About r/cycling
In its own words:
Discussion of everything bicycle related. bikeit! bike bikes bicycle bicycles bicycling cycling
Community guide
r/cycling (#709, about 1.5 million subscribers) is oriented around: Discussion of everything bicycle related. bikeit! bike bikes bicycle bicycles bicycling cycling Recent activity samples show 44 posts/day in recent samples (~100% text). Public rules we collected include: No Self Promotion; No Picture Posts of your Stuff; No Memes; No Surveys; Don't be a jerk. Be kind to each other..
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Civility/anti-harassment rules apply; personal attacks get removed. Match posts to: No Self Promotion; No Picture Posts of your Stuff; No Memes; No Surveys.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on May 10, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 870 subscribers (+0.06%). Among the 9 communities on our cycling list it is the largest. It sits just behind r/diablo4 (#708) and ahead of r/Brawlstars (#710) in our ranking.
What sets r/cycling apart
r/cycling is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 100% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 35% across the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (16:00 UTC) sees about 5.3× as many posts as the quietest (10:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/cycling grew from 1,491,707 to 1,497,783 subscribers (+6.1K, +0.41%). That is about 138 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/cycling talks about
We read the titles of 237 recent posts (Oct 30–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “bike”, “road”, “carbon”, “looking” and “bikes”. Other frequent themes are help, advice, trainer, tires, worth and long. Recurring phrases include “road bike”, “smart trainer”, “carbon wheels” and “canyon endurace”. By format, 100% are text posts.
Activity and best time to post
r/cycling gets about 44 new posts a day. The public archive holds 234,359 posts and 4,221,945 comments in total, about 18.0 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Monday (45 posts) and the quietest was Thursday (25). Posting peaks around 16:00 UTC and is lowest around 10:00 UTC.
Rules of r/cycling
The moderators of r/cycling list 7 rules. In short:
- No Self Promotion
- No Picture Posts of your Stuff
- No Memes
- No Surveys
- Don't be a jerk. Be kind to each other.
- No Racism/Hate Speech
- No bots of any sort. No computer-generated responses. No AI content.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/cycling and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/cycling?
r/cycling has 1,497,783 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #709 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 6,076 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/cycling?
r/cycling was created on May 10, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from May 21, 2008.
How active is r/cycling?
Very active: r/cycling gets about 44 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 234,359 posts and 4,221,945 comments. In a sample of 237 recent posts we counted 223 different authors.
When is r/cycling most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Monday and the quietest Thursday, and most posts arrive around 16:00 UTC, with the fewest around 10:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/cycling about?
The community describes itself as: “Discussion of everything bicycle related. bikeit! bike bikes bicycle bicycles bicycling cycling” Recent post titles often mention bike, road, carbon, looking and bikes. Most posts are text posts (100%).
Is r/cycling safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/cycling as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/cycling?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/cycling accepts text posts only, with galleries enabled. It has 7 posted rules, starting with: “No Self Promotion”; “No Picture Posts of your Stuff”; “No Memes”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/cycling?
Communities with similar topics include r/Tinder (6M), r/electronicmusic (2.7M), r/motorcycles (4.4M), r/femalefashionadvice (5.8M) and r/roadtrip (4.2M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/cycling.