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That is expected behavior. You can "fix" the New Individual form problem in 2 ways:

1. Easiest way: Remove the "Required?" checkbox for each of the Rider and Volunteer custom fields. You can still have those fields be required on the profiles to make sure end-users complete them in that context.

2. I think you may have set Used For: Individual in your Rider and Volunteer custom field sets ("Settings"). If you want these fields to required in ALL input forms you need to:
- create Ride and Volunteer contact subtypes
- assign Used For: Individual > Rider and Used For: Individual > Volunteer in the settings for the two sets of custom fields
With this approach, only Rider fields show up in contact edit form when adding a Rider .. etc.
CAVEAT: You'll need to remove and recreate custom data sets, custom fields and rebuild your profiles to use this approach because you can't change "Used For" in an existing custom data set's Settings.

(you may have done some of above already ?)