Comments on: Study: Top 50 of the most influential cycling blogs + Facebook and Twitter friends…

By: bike_travel

bike_travel — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:45:18 +0000

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By: Yann Ropars

Yann Ropars — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:52:29 +0000

Thanks Sam. I added bellepedalsandchains to our master list having the other ones already.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:54:22 +0000

The best and the only number one for me is Copenhagen Cycle Chic!! Go Mikael!

There are some really good ones out of Australia:
http://www.situp-cycle.com/
http://www.sydneycyclechic.org/
http://bellespedalsandchains.blogspot.com/

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:43:02 +0000

Nice list…interesting how we have used Facebook/website/race coverage/race commentating/coaching and Twitter to help our business AND give insight to the zaniness of our sport.

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Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:14:30 +0000

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By: MisfitPsycles-Liesnshite

MisfitPsycles-Liesnshite — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:46:23 +0000

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By: Charles Bingham

Charles Bingham — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:40:30 +0000

I know the Alaska Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance blog, http://akpedbikealliance.wordpress.com/, I put together isn’t ready for the list, since the blog is only a few months old and has a limited audience. But I was disappointed to see Kiril Kundurazieff’s excellent Cycling Dude blog, http://www.cyclingdude.com/, didn’t receive a mention on your list. Cycling Dude is worth checking out, if for nothing more than the list of links down the right column of the page. Also, as an Alaskan I was happy to see you include Jill Homer’s Up In Alaska blog at No. 11. I enjoy reading about her adventures, especially riding her Pugsly through the winter snows.

By: Jams

Jams — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:29:55 +0000

What about something like FixedGearGallery.com ? Did it miss the top 50 or does pure bike porn not fit the criteria? It’s not really a blog in the common sense of the term, but it’s certainly a fine example of a web log of bikes. And it’s had a lot of influence on, I was “reading” that site way before anything else.

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By: Yann Ropars

Yann Ropars — Tue, 18 May 2010 23:18:35 +0000

Hi Winona,

Thank you for coming forward with the ACA blog. It doesn’t seem to show up yet in the top 50 but it sounds like your engagement strategy is gathering some great steam aka FB and Twitter, that’s impressive! Keep up the good work! Engaging with the Top 50 may bring even more steam to your wonderful action!

Cheers
Yann

By: Winona Bateman

Winona Bateman — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:08:38 +0000

What a great post. Thought I’d chime in for Adventure Cycling Association — not sure if we’re on your radar yet. We’ve worked hard over the last year to build our blog (http://blog.adventurecycling.org/) and our social media presence. We have just over 7400 “likes” on FB (http://www.facebook.com/adventurecycling) and around 2,000 followers on Twitter (http://twitter.com/advcyclingassoc). We also moderate the FB page for the U.S. Bicycle Route System (http://www.facebook.com/usbrs) which has over 11,000 “likes”.

Our goal with all of these spaces is to inspire more people to travel by bicycle and we get a lot of blogging inspiration from many of the top 50 blogs on your list. What a great community! Hope we can work our onto (and up) your list someday. Thanks for the great post.

Winona – media director for Adventure Cycling Association

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Thu, 13 May 2010 12:57:42 +0000

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By: Yann Ropars

Yann Ropars — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:47:19 +0000

Anonbostonbiker, see my reply to Lauren Giff above. Like you pointed out we tried to explain that blogging is not the only method to build an audience and influence whom many are missing. Blogging is still the mothership of new media represent a good baseline for measurement. Clearly we didn’t mean that this list ranks influence by topic or specialty which would be another entire different study. I hope like we did learn from a few cool new blog out there. Cheers, Yann

By: Yann Ropars

Yann Ropars — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:36:10 +0000

Hi Lauren and thanks for pointing this out. Our method is clear we look at influence through through the eye of the community, not through the amount of traffic or google indexing. Readership and popularity is one thing, reference from other influential bloggers is another. Cylocosm.com is certainly a great blog and seem to rank around #59 in our list. We had to cut somewhere… Rudyride is a bit futher back but will certainly move up over time. I personally love its pictures.

By: anonbostonbiker

anonbostonbiker — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:35:00 +0000

You egregiously missed cyclocosm.com, which outclasses many of your “top 50″ both in facebook followers (and that’s after just opening the page this week), as well as in twitter followers. Safe to assume it outclasses a lot of those blogs in terms of wit and quality of content, too. Just sayin.’ How in the world did you miss this one?