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

9703 registered users

have collected 84.573.212 Cotacol points

  • Ahmed did Heideberg today
  • Aline did Côte du Chant d'Oiseaux today
  • Vincent did Côte de Pétria today
  • Thomas did Eikenberg and Molenberg today
  • Bruno did Sur le Thier today
  • Jean-François did Côte de Werbomont today
  • Pierre did Côte des Trois Frontières today
  • Noah did Côte de Thimister today
  • Benoît did La Haute Folie today
  • Benjamin did Côte du Paradis today
  • Frans did Katteberg and Op de Eiken today
  • Florent did Côte du Hornay and Côte de Florzé today
  • Diego did Tienne du Golf and Smeysberg today
  • Sébastien did Côte de Loyers today
  • Laurent did Mont Saint-Rock today
  • Thibaut did Vieux-Thier de Tilleur today
  • Antoine did Côte d'Avister today
  • Julien did Rue Basse-Voie and La Rampe d'Oha yesterday
  • Milaud did La Tailette and Mont d'Ellezelles-Sud yesterday
  • Sacha did Sur le Thier yesterday

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