We Ride Flanders
Flemish Ardennes, East Flanders · Oudenaarde (loop)
The cobbled hills of the Tour of Flanders — Koppenberg, Oude Kwaremont, Paterberg — from Oudenaarde.
- Distance
- 114.1 km
- Climbing
- +1,448 m
- Est. time
- 4 h 25 min
- High point
- 148 m
- Pavé
- 15.6 km
- Gravel
- 1.1 km
Free to ride with a free account. It rides in your browser with any smart trainer or power meter, and your result goes on the leaderboard below.
Ride it in stages
Few riders hold 114 km on a trainer. Ride it a stage at a time: the cuts avoid the middle of the big climbs — a stage ends at a summit, in a valley or on the flat — and this page remembers what you have ridden and what comes next.
8 stages of about 14.3 km — none over 50 minutes at 165 W.
- Stage 1 (next)km 0–12.5Next12.5 km+195 m~29 minHilly
- Stage 2km 12.5–2815.5 km+159 m~31 minRolling
- Stage 3km 28–4012 km+211 m~29 minHilly · Cat 4
- Stage 4km 40–55.815.8 km+204 m~34 minRolling · Cat 4
- Stage 5km 55.8–69.513.8 km+175 m~31 minRolling · Cat 4
- Stage 6km 69.5–82.813.3 km+189 m~30 minHilly · Cat 4
- Stage 7km 82.8–98.315.5 km+157 m~31 minRolling · Cat 4
- Stage 8km 98.3–11415.9 km+159 m~34 minRolling · Cat 4
Times are at a steady 165 W — no stage takes more than 50 minutes. Cross a stage's finish line and it is ticked — feeling good? Keep pedalling and the ride carries on into the next stage. Progress is kept in this browser, and in your account when you are signed in.
Elevation profile
11–148 m · 17 categorised climbs · Very hard · Road + CobblesThe 8 biggest of 17 categorised climbs, in the order you ride them.
About We Ride Flanders
The day before the professionals race the Tour of Flanders, thousands of amateurs ride the same hills. The Flemish Ardennes are not high — nothing here climbs for more than a couple of minutes — but the hellingen come one after another, narrow, steep and paved with cobbles.
This loop starts and finishes in Oudenaarde and rides the hills in the order the sportive does: Wolvenberg and Molenberg early, Berendries and Valkenberg out east, then the wall of the Koppenberg, the Taaienberg, and the finale every fan knows — the long cobbled drag of the Oude Kwaremont and, straight after it, the short violent ramp of the Paterberg.
Held on the Saturday before the Tour of Flanders, in early spring, over several distances from Oudenaarde (and a long one from Antwerp). The organiser lists its 133 km course at about 1,700 m of climbing.
Why ride this route indoors?
- It is a ready-made session of short, maximal efforts with incomplete recovery — the hardest thing to make yourself do on a plan.
- Positioning and traffic decide these climbs outdoors. Indoors they are about power, and you get to find out how much you have on the tenth one.
- The gradients are real; the cobbles are left to your imagination — your trainer will thank you.
Good to know
+Is this the official course of We Ride Flanders?
No. It was recreated by Cycloscape from open map data (OpenStreetMap) following public descriptions of the course, for indoor training. It may differ from the official course or from current road conditions.
+What do I need to ride We Ride Flanders indoors?
A smart trainer or a power meter, and a browser. Cycloscape connects over Bluetooth or ANT+ from the browser, sets the resistance of a smart trainer to the real gradient, and turns the route’s GPX into a 3D world. There is nothing to install.
+Can I ride We Ride Flanders in stages?
Yes. Few riders want more than 50 minutes on a trainer in one go, so Cycloscape offers its 114 km in 8 stages of about 14 km, none longer than 50 minutes at 165 W. The cuts avoid the middle of the big climbs — a stage ends at a summit, in a valley or on the flat. Start from any stage and, if your legs are good at its finish line, keep pedalling: the ride carries on into the next stage and every stage you finish is ticked. The page remembers which stages you have ridden and which one is next.
+Is it free?
Yes. Riding it needs a free account — sign up in seconds with Google or a code by email, no card. Your result is saved and goes on the route’s leaderboard.
Leaderboard
Best effort per rider — a free account puts your ride on it.