For players
Enter a gran fondo for the route, not for the distance on the form.
Gran fondos and charity rides publish the course and the start arrangements up front, so you know the day before you pay for it.
Finding one
By route, by distance, by the morning you can give it.
A hundred-mile fondo and a forty-mile charity ride are different Sundays, and staged starts mean the two can share a car park without sharing an experience. The course is on the page, so the choice is made before the entry rather than at the sign-on desk.
Getting in
Enter once, then check the rider list.
Registration and payment are one step with the waiver at checkout. How full a ride is, and what is left, is on the event page — which is how you find out whether the one you want is still open.
Before you turn up
What the cycling you enter has already settled.
Every one of these is decided by the organizer before entries open rather than argued about in week three, and whatever they have settled is on the event page under “What is set” — so you read the rules before you enter, not at the field on the first night.
Entries
- Entry size
- Individual
- Waitlist, auto-confirming as spots free
- Lottery entry with a claim window
- Waiver signed at checkout
Cycling setup
- Discipline
- Road · Gravel · Mountain · Criterium · Cyclocross · Time trial
- Distance and elevation
- Race distance and total climbing
- Categories
- Cat 1 through 5, or open
- Start
- Mass start or waves
- Drafting
- Allowed or not allowed
- Course
- Terrain, elevation, surface
- Route map
- Strava, RideWithGPS or similar
- Packet pickup
- Date, times, location
- Corrals and gates
- Assignments, seeding, gate times
- FAQs
- Answered on the event page
Scoring
- Finish time recorded per entry
- Age-group results and personal records
Format
- Round-robin schedule
- Elimination bracket
- Standings
- Updated as results land
We do not run the road. Marshals, closures, feed stops and mechanical support all belong to the event, and so does the call to shorten or cancel a route on the day — none of that is ours to promise you.
Common Questions
- What is a staged start?
- Riders set off in groups rather than all at once, which keeps a big field safe on narrow roads. The event decides the groups and tells you which is yours before the morning.
- Can I see who else is riding?
- The entry count and the spots remaining are on the event page. It is the fastest way to find out whether your club has already entered without asking in six group chats.
- Do I need an account to look around?
- No. Browsing is open to anyone — leagues, clubs, tournaments and races are all readable without signing in. You only need an account to register for something, because a registration has to belong to somebody.
- How does paying work?
- Registering and paying are one step, by card. Where the event asks for a waiver you sign it in the same checkout rather than printing it and carrying it to the field. The money goes to the organizer running the event rather than sitting with us until the season ends.
- What if I do not have a team?
- Races, tournaments and open days take you exactly as you are — one entry, one person. A league season is entered by a team, so instead of registering alone you list yourself as available to play and the teams that are a body short come and find you. Nothing is paid until one of them takes you on.
- What happens if it is already full?
- For a race, a tournament or an open day, a waitlist place confirms itself the moment somebody drops out. A league season queues by team instead, and the side that comes off the queue gets a window to settle the entry before the spot moves on. Where the field is capped by permit, entry may run as a draw with a claim window instead.
- Something went wrong with my registration. Who do I ask?
- The organizer first. They run the event, they can see your registration and they are the one who can change or refund it. If you cannot reach them, we will help — but they are faster, because it is their event.
- What do I keep afterwards?
- One profile carrying every registration, result and standing, across every sport you play here. A season of kickball and a spring half marathon sit in the same place rather than across two organizers and a timing company.
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