Cotacol Hunting

How it all started

The COTACOL is a belgian reference book about cycling uphill, made by Daniel Gobert and Jean-Pierre Legros in 1989. In it are descriptions of the thousand toughest climbs for cyclists. Each climb is described by several facts: name, a short description, height, grade, length, what state the road surface is in, average climbing time for an amateur or a professional road cyclist. The combined authors measured 1.869.800 km, rode up a height of 112.396 meters and measured nearly 30.000 data points to compose this book. Each hill has a so-called COTACOL score. This score is determined using several parameters: grade, length, road surface. A higher score means a tougher climb. More than 30 years later, some cycling & tech enthousiasts virtually got together and built apps, web sites and integrated with Strava, so that the modern cyclist can now plan rides to conquer as much Cotacols as possible and automatically flag them when integrating with Strava.

 

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Combined achievements

9722 registered users

have collected 84.885.717 Cotacol points

  • Didier did Tour de Muache today
  • Jonathan did Plattenberg today
  • Mathieu did Côte de Noirhat today
  • Pierre did Côte de la Ferme de Sart today
  • Florian did Bosberg and Congoberg today
  • Gilles did Côte de la Casmatrie today
  • Christian did Kauterhof today
  • Kevin did Tienne du Dragon today
  • Marouane did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg today
  • Yves did Les Forges I and Côte de Trasenster-Ouest today
  • Jacky did Tienne du Dragon today
  • Danny did Côte de Lixhe today
  • Van did Tienne Hinraut today
  • Alexis did Côte de Dochamps-Ouest today
  • Bru did Rue des Courteaux, Montagne Sainte-Walburge and Rue Xhovémont today
  • Dominique did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent today
  • Bastien did Côte de Noirhat today
  • Arnaud did Kuiperenberg today
  • Sébastien did Tneuchamps and Tneuchamps today
  • Théo did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg today

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