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1.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 5.8K upvotes, which works out to 5 per 1,000 members.

5peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.2Mmembers
5.8Kbest post
2.7Kmost comments
304posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

33% 30% 15% 13% 8%
Gallery 33% Image 30% Text 15% Question 13% Video 8% Link 2%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Found an abandoned kitten and drove 55 km home like this

↑ 5.8K 💬 177 gallery 2026

Careless driver hits cyclist (He should have been arrested)

↑ 3.2K 💬 2.7K video 2026

Found an abandoned kitten and drove 55 km home like this (Part 2 - video)

↑ 1.8K 💬 58 video 2026

Photo of Tony Pizzo. Who cycled from NY to Los Angeles on a single-speed bicycle in 1919 and 1920 and back from LA to NYC.

↑ 1.3K 💬 94 image 2026

Farmers and Cyclists Unite!

↑ 1.2K 💬 161 image 2026

My new bike came disguised as a TV

↑ 980 💬 94 image 2026

Photo of the Day: Francesco Moser's Banned Bike

↑ 877 💬 89 image 2026

Check out what I got today

↑ 830 💬 114 image 2026

Villager sentenced to 90 days in jail for tormenting bicyclists

↑ 621 💬 107 text 2026

Helmet recommendations for those who wear a turban??

↑ 520 💬 229 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/bicycling, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/bicycling have?
r/bicycling has about 1.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 304 of its posts; the biggest reached 5.8K upvotes, which is 5 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/bicycling?
"Found an abandoned kitten and drove 55 km home like this" reached 5.8K upvotes and 177 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/bicycling.
What subreddits are similar to r/bicycling?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/illinois, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/TooMeIrlForMeIrl.
What kind of posts do best on r/bicycling?
Of the posts we hold, 33% are gallery posts and 30% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/bicycling?
Across 304 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 19:00 UTC (1.9K avg upvotes), Sunday at 15:00 UTC (731 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 20:00 UTC (454 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/bicycling?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/bicycling has 270 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 302 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/bicycling, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.