The registration flow

When you click Register on an event page, you enter a step-by-step flow at /events/[slug]/register?races=[race-ids]. There are up to five steps. Questions and Add-ons only appear when the event actually has them, so a simple race is three steps: participants, waivers, pay.

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Picking participants

A participant is the person actually racing. You can have multiple participants on your account — yourself, a partner, kids — and pick which one is racing each race. For each race you registered for, you’ll see a row labeled Participant for <race name>. For each row, you can:

• Select existing — pick someone you’ve already saved on your account.
• Add new — fill out the participant form (name, birthday, emergency contact, etc.) and save them to your account for future races.
• Invite — enter someone’s email or phone number. They’ll get a link to finish their own registration (sign waivers, answer questions) while you pay now. See Invite a rider.
• Edit — change details on an existing participant (only if you own or manage that profile).

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Racing for a team, club, or sponsor

Under each rider you’ll see a line for the team they’re racing for. You choose this at registration, every time — it isn’t locked to anything. It can be whatever you want it to be:

• A club or composite team you’re actually on in Time2Bike.
• A college or high-school team — “Western State Cycling”.
• A shop or sponsor — whoever pays your entries, or whoever’s kit you’re wearing.
• Nothing at all — leave it blank and you race as a personal entry.

There are two ways it gets filled in: Whatever you put here is shown next to your name in the start list and the results. Nothing verifies it, so type it the way you want it to appear.

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Team races

If a race is configured as a team event, Time2Bike asks for the full team. You’ll see one row per team slot and all slots have to be filled before you can continue. You can mix and match — some existing participants, some invites. This is a relay team for that one race — a different thing from the club name above. It exists only for this event.

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What can block you

Time2Bike refuses to add a participant to a race when:

• They’re already registered for that race (paid or pending).
• The race has a gender restriction they don’t match (the race is “women only” / “men only” — based on gender on the participant’s profile).
• They’ve already been picked for this race in another slot of this same registration.

You’ll see an inline error explaining which rule was hit.

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Inviting a rider

Use Invite when you want to register a teammate, friend, or family member but you don’t have their info on file. If they never claim their invite by race day, contact the organizer. Invited spots are visible to organizers in the registrations table.

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