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Cycling event registration form that seeds the start waves
A mass start road event lives or dies on how it seeds its waves, and the only data it has to seed them with is what riders type into a box weeks earlier. This registration makes that one question count, with a paragraph explaining what a wrong estimate feels like, and prints the emergency contact it collects onto the back of the number plate.
The form itself
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Every field, and what it collects
The complete field list, in the order respondents meet it.
- Rider nameNameRequired
- Date of birthDateRequired
- Club or teamShort text
- Email for the rider briefShort textRequired
- Mobile carried on the rideShort textRequired
- DistanceSingle choiceRequired
- Options: Piccolo, 45 km, 600 m of climbing, one feed zone · Medio, 90 km, 1,450 m of climbing, two feed zones · Gran, 135 km, 2,600 m of climbing, three feed zones and a broom wagon
- Estimated finish time for the distance you choseDropdownRequired
- Options: Under 2 hours · 2 to 3 hours · 3 to 4 hours · 4 to 5 hours · 5 to 6 hours · More than 6 hours · First event, genuinely no idea
- Have you ridden a timed event before?Single choiceRequired
- Options: This is my first · One or two · Several a year · I race, this is a training day
- Bike hireSingle choiceRequired
- Options: Bringing my own bike · Hire a road bike, 120 dollars, fitted on the Saturday · Hire an e bike, 180 dollars, Piccolo and Medio only
- Event jersey sizeDropdownRequired
- Options: Club cut XS · Club cut S · Club cut M · Club cut L · Club cut XL · Club cut 2XL · Race cut S · Race cut M · Race cut L · Race cut XL · No jersey, entry only
- Emergency contact nameShort textRequired
- Emergency contact mobileShort textRequired
- Medical information for the event doctorLong textRequired
- What you are agreeing toMultiple choiceRequired
- Options: I will wear a fastened helmet that meets the standard for the whole ride · I understand the roads are only partly closed and I am riding in traffic · I will stop if a marshal or the broom wagon tells me to, including a course cut off · I am responsible for my own mechanical repairs between feed zones
- Rider signatureSignatureRequired
The rider
Your ride
Bike and kit
If something goes wrong
Rider agreement
The estimate is the most important field on the form
Waves go out in five minute blocks from the fastest estimate down, so a single dropdown decides who a rider spends four hours next to. The paragraph above it does the persuading, because the failure mode is social rather than technical: guess low and you are passed for an hour, guess high and you spend one chasing. Naming both outcomes gets more honest answers than any instruction to be accurate. The last option, first event and genuinely no idea, is the one that keeps nervous riders from inventing a number, and organisers seed those riders by experience instead.
What the emergency contact is actually for
It is printed on the back of the number plate, which is why the paragraph says to name somebody who is not riding with you. On a bad day the person beside a rider is already at the scene and is not who anybody needs called. The medical box underneath is addressed to the event doctor rather than to the organiser, and its placeholder lists blood thinners and an allergy to anything in a first aid kit, which are the two answers that change treatment and the two nobody thinks to volunteer.
How to adapt this form
A closed circuit criterium replaces the estimate with a racing licence number and a category, because seeding there is done by grade rather than by guess. A multi day tour keeps the structure and adds a luggage and accommodation block, plus a second emergency contact, since riders are away from home. A charity ride adds a fundraising target and moves the jersey question behind it, because the jersey is the reward for the fundraising rather than part of the entry, and the order on the form should say so.
What makes this form work
Each distance carries its climbing and its feed zones
Ninety kilometres means nothing without fourteen hundred and fifty metres of climbing beside it. Putting both in the option, plus the broom wagon on the longest one, is how a rider picks the distance they can actually finish.
The estimate question explains what a wrong answer feels like
Passed for an hour, or chasing for one. Riders answer honestly when the cost is described in the experience of the day rather than as a request for accuracy, and the no idea option catches everybody else.
Four rider agreements, one per real risk
Helmet, traffic, marshal instructions, and your own mechanicals. Four ticks take three seconds longer than one and are the difference between a rider who read the traffic sentence and a rider who did not.
Questions people ask
How many fields does an event entry need?
Fifteen here, twelve required. Anything below about a dozen and the organiser cannot seed, size or treat a rider. Anything much above twenty and entries stall on a phone at a kitchen table. Things that change later, such as a transfer or a distance change, belong in an amendment email rather than on the entry.
Why print the emergency contact on the number plate?
Because a phone in a jersey pocket is locked, and a rider on the ground cannot unlock it. A name and number on the back of the plate is the oldest and most reliable system in road cycling, and it is the reason the form asks for somebody who is not riding in the same event.
Can this form take the entry fee?
No. Entry, bike hire at one hundred and twenty or one hundred and eighty dollars, and jersey choice all land in one record, then the invoice or payment link follows. That order matters because hire stock is limited and an e bike is only offered on two of the three distances.
What if a rider does not know their finish time?
They pick first event, genuinely no idea, which is the seventh option. The organiser seeds those riders from the experience question instead, usually into the middle of the field. A form without that option collects invented numbers, and invented numbers are worse than no answer at all.
Is the helmet tick enough for a waiver?
It is one of four, and each is a separate promise: helmet, partly closed roads, marshal instructions including a cut off, and your own mechanical repairs. Bundled into a single I agree to the terms, none of them are read. Separated, riders actually notice the sentence about riding in traffic.
How do the answers reach the timing company?
Through the CSV export from the responses view. One column per field with the first column Submitted At, so distance, estimate and jersey size each arrive as their own sortable column, which is the format every timing and merchandise supplier asks for anyway.
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