The 5 Hardest Cobbled Climbs In Flanders

Clock00:00, Thursday 29th March 2018

The climbs of the Flanders region of Belgium hold an almost mythical place in the sport of cycling. Climbs like the Muur and the Koppenberg, conjure up images of muddied riders battling just to make it to the top! But which Flandrian climb is actually the hardest?

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The people of Flanders don't really go in for nice, steady, hairpinned climbs up their hills. In fact it sometimes seems like they look for the steepest hills, and just put a road straight up them! But that does lead to some truly iconic, and really, really hard climbs!

Matt and Dan rode what are, in our opinion, the five hardest climbs in Flanders, and even battled some particularly Belgian weather to work out once and for all which climb is the hardest!

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