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

9719 registered users

have collected 84.851.476 Cotacol points

  • Florent did Côte de Loyers today
  • JF did Côte de la Forêt and La Goutelle des Morceaux today
  • Wouter did Katteberg today
  • Christian did Promenade du Val d'Argent today
  • Fabrice did Thier du Mont today
  • Lucio did Tienne Vincent today
  • Rutger did Roeselberg today
  • Gunther did Le Grinquier-Ouest today
  • Thomas did Berendries today
  • geert did Tuitenberg today
  • Tom did Côte de Trieu today
  • Adrien did Sur le Thier today
  • Noel did Côte de Kin today
  • Bastien did Côte du Lac de Genval today
  • Louis did Bruine Put today
  • Joran did Mont d'Ellezelles-Sud and Beau-Site-Nord-Ouest today
  • Evert did Beau-Site-Nord-Ouest and Mont d'Ellezelles-Sud today
  • Jonathan did Les Plachettes, Côte du Dieu des Monts, L'Escalette and 3 more today
  • Kevin did Alsberg today
  • Paul did Côte de Foret and Côte de Trasenster-Nord today

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