thread, I like to check before posting to avoid pesky retags.
Oh it was the directional signs I got before.. The little fake-ish ones
(To the tune of "The Beverly Hillbillies")
Someone built some condos, way up on a hill,
Called them a village, people chat about 'em still,
The Garden City movement made them famous don't you see,
And if you go on Danny's ride, then close to them you'll be.
(It's the new tag, friends. Hop on a bike. Pick it up.)
Chatham Village, Bigham St at Virginia Ave, Mount Washington
Awesome, Stu! How did you get there?
[sung to the tune of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"]
Picture yourself in old-timey Pittsburg
When chimneys belched smoke and the town had no H
There was a bank there, its name's in this picture
And so I give you your new tag.
@jonawebb - One incline up, the other incline down. In today's rain, I had difficulty slowing down, even with $10 brake pads, so felt safer that way. I was also racing a clock at work, so really didn't have time to muscle my way up Sycamore.
tmobile store... formerly diamond bank @ 5th & liberty. i wish i had some kaleidoscope eyes to put in the picture
While looking for this I discovered Diamond Bank is now known as PNC.
Diamond Bank
I'm SO glad I have a place to put my diamonds, now.
Interesting. PNC doesn't mention Diamond Bank on their history page, but it makes so much sense now. What's at PNC Park? A diamond.
Diamond National Bank closed (i.e. failed) in November 1932 and the assets were assigned to the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency. Pittsburgh National Bank (now PNC) acquired some of the assets of Diamond. (This is from an old edition of the Moody's Bank and Finance Manual.)
Interesting side note is that Forbes was once known as Diamond street all the way down.
@ohiojeff Interesting side note is that Forbes was once known as Diamond street all the way down.
Great information!
Was "Diamond Ave" through Oakland and all the way out to Regent Square, too? Or just downtown?
Duh! Double post.
I wonder if this is its vestige?
Also, Diamond Market Bar and Grill at Market Square.
@Mick Just downtown. If you have some time and your library card is handy go the Carnegie Library's
site:
http://www.carnegielibrary.org/research/databases/#history
and poke around the Sanborn Fire Insurance maps. It takes a bit of tweaking to get the display right but the 1905-06 shows Diamond all the way. (Sheets 25 and 69 give you the close ups). By 1924 it is Forbes.
Edited to add that when you go to the link above you may need to click Pittsburgh. Use the remote access link (CLP cards).
this creature had a santa hat on his head until a few days ago. i planned on using that for a topical tag, but when i got there, the hats were gone i couldnt think of something better, so here you go anyway:
the mountain lion and his siblings guard this 'empty' bridge
I miss the seat angle commentary... so... What's up with your chainstay angle!?
Panther Hollow Bridge.
Oakland.
In the rain on the +1
i dont know what youre talking about, that chainstay is TOTALLY level*
pbeaves, i dig the purple!
(*) when im riding up the right hill
yeah, that was my klein freebie. a co-worker was moving to philly & didnt want to pack & move the bike.
96 Adroit. its 6 years older than my fisher. i think my next bike will be a original equipped pennyfarthing.
hmmm, debating if i want to post the new tag i shot a hour ago, or wait a couple more hours and get one with real snow...
Sweet, PB, do not shame on either old or free. I have 53 year old bones inside this old carcass and they still work better than a lot of the newer shit that's out there.
(meh, the next one will have real snow.)
NEW TAG!!!
Three Bikes, One Call, Go read a book.
Like my old pappy used to say "Look out for all them cars, son,"
@Edmonds, i wasn't intending to shame the old nor the free.
I finally got my +1, so the intended comedic element was that i was poking fun of my own bikes as they are old. And as many of my friends tell me, so am i.
(but many of those "friends" are some upstart whippersnappers who need to get the hell off my damn lawn.)
dang, 17 hours?
Southside library, Carson Street
Once again, credit to my wife Julie for interpreting pbeaver's clue. She is strangely simpatico with him.
(to the tune of that song from the Peanuts Christmas special):
Your new tag is here!
Get your bike in gear!
Some soccer guys, they built a rink,
So folks could skate this year...
Riverhounds stadiumthingy, converted to icehockey deelio.
Station sq, pgh, pa, USA, earf
Wow, I was just getting my helmet. Good thing I checked first.
It's hard to play this game with people with portable Internetz.
Fast pickup on a cold day!
i had to go out for groceries anyways.
double bird, single stone.
New Tag.
Hercules, Hercules, Hercules, Hercules.
Man, traffic is jacked up on the nerfside.
Discobius, Four Allegheny Center
Edit: "Discobulus". I don't get the clue at all, BTW.
Four roads met in a park, and all changed their names,
Christmas is great for Tag-o-Rama games!
So unwrap your presents, your new bike you'll ride,
But be sure to dress warm, it's chilly outside!
Bah humbug.
Bartlett Playground, intx Panther Hollow (Allies), Bartlett, Hobart, Greenfield, Schenley Park.
PS, it's not that cold, but it is raining. Go figure.
Nice pickup, beat me by 10 min. Lousy stuck in traffic bus delaying my arrival home.
#shakes_fist
Excuses excuses.
well I did get 3 tags in the last week, so i'll take a day off, and let some others enjoy they joy of the game.
I'm glad the game is moving so quickly. Merry Christmas!
new tag.
One of the largest (by geography) precincts in the city is composed almost entirely of dead people. No idea if they vote, but apparently they do get mail.
^Love the "reading is sexy" sticker!
hmm, this may be the first one to expire in a few months. especially given the recent weather.
(bah, why did i make that wrong turn yesterday... #shakesfist)
Second try
St Mary's, Catholic cemetery, just inside the gate at 45th.
It's GhostMail
If there is such a thing
As a Franco Harris Immaculate Reception 40th Anniversary New Year's Eve gag,
I am sure you will find it
At this new tag.
I'm glad I dropped the last tag so I don't have to go out this morning. Because I totally would.
Mike Feinberg, Penn Ave.
I'm not sure this can be a legit tag because I only rode 4.5 miles to get here. I started at the parking lot at the end of the jail trail. The trail is covered in frozen slush and snow. I walked for some portions and it took nearly 45 minutes to get here.
More details when I get back home, plus some shots of the trail..
Go Steelers - ha, it's about kick off time.
^Two views of the Jail trial on my way to the tag. Plus an inset of the TShirt at Mike Feinbergs... "Meet Dick. Dick is a Ravens fan. Don't be a Dick."
^Hot Metal Bridge and the Jail Trail when I returned. Looks like it was plowed part-way, but still icy and rough, frozen slush. I had opted to stay mostly on the street during my return trip so I didn't see what the trail looked like from the Hot Metal Bridge back to town.
I'm a total newbee at riding in the snow. I had no idea what to expect about stability, steering or conditions on the trail. I thought it would be a cool idea to try it out before the Icycle Bicycle Ride.
The trails are practically useless - very slow going - some parts are totally impassable without getting off and pushing the bike, the slightest uphill grade causing the rear wheel to lose traction, even at the slowest speeds. My round trip of 11.26 miles took an hour and 24 minutes (as per my bike computer), only 8.1 mph average speed and max speed of just 15.1 mph. Not a lot of get-up-and-go.
Anyhow, if anyone wants to deny the tag pick-up, I'm okay with that, I'm feelin' guilty about driving down to the jail trail parking lot and the short distance I traveled. If there are no objections within the next 36 hours, I'll post the next tag. I shot a few places after I left Feinbergs.
I rode the HMB yesterday and I know how hard it is to cross. Pushing through the snow and braving the cold and you still rode a few miles before the pick up. I say it counts I don't think you need to ride from your door every time to play.
Thanks for the photos. I will avoid the trails/my usual commute route tomorrow because I don't want to take my cross country bike nor my fixie. I think this tag pickup counts. I don't see why not. It's not like you drove your bike to the tag. Riding those trails must have sucked. Definitely counts.
Also I wonder if this thread is gonna break when it gets to 100 pages?
The tag pickup works for me. I think I heard a long time ago that the city premised to always clear the trails after snow. Not happening.
Huh, I guess not breaking!
I am also eagerly awaiting the 100 page mark. Curious to see what happens. Or will we be on page 99 in perpetuity.
As for the tag, of course it counts. No one said it had to be a LONG ride in order for a tag pick up to count. I think we've had tags being picked up after rides of just a few blocks in the past.
Besides, length and intensity are different measured of the ride. It sounds like TD had a very intense ride to pick up the tag. That's as good as a long ride, in my book.
Tag counts. Now get a new one out there already!
I think the City said that trails would be cleared after primary and secondary roads were cleared. That would be now. I'll send in a 311 request for HMB and Eliza Furnace tomorrow. Others probably should as well.
Looks like enough players are okay with a new tag... thanks!
This new tag is easy. I've tagged the same spot for another game on the message board.
[ Edit - I'm psyched to have a tag on the top of page 100! ]
Near stage AE and Heinz field. Brrr
Those pics of the Jail Trail look really awesome, and they make me want to get my project wheel with (front drum brake) built already so my cruiser can stop in the snow.
Also, I'm glad to see that the current Iron Taint holder is enjoying her ToR "retirement."
I have used 2 more bikes than george in this game now
Slacker
Make it easy so I can grab my first tag without much effort Stef.
new tag:
granted, putting my drivetrain in the snow isn't going to clean the road grit off, but i tried. i am not sure if the owner is male or female. the toucan may know the answer, though.
New Player has entered the game!!!
nice job.
Andrew S, welcome, and you also have to post the address or identifiable location.
Sorry guys...new to the uploading thing.
Kelly O's. 100 24th St. in the Strip.
New tag soon.
^Nice!!
New tag.
From high atop the hills (okay...maybe not that high), one man conducts a bike symphony.
i may need to put laundry on hold so i can use the quarters to buy a clue for this one. i have no idea.
Somewhere on the North Side. 3D building view in google earth helps narrow things down.
BTW, I have figured this out, so it is possible. I'll pick it up when I have time, unless someone else gets their first.
Carrington and Charlick
Google StreetView is a useful tool,
For finding tags, and as a general rule
The folks there don't know the truck is coming
You'll see them standing, walking, or maybe running
But the guys at the new tag got ready
With a marching band, a crowd, and tons of confetti
FYI...my previous tag was the entrance to the shop at Maestro Frameworks, local frame builder.
Ah that makes sense. I had no idea, was looking for some reference to "symphony". Did you know there's a Brahms street up there?
No idea that there is a Brahms Street. I guess I was going for the whole maestro/conductor thing. I'll try and give a better clue next time.
No problem. I've found it quite difficult to give clues that are not too hard. So I make them easier than I think I need to, mostly.
The street view clue is a good one -- I just doubt I can make it over there today.
This is right behind my place of employment I believe. Pbeaver, aren't you working today?
yeah. i guess i'll go grab it.
Tag got.
Doug's market, arch & sampsonia, norfside.
I love the fact that your bike has a spoke card in it. It doesn't seem to be the typical kind of bike taken on alleycats.
<= not your typical rider / not your typical bike
don't worry Stef, someday you can be as cool as i am.
new tag....
Take Aim!
Hmm, looks like I might have a little detour on my trip in this morning. Minor problem, though: There are three different locations fitting this description within five miles of me. Two of them are fairly easy to get to. I don't think any of them are inside the box, and I'm trying to think of one that is.
edit: oh yeah, one definitely is inside the box.
the new one.
OK, so this could be a problem. Let's say I hopped on the bike in the next half hour and picked up a tag identical to the one dropped, but 10 miles away. Does that count? How would anyone know which one this is?
True honor would prevent deception.
Those without honor would attempt a fake.
And if its not the right place, I'd be calling someone out.
So I've disqualified myself from picking up this tag, but my question still stands. There are actually two locations within the box, and AFAIK they all would look exactly like this.
But the "bigger picture" would be different. So unless there was collusion or a conspiracy to commit a fraudulent tag, the incorrect location should be disqualified.
is this it??
tarzhey, east liberty
i didnt see the textured flooring/ramp/whatever, and i didnt have enough time or warmth to search more
the pic i posted was from inside the parking garage, but yes, that is the correct location.
w00t!
also, ^ new folding bike! i need to change my answer on the bike-pgh.org front page poll. and now im catching up to stef for number of bikes used in tagorama MUAHAHAHA
(if anyone has christmas money burning a hole in their pocket, ive still got a ute for sale)
Curse you and your beguiling ute.
I still have one up on you, and I have like 7 other bikes I can use. Muhahahah
Awwwww SNAP!!
new tag:
this one should be easy since the address is right there in the photo. its a little bit outside the box, though.
May be a little out of the box even for me!
Untagged Neighborhood?
yes, i don't believe Manhattan has been tagged before. ;P
Yeah, just figured that out. So, is this a file photo, or can you just pedal really fast?
I think the photo explains his recent absence.
you are all correct! ok, jokes over, REAL new tag:
people dont usually string lights on these type of trees for christmas, but they do here...
boo, i know exactly where this is, but am stuck working remotely for the next couple hours.
i like how you waited until after the morning commute to post this one.
The new guy is speedy!
Wait, you chased down a stolen car on a bike? Awesome...
Apple Store, Walnut St.
Interesting story...found my sister's stolen car on the way to get this tag. A brief bike/car/police chase ensued.
New tag soon.
Attempted haha. My legs aren't that strong. They blew me away when they realized I was following. Police are on the lookout again...not sure what happened yet.
At least the car is still in one piece.
@cburch yeah, im a dick
I knew I shoulda been a dick and Bruced you last night.
you shoulda ridden to ny, that woulda been totally baller
I had to work.
In rememberence of our regional past,
Tributes to the industrious line the shore.
Tagged with da Beav.
Wait, so then since I'm in the new tag, I can't pick this one up?
Booo.
4 hours later and nobody has a clue?
#sadday
Iron workers monument south side next to hot metal bridge.
New tag:
Hehe look for some dix.
Larimer Ave & Auburn St. New parklet near Dix Way.
What's up with the super-fast tag pickups?
retirement tag.
the location of this long standing dive establishment is rather simple.
it's not your father's bar, but it is of a relation.
I've always wanted to tag that place. It was on my list if I ever had time to play again. Nice fast pickup PBeaver
Uncle Jimmy's, 418 Sempre
Found the old-fashioned way.
street view?
Read the thread, asked my wife.
the real question is: was paul still there?
I didn't see a bike outside.
no, i rolled up, snapped the pic & rolled home. No PBR's were harmed in the generation of this tag.
damn, on a saturday night? you must have had to be at work bright and early today. at least it was a nice ride in right?
it would have been, except to avoid being drenched on the way home this afternoon i rode the bus, which ofcourse means it will start raining about 15 after i take another bus home.
New tag
Way down somewhere in Pittsburgh PA,
Not so far away,
Lies the grave of this composer,
Under this stone of gray.
I believe, NPR/WESA has an episode about this composer recently.
http://wesa.fm/2013/01/10/stephen-fosters-life-remembered-lawrenceville
I think we've been through this once before but taking your bike off the path and leaning it against someone's grave is not cool.
http://bike-pgh.org/blog/2010/06/24/allegheny-cemetery-in-lawrenceville-now-allowing-bicycles/
Just for what it's worth, I think the cemetery frowns on taking photos in there. By way of background, the cemetery used to have a ton of fallen trees, which were taken to a certain area with a backhoe. The cemetery would let people cut them up for firewood, provided that you signed a waiver and release. The waiver and release had all the typical language and clauses, but it also required that you refrain from taking photos. Again, just for what it's worth.
Ah I kind feel bad now. I once took a photo of that shark headstone.
Me too--I took a photo of eleventy billion geese there just today.
Goose poop riot (sang to the tune of "zoot suit riot" by the cherry poppin daddies).
Hahaha!
ewwwww
No offense, salty, but the article you linked to doesn't say anything about taking photos of your bike etc. And they do tours through there. I have a feeling they've gotten used to people taking photos, and maybe even photos of bikes.
I'm not offended - I can just envision someone from Allegheny Cemetery getting a phone call about people "playing a game that involves taking pictures of bikes leaning against gravestones" and re-instating the ban, which would be sad. FWIW, "Don't ride on the grass" is a rule so presumably they don't want bikes there...
But, just MHO... my only role in this game lately is to violate rule 7.
Leaning a bike on a gravestone is wrong.... SMH
I want to be buried under a bike rack. As a person, I don't want to take up extra space for no reason when I'm gone and as a corpse I won't give a shit.
One can do whatever they want for their own grave or passing depending on their believe system. However, since one doesn't know what other people's preferences or believes are, I don't think is proper to go , for example, leaning bikes on someone else's grave.
I promise not to do it again. It never would have occurred to me that it would offend anyone, honestly.
Edit: except maybe for a real ass like Frick. But I already tagged him.
@Lucia I'd worry more about offending the survivors and/or descendants than the dead, but yes I agree on principal.
@Jacob McCrea "Just for what it's worth, I think the cemetery frowns on taking photos in there."
I wasn't able to track down the official policy. I'd honestly like to know what the deal is, but I doubt that it's outright frowned upon. After all, it is "one of the most picturesque places in Pittsburgh".
I won't walk over a grave knowingly out of respect. Headstones are set a bit away from the body, so maybe it's a grey area or something. The stone is not the body of the individual, but it is a memorial. I get that. It's the grey areas that confuse me.
I tagged Lester C. Madden's awesome Jaws headstone (tag #168) about 2 years ago and there was no discussion about inappropriateness from what I remember.
On the other hand, if folks were acting like they were visiting GG Allin's grave, I'd be concerned.
We kind of have a biased opinion given that nobody here really gives a shit about graves in general, except for their novelty factorartistry
I don't think if you called the cemetery and said "Hey, do you mind if we lean bikes against headstones?" they'd be like "Oh yeah, sure, no problem."
I think the main thing is that some of them are old/fragile
@Pierce: "nobody here really gives a shit about graves".
Oh my.
BTW when I said I wouldn't do "it" again I meant leaning my bike against a gravestone. Pittsburgh's graveyards are remarkable places of beauty, and by tagging them we're helping remember the people buried there, which is why their loved ones built their monuments.
Allegheny Cemetery, Stephen Foster Grave, Section 21 on cemetery
Cool!
Someone added the wreath on the left since yesterday, BTW.
I think that gravestone markers are as much of a novelty as being a vegan is..... but to each its own
EDIT: In fact, gravestones, funeral markers, cemeteries: they have a long and rich history that goes back to thousands of years. I won't bother with this topic in here, but to each its own, like I said
@Joanawebb -yes, they new wreath looked new, and seemed to have been shipped from somewhere/not really local.
NEW TAG coming soon!
@ quizbot: I really don't know if there's an official policy about taking photos. If there is, the cemetery doesn't seem to publicize it. What I do know is that I saw with my own eyes, and twice signed with my own hand, a legal document agreeing to not take photos as a condition of being allowed on the property for a certain purpose. The ban on photos seemed like an odd clause to include in an agreement with someone who is not there to take in the beauty of the place.
In any case, maybe it would be worth it, out of respect for the dead, the landowner, or both, to give them a call and see. The number I have is 412-682-1624 if anyone wants to pick up the phone. I agree with Jon's comments about remembering those buried there and the beauty. I am not trying to be the "fun police;" it just seems like a situation where we should see what the landowner's views are.
@Jacob -thanks for the interest in this. I volunteer to find out. Personally I've taken lots of photos at the Cemetery on my rides --all for personal, non-commercial purposes-- but curious to know now what the deal is.
@quizbot:
When I say your post above of "@Pierce: "nobody here really gives a shit about graves".
Oh my."
When I read "Oh my" this is what I though :
Maybe the release was meant to discourage photographing funerals? No need to give paparazzi a valid reason to be there.
The "Zoom the Tombs" ride gave me the impression that some people here do care - a lot - about graves. I don't think I'm mistaken about that.
I see people taking photos of gravestones, especially in Allegheny Cemetery, often. I don't think there is a no photo policy as much as there is a "treat the remains with respect" policy and a "make no commercial use of said photos" policy.
Personally, I've gone to several small out of the way cemeteries (not locally) and photographed all or many of the gravestones and then posted them to genealogy website. People looking up their family histories often really appreciate the little details that a gravestone can carry. And, when you find a "surprise" like a jaws headstone, or the Emil Winter crypt in your family line, it makes your forebears MUCH more interesting, all of a sudden.
Board is being slow today. Edited to remove double post.
NEW TAG!!!
This one is easy!!
Watch out cars -the Space Invaders are coming!!!!
@bikeygirl where is Thor?
"Thor" is currently in winter-mode hanging on the wall in my kitchen, aka I only use Thor during the summer with its skinny tires and vintage gearing not very suitable for snow, rain, or winter riding
"Bucky" my hybrid bike is so far my most reliable and favorite all-around bike for urban riding & hill climbing
I need more bikes, so I can also hang them up till summer. Thor is an awesome bike.
Thanks Mr Marvelous! Although, while I have 5 bikes, they don't amount to one "good" bike.
In general terms my bikes are not sweet-ultra-awesome-modern bikes, however, they are awesome for me and I love them!!!
"Bikey" my beat-up old rusted first bike that introduced me to bike riding in the city. Currently only used for snowy-winter days.
"Bucky" the hybrid, my good-all around bike for either trails or paved road and an excellent for hill climbing with its awesome gears
"Thor", the 1970 vintage road bike that is cool sweet ride for city-summer chill riding preferably with not many hills since it only has a couple of tension gears
"Lucky", a new MTB with disk brakes & women's geometry who I'm still " breaking in" since I had to take a reprieve from MTB last year
And last-but-not-least, "Proclaimer", my tiny touring-bike which did fantastic in my solo Pgh-to-DC GAP/CPath touring ride last summer
Sorry for posting this here! I just love me-bikes!
This year I hope to get a good, modern road bike
Awesome list of bikes
::crickets::
Chirp, chirp!
Everything takes longer in the cold.
i'm pretty sure some things are shorter in the cold...
space invader bike parking @ 3rd ave garage:
Yeah!!!!!! Go Georgie!!!!
Confession: I designed that bike-parking and put it together with Erok and Scott -grand opening in March!!!
Whoa, I never heard of that. Cool.
since the weather is so crummy today, ill make this one easy for you (and me;)
new tag:
the team that plays here beat notre dame! ...once. ...in 1926.
Had some good games of pickup soccer there too
I have spent many on hour circling that red part over the past 17 years. Picked some dandelion flowers there last week to feed to my lizards.
and i played football for a few years here:
gesling stadium, cmu. also: according to this site, cmu has beaten notre dame four times. i believe two of those years, notre dame was otherwise undefeated, but it's been a while since i've seen the pictures in the locker room tunnel.
I went to CMU for 5-6 years and I never saw a single game ever.
I did use the track to run, though...
this article talks about the 1926 victory, but makes no mention of the others. i had only heard about the one, but im glad to know there are others... tartan pride!
i was kinda hoping someone would climb to the top of the parking garage like i did, but your picture might not have come out so well.
cmu has a football team?
i thought about going to the top of the garage, but yeah, you wouldn't have been able to see everything; all the lights were off.
new tag!
the wrong bigelow might have you caught in 50 mph traffic (signed 35), but from this one, you can get a great view of the sunset.
Yes CMU probably has the smartest team in the state. I think they are going on 33 years straight without a losing season.
@helen s - when i played my last season there (fall 2000), i believe it was at 26 or 27 straight winning seasons. i think they had a .500 season the next year. so i imagine it's closer to 40 by now (38 or 39).
also, @pbeaver - never heard that one before!
umm, i was asking a serious question.
didn't know they had one.
For those of us who listen to Saturday Light Brigade on WRCT, and then stick around for Jay Thurber's Radio 9 show, we are accustomed to being pre-empted by Tartan Football.
Too bad it was too dark both times I was out today.
Hey, we're back!
I went out to look for this twice now, and couldn't find it. I'm flipping monkeys and would like another clue, please.
Bigelow Street, overlooking the 2nd Ave & Greenfield area. I couldn't find the exact spot where the tag was set, but this should be within a couple blocks.
testing random image:
the pics are geo-tagged, and they show the trail location accessible where waldeck and sylvan meet. 
the corner at forward & beechwood ...well, one of them at least. 
free fill-ups at this station 
skunk hollow, sasafras street, I think. With campV. 
I've been wanting to use this location since it opened last summer. It's connected (loosely) to a circle of like-type locations in the city.
Named after the city where the Wizard lives, combined with the name of a woman's piece of jewelry.
campV and I climbed to shoot this image - the snowman was a last-minute add-on 
And another clue, mine is in an especially GREEN place, go west.
And here's a smaller shot of my original tag for those not viewing on mobile.
(From my laptop, my original tag shot is gigantic and only shows a small portion of the image).
I made the images 300px wide so they show entirely on both the laptop and my mobile.
Hope that helps others view the edits above. 
If it is this tag you seek,
Then find the Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. 
Friday road, millvalle
With campV
Whoops, sorry about that - no image on the previous post.
Also, it's on Friday Road in Shaler Township, not Millvale.
Tttttttt ttto cccold to type 
I couldn't help but to post 2 pictures of these houses - they're just too unique to be confined to a single image. They're also somewhat difficult to find, so the extra image probably won't really help you locate this place.
I'm trying to think of a good clue, but I'm stuck. I decided that while I'm thinking about clues, I would post the images in case anyone wants to go here or knows where this is without a clue.
I'll come up with a clue soon. In the meantime, check out the anteater in the top photo - hahaa, love it!
Tagged with campV 
There is a number that I know,
It tells me when my laminar flow,
Becomes more or less chaotic.
If you know the word for this,
It will help you find this tag,
Your search won't be too quixotic. 
Reynolds & Lang, in Point Breeze 
Also, the mosaic faces east, so unless I were looking behind me for some reason, I probably would've missed it. 
Looking for a tag?
three-squared is the distance
look toward Mecca
and let the heavens be your guide 
*are you elite? check marker EAS 
Somewhere high above Nine Mile Run.
I'm uploading the image for campV as she doesn't know how to add images. I was not at the tag - this is campV's first solo tag. 
I'm guessing this is the result of a project to build a sitting area out of "cob". 
Although it isn't pictured, from this vantage point you can see the people in their Homesteads, warmed by their hearths and hearts. You can enjoy the brisk cold of one of the final official winter eves. And you can see some bitches get freaky in the mud.
You gotta love Henry's backyard. 
Frick park dog leash area#2. With campV, bitches!
The street name is the same as the Victorian era poet. Its in a historic neighborhood too.
It has nothing to do with an elephant.
It's visible on street view, but looks like the statue fell forward since then. 
Couple of ways to reach a spot
Sitting on a hill top
One of the ways is not part of a dozen
But it is part of the Dozen bikeygirl wrote: PS: I went up McCardle Rd, which I had never climbed before -first time! So I’m very happy about this :)Yaay! Congrats!
holy spirit byzantine catholic church at 5th & clyde in north oakland 
lookin a little extra green today... well, it was before it started snowing again :( 
New tag tomorrow. 
Near the stairs at the top of Welsh Way, off of Brosville.
I kind of knew where this was from Jonah's hints but it took Stu's clue to pin it down. Probably would have been a lot easier to get this from the top instead of the bottom. 
If you could skip a silver dollar over here, you would find neither Hijinx nor Hogans, but you would find:
Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum. Spoof about a Valley Girl who finds extraterrestrials in her pool. 1988, 100 minutes. 
With Team Decaf 
Marko82 wrote:Welcome to the South HILLS! If you return, I prefer to go Whited to Jacob to Brookline Blvd. It’s only slightly better mainly due to better sight lines, but it’s still a climb.I believe ajbooth uses liberty all the way up. It's wide on the way to climb. And you are going trade grade for distance.
Mr. Destructicity wrote:Mr. DestructicityDid I see you today around 9:30am going down to liberty tube and making left the tube? Bike with front suspension and two bags.
Not for B&O, Pennsylvania or Reading, the place behind this mural is all about Lionel, Williams by Bachmann, and Crosley.
[ Edit: Set with campV ] 
Former entrance to The Train Gallery on Glenmore in Dormont. (The store's still in the same building but the entrance is now on the West Liberty side.) 
Launching point for beer barges, home of t-shirt shows. But leave your bricks at home, please.
So easy it barely needs a clue... this is the place that no one rides, yet.
And note that hot orange Felt - campV's new ride.
Set with campV and campB 
staying on the art-themed tag…
This location is part art, part cafe. If you visit, you must check out the floor, made of 3,000 glued-down pennies. Next door is a bike location that was tagged, many, many moons ago.
tagged with campV 
klayvon's, on penn ave at 28th in the strip. 
so, we have seen a tag of the gap in the gap. but this one is kind of like the gap in the gap in the gap between the gaps on the gap. depending on your definition of gap, i guess. 
Southside submerged railroad path thingy between ss trail & rei 
Bike Pgh's new home! 43rd, Larryville. .jpg)
When I got there, a half dozen guys were getting ready to do some sort of work on the building. I thought I aimed away from getting any in the shot, but apparently managed to pick up the one. This was around 6. 
You may have to barge in on this tag to find the balance between what works and totally new construction. 
There were so many families there it was dangerous.
The new macaron store across the street from the Squirrel Hill Biketek.
Clue: There's another one with a park instead of an avenue in the middle. 
Highland ave, where the bridge is out near Centre 
second pic, no flash (they both look crappy) 
**Disclaimer**
This tag is slightly out of bounds. It's been a while since we've had a good controversy in the game, so this is my attempt to stir it up.
**End Disclaimer**
You don't have to wait until the next Summer Olympics to get a taste of Rio. Go through the hills, to this delicious forest of meat. 
Also, as a bonus here's some delicious meat:
I think I found the tag! 
Wait, I really did find the tag!
Tunnel under the road in Highland Park by the reservoir.
Note: The plant growing out of the brick to the right has since bloomed. 
Pittsburgh is obviously not only a city of bridges.
This tag is for all the office-dwellers who will celebrate Car Free Fridays tomorrow as well as for our ice legionnaires. Take a break from the cube, get some fresh air, maybe stick around tomorrow afternoon and watch Mario's TV. 
plaque in the garden at the childrens institute, with newbs karim and vlad who have matching bikes 
you might want to Run a bunch of Miles to get to these abandoned tracks 
Frick park entrance at Nine Mile Run
guess I have to play the game again now 
this street might not be your source for cocaine, but it will sure get you high
i found it! i thought the clue was more than sufficient. now i just need to get there... Ditto. No time after work today, though. Wish I could take a mulligan (or something similar) to get to this tag.
columbia ave at juniata st in swissvale w/ @ddeeff & @grigorescu (aka vlad) StuInMcCandless wrote:Could someone please explain the clue?columbia ~ colombia
dr lecter wuz here
movie screenshot as proof:
dr lecter wuz here movie screenshot as proof:Clue construction makes it too ez.
buffalo buffalo wrote:Curses. Knew I should’ve left work an hour ago. (I’m about a quarter-mile away….)buffalo buffalo? moar liek buffalo bill amirite?
With campV, campB, LindaP and Wuhoo 
Tunnel under the railroad tracks, off the Hazelwood Trail, about 1/10th of a mile east of the lunar lander that was tagged last year. 
What do you mean you need a clue? How many giant fiberglass fireplaces are there in Pittsburgh?
Oh well.
If you can get one over our 1st president you're practically home free. 
For this location, ask James. 
james gallery, main st, west end w/ ddeeff & grigorescu 
is this an antenna or a tuning fork or something?? @jonawebb, if you drive to this one, theyll charge you a few dollars 
jenninfer beals was in FLASHdance, set and partially filmed in pgh (including parts in and around cmu). JESSICA biel was not. beals, biel, beeler, whatever. i knew id seen that mailbox around somewhere before! 
to get here, travel along the carriageway of the weasleys 
Lots of folks down here. You know what #traf spells backwards? 
Father's Day tag with my son Peter.
Is it Christmas, the Fourth of July, or Halloween? No, it's Easter.
Set with campV. 
oh, the Drama, the Drama! 
Nice day for batman brawl
BJ knows where this lady can be found. 
some saintly woman at big jims in the run, w/ @ddeeff 
this is pretty close to another tag, but i think its something new... it catches my eye whenever i go past it and it didnt before. something about these hemispheres makes me think of the name of the road where they can be found. OR UM, you know, whatever. 
ps: if you ride through here often, please 311 with me to get them to finish paving where they tore up the street a month ago! 
quite a nice view of the city, which i'm sure will help. but i don't think it's all that impossible to begin with. not my favorite position, but a nice one anyway. 
With Take Cohen 
USS BRADDOCK, Edgar Thompson, Braddock Ave
With campV and LindaP
A Pittsburgh Stat:
If you climb all of the little squares depicted in the steel sculpture and on my blue graphics, you would reach a height of 24,108 feet. 
lunasea: sarah & 15th 
im surprised this mural hasnt been tagged yet. its on the side of a building that is related to persons who served in the millitary. its also in the same neighborhood as the last one
w/ @ddeeff & @karimbenbourenane 
Found it!
(2400 E Carson) 
Roberto is stationed here majestically. 
Gateway Clipper boarding ramp, Station Square drive. Marko82 wrote:Congrats on your first tag RR!Thanks! (and thanks for the softball, melange!) I had much fun. I ride past everything now and gauge the tagability of it!
In ancient times...
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history...
There lived a strange race of people...
The Druids.
No one knows who they were...
Or what they were doing...
But their legacy remains...
What are you waiting for? Get up and Go find this one! Sarah may have buried a clue underneath an old Crossroads. Funny, she doesn't look Druish.
Mr. Destructicity wrote:Funny, she doesn’t look Druish.Maybe, but the "true-neutral" thing isn't very fun. Besides, they'd still lose to Lord Helmet. LoneStar!!!
(new bike too!) 
This defunct watering hole was named for a long-closed amusement park. 
this train station is no longer a train station. dont all Race to get here! 
I'mma feed the world you can put it on my tag
Run until my legs go numb, don't plan on looking back
Anything you need you can find it at the market
Also noticed that tag #692 is a duplicate of tag #245.
For newbies, the tag map is a good resource for scoping out fresh material.
Frick Park Market
Clue: Maybe this pair look more noble in daylight. Note: Not the Texas end.
I think the consensus last time was that new locations were preferred, but it wasn't against the rules to reuse one. The reference in the rules to "new location" could be interpreted as simply "move the tag someplace else". (On the other hand, when the same player posts repeats in two successive tags, it may be appropriate to waive rule 6 for a bit of grousing.) 
kinsman @ wilkins w/ ddeeff & karimbenbourenane 
vlad joined us too 
end of Marchand St., behind the former Reizenstein 
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Another scarecrow... this Pirates fan grabs his crotch and your attention as you ride by. Finding this will be a bit tough if you don't know where he dwells.
For today, anyone who knows where the scarecrow is, can probably pick this up easily. For those who don't know where he is... here's a meager clue... he has a great view of the city.
I'll add another clue tomorrow if this doesn't get picked up quickly.
Set by me, campV, campB, Wuhoo and a newbie setter, who joined us after we picked up the Animal Rescue League tag : JLaClaire
Clue, that^ 
Clue, that too^ 
Clue, across the street StuInMcCandless wrote:Too flippin’ hot to make a trip out at mid-day today.Ain't that the truth... unfortunately, I realized that the hard way. :(
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The full-face scarecrow is just down the hill from this, near the top of Henderson. .jpg)
jonawebb wrote:Hey, @stu, I’m planning a trip to the Carnegie Library’s Pennsylvania room today after work to see if they have records of business locations say around 1980. If they do I’ll try to cross-reference those with rental spots on the CBRE web site. Or, if you want to make things a lot easier, you could post a new clue.LOL! I have an inkling where it is, but I've been too busy (*cough* obsessing *cough*) geocaching along the Ohio this week to get over there.
That is Paul Heckbert 
If hot coffee on a humid day is not your idea of an Escape, enjoy some leisure time at this polygonal green space of worship.
Today is not opposite day. 
melange396 wrote:trenton square dumsters, near green st & virgil way, w/ vladSomeone's thrown away perfectly good bikes in those dumsters!
i work in this building with a number of other tag players (randy, ddeeff, karimbenbourenane, vlad) 
Cyert Hall with TD
After OTB ride 
Famous Cartoon Character, with campV
Jeez, we got rained on for over an hour, yoi. A lesson in htfu, htfu.
And a hearty FU, to you Joan. 
steeld knew this was marmaduke park with the dek hockey clue. he let me and vlad tag along TeamDecaf wrote:Stop whining, start woofing.How many dek hockey parks are around, and the slip of Dane oops! I thought we were to make it tricky, make you think an ask for clues to slowly piece it together? We'll just attach a google map w/directions.
melange396 wrote:Congrats melange and group!
NEW TAG
Keeping with the Animal theme,you might need one to go here. if not well you might wear out welcome with random precision then you have to
Ride on the steel breeze to set the next tag. 
One wheel, left behind
(The bike was easy pickings), from
Two corrals for all the bikes,
Replacing dozens of parking meters,
For ten restaurants and two banks,
And student traffic in the hundreds.
Racks outside Razzy Fresh, S Craig St. Finally got my first tag! 
Even though I got tired, I denied my sleepiness three times tonight and was able to keep going. If you get this clue, you rock! 
St Peters Cemetery 
Some say my owner fled,
Some say he wound up dead,
But if I could talk I would state,
A stranger tale than any in your head.
But I'm gone now and can't relate,
The events that led me to this fate. 
Dang, I was sure I was going to be Bruced! 
I think you could fit 28 swifts in this swift tower. 
Millvale/ 28 with campb, campV and jlaclaire 
New Tag
This lucky king can see two oceans. 
:D :D
And YEAH!!!
I'm back on the game & back on my bike after 7 weeks in ankle-injury time!!! :D
While this general area has been tagged before, this route is seldom traveled. Just follow the red, white & blue if you wanna jog your memory...
((Tag posted & selected with the help of Edmonds59 on the awesome green bike!!!)) 
Soldiers Memorial Allegheny Cemetery
TD /campV
art, just art.
set with campV 
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A yarn-bombed bike in front of a yarn-bombed bridge!
The Warhol Bridge in all her glory. StuInMcCandless wrote:I could have posted this three hours ago, but I figured let someone else grab this softball. Anyway, here’s a video of me pushing my bike across the bridge, holding the helmet cam in my other hand.Nice! I plan on going down later with the 'good camera' and getting closeups. I also can't wait for the Rubber Ducky to roll through town!
Graceland is Presley's Chateau in Tennessee, but this Graceland is in Pittsburgh. edmonds59 wrote:Rubber ducky? When is that supposed to happen? I thought that was during the arts festival?Mark your calendars: Sept 27th! http://trustarts.culturaldistrict.org/exhibit/6165/the-rubber-duck-project
jonawebb wrote:It’s been tagged before (but I’ve never had much of a problem with retagging, especially by newbies). Think of this as an additional clue.Gah. I checked the spreadsheet and I swear it came up "0 finds" with a ctrl-f... I go back and look again and it's able to find it. *bangs head on desk*
This wasn't too easy to get to. Plus, I already have had dinner when I got there :/ 
So, upon checking the Tag-o-rama map, I was shocked that this location hasn't been tagged yet, specially since it is between a major trail & a major road used for commuting around the City. However, the building in particular where this marker is located is uber-recognizable, so instead of taking a pic of it, I took a pic of this little unassuming marker by it.
If this is not enough of a clue, maybe the few words I captured in the tree dedication will be a better hint.... :)
god hates jags! #rtjr 
This should be an easy one! If you like to take shortcuts that are abit hilly, let's say, taking the hypotenuse to go from A to B in a triangle, you've probably seen this sculpture before! if not, I dream that you'll still figure it out :)
Extra hint: this area of town is seldom tagged, so I'm just giving it some love! 
A sweet tag for you commuters,
You pass by this every day,
It's known to every Pgh'er,
It might help you if I say,
That for some reason I can't quite place,
This tag reminds me of this poem by Joyce:
" Three quarks for Muster Mark!
Sure he hasn't got much of a bark
And sure any he has it's all beside the mark." 
This tag is of a place (building) that I've wanted to tag for quite some time for the mere fact that I think is funny given its context.... what does it look like? I can only describe it as a "70's spaceship wedged in the city".
Now, it isn't located in a very typical bike route, however if you practice the art of busing your bike for commuting sometimes, you've probably seen it. Just puck around across for it.
Oh, and if you're looking for this in Google Maps, be warned that its current paint job is different....
Enjoy & hopefully you'll find this as funny as I do, and if you don't, just sue me :p :) 
This if why you turn off your cellphones, the man said,
No need to shout
You'll pass by this tomorrow,
It's on the route. 
Children's museum, north side.
Feeling pink with our bike PGh volunteer tshirts aboard our bikes. With TD 
After we picked up the Northside tag, we rode 'round and 'round looking for a new place to tag... this is all we could come up with. 
If you rode the 25
You passed this place
To park your bike
In a parking space
(with my son Peter) 
like many nearby buildings, this appears to have once been a metals manufactory of some note, now abandoned.
except it's not actually abandoned. 
Jersey chrome, on 46th street in lawrenceville. 
I don't think this needs a clue. so, just a timely softball to get the weekend rolling (literally). HiddenVariable wrote:I see two bikes there... You should say together with Antonio. :)
A stone-skip away from the speed freaks playing in the park tonight, this address is the perfect spot if you want to blaze a bowl with Susie K and company... 
One Gateway Center, 420 Fort Duquesne Blvd
Ramp to underground garage on Fort Duquesne Blvd
I don't get the "one of only six" clue, though, or "Susie K". 
You can rent a plot in this Old Garden in a martial neighborhood. (It's just a coincidence that Jay set the previous tag.)
JaySherman5000 wrote:Among their notable “hits” is a song that openly references recreational use of N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine.What do they rhyme it with?
jonawebb wrote: What do they rhyme it with?Mean? Lean? Kean?
Veto Street, Mexican War Streets 
This house awaits
Someone who'll glom
Onto a quiet street
Named after a canceled sitcom 
This within-500-feet-of-the-official-blue-line tag was a gas station/pizza shop that was being converted to a residence, but was abandoned a couple years ago.
Sorry about the bad image - I was messing with my phone camera and I think I left a weird setting on. If the image was better, you would see the blimp cruising by in the sky on the right side.
Set with campV. 
For those keeping track of neighborhood tags, there were plenty of tags set in a nearby park, but precious few in the area near the park, like this one. Also a tad hilly. StuInMcCandless wrote:What’s irritating about that is that it’s right-side-up on my phone. Getting it right online is luck, AFAICT.You got new phone, correct? New smart phones have G-sensor (shows directions to the center of Earth) so phone knows it's position and can show UI correctly. The same sensor is used to write the phone position into RAW format, so phone knows how picture has been taken and it knows current phone position and it shows picture correctly.
StuInMcCandless wrote:If you click on the photo, it turns right side up.I'm using Opera 12.16 on Linux x86_64, 3.2.0-53-generic. When I click on your picture, it's stays sideways. Also, might I suggest we move your discussion out of this thread and into another one?
StuInMcCandless wrote:If you click on the photo, it turns right side up.off topic I downloaded your image and looked at EXIF:
Wouldn't you like
To discover a place
That connects two points in a park
Together in space?
So it's not in park
OK, so I lied
But you rode past this spot
On the neighborhoods ride 
Closed section of Parkwood Rd, set with Kitaira. 
Annie Dillard's childhood home at 505 S Murtland St 
