Registration and timing for cycling, MTB and BMX events

Yes. Barefoot handles category and grade management and reliable timing, including timed segments on gran fondos.

Yes. Chip timing and live results work across staged MTB and moto-based BMX formats.

Yes. Entries flow straight into timing on one system.

Yes. Category, grade and wave logic is built for the way cycling events are structured.

Competitive cycling events in Australia are usually sanctioned by AusCycling, and events on public roads also need approval from the road authority, the local council and state police. AusCycling’s event organiser guide advises allowing one to six months for approvals, and asks that road and land-manager approvals reach it at least three months before day one. In New Zealand, Cycling New Zealand certifies events at recognised or sanctioned level. Sort this first, because it decides which licences your entry form has to accept.

For sanctioned racing in Australia, yes. Riders need a current AusCycling race licence — Race All Disciplines, or Race Off-Road for mountain bike, BMX, cyclo-cross and gravel. Riders without one can buy an AusCycling One Day Event Licence or a 7 Day Event Licence, priced at $44 and $74 in 2026. Those event licences only cover Bronze events and emerging-discipline national events, not state or national championships or UCI events, so check your event level before you promise riders they can enter without a membership.

It should. Clubs running weekly criteriums check every entrant’s AusCycling licence number against the current membership list, and doing that by hand across a few hundred entries a week is where volunteer time disappears. Look for a system that stores the licence number on the rider’s profile, flags expired or mismatched entries before the start list is published, and lets you hold entries as provisional until an official approves them.

Grade first, then build the form around it. Australian club racing usually runs graded scratch races — A through E or F for road and criterium, age and wheel-size categories for BMX, and elite, masters and junior categories for mountain bike. Your entry form needs a cap and a waitlist per grade, a way for a rider to nominate a different grade with a written reason, and an approval step so an official signs off before the start list goes out.

Yes, for most BMX racing. AusCycling BMX state series rules require every rider outside the participation categories to supply their own transponder, and riders entered in both 20-inch and 24-inch categories need a separate transponder for each bike. Capture the transponder number against the rider and the bike type on the entry form rather than at sign-on, so results have it before race morning and the sign-on queue keeps moving.