Series Info

On this page you’ll find everything you need to know about the MFG Cyclocross Series including:

Registration and Pricing
Categories
Start Times and Race Day Schedule
Podiums, Series & Team Competition
Other Details for People Looking for Bedtime Reading

Schedule

North 40 at LeMay – September 7, 2025
Beach Party at Silver Lake – September 21, 2025
Barnburner at Steilacoom – October 5, 2025
Magnuson Park Cross – October 19, 2025
Pumpkin Smash CX – November 2, 2025
Woodland Park Gran Prix – November 16, 2025

Registration & Pricing

	Adults (19+)	Juniors (3rd grade – high school)	Junior (1st & 2nd Grades)	Kids (U6)	Beginner
Single Race (day-of-race price)	$60	$30	$15	Free	$30
Single Race (pre-registration price)	$50	$25	$10	Free	$25
Second Race	$25	$25	NA	Free	NA
Series Registration (6 MFG races)	$270 ($360 value)	$135 ($180 value)	NA	Free	NA

Here are general instructions how to register:
- You register yourself using Webscorer on a phone or computer. See below for details and differences for Day-of-race registration, Single Race Pre-Registration, and Multiple Race / Complete Series Registration. Please get in a comfortable chair and keep reading. 😘
- If it is your first race of the season, and you don’t have a bib and a chip, come to registration to pick up your chip and bib after you’ve registered.
- For all remaining races in the season, no need to go to registration. Just register online and you are good to go!
Pricing Details
- Prices above do not include Webscorer service fee, which is charged at registration.
- Junior pricing only applies to school age categories.
- Beginner pricing applies only to the Beginner Category.
- Pre-registration prices end at 11:59pm the day before the race.
Day-of-race registration OR Single-Race Pre-Registration
- If you are pre-registering for just one race OR registering on the day of the race, select the race from this page on Webscorer and proceed through registration. You can register multiple people at once.
- Day-of-race registration must be completed 30 minutes before the start of your race.
Multiple Race or Complete Series Registration
- If you register for all six races at once, you’ll get a 25% discount off the day-of pricing.
- Series Registration discount is available through midnight, September 6.
- To pre-register for more than one race or for the full series at once, select “MFG 2025 Series Registration”. You can only pre-register for multiple races or for the complete series one person at a time. Select the correct Series registration for Adults or Juniors separately in Webscorer. [Sigh… we tried our best to keep this simple… but setting up series registration is a bit like playing Jenga, one false move and it all falls down. 😵‍💫 ] So if you are registering multiple people for multiple races, go get a cup of tea, take a deep breath and then register everyone one at a time.
Second Races – want to do a second race on the same day? You must have eaten your Wheaties…
- To register for your first race of the day, follow the instructions above for single race reg or multiple race reg.
- To get the 50% discount on your second race, you must come to the Reg tent the day of the race for a discount code.
- This year you can use one chip and one bib for both your races.
Tandems: Come up with a great name for your team and enter that name in the first and last name fields in Webscorer. Only one registration needed for the team – two for the price of one! Bring one of your timing chips to registration where we will enter one chip number for the team.
Look at all these notes. Are you still paying attention?
Confirmation List: if you want to see who’s registered in your category, you can do that on Webscorer only after you’ve registered. Go to series reg page. Select your race. Click on the “Confirmation list” menu button.
Timing chip: Racers will need a timing chip which can be purchased for $10. You buy it and it’s yours, forever. Chips work at all local races including Cross Revolution, Weds Night Worlds, etc.
Just realize that Uncle Bartholomew is in town and you can’t make it? Check out our refund policy if something comes up.
Registration pays for insurance, medical personnel, park rental fees, RFID timing, online registration/results and website, marching bands, fake moustaches, sparkly tights, race numbers, toilets and our wonderful staff and crew!

Category	Description
Cat 1/2	Pros, aspiring pros, local badasses, genetic anomalies. These folks are seriously fast, but they don’t take it too seriously.
Cat 3	Experienced racers who still take hand-ups.
Cat 4	Pace is slower than Cat 3 but these folks probably have more fun.
Single Speed	Silly folks riding bikes with only one gear.
Beginner	Never raced cyclocross before? Check out the beginner category
Clydesdale	Cyclists who are 200 pounds or more.
Non-binary	A dedicated race category for non-binary racers.
Unicycle	Unicycles are our favorite one wheel riders. Bonus points if you can juggle.
Tandem	Race your tandem with your best friend at every MFG race.
Juniors	We have 4 categories based on the kid’s school grade: high school (9-12th grade), middle school (6th-8th grade), 3rd-5th grade and 1st & 2nd grade. Faster, more experienced juniors are welcome to race in any other category where they’ll find the right competition.
U6 Whippersnappers	These tiny folks are our next pros. Bring any type of bike… push bikes, coaster brakes and hand brake bikes. Course will be a separate, kid-specific course. Race is free of charge, but waiver must be signed at registration.

Start Times and race Day Schedule

Hey, never done cyclocross? It’s pretty easy. Pick a category below. Show up to the start fifteen minutes before your race. There are several start waves at each start time.

Each race has a target duration in minutes. After the leaders finish their first lap, we approximate how many laps are needed so that the leaders finish in that time. Look for the lap counter at the finish line as we count down the laps remaining in your race. When the leader comes through the finish with one lap to go, that’s the bell lap, which means we will be ringing bells for you.

Schedule for all MFG 2025 races except Woodland Park

Staging Time	Start Time	Podium Time	Categories	Race Duration
8:30 AM	8:30 AM		Women/Trans/Femme/Non-Binary hosted course preview lap with an MFG Ambassador. Meet at the Welcome Tent.
8:45 AM	9:00 AM	10:10 AM	Cat 4 Male Cat 4 Male 40+ Clydesdale Male	40 mins
	9:30 AM		Open guided course preview lap with an MFG Ambassador. Meet at the Welcome Tent.
9:40 AM	9:55 AM	11:05 AM	Cat 3 Female Non-binary adult Cat 3/4 Female 40+ Cat 3/4 Female 50+ Cat 3/4 Female 60+ Cat 4 Female Beginner Female	40 mins
	10:30 AM		Junior hosted course preview lap with an MFG Ambassador. Meet at the Welcome Tent
10:35 AM	10:50 AM	12:00 PM	High School Male Cat 4 Male 50+ Cat 4 Male 60+ Beginner Male	40 mins
11:30 AM	11:45 PM	12:45 PM	High School Female Nonbinary U18 Junior Middle School Male/Female 3rd-5th Grade Male/Female 1st-2nd Grade Male/Female	30 mins 30 mins 30 mins 30 mins 20 mins
	12:25 PM		U6 Whippersnappers	10 mins
12:15 PM	12:30 PM	1:45 PM	Cat 3 Male Cat 3 Male 40+ Cat 3 Male 50+ Cat 3 Male 60+ Cat 1/2 Female 40+	45 mins
1:20 PM	1:35 PM	3:05 PM	Cat 1/2 Male Cat 1/2 Male 40+ Cat 1/2 Male 50+ Cat 1/2 Female	60 mins
2:35 PM	2:50 PM	3:55 PM	Single Speed Male Single Speed Female Tandem Unicycle	45 mins

Woodland Park GP race day and podium schedule:

Note: all staging & start times are the same as other MFG races, but podium times are different.

Staging Time	Start Time	Podium Time	Categories	Race Duration
8:30 AM	8:30 AM		Women/Trans/Femme/Non-Binary hosted course preview lap with an MFG Ambassador. Meet at the Welcome Tent.
8:45 AM	9:00 AM	11:30 AM	Cat 4 Male Cat 4 Male 40+ Clydesdale Male	40 mins
	9:30 AM		Open guided course preview lap with an MFG Ambassador. Meet at the Welcome Tent.
9:40 AM	9:55 AM	11:30 AM	Cat 3 Female Non-binary adult Cat 3/4 Female 40+ Cat 3/4 Female 50+ Cat 3/4 Female 60+ Cat 4 Female Beginner Female	40 mins
	10:30 AM		Junior hosted course preview lap with an MFG Ambassador. Meet at the Welcome Tent
10:35 AM	10:50 AM	1:15 PM	High School Male Cat 4 Male 50+ Cat 4 Male 60+ Beginner Male	40 mins
11:30 AM	11:45 PM	1:15 PM	High School Female Nonbinary U18 Junior Middle School Male/Female 3rd-5th Grade Male/Female 1st-2nd Grade Male/Female	30 mins 30 mins 30 mins 30 mins 20 mins
	12:25 PM		U6 Whippersnappers	10 mins
12:15 PM	12:30 PM	4:00 PM	Cat 3 Male Cat 3 Male 40+ Cat 3 Male 50+ Cat 3 Male 60+ Cat 1/2 Female 40+	45 mins
1:20 PM	1:35 PM	4:00 PM	Cat 1/2 Male Cat 1/2 Male 40+ Cat 1/2 Male 50+ Cat 1/2 Female	60 mins
2:35 PM	2:50 PM	4:00 PM	Single Speed Male Single Speed Female Tandem Unicycle	45 mins

Podiums, Season Competition & Team competition

Initial results can be found on Webscorer immediately after your race. Result will be finalized by the following Tuesday.

Race Day Podiums

You rocked your race and landed in the top three. We’re going to give you a chance to step up on the podium and share a great podium pic to Instagram.

Podiums happen at the times listed above. Come to the finish line and find the big MFG banner. Be prompt–we won’t wait.

Look at these sweet podium buttons. Land on the podium and you get one.

Cash Purse

Ooohhh yeah… We offer a cold hard cash purse of $480 at every race split equally between the Cat 1/2 Female and Male categories. Pay for your registration and hot dogs for you and your friends at Dirty Dog hot dog. Must be present at the podium ceremony to collect (unless of course you miss the podium b/c you are doubling up… but you still need to find us before you leave).

Season Competition

At Woodland Park, we will award the top three racers in every racing wave & category, except beginner. These fast folks get to stand on the podium, take a picture with their hands in the air and gain bragging rights. They’ll get some sweet schwag also.

Points are awarded 20 finishers deep, with the following schedule: 40, 36, 33, 30, 27, 25, 23, 21, 19, 17, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6

Season points totals include the best 5 races. To be awarded for season podiums, racers must complete at least 3 MFG races. In case of a tie on total points, the tie will be broken in favor of the rider who has: the most first place finishes or, if still tied, the most second place finishes, etc., or if still tied; the highest placing in the last race in which the tied racers both competed. If that doesn’t work we’ll settle it with rock, paper, scissors.

Team competition

At Woodland Park GP, we will award the top three teams based on their season performance. The top seven points results of the seven best racer finishes at each race are aggregated to calculate the team points for that race. Team points are aggregated across all races during the season. To be considered as part of a team, racers need to select the correct Team Name in Webscorer during registration.

Seattle Superprestige

MFG Cyclocross + Cyclocross Revolution (CXR) are teaming up to crown the true champions of Seattle cyclocross. Six races, best five count, no extra cost. Just line up, race hard, and see where you stack up. Learn more here

A Bunch of Other Info for those who want more details

Bikes: You can ride just about any bike. We don’t care. Just leave the motor at home, unless it’s a Lime Bike of course. Most people ride cyclocross or gravel bikes with 700x33mm tires or larger. Mountain bikes are totally fine. Beach cruiser? sure…

Sanctioning: Our series is not USA Cycling sanctioned. No license necessary!

Helmets: Wear a helmet.

Doping: We don’t check but we take doping seriously. These races are for fun and healthy exercise. We’ll ban you from our races forever if you are caught doping elsewhere.

Pre-riding: We encourage you to pre-ride the course! Between every start wave, we’ve left 15 minutes for us to get ready for the next race and for you to pre-ride. Please respect people on the course ahead of you finishing their race! DO NOT pass them. And when we tell you to clear the course, clear out.

Bibs & Chips: MFG Cyclocross uses an RFID “Chip” timing system. We’ve got fancy chips this year. If you already have a timing “Tube” from a previous season please use it. If you need a new RFID chip it can be purchased for $10 at registration. The chip is yours to keep and generally work for years. Attach the chip to the top of your helmet (see below). We’ll provide rubber bands and zip ties. Most people just attach it for the whole season. Bibs are the number you get. Use this for the season. Pin this to your left side back. Always the left.

Timing: Each race wave is a mass start, meaning the gun goes off and the time starts for everyone in that wave. You will get lap times for every lap and for your full race.

Results: Results are available on Webscorer and are posted almost immediately after you cross the finish. Yes. It’s like magic. Download the Webscorer app for the easiest access.

Contested Results: If you believe the initial results on Webscorer are incorrect, please fill out a Results Review form before the following Monday at 9pm. Results become final on Tuesday evening and contested results may not be able to be considered past this time. We work hard to get results correct so completing the on-line form ASAP is the best way to get the results team the info they need to do the job.

Start Order & Call Ups: The first race of the season, we randomly call people up to the start line based on the last digit of your bib number. For races #2-6, we will call up the top 16 racers based on series points to fill the first two start rows. Then will randomly call up.

Neutral support & pits: Every race will have pits which you’ll pass twice on each lap. You can keep a spare bike, spare wheels or your grandad here. If you have an issue with your bike, you can only progress forward to the pits (no running upstream). People can help you get your bike working again in the pits or anywhere on the course if you have a problem.

Hand-ups: Hand ups are a tradition in cyclocross. Feel free to have some candy, or a shot of lemonade from spectators mocking you.

Teams & Tents: Teams are welcome to set up tents along the course where designated. The fire marshall at some of our venues wants to make sure that the tents are fireproofed (most new ones are), but please don’t cut off the fire proofing tag on your tent.

Race Ambassadors: We have friendly folks who can help you out if you have any questions. Treat them nicely.

We have Merch

We have a limited amount of MFG merchandise for sale online before the Woodland Park GP. Purchase online, bring your receipt and pick up your sweet MFG goods at the race. Order a custom MFG thermal long sleeve Voler jersey which we will produce in December and ship to you in January.