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r/mountainbiking

Founded 2008 · 257.2K members

257.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 9.9K upvotes, which works out to 38 per 1,000 members.

38peak upvotes per 1,000 members
257.8Kmembers
9.9Kbest post
897most comments
406posts 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.

37% 25% 13% 11%
Image 37% Gallery 25% Text 13% Video 11% Link 7% Question 7%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Question 169 Bike Picture/NBD 100 Other 62 Meme 34 Off-Topic 21 Progression 18

What the ceiling looks like

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

In March I got shamed on this sub for going bikepacking with a SRAM SX drivetrain. So to piss off the haters telling people you can‘t enjoy mountainb…

↑ 9.9K 💬 572 gallery 2024

Rest in Peace Brother

↑ 7.7K 💬 321 gallery 2026

Is there a problem in the biking industry?

↑ 5.1K 💬 897 image 2023

(Not me) seen this on instagram. Thought you guys would like it

↑ 4.3K 💬 111 video 2024

DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a mountain biker

↑ 4.2K 💬 436 link 2026

Bike crash saved my life

↑ 3.8K 💬 157 image 2022

Any love for trail builders?

↑ 3.5K 💬 131 image 2020

Before (age 30) and after (64).

↑ 3.4K 💬 114 image 2025

My dad: 80 years old, just beat stage 4 cancer into remission, already getting after it

↑ 3.3K 💬 157 video 2026

"I'm entitled to 5 sick days a year, and I'd say this is a pretty sick day"

↑ 3.2K 💬 71 image 2024

Communities its size

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

r/mountainbiking, in numbers

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

What is r/mountainbiking?
r/mountainbiking is a Reddit community. It was founded in 2008 and has 257.2K members.
How many members does r/mountainbiking have?
r/mountainbiking has about 257.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 406 of its posts; the biggest reached 9.9K upvotes, which is 38 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/mountainbiking?
"In March I got shamed on this sub for going bikepacking with a SRAM SX drivetrain. So to piss off the haters telling people you can‘t enjoy " reached 9.9K upvotes and 572 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/mountainbiking.
What subreddits are similar to r/mountainbiking?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/mountainbiking?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are image posts and 25% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/mountainbiking?
Across 406 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 00:00 UTC (2.1K avg upvotes), Monday at 20:00 UTC (2.1K avg upvotes), Thursday at 15:00 UTC (1.6K 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/mountainbiking?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/mountainbiking has 2.4K 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/mountainbiking, 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.