Routes / Cyclocross / Koppenberg Slopes
KOPPENBERG SLOPES
CYCLOCROSS1 NOVMUDBELGIUMCYCLOCROSS · OUDENAARDE
THE COBBLED WALL AND ITS STEEP MEADOWS
LAP2.85 KM
CLIMBING+106 M
OBSTACLES9
CORNERS42
TIGHTESTR 3 M
ON FOOT31 M
RIDERS0
THE LAP
grass 2,655 m cobbles 195 m an obstacle
THE COURSE
- HOST
- Oudenaarde, Belgium
- WORLD CUP
- Not on the World Cup since 2022-23: one of the classics.
- RACE DAY
- 1 NOV: usually muddy.
- SETTING
- A steep hillside.
- ON FOOT
- 31 m a lap, in 1 stretch.
- SECTIONS
- The Koppenberg cobbles (from 0 m), The pit (from 35 m), Under the Koppenberg wood (from 149 m), The low meadow (from 362 m), The middle meadow (from 719 m), The pit (from 1168 m), The S-bends (from 1308 m), The slope to Rotelenberg (from 1668 m), Rotelenberg meadow (from 2054 m), The climb to the cobbles (from 2328 m), The Koppenberg cobbles (from 2677 m)
9 OBSTACLES
| Obstacle | At | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| THE PIT | 102 m | The double pit: a clean bike, once a lap |
| DESCENT | 274 m | A steep drop |
| DESCENT | 591 m | A steep drop |
| RUN-UP | 652 m | Too steep to ride: everyone runs |
| DESCENT | 1546 m | A steep drop |
| DESCENT | 1692 m | A steep drop |
| DESCENT | 1819 m | A steep drop |
| DESCENT | 2299 m | A steep drop |
| DESCENT | 2626 m | A steep drop |
42 bends round the stakes as well, everyone braking into them: the tightest, R 3 m, at 16 km/h at most.
HOW IT'S RACED
CROSS RACE
So many laps of a cyclocross course from a mass start, first over the line wins. Lapped riders are pulled.
- 1 to 10 laps, 3 unless you choose.
- A mass start on the start straight, from the grid: you and the robots in the game, or people in a group ride, robots filling the field.
- Lapped riders are pulled: lose a lap to the leaders and you're out, behind everyone still racing.
- On the stairs, the run-ups and the deepest sand everyone jumps off and runs, the bike on the shoulder: your power buys a running pace of up to 12 km/h, 8 on the stairs.
- The bends cap your speed as a crit's corners do: 18 km/h round a 4 m hairpin. On a trainer the speed is capped, never the power, and the trainer feels the grass, the mud and the sand.
- If your trainer or connection drops, you get one free lap: back in at the rear. Never in the last 3 laps.
LEADERBOARD
The best lap: one lap of the course from a standing start on the line (no race chosen in the game). A race's laps never go on the board.
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