Cycling race photos found by bib, bike number or selfie

Riders pass a photographer in a second, often in a group. The number may be on the back of the jersey, on a frame plate or on the handlebar, and in a bunch half of them are hidden behind other riders. Helmets and sunglasses cover much of the face. A gallery sorted by folder or by hour leaves riders scrolling through hundreds of photos of other people.

Choose Cycling when you create the event. Recognition reads the race numbers that belong to riders: a bib pinned to the jersey, a number on the bike frame, or a handlebar plate. Numbers on vehicles other than race bikes are ignored, and so are signs, banners, kilometre markers, timing displays and spectators' signs. Numbers with letters work too.

Add the list of valid numbers for the event so that only real participant numbers count. Selfie search uses a stricter face match in cycling, because helmets and sunglasses hide part of the face: fewer wrong photos in a rider's results. Where neither the number nor the face can be read, you can tag a photo by hand, and riders can browse the timeline.

Photographers upload from the browser, a cloud folder or straight from the camera over FTP, and external photographers through a link without an account. Photos are searchable minutes after upload. Embed the gallery on your own website with two lines of code or share a link with your results. If you decide to sell photos, connect Stripe and payments go to your own account; watermarks protect the previews.