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Racing road or ‘cross and need an active transponder (or red “chip”): You can order your own timing transponder directly from TXBRA’s store website.
Are you planning to race a TMBRA XC event?: If you don’t already have your season long plate you can purchase one when you register for a TMBRA event on BikeReg. You can also buy one at onsite registration during each race weekend.
RF-ID IS FOR INVENTORY MANAGEMENT, RIGHT?
True, but the technology can do so much more. We are talking about passive (UHF) and active or "battery powered" RF-ID transmitters for scoring bicycle races. The future is here and reached North Texas during the 2016/17 North Texas cyclocross season. Since then all of the top road and cyclo-cross Texas weekend events, in addition to Dallas’ and Austin’s premier weeknight crit race series, have adopted active transponders for primary race scoring. The technology improves the accuracy and timeliness of race scoring and result processing while providing all sorts of per-racer lap data in real-time via the Internet.
Starting in 2019 all Spring and Fall TMBRA XC races utilized passive transponders for primary scoring as well. The Spring 2020 XC season will take this one step further with the introduction of one number plate for the entire eight (8) race season.