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Live Timing is how you time a race on Time2Bike. It runs in a normal web browser — no app to install, no timing hardware to buy, and nothing to configure before race day. Live Timing

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There’s nothing to create

Open your event and click the Live Timing tab. That tab is the timer.
  • Your event has one timer, made for you the first time you open the tab.
  • It covers every race in the event automatically.
  • Add a race later and the timer picks it up on its own.
The only thing you have to do first is create your races and assign bib numbers. If you have no races yet, the tab tells you so.
You don’t pick a timing “mode” either. Each race gets the right screen based on the format you already chose when you created it — mass start, time trial, downhill, dual slalom. Switch races at the top of the screen and the controls change with it. See Race formats.

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What you actually need

A phone or laptop

Anything from the last few years, in a normal browser.

Bib numbers on your riders

Bib numbers are the only rider identity Time2Bike uses. Assign them under Event → Bibs.
Signal is optional — see below.

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How it works, in one paragraph

Open the Live Timing tab and press Start when the race begins. As riders cross the line you type their bib number and press Enter, or tap their name in the rider list. Each entry is stamped with the exact moment you pressed the button. When the race is over you press Stop, fix anything that looks wrong, then Finalize and Publish — and the results appear on your event page.

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The things that matter on race day

Every finish is saved to your device the instant you record it, before anything is sent anywhere. Lose signal mid-race and nothing stops — keep timing. It catches up on its own when the signal comes back.You can even save the whole screen to a device ahead of time so it opens with no signal at all.→ Timing without signal
Put four volunteers on four devices and they all record into the same timer. Their entries combine correctly, in the right order, even if some of them were offline at the time — and everyone sees everyone else’s finishes within about a second.Better still, each person says where on the course they’re standing, and the same screen does the right job for each of them.→ Recording points
You hand out a QR code or a link. Your volunteer scans it and their device is a timing device — no password, no account, no access to anything else in your organization. Switch it off whenever you like.→ Volunteer links
Every recording can be undone with one tap. Beyond that: wrong bib, missed finish, forgot to press start, two people recorded the same rider — all fixable after the fact, and every correction keeps a record of what was originally entered.→ Corrections
Flip Share live results and you get a public link that updates as you record. Results stay unofficial until you finalize and publish.→ Sharing live results

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What it can time

Staggered starts within a race are handled by waves.

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Hardware, if you have it

Everything above works by typing bib numbers. If you already own timing hardware, you can feed it in instead:

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Where to go next

I'm the race director

The race-day runbook: the week before, the morning of, and after.

I'm timing today

The one-page field guide. Keep it open while you time.

What am I looking at?

A tour of the timing screen, part by part.

Getting my crew set up

Volunteer links, and who should get what.