Ploegsteert

An off-road reimagining of Gent–Wevelgem starting and finishing in Ypres, trading most of the race's tarmac for unmarked gravel and dirt tracks through the Flanders Fields countryside, with the Kemmelberg and the Ploegsteert plugstreets still very much intact.

Passes through Ploegsteert

A signposted 84-kilometre loop through the West Flemish hills that recreates the decisive climbs of Gent–Wevelgem — cobbles, plugstreets, and a double ascent of the Kemmelberg — without following the professional race's actual start or finish towns.

Passes through Ploegsteert

A 525-kilometre bikepacking pilgrimage across Flanders, its distance a nod to Eddy Merckx's 525 career wins, stringing together the finales of the region's spring classics from the orchards of Haspengouw to the war-scarred fields around Ypres.

Passes through Ploegsteert