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.
Combined achievements
9724 registered users
have collected 84.908.136 Cotacol points
- Pierre did Côte de Noirhat yesterday
- Tristan did La Rochette du Nouveau Monde yesterday
- Olivier did Chemin des Blés yesterday
- Bavo did Rue du Mystere yesterday
- Nico did Rue du Petit-Try yesterday
- Hugo did Rue du Petit-Try yesterday
- Christian did Côte du Ry d'Oneux yesterday
- Maximilien did Côte de Foret and Côte de Hansez yesterday
- Cédric did Thier de Huy yesterday
- Koen did Côte d'Aisomont yesterday
- Louis did Col de la Charlerie yesterday
- Julien did Drève du Tumulus, La Roche Sainte-Catherine, Rue de la Montagne and 2 more yesterday
- Dominique did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent yesterday
- Joran did Berendries yesterday
- Pierre did Côte de Neufmarteau yesterday
- Guy did Tienne du Golf and Côte de Noirhat yesterday
- Tibo did Smeysberg yesterday
- Laurent did Côte de Colonster and Côte de Foret yesterday
- Claude did Côte de Foret and Côte de Colonster yesterday
- Pierre did Côte de Froide Bise yesterday



