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Help us improve this subreddit!

Greetings, denizens of r/bicycling! As you may have noticed, the sidebar to the right has undergone a major revamp. There's been positive feedback so far, but I want to make sure our sidebar is as useful as possible.

What does this mean to you?

Well, if you have or know of a related subreddit that's not on the sidebar, we need to fix that! Let us know what we need to add, and we can do it.

If there's a feature of another subreddit that you like, let us know so we can try to duplicate it here.

Thank you for all the feedback so far, please let us know what you want to make this subreddit even better.

We have 70k subscribers, so I'm sure a few of you can think of something we're missing! If you could do me a favor and keep this upvoted so a few more people get a chance to see it and offer input, that would be great!

Note: This is a self post for which I receive INFINITEno KARMA

Posted Jan 11, 2013, 3:32 AM UTC

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ItMightBePizzaManufacturer•

I like our new look here. Well done, Mods.

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dumboyNew Jersey, USA (Replace with bike & year)•

Actually, my vote would be to fold Strava into r/bicycling.

You probably have more strava-specific posts here, than their entire sub to begin with. Lots of people use/might start using Strava, few of us will specifically check that sub often enough to keep lively discussions.

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aggieotisTrue Fabrication Custom with super-tall-man cranks•

No, Strava is about more than just cycling. And they are looking into how to encompass more rowing, and swimming, and running.

While it's almost all cycling today, I think it should remain its own place to grow as it needs to with the product.

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dumboyNew Jersey, USA (Replace with bike & year)•

I love how pure opinion gets down-voted. Was it you? Were you the one who thought an opinion was either off topic or factually incorrect?

If it was you, your breaking reddit & should cut that out. This sub is too small for that sort of thing. If it wasn't you, ignore my rant.

ANYWAY - I disagree. Swimming & rowing arn't even options in Strava. Yet. The way we use the internet should not be dictated by a products long-term development strategy. We should welcome strava-related postings because they are interesting & relevant to the topic at hand.

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aggieotisTrue Fabrication Custom with super-tall-man cranks•

Consider posting constructive criticism / an explanation when you downvote something, and do so carefully and tactfully. - reddiquette - #14

Yes, I downvoted you because I don't think that the comment was well thought out. Folding r/strava into r/bicycling would be a poor move as I outlined in my reply.

According to reddiquette I'm actually doing the right thing by downvoting, but then replying to explain the downvote.

Also, here's an interesting look at Strava now and how it's changing.

How Strava Is Changing the Way We Ride - Outside Magazine

I use Strava to log hikes, skiing, runs, walks, on my dog, etc. Strava is about more than just bikes.

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caadbury2014 CAADX, 2015 Superfly 8•

I don't think that would be appropriate, as Strava is not a bicycling-specific community/website/app.

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KittehGodGiant TCR A1 / Specialized Rockhopper•

Can we install a special for the Oprah/Armstrong day? Filter all posts containing the word Armstrong into a different subreddit?

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StereoMOD2013 Fuji Altamira 2.2•

We can set up AutoModerator to do things like that, but we usually prefer to let the community decide for itself with up and downvotes what it wants to see.

During the Tour de France, for example, we had AutoModerator remove spoilers because even if you downvote, it's ruined the thing for you. The frequent "omg paper bicycle" reposts, or the recent "Lance might confess" posts, we let the downvotes handle.

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_warningShop sales guy and wrench•

Have you browsed /new lately? We should do that now.

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siscorskiy1997 Cannondale H300•

what does the map represent?

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ChetigolBullitt•

the red dots are links to local bike subreddits

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wiggeeOPMOD2012 Jamis Bosanova•

Also, the dots don't have to be red. If you run a subreddit and you want a different color, we can do that!

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EastPhilly2014 Norco Threshold A2 | 2014 Kona Honzo•

Magenta... Needs more magenta.

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wiggeeOP2012 Jamis Bosanova•

And now we have blue dots for the subreddits that cover a larger area (Colorado, UK). It makes perfect sense to me, but I think it's probably confusing.

For now, just assume that if you live in Colorado or the UK, you're more awesome than the rest of us unless you live in Leeds or Manchester.

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mindeyesightSoma Double Cross Disc•

They just set up a new sub for Indiana. r/bikeIN

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pompinoMTB Tandem, On One Fan boy.•

Thanks mods, its a great sub reddit :)

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titch1242010 Bianchi via nirone•

hmmmm, the only things i could think of , would take you outside the reddit ecosystem such as, good online bike shops, wiggle, chain reaction and the like

or other cycling forums, which also have a lot of sound advice , bikeradar etc..

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wiggeeOPMOD2012 Jamis Bosanova•

This sounds like a good post or wiki page - bicycle resources outside of reddit!

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TheHorribleTruthsomething very yellow•

The icon of the "How to ride safely" box is wrong.

  • This is the Red Cross - it's a symbol of help and being helped.
  • This is the flag of Switzerland - it's a symbol of, well, Switzerland.

It's a common mistake, and I see it often e.g. in movies, but it always irks me.

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wiggeeOPMOD2012 Jamis Bosanova•

Yes, it's technically wrong, and it bugs me as well.

But it's not a symbol of the Red Cross, it's just a plus sign in a circle. If you look at the sprite sheet, you'll see one in a yellow circle as well. I tried to use and create symbols that work without words, and in multiple colors. The "plus sign" cross in a circle is recognized enough as a symbol that it communicates "safety" better than any other iconography that I could think of. We went with the red because it fit the bqckground of the box well.

We didn't want a helmet, as that doesn't necessarily scream "safe riding." So this is a compromise.

Thank you for your feedback! If you can think of a better icon to use for "safety" than a Red Cross-ish design, please let me know!

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peppermg2008 Giant Defy 2•

I would like to see some posting guidelines. For example, posts of your new ride/bike/whatever day be tagged with [NBD] or something similar (new bike day) and be required to include some basic info make/model/year/ etc. r/guitar does this and it seems to work very well, they also require that gear posts be self posts which would be something to consider.

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cinemafia2006 Lemond Tourmalet•

Please add /r/singlespeedcycling to the Types of Bike section! We need more visibility there.

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wiggeeOP2012 Jamis Bosanova•

No. Not adding it.

It's already there!

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cinemafia2006 Lemond Tourmalet•

Awesome! I guess somebody ended up adding it when I asked yesterday, I forgot to check. Thanks anyway though!

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wiggeeOP2012 Jamis Bosanova•

Yep, got added just before this comment.

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cinemafia2006 Lemond Tourmalet•

Aha, well thank you! :-)

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rusemeanBatavus Omafiets / 2014 EBC Country Traveller•

There are a couple English cycling subreddits, one for Leeds and one for Manchester, I think, that aren't on the map, but they have quite small subscriber counts, so I don't know if that was an intentional oversight?

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wiggeeOPMOD2012 Jamis Bosanova•

Not an intentional oversight, I had never heard of them!

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aggieotisTrue Fabrication Custom with super-tall-man cranks•

Links?

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wiggeeOP2012 Jamis Bosanova•

Links are in the sidebar of the UK Bike subreddit. I'll add them to the map once I'm on a device with a keyboard.

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aggieotisTrue Fabrication Custom with super-tall-man cranks•

Per u/rusemean:

/r/leedscycling/ and r/cyclemcr

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rusemeanBatavus Omafiets / 2014 EBC Country Traveller•

r/leedscycling/ and r/cyclemcr

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wiggeeOPMOD2012 Jamis Bosanova•

Added! I know they're not placed in the exact right positions, but there would be too much overlap if I did it correctly.

Join r/bicycling as a mod! You, too, can gain the power to move cities whenever it pleases you!

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effortDee2012 Ribble Audax // 00's Steel Single Speed•

If they were advertised, maybe more would follow?

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wiggeeOPMOD2012 Jamis Bosanova•

That's the idea!

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tinnedspicedhamN+1•

I can't see the sidebar on mobile devices. I prefer to use the Alien blue app to browse reddit. It's mire intuitive than the desktop version.

My question is: can you combine subreddits? There is r/bicycling and r/cycling which are essentially the same and really could be combined (if such a thing is redditly possible.

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joshricei has bikes•

There's always this: r/bicycling+cycling

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tinnedspicedhamN+1•

What is this black magic you speak of?

Ok, I'm off to combine all my related subreddits into groups.

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wiggeeOP2012 Jamis Bosanova•

Once again, math triumphs! Yes, I know how it's a space, not a plus sign

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wiggeeOPMOD2012 Jamis Bosanova•

It's easily possible. I believe that the two reddits were combined in the past, but the moderator of r/cycling changed this a few months ago.

It's totally up to him to merge the reddits again, I'm afraid we have no control over that.

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plattyjoEl Camino/Hunter/Ebisu/Ocean Air•

This is my favorite subreddit - keep up the great work!

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Mesquite_Skeet_Skeet•

If there's a feature of another subreddit that you like, let us know so we can try to duplicate it here.

This is pretty minor, but sometimes when you float over someone's flair/flag to see what flag it is, the flag-text popup is obscured by the bike-text popup. I noticed over on http://www.reddit.com/r/cfb, the flair icon itself changes to text, so it's easier to see. I thought that was cool.

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wiggeeOPMOD2012 Jamis Bosanova•

Thanks for the bug report, I hadn't noticed!

I'm slightly leery about changing the icon to text, I try to avoid having page elements change size and position. How's it look now, with the country up top?

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Mesquite_Skeet_Skeet•

Nice! That's better and I can see the flag text now.

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wiggeeOPMOD2012 Jamis Bosanova•

Now I want to add a bacon strip and other random stuff to the flair. Not sure how the other mods would feel about that.

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Mesquite_Skeet_Skeet•

That would be sweet. Hey you have a web monkey!

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aggieotisTrue Fabrication Custom with super-tall-man cranks•

Great work!

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tinnedspicedhamN+1•

Great job Mods!

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