Technology for Cycling Events
RunSignup makes registration easy, sure. But we’re also here with free technology to help you manage your cycling events from conception to execution.
Registration
Make it simple for participants to register in minutes with a dynamic, mobile-friendly, and customizable registration platform.
Marketing Tools
Take advantage of free marketing tools including email and websites as well as built-in referral programs, incentive-base pricing setups, and social sharing settings.
Fundraising
Raise more for your nonprofit, charity partner, or multiple charity partners with integrated donations and fundraising tools.
RaceDay
Streamline your RaceDay operations with flexible bib assignment, a speedy CheckIn App and simple on-site registration options.
Brand Your Website for Cycling Events with BikeSignup
Did you know that you can use the alternate URL of BikeSignup.com for your event? No extra steps are required: with our Single Sign On System for multiple brands, the race you create can be accessed from either RunSignup.com/MyRace or BikeSignup.com/MyRace. The functionality is the same, but the branding is perfect for your event.
Registration for All Types of Cycling Events
Fundraising Rides
Road Race
Gravel Grinder
Cyclo-cross Race
Criterium
Time Trial
Mountain Bike Race
Key Features for Cycling Events
RaceDay Tools
On-site logistics are key for any cycling event. Make the experience seamless with the RunSignup RaceDay Suite, including:
- Bib Management with flexible options to assign your bibs at registration, import your bib numbers, or allow for dynamic bib assignment on-site
- On-Site Registration makes it simple maximize participation with a streamlined process for race day registrations
- RaceDay CheckIn App eliminates lines and ensures speedy check-in of all your participants.
- RaceDay Scoring takes timing to the next level
RunSignup AI Chatbot
The RunSignup AI Chatbot delivers instant, accurate responses to streamline communication and save you time.
- 24/7 Support for Participants — Automatically answer common registration, membership, and schedule questions so athletes get quick help anytime.
- Triathlon-Specific Guidance — Provide tailored information for multi-sport events, from wave assignments and transition rules to relay setup.
- Seamless RunSignup Integration — Pull real-time data from your registration, RaceDay, and membership tools for consistent, accurate responses.
- Customizable for Your Brand — Adjust tone and FAQs to match your event’s personality and ensure a cohesive athlete experience.
Corral/Wave Management
Provide structure and organization to the chaos of multiple waves with a built-in corral management tool. This includes:
- A Corral Size Estimation Tool and Corral Time Builder to help you define the best parameters for your event
- The ability to assign corrals during registration, wait to assign corrals later, or allow participants to choose their corral
- Smart time entry with the ability to require a verification link and minimum time requirements for participants choosing their own corral
Groups and Teams
Make your triathlon more approachable with relay and team options. RunSignup’s team features include:
- Require teams to be a specific size (for example, 3 on a relay team)
- Allow teams that are single-gender or coed
- Flexible team pricing that allows for a captain to pay for everyone up front or requires each registrant to pay as they join
USAC Waiver and Membership Support
If your race is sanctioned by USA Cycling, we make it easy for you to comply with USAC requirements for waiver signature and member number collection and validation. This is for cycling and gravel events using USAC for insurance purposes (USAC has an exclusive contract with BikeReg for competitive, categorized USAC races). Features includes:
- Enable or disable the requirement for each participant to validate their membership
- Member validation is done in real-time based on the latest download of member information that USAC has given to us
- Automated inclusion of the USAC Waiver with required acknowledgement that the participant has read the waiver
- Easy to download reporting to show USAC member numbers as well as whether they signed the USAC and Race Waivers
Participant Insurance
Earn more revenue by offering your participants optional protection.
- Enable the ability for participants to purchase insurance during their registration
- All insurance-related participant management (and refunds) are handled by our insurance partner, Protecht Regshield
- Low-cost option for your participants, at 8.1% of the registration fee (just a $2.99 minimum)
- 20% of all insurance premiums are paid to your race, providing a nice
Donations and Fundraising
Raise more for your cause with integrated donations and the ability to engage participants as fundraisers.
- Enable donation options with customizable donation levels and simple checkboxes at checkout
- Activate fundraisers with personalized fundraising pages and access to email templates
- Harness the power of social connections with team fundraisers that work together towards a common goal
- Gamify your fundraising with automated fundraiser leaderboards, digital trophy cases, and refund rewards for meeting specific donation thresholds
- Opt to require a minimum fundraising amount for participants (or not)
RaceJoy
RaceJoy Certified Timers can setup and provide RaceJoy’s real-time participant tracking.
- Offer two forms of real-time tracking; Chip-timed alerts and continuous GPS-based phone tracking
- Offer real-time spectator interaction via custom cheers
- Easily monitor participants on course, volunteers, and key race staff
- Improve safety with SOS alerts, off-course alerts, and turn-by-turn directions
- Create a custom audio experience for a more dynamic event
More Technology for Cycling Events
Looking for something else? Here are a few other features that make life easier.
Customize Wording
Customize the working on your event website (like changing “race” to “ride”, “event” to “wave”, and “participant” to “rider) to keep your message clear and keep the focus on cycling.
Merch Sales
Increase your revenue with giveaways items (like your standard t-shirt), add-ons (like an upgrade to a bike jersey), and a standalone store. Inventory management tools included.
Flexible Pricing
Turn your pricing setup into a prompt for action with time-based or count-based increases, management of unlimited coupon codes, and discounts for key groups of participants.
RaceDay Photos
Build FOMO with shareable event photos directly on your race website. The RacDay Photo Platform allows for unlimited uploads, easy album management, and auto-tagging by bib number.
Customer Spotlight
Velocity Multi-Sport & Cycling
When Julia Jorgensen, her husband, and a close friend, decided to open a triathlon store in their hometown (Velocity Multi-Sport and Cycling), they never imagined they’d become race directors. But sometimes life takes unexpected turns.
60+ Events managed
5k+ Total Participants
Tools Used RunSignup, TicketSignup, RaceDay
Peddles and Progress at Cactus Cup
Originating in 1991, the Cactus Cup stands tall as Arizona’s original mountain bike stage race, and its recent 2024 event proved to be another successful experience that offered something for everyone. Race director, Gail Hughes, leveraged the latest advancements, notably the RaceDay CheckIn App with QR codes, to streamline operations during the Cactus Cup.
30+ Years Operating
900+ Participants
9 Adult & 5 Kid Events
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