As indieVelo continues to grow rapidly – nearly quadrupling in size in just the last few months – it is crucial to maintain focus on why it exists in the first place. indieVelo’s core mission is to define the future of virtual sport, innovating the new technologies required for credible competition. 

Ensuring accurate, believable, and verifiable results is at the heart of that and is directly analogous to real-world security – it isn’t something that can be bolted on retrospectively, no matter how hard anyone tries. By analogy, nobody would seriously even consider attempting to build Fort Knox by adding some locks to an existing building made for a completely different purpose – the layout of every wall in every room, and every piece of design and construction material of every part, right from day one needs to be thought through carefully and assembled with the end goal in mind.

For indieVelo, much of this necessary design and construction work has happened silently in the background as part of its very DNA – each release building the core architecture from the ground up required for credibility in online cycling. However, This week’s release (see below for full details) marks a significant step forward for the sport by making some of these features available for everyone to use in their own custom events. These features will be slowly rolled out over the coming weeks and months ahead, starting with:

• The ability to automatically limit entrants to events based on their equipment.
• The option for event organizers to enable immediate and automatic removal of riders who fail real-time and fully automated performance verification checks during events. 

This last point, in particular, is essential to credible racing – those who choose to cheat should not spoil the enjoyment of racing for everyone else. Live monitoring and removal of riders while an event is still in progress is a vital part of ensuring that the results you see are results you can trust.