’t Kuipke in Ghent

The home of the Six Days of Ghent, a week of racing every November. Kuipke means “little tub”, because the track is small and steep. Six laps make one kilometre. The bends are steeper than a playground slide. The crowd sits close all round the track, and more people sit in the middle with the riders.

One lap: 166.67 m
Track: Wood
Banking in the bends: 52°
Banking on the straights: 13°
Width: 5.5 m
Indoor or outdoor: Indoor
Built: 1965
People who can watch: About 5,000

Did you know?

People here call this track the Kuipke. That means the little tub, because it is so small and so steep!
One lap here is only 167 metres, and the bends are some of the steepest in the world.
Every November, the best riders in the world come here for the Six Days of Ghent: six nights of racing in a row!
The Six Days of Ghent was first raced in 1922. That is more than a hundred years ago!
The old building here burned down in 1962. This one opened on the same spot in 1965.

The race announcer tells riders these facts at ’t Kuipke in Ghent.

Race at ’t Kuipke in Ghent

In Watt Fighters you race here on your own bike, on a smart trainer or with a power meter. Your watts move your rider round the track. On the steep bends you need speed, or you slide down the banking. You can race every event here: match sprint, elimination, points race, scratch race, unknown distance, time trial, keirin, flying 200 m, open track.

Race here in Watt Fighters

’t Kuipke in Ghent

Did you know?

Race at ’t Kuipke in Ghent

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