Riders book and pay online. On race day a RaceResult decoder and the Roost bridge time every lap, live on every phone at the track. Results, trophy sheets and championship standings publish themselves. Lay a second loop and you get holeshots and sector splits too.
Timing UK youth and club motocross on RaceResult hardware. Transponders are bought once, with no subscription and nothing to charge.
The board a parent watches at the fence. Rider names here are examples.
Every job your secretary, sign-on desk and timekeeper do today, done once and shared. The order below is the order of the day.
Weeks before
Riders pick their class, confirm their licence and transponder and pay. The money lands in your club's own Stripe account as they book, not after the event — and your entry fee arrives whole, because Roost's cut is paid by the rider on top of it.
Race morning
Print one sheet per class with every booked rider, their number, membership number and transponder already filled in, and numbered blank lines for walk-ups. Riders sign next to their name; the desk issues pool transponders or notes the rider's own.
| # | Rider | No. | Membership | Transponder | Signature |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ellie Barton | 14 | ACU 408122 | ZKBBA97 | |
| 2 | Kai Morgan | 3 | ACU 391870 | hire | |
| 3 | Noah Reid | 27 | Day licence | ZKBBT55 | |
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Gate drop
The bridge on your laptop reads each crossing from the decoder and pushes positions, gaps and lap times to the cloud within a second. Spectators open timing.roost-mx.co.uk and follow their rider; nothing to install.
Last rider over the line
Each moto's results are final as the chequered flag drops. Combine the day's motos per class and print the trophy sheets in minutes. Manual entries and lap fixes are there for the odd missed crossing, and every change re-derives the results.
| Pos | No. | Rider | Moto 1 | Moto 2 | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 | M. Brooks | 1 (25) | 2 (22) | 47 |
| 2 | 7 | J. Palmer | 2 (22) | 1 (25) | 47 |
| 3 | 42 | T. Hayes WC | 3 (20) | 3 (20) | 40 |
| 4 | 88 | R. Nolan | 5 (16) | 4 (18) | 34 |
Monday
Championship points accumulate across rounds the way your club scores them: per-class points tables, dropped scores, wild cards kept out of the standings, combined-class gates scored separately. Riders and parents see the table on their phones before you've left the track.
| Pos | Rider | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ellie Barton | 47 | 50 | 44 | 47 | 188 |
| 2 | Kai Morgan | 44 | 40 | 50 | 42 | 176 |
| 3 | Noah Reid | 36 | 44 | — | 50 | 130 |
Most of a club's calendar is not championship rounds. Roost runs four kinds of day, and each behaves the way that day should.
Rounds, points and standings, scored your way. Set a points table per class. Drop the worst scores, so a bad day need not cost the title. Keep wild cards out of the table. Run an overlay cup, like a Girls Championship, off the very same races.
A fun day, a charity round, an open day. It has sign-on, live timing and trophy sheets, exactly like a round. What it has not got is a season, so nothing needs forcing into a championship it does not belong to.
Sell entries by the day, with classes and caps, and score nothing. Practice sits on its own calendar. Riders looking for a race never scroll past it, and riders looking for practice go straight to it.
A presentation evening or an awards dinner. It sells tickets by type and quantity rather than race classes, and gives you a guest list to print or export. No riders, no transponders, no results.
The parts a timekeeper cares about, and the parts that only matter on the day something goes wrong.
Lay a loop just after the gate and the first rider across it takes the holeshot. It is worked out per class, so a combined gate gives you a holeshot for each one. Without that extra loop, Roost uses the first rider over the start line instead.
Every extra loop you lay becomes a sector. Riders get a split at each one, plus their best sector of the moto. You can see where a lap was won without standing at that corner all day.
Run 85s and 65s off one gate and score them as two classes. Positions, points and trophy sheets come out per class. The live board still shows the one order riders actually rode in.
Flag a race from race control and the laps stop counting. Restart it and the board resets. Continue it and the times carry on. Either way the result is what happened on track, not what the decoder kept hearing while it was blocked.
The bridge keeps its own copy of every crossing and carries on timing with no internet at all. When the signal returns it sends the backlog in order. Nothing is lost and nothing is counted twice.
Add a time penalty, a position penalty or a disqualification, each with a reason recorded against it. Type in a missed crossing, void a duplicate lap, or rebuild a whole round. Your corrections survive the rebuild instead of being quietly undone by it.
Nothing to install and no account needed to watch a race. Booking and following riders takes one account per family.
Positions, gaps and lap times for every moto, with favourites pinned to the top so you can find your rider in a 40-bike gate.
Get notified when your rider's race is called, when results are in and when booking opens for the next round.
Licence, date of birth, bikes and transponders saved once, behind a Roost ID the rider gives any club. Parents manage all their children from one login and book them in a couple of taps.
The riders in your account are followed for you — no hunting for your own child on a 40-bike board to star them before the alerts work.
A rider page with their history across rounds and clubs, and a championship table that shows exactly which scores counted and which were dropped.
One decoder, one loop across the track and the laptop you already own — and room to add loops for holeshots and sectors when you want them. Roost supplies the software; the hardware is standard RaceResult equipment you keep.
The USB Timing Box or the Ubidium. Both read 125 kHz and 2.4 GHz transponders, and Roost talks to either one — the Ubidium over its network API, the USB box over its serial feed. Already own RACE RESULT kit?
One loop across the start line is a working timing system. Add a second just after the gate for holeshots, and a third anywhere on the circuit for a sector split. Roost knows which is which from the loop each crossing arrives on.
Sealed battery good for around five years, nothing to charge, no annual renewal. Clubs buy a pool and hire them out on the day, or riders buy their own and keep it for every club that runs Roost.
A small Windows program that talks to the decoder and to the cloud, and updates itself between meetings. It keeps its own copy of every crossing, so a dead 4G signal never costs you a result.
Roost is paid by the rider, not by the club. You set your entry fee and that is the figure that reaches your account. Our share sits on top of it, in what the rider pays.
Enter your price and it stays your price. Our fee goes on top for the rider, so what you set is what you receive. That holds whether one rider enters or two hundred do.
No surprise fee at the last step. The price on the class is the price they pay, all in. That is fairer, and it is what UK consumer rules now expect.
Card and payout processing come out of our side. They are not taken off your entry. There is no monthly charge, no setup fee and no minimum number of riders.
Entry money lands in your club's own Stripe account as each rider books, not weeks after the meeting. You remain the organiser and the merchant of record. We are the plumbing.
Some riders will not book through Roost: gate entries, a club that takes entries its own way, or timing you are running for somebody else. Those are covered by prepaid timing credits instead, so the sums stay just as predictable.
Moving off paper, spreadsheets or another timing system? Tell us about your series and we will help you get set up. After that there is a step-by-step guide in the app for every job on a race day, from adding classes to printing the final standings.
