#cycling4steemit: A proper introduction of our new community project! Are you a cyclist? Then you should join #cycling4steemit !

#cycling4steemit as the name suggests, is a newly started community project for steemians who likes to spend their time on the best creation man has ever made; the bike. So if you are like one of us who enjoys the life on two wheels you should consider checking out #cycling4steemit. Come to read, share, discuss and meet other people with the exact interest as you! Everything within the cycling world in one place.

Why I started #cycling4steemit

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Tour cycling is not just a sport for me, it has almost become a life style and currently the way I wish the most to want to live. When I was introduced to Steemit back in April I absolutely loved to go on Steemit regularly to blog and read about others travels. I met some really great people in that time but I felt something was missing. It felt like people were scattered all across the platform and it was hard to find some actual sense of "cycling community". While we do have our "cycling" tag, it just don't manage to bring the feeling of community that I was looking for. So I decided not long time ago that instead of looking through the masses, it would make sense to create a place where people could come to meet!

My vision with #cycling4steemit

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The vision is very simple, I am looking to create a place for steemian cyclists to gather and to hopefully in the long run create a sense of community based on our shared interest. Put up events, contests and much more.

#cycling4steemit should become the place to go on Steemit for all cyclists out there. But in the long run there could be a problem. The cycling world is huge and branches out to all kind of sub-branches; Tour cycling/bike packing, mountain biking, racing and the list goes on and on.. So you can imagine this could become a little messy. So how do we solve this problem?

There can be a lot of solutions to this but it is my hope that #cycling4steemit will be the startup and serve as the "big brother" for all the siblings to come. Imagine if #cycling4steemit could grow and eventually Steemits implementation of communities would be coming up, already with a working community. Then suddenly we might be able to branch out our sub-topics(given they create the opportunity to do that?). We could create sectors for all the different cyclists we are, but still under one banner.

But for now it is less about the future and more about what we can do now. Then we will see what the future of the road brings to us. We can have all kind of ideas but in the end it requires actions to be taken, so lets start with what we CAN do, step by step!

3 reasons Why YOU should be using #cycling4steemit!

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I am supporting those that uses the tag with my upvotes

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For now I am on a regular basis going into #cycling4steemit and checking out peoples post and just like everywhere else on Steemit, I vote depending on how good I feel the post is. If it is just a simple picture, well then you might not receive my full up vote since there's also many others who I could vote for and my voting power is not unlimited. But as it stands now I can promise that if you create decent content I will be up voting you with all I have. It is my hope maybe to either seek out ways to get some delegation for this project if it really takes off, to support people even more or at least encourage those who uses the tag to also put some effort into supporting each other!

There's a good chance People who are using #cycling4steemit would be good people to get in contact with

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People who are joining in and using #cycling4steemit is a given it is people who clearly are reading and being active, otherwise they would never have gone this far to use the tag. This means that those you using the tag could not only be helpful to find and expand your network on Steemit, but even find more success. Witch leads me to the last and third reason...

Empowering each other is the way forward!

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We all are coming with the hope to find someone to share our work with, especially the people who have the similar interest. After all it is about empowering each other, and those who finds support from you, will most likely return the favor! With more eyes focused on one spot we can create better support and exposure for everyone. I think we all are tired of making a great post and see it get drowned by the hundreds of others posting the exact same moment. So why not make it visible to a smaller handful of people that most likely will enjoy the content at the same time? Lets help each other out and make it fun at the same time!

The project just started out and people are already using the tag!

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It's amazing to see how quickly people are picking up on #cycling4steemit in just one week and it gives me a lot of hope that we are enough people here to really make it even bigger! So thanks for everyone who decided to join me in my search for like-minded cyclists, it's a true pleasure! I can only imagine how this project will be looking after a month when we truly start to create more reasons to come!

So Holm says: Join us, this is only the beginning!

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Let's admit it, using a hashtag is not gonna be enough to create a community BUT it is a start! Eventually we might be able to put up more features that would promote our gathering such as contests, Discord and much more that my not-so-creative mind can't come up with right now! So come give it a try, go see if you find some posts you like that used the tag, I sure already found a few.

See you on the road!

-holm