And I thought the doubledecker bus was a hard find...
North American Wild Card Moto-Tag Game
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Old Guy
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I've seen a few in the western states. If you leave now, you could have some by tomorrow afternoonAnd I thought the doubledecker bus was a hard find...
Shouldn't be too hard, just go look near the RR crossings.And I thought the doubledecker bus was a hard find...
https://https://asci.uvm.edu/equine/law/fence/nh_fnc.htm
Or just wait a bit and I'll go get one.
mcatrophy
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If it's too hard, I'll just have to find something else. Give me an excuse for a ride out
(but it won't be for a few days)
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(but one set up on the road before crossing a railroad would be fine). Make sure you don't park your bike on the track
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Don't forget, it's for a public roadway, not for railroad tracks...Shouldn't be too hard, just go look near the RR crossings.
https://asci.uvm.edu/equine/law/fence/nh_fnc.htm
Or just wait a bit and I'll go get one.
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Yeah, we don't have free ranging cattle around here all that much. I'll just wait here until one of our westerners gets this one...
PhilJet09
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We have some of those fairly close to me, but they're all at the end of people's driveways...so the cattle don't, you know, actually make it onto the road.
RacinRay
Living The Dream
Glad someone got it! Excellent work.
ericboutin
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Well I did learn a couple things today, first I've never heard of a cattle guard and I'm fairly certain we don't have any around here....lol. I rode all over this afternoon and couldn't find one of these things anywhere! So hopefully like Fred said.....the westerners will pick it up!
RacinRay
Living The Dream
Well I've searched dozens of dairy farms in my surrounding area with no luck. Apparently when livestock needs to cross a road around here they're escorted.
BkerChuck
Second hand vegetarian
We've now gone over a week with no tag. Now what?
mcatrophy
Privileged to ride a 2018 FJR1300AS
Well, sorry I've made it so difficult for you. Before I posted, I asked OCfjr if this was suitable, he didn't object, also I looked on Wikipedia, it had a picture of one example (in Texas, I think), gave no indication that they were rare (also against The Rules).
The rules say the tag can be outvoted, so you can do that. They don't say how to recover. I'd suggest that OCfjr says what is to happen. I could find something else, the previous (double decker) tagger could go again (it's his fault I got involved), OCfjr starts it off again, or some other option. Maybe I relax my rules and allow for one on private property that you can drive past?
OCfjr to the white courtesy phone, please!
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Sorry guys, figured this would be an easy one and would go fast. I'll snag it tomorrow. I went over around 20 of these today, and 30 yesterday,riding in CA and NV. I will be crossing dozen or so tomorrow most likely too.
Well then, it's time to pick up the ball and run, slacker!
This is still a relatively new game and we're all feeling out how it will work. Personally, I don't think that a week is too long for a tag to sit, as long as there is a good chance that someone will be able to get it eventually. While there aren't any cattle guards anywhere in New England, I know there are lots of them out in the western states, so it's fine to wait for one to get tagged out there.
But it is in our own best interest to try and make the tags as generic as possible (while still being somewhat unique enough to be interesting) to keep the game moving.
This is still a relatively new game and we're all feeling out how it will work. Personally, I don't think that a week is too long for a tag to sit, as long as there is a good chance that someone will be able to get it eventually. While there aren't any cattle guards anywhere in New England, I know there are lots of them out in the western states, so it's fine to wait for one to get tagged out there.
But it is in our own best interest to try and make the tags as generic as possible (while still being somewhat unique enough to be interesting) to keep the game moving.
ericboutin
Well-known member
Good advice! I was thinking this while I was out searching for this cattle thing-a-majig, that I hoped everyone appreciated what we were going through trying to find it! I mean I was out searching on these winding, twisting, curvy roads way out in the country! I don't know if ya'll have ever ridden these roads out here in upstate SC - Western NC but the road engineers couldn't figure out how to make a straight road!! They have long sweeping left handers and then it'll go back into a long sweeping right hander and then maybe a bunch of curves going in both directions like when you're climbing a mountain and such! Then the mountain views you have to put up with! It can be downright dangerous!! So yah I'm glad this tag is gonna be picked up because it was becoming absolute torture to think I was gonna have to go out in these conditions to keep searching!!
Yeah, yeah... we all have our crosses to bear.
Now suck it up and get back out there and search for that Cattle Guard!!
Now suck it up and get back out there and search for that Cattle Guard!!
Old Guy
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I know what you mean, Eric. I rode the FJR 413 miles Saturday then took the ZRX out for 317 miles Sunday and didn't see a single cattle guard. Wasted the whole damned weekend
Good input Fred and I certainly agree.
Part of the tag games are going out for a ride. If you come back empty or get 'bruced', you still went for a ride, and may have even gone places you hadn't been before, or gone looking for something cool. None of that sucks! I've wandered down some fun roads looking for some tag that I thought I would find from looking at the maps, only to come up empty, but have a ball exploring a new road or area.
Part of the tag games are going out for a ride. If you come back empty or get 'bruced', you still went for a ride, and may have even gone places you hadn't been before, or gone looking for something cool. None of that sucks! I've wandered down some fun roads looking for some tag that I thought I would find from looking at the maps, only to come up empty, but have a ball exploring a new road or area.
ericboutin
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LOL! Wow and I was about to speak of another curvy road that I may have to go look for this cattle thing within a couple hours of me....it has like 318 curves in 11 miles...you might have heard of it??!! But now I see you even have a bigger cross! You are having to ride two bikes all those distances! I'll bet you weren't able to get any grass cut!!I know what you mean, Eric. I rode the FJR 413 miles Saturday then took the ZRX out for 317 miles Sunday and didn't see a single cattle guard. Wasted the whole damned weekend
Couldn't agree more!! And I hope you realize we were just being facetious in our comments above.
Old Guy
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Eric, I wish you hadn't mentioned that yard.
BkerChuck
Second hand vegetarian
Does anyone know if they make a mower deck that fits the FJR? Just wondering....
