This is the entire routes file, this is inspired by Rails routes.rb file.

routes.php

<?php

/**
 * Any Custom Post Type "should" automatically be routed based on the following:
 */
add_action('template_redirect', function( $params=array() ) {

    $post_type = null;
    $taxonomy = get_query_var('taxonomy');

    if ( get_query_var('post_type') ) {
        $post_type = get_query_var('post_type');
    } else {
        global $post;

        if ( $post ) {
            $post_type = $post->post_type;
        }
    }

    /**
     * @todo rename bmx-race-event to event, hack for now.
     * why do we need to check for 'any'
     */
    if ( $post_type == 'bmx-race-event' || $post_type == 'any' )
        $post_type = 'events';

    $template = array(
        'post_type' => $post_type,
        'single'    => VIEWS_DIR . $post_type . DS . 'index.html.php',
        'archive'   => VIEWS_DIR . $post_type . DS . 'all.html.php',
        'search'    => VIEWS_DIR . $post_type . DS . 'search.html.php', // search is speicific to cpt, make array
        'taxonomy'  => VIEWS_DIR . $taxonomy . DS . 'index.html.php',
        'default'   => VIEWS_DIR . 'home' . DS . 'index.php'
        );

    do_action( 'zm_template_redirect', $template );
}, 6);